Except liquor stores or certain cities/counties. There are blue laws that restrict sales of beer and/or liquor to certain hours or prevent sales totally.
For as long as I have been here, Dayton TN, we have had beer sales, a few years ago restaurants became able to serve liquor and wine by the drink and within only the last few months our very first liquor store actually opened and it is only four blocks from where I live. Other areas of Tennessee have other laws and there are still places where the only way you can buy alcohol for drinking is to know the local bootlegger or drive some distance to where the laws are different.
As I mentioned earlier I grew up in Dallas, in particular Oak Cliff which is basically the area of Dallas south of the Trinity river. Dallas was wet except for Oak Cliff which was dry. Oak Cliff tried at least four times between 1955 and 1966 to allow alcohol sales. All votes failed by huge margins, although that may have changed by now.
On Fridays after the rush hour the level of traffic on the Trinity river bridges from Oak Cliff to just across the river was almost as high a rush hour. The volume of business in the liquor stores that were placed almost in the Trinity’s flood plain to service the Oak Cliff alcohol drinkers was so high that those “bad” (due to being zoned industrial) locations were the most fought over in the city. Some even had drive through windows.
Just to add something @elan other than me moaning about the sonos/DTS/optical/android tv issue.
I recently spent 2 weeks in hospital with an infection (managed to get discharged Christmas Eve) and Plex was my saviour, I was able to stream movies and shows from home effortlessly to my iPad which was tethered to my mobile phone, all nicely transcoding without any problems on my NAS. (I’ve just upgraded to an i7 nuc for Plex for H265 transcoding support)
I have to go back into hospital next week for a liver transplant assessment, so Plex will be getting another workout.
You can’t imagine how crazy I would have been going without Plex, it kept me sane in my own little private room.
UK & France you can buy beer wine & spirits everywhere. I’m still shocked that you can buy vodka in a petrol/gas station.
In France you can only buy cigarettes in a special shop called a Tabac which usually also sells newspapers & magazines & lottery tickets. In the UK cigarettes can be bought in supermarkets & convenience stores but there are shutters over the displays so kids cannot see the packs.
I have tried Emby on my Android box, could be just me but the navigation seems clunky for me, I have to set the remote to mouse pointer select films, and then back to tab format to scroll around.
In NJ you can purchase beer from Liquor Stores, bars or anyone with a liquor license. That could mean your local pizza shop as well (not that common). It won’t be a convenient store, grocery store or any big/bulk store. Depends on city ordinances as well as state. We have some dry towns as well such as Ocean City (near Atlantic City).
I loved the last place I lived as I could order a pizza and a 12 pack (most you could get delivered).
We also have micro distilleries in NJ (getting more popular). I’m involved in one and we can sell product in house but no where else (as well as taste testing small amounts). Not that hard to get registered if you own farm land. Can sell up to 50,000 bottles for $5K per year (plus normal spirit taxes).
We have local “blue laws” as well. In my county for example you can purchase spirits on Sundays but beer, wine, champaign is fine.
I think it’s anything 30% or higher is prohibited from sale. Next county over you can purchase anything on Sundays.
Talk about goofy “tax rates”. People in PA near the border go to NJ to buy alcohol and people in NJ go to PA to by cigs.
Both go to DE if possible for alcohol, ammo and cigs as it’s cheaper yet and no state sales tax.
Oh man, keep us updated on that. Hope you get good news!
Terrible. It’s even worse because they also have in bed entertainment systems (tv/movies) that is around about 8-10 UK pounds PER DAY, if you read the terms and conditions of the WiFi it specifically says that because they have another provision for media that you are forbidden from streaming anything via their wifi service, they also cap you to 20GB/mo, but getting that would be impressive on it’s own as it’s dog slow.
I fortunately had a good 4G signal on my mobile, I have unlimited data with unlimited tethering, so tethered the iPad to the phone and streamed that way! Didn’t cost me a penny extra! Plus I have access to our TV subscription on the iPad as well.
I use the “cayars” method of sync.
Plug device into computer with access to raw files.
Copy files to device.
Playback in Plex or other suitable players.
100% always works. LOL
I know. I have seen all the issues over the years especially with Android.
I’m on my 3rd Android mobile and also have a 4G tablet and it’s always worked… Strange I know .
Indeed. Then there was the time that Plex broke my sync data but didn’t delete the files, so I needed to resync but didn’t have enough local storage because the previous sync used most of it. I couldn’t find them in ES File Explorer so decided to format my phone’s sd card to fix it.
