You can provide a rational basis for less than ultimate claims. Rationality taken to its ultimate logical conclusion is nihilism, and the only escape is irrational hope.

'just because' really is the only reason though. It's the only reason for everything, ultimately. There is no rational basis for anything.

Not until it's trained on those articles anyway

Subtitles are frequently toggled in my house depending on time of day.

How to enable subtitles in Plex:

Pause playback. Navigate to 3 dots menu. Select streams, select subtitles, pick track, back, Back, resume. 12+ button presses on Roku.

How to shuffle series:

Navigate to series, 3 dots submenu, shuffle is the only item in the menu. Why does the menu exist?

That said, every other app is even dumber than Plex, and to be fair to Plex, it has plenty of great UI features.

Then use a different distro

Got any examples?

If you quit before it gets good, they're the same. If reviewers are saying it gets better, then it probably does. Some really great shows had rough starts but turn out great overall. It's on you to decide if that's worth your time.

I just read the first two books and I'm working through Children. Honestly, I'm not that impressed. Dune was a pretty paper thin story, and the plotting of the various characters isn't very deep. The book expends a lot of words to say the characters are brilliant tacticians, but their plans aren't very sophisticated and victory usually comes from the enemy fucking up. Dr. Yueh is supposed to be an incorruptible graduate of the Imperial school of unbreakable conditioning, but all it takes to corrupt him is torturing his wife. The Atredes are brought down not by careful plotting, but by underestimating how much money the harkonens were willing to spend to destroy them.

Dune Messiah has no plot that I can tell. Nothing happens, nobody's scheming achieves anything. Nothing is accomplished, then everyone dies.

The books have been enjoyable, but I haven't found them satisfying and I probably won't continue past Children.

Long doesn't mean slow. The trilogy tells the entire LOTR story in 9 (or 12) hours. That's not slow, that's dense. RoP takes 8 hours to tell barely any story at all. Hours pass where nothing happens. The characters are barely developed. We can't even begin to have character arcs because we don't know who most of them are in the first place. That's slow.

Disney+ has a few categories for Halloween specials right now, which is sweet. There's an adult cartoon Halloween special category, with Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, etc. If you play an episode from that category though, like Family Guy, it'll autoplay more regular family guy when the episode finishes instead of playing more Halloween episodes from that category.