I sometime feel like we were one of the first cord-cutters. Not really true but we dropped cable 10 or 12 years ago. Switched from a "real" landline to Vonage 4 or 5 years before that. And then we dropped Vonage now that all the kids have cell phones.
For TV we have an antenna, Netflix and Amazon Prime. Oddly, when we had cable most of what we watched were cooking shows and Sci-Fi and that hasn't really changed. The cooking shows come from PBS and the Sci-Fi comes through Comet.
I used to be a news junky but it's so bad now I really don't care to take the time to try and watch it anymore. How many times do I really need to hear the weather on any given day? The last time I tried to watch the local morning news the format was 30 seconds of headlines, 30-90 seconds of weather, 15 seconds for a traffic report and 5 minutes of commercials. Rinse repeat for, I think they said, two hours. Exact same "news" each time and on top of that it was all reruns of the stories they showed on the 9-10 news the night before. The major news magazines have all stopped publishing actual paper magazines and they web content, if you can find it amongst the ads is as bad as TV.
Now I brew, do woodworking, garden and have a couple of beers when I need something to do.
Ahhh. I feel better. Thanks for the rant.
Cut the cord. I think it's like what I've been told about retirement. The first month you will worry about everything. The second month you'll wonder why you waited so long to quit.
Paul