My favorite mug was a gift from my first girlfriend, in my sophomore year of high school. My wife hates that I still have it over 20 years later, but I just like it because it’s fucking huge. I can fit like half a pot of coffee in it. It doesn’t even have the original printed design on it anymore; It has worn down to plain white ceramic.
Wow, you must’ve been an early adopter for IEMs. There wasn’t a lot of crossover in the timelines between RadioShack and IEMs. IEMs were just starting to get economical enough (and durable enough) for live shows when RadioShack was going through their big “let’s pivot hard into selling cellphone contracts”. And that was what put the company into a death spiral. You must’ve gotten on the trend pretty early.
My literal first reaction was “we have avatars?”
Yeah, if you’re 100% local, that’s basically the ideal use case for Jellyfin. Plex really shines when it comes to remote access. But if you never use that, then there’s very little reason to use it over Jellyfin.
Yup, just spin up a second Docker image for your porn Jellyfin server. Copy your transcoding settings over from the existing image, and point the new image at different media folders.
It literally gives you a gigantic “hey we want to sell your data. Do you want to allow that” prompt when you open it. They didn’t even make the “no, don’t sell my data” button grey and tiny like so many cookie prompts do. Plex went out of their way to put it up front and center, instead of quietly burying it in an obscure opt-out. There are plenty of perfectly valid complaints about Plex… But if a company wants to sell my data, (and here’s a spoiler warning: They all want to) this is how it should be handled.
And a Samsung TV app. There’s an entire branch of Samsung TVs that require side loading to get a Jellyfin app installed.
Didn’t even need to dig. As soon as I opened Plex in my browser, it gave me a giant full screen “hey we want to sell your data. Do you consent” page. I disagree with data sale in general, but at least they didn’t go out of their way to bury the opt out. In fact, they actually went out of their way to present the notification in a way that was impossible to miss. If you’re capable of reading, you’ll know what the popup is for.
Glad to see Okami mentioned here. It was poorly marketed, which basically killed the development company… But it was so good.
Some people have called it the best Zelda game never made, and I believe the description is accurate. It has all of the mechanics of Zelda’s puzzlebox dungeons. It’s just a different setting, and the “tools” to solve the puzzles are your brush abilities.
My only real complaint about the game is that it was long. Like every time I expected the game to be wrapping up, it would introduce an entirely new region. But that length also meant it was able to deliver a fully self-contained story that didn’t rely on cliffhangers (sequels) to finish. Sure there were some sequels, but the original story stands on its own without them.
For what it’s worth, I actually prefer 4x10’s instead of the usual 5x8’s that office jobs fall into. The work day tends to slog near the end, but I tend to struggle primarily with executive dysfunction. If I’m already at work, that issue is largely solved, due to the fact that I’m already working. It means I struggle to get ready for work one fewer day per week.
Also, every weekend is a three day weekend. It’s nice because two days is not enough to get everything done that the household needs and have time to relax. On a two day weekend, I spend the entire weekend doing chores or errands. But with a three day weekend, I typically have a full day to do fuck all. Also, having a weekday off to run errands is nice. Everything is closed on Sunday, so consistently having a day where everything is reliably open is nice. Doctors appointment? No need to burn PTO at work; just schedule it for your weekday off.
Yeah, being a novice in the FOSS scene can be extremely frustrating sometimes. It can very easily start feeling like you’re reading documentation for a plumbus, where every single sentence seems to introduce a new term you’re unfamiliar with. And it often assumes you’re already intimately familiar with how these new terms work. So even just reading the documentation for one specific thing often means having fifty different tabs open, as you also have to read documentation about a ton of dependencies or terms.
Yeah, the sad reality is that Plex’s setup experience is much smoother. And when you’re trying to convert people, the single largest obstacle is often social inertia. So lowering the barriers to entry is extremely important. My mother-in-law would need to sideload the Jellyfin app onto her TV, but Plex is available right on its app store.
Luckily, you can run both side by side. Jellyfin for me and my more tech-literate friends, Plex for those who don’t know/don’t care to learn.
I bought an adapter but the top volume level is pitifully low, so I’m back to burning CDs to play in my car.
This is odd, because the voltage levels should be somewhat normalized across the USB-C adapter and your old headphone jack. It may be an issue with your adapter having a shitty DAC. Basically, the adapter has to take the digital audio signal, and convert it to analog. Cheaper adapters will use cheap digital-analog converters (DACs) which will either output lower levels, or will tend to change the signal as volume increases.
It’s also possible that it is purely an analog converter, in which case your phone is actually using its internal DAC. There are benefits and drawbacks to this, but it’s possible that your phone is software-limiting its internal DAC’s power output to avoid burning out from a bad connection.
Yeah, they were actually pretty ahead of their time. It was before people had become accustomed to music subscriptions, so that scared a lot of people away. But the fact that it would just automatically sync with your library, and you could download whatever songs you wanted for offline play in the car… It was groundbreaking at the time. Plus it had a built-in FM receiver, so you could listen to the radio while on the go too.
If you’re buying credit, just fucking buy a Usenet subscription instead.
Interesting. I haven’t experienced anything like that, but I also have my server scheduled to automatically reboot once a week at like 4AM. Maybe that keeps it from soft crashing?
And this is exactly why qBitTorrent allows you to exclude file types. I have a pretty extensive list of excluded file types, specifically because there are lots of malicious torrents that try the old Limewire trick of “{movie}.avi.exe” to trick people into running them. Even if Sonarr grabs a malicious torrent, it simply won’t download anything.
And then I have Cleanuperr running, which periodically checks to see if there are any empty torrents queued. If it finds a torrent that isn’t downloading anything (like a {movie}.avi.exe one) then it deletes it, and tells Sonarr/Radarr to blacklist it and retry the search.
My guess is that it also included things like the 12 year old hosting a Minecraft server for their friends. Which, to be clear, is a totally valid self-hosting use case.
My neighbor’s poorly shielded microwave would knock out our WiFi. Because microwaves are in the 2.4GHz range, which is also the same range as older WiFi. Except that a microwave operates with several thousand times more power than WiFi, so it essentially acts as a jammer when it’s not shielded well.
Figuring that out took me fucking ages. I eventually heard her microwave beep through the shared wall, right as my WiFi came back online.
Ah yes, the ADHD prioritization list…
It’s because ADHD people don’t get any “ah, it feels good to complete this thing” dopamine for mundane tasks, and only get it for doing big tasks.
If they’re interested in the thing, then they don’t care about the dopamine reward; The task itself is the reward. Lots of ADHD people will have their comfort games or shows that they can focus on for hours at a time.
If it’s not interesting, it needs to be novel. Learning something new rewards that dopamine in a way that simply doing the task does not. And being challenged in new ways means you get dopamine rewards even for otherwise small tasks.
If it’s not interesting or novel, it needs to be challenging enough for your brain to consider it a large task worth rewarding.
And finally, if it’s not interesting, novel, or challenging, your brain can substitute adrenaline and cortisol in place of dopamine. So the task needs to be urgent enough to trigger those stress hormones. Every person with ADHD has stories of doing a week long project in three hours, because they put it off until it was so stressful that the stress was its own motivator.
If the task doesn’t hit one of those four basic points, it simply won’t be prioritized.