really cool idea. ty for sharing!

this one doesn’t work quite as well without speaking. but

“how do you think the unthinkable?”

“with an itheberg.” (iceberg with a lisp)

I use a virtual machine with all traffic routed through a VPN as it provides far more isolation than a container.

my Xbox elite series 2 works a treat, just has to stay plugged in unless you wanna spend like 30$ on a dongle sold separately

totato fries with pomato ketchup sounds like a great way to convince someone their having a stroke

definitely reminds me of dnc fundraising emails in a way

I think there have been some pretty major improvements in that sound tech recently. I remember when I was still using windows 10 a few years ago there wasn’t a good way to have two audio outputs. Android only added that a few years back as well iirc. maybe was possible with some major modifications but now it’s all included oob.

all the time. they would tell me they were gonna search my room as I left for school, then the entire day I’d be thinking about what they may find (usually nothing, but they always managed to make a big deal out of something). I’d come home, they’d make me do homework, eat dinner, etc, then they’d finally sit me down. one time my mother found a dried maple leaf for my 7th grade life science project and assumed it was weed lol. then I would get to go piece my room back together as stuff would kinda be strewn everywhere.

I did have some alcohol hidden every now and then in high school but with how often they searched my room I was able to put it in spots they’d never find.

I pay like 10/year for my domain name.

I also have Spotify (I know it’s a shit service but I don’t have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).

I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.

so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.

agreed on games. no horror movie or book has ever made me the same way as the time I found out the AI in alien isolation will learn your hiding spots and kill you if you resuse the same one enough.

my grandmother was a programmer at bell in the early 60s and 70s. really curious if she had hands on any of this. wish she was still around to ask lol.

you only realize how cool your grandparents were after they’re gone.

PC stays on until I find a reason to reboot it. most of what I do is in vms so I’m not that concerned about security patches. it’s at 30 days right now without issues.

similar for the server. everything is in docker containers that I restart once or twice a month. it’s around 70 days right now as I had to rebuild a lot of it due to some catastrophic failures.

my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess

going through the laguna seca corkscrew on a mini has to feel insane

I meant that devices purchased within the past 8 years or so have hevc decoding now. so even your grandmother who’s known for holding on to old tech most likely has something that will work with it.

just in the past year or two I’ve found that those devices have become common enough for incompatibility to be extremely rare. and the software support is far better within that timeline too. firefox had issues with it as of a few years ago, but it’s become pretty seamless on most browsers and devices.

compatibility with devices. it wasn’t long ago that many cheap TVs and such didn’t support hevc and required h264, or work on browsers, etc.

as others have mentioned mp4 with h264 is almost certainly the most compatible. that being said, I transcode everything to hevc if I can’t get it natively, and never have issues. my server literally cannot transcode. it does not have a GPU, and hevc plays natively on every target device I need. even works in browsers these days.

most people will still say h264 is best. but if you’re limited on storage space or want to optimize streaming bitrate hevc works wayyy better than it did even just 1 or 2 years ago.

agreed. even the internal lcds are starting to go with age. I’ve replaced a few in the past month without any physical damage. just decided their time has come I guess.

if the hard links everyone else is mentionining aren’t feasible for you, take a look at tvnamer. I’ve found it works quite well for scanning and renaming files, it even supports custom renaming pattern and you can pass it a tvdb series id if it doesn’t automatically detect your series.

I use it cause all my torrenting is done on a different machine, and those files get transferred over to my server. so the arr suite isn’t the best solution for me

for now. I feel like it’s only a matter of time before they say those lifetime passes are expired, or that the product has changes so much it’s not valid, etc. they’ve proven they don’t really care about the user base anymore, it’s all about the money for them now unfortunately.