I’m starting in on sketches of what I want my mask to look like when finished.

Late, but present. I will be making… A Halloween costume. It will be a wearable mask that covers my head and leaves my hands free. It will be open except on the front. I have no idea how I will do it yet, bit plenty of time to figure it out…

My main question is: what automates pushing new content to my Plex libraries and kicking off a library scan?

Seems like there are lots of apps that do similar things (monitor trackers for example). I just need one that moves content from \Data\Torrents\ to Plex:\movies and tickles it enough to trigger a scan.

Does Overseerr do this?

Interesting. Ombi means I don’t have to run docker. How do you like it?

Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.

I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.

You don’t understand the depths of my shame.

I was in OS support for 5 years. I supported DOS 5.

I work with software Dev teams all day long, including designing highly available services.

And I do after hours tech support for elders (my folks) and house mates (my fam).

If anybody knows to reboot…

Well now I feel like an ass - this is what I’d tell my parents.

And yeah, that fixed it. I’m tempted to delete this whole embarrassing post, but I will leave it for the edification of others and to memorialize my shame.

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I met Danny at my local coffee shop. I am a total ass and said “Abed?”. He said " Danny. " and shook my hand. Thus confirming my status as Total Ass, and his as a mensch.

I just finished ‘Player of Games’ - Ian M. Banks. I liked it, it felt immersive.

Just started The Passenger by the late great Cormac McCarthy. I’m about a 3rd through, listening on audio book via Libby (read at 85% speed). It’s a little hard not to put it in the context of No Country and the border trilogy - Mr. M does seem to have a type. I’m pleased that many of McCarthy’s liberties with words seem to come through on audio, but I imagine I’m missing a lot. All in all I’m enjoying it. Next up my book club is reading All The Pretty Horses, so I’m in for the ride as it were. (Weirdly, there was a longer wait for his other work than The Passenger. I guess people are in the wait and see mode).

A friend recommended Midlife by Kieran Setiya. I have to say - it’s quite dense, and I feel like I’m not doing it justice. I’ll definitely keep going.

Interesting - they sell not only repairable phones but OEM phones with the /e/ os (degoogled Android).

Good lord I hope they find them in time…

I guess I didn’t really think about it. But Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (And other Richard Scary books) make up about 60% of my sense of humor. So, yes - those are favorites.

Along side McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Good.

37 school girls killed - they couldn’t get in to the student housing, so they threw in fire bombs then killed the ones who ran out.

Horrifying.

Great list, has some of my favorites! I’ll pick up those I haven’t read yet.

Cool! They are making these just a little north of me. Maybe I will see one in the wild soon.

This is a classic feedback problem: you use a microphone to amplify your voice, but If the mic picks up the amplified sound it creates audio feedback + a sharply increasing wail.

I can’t imagine what LLM feed back ‘sounds like’, but a guarantee you it ain’t pretty.

Drive by wire. What could go wrong?!?

Hypothetical: dashcam god eye view.