ElderWendigo

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ElderWendigo,
  1. Good bread is expensive or made yourself.
  2. It seems pretty common for travelers to lament the lack of good bread like at home. Bread basically a living organism that is ultra local. Good bread like at home really only exists at home. Local water, temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors seem to play a big part.

Ask anyone from New York or New Jersey about getting a good pizza or bagel in another state. It doesn’t matter who makes it or if they’re using the exact same recipe, perfect bread can evidently not be replicated outside the region. There is even a bagel company in south Florida, catering to snowbirds turned transplants, that claims to use water from that region to make their bagels.

ElderWendigo,

Yeah, good food isn’t trivial to find when you travel. I’m empathetic to that frustration. But judging all bread based on the cheapest abundant and easy to find bread a foreigner can find without any apparent effort seems like a mistake to me. I certainly wouldn’t judge all Italian food by what I found in my hotel in Venice. I wouldn’t judge NY bagels by what I found during my layover at La Guardia. And I wouldn’t judge an entire countries bread based on what I found in the grocery store.

ElderWendigo,

Counterpoint: It’s a salad.

ElderWendigo,

Lidarr. Mostly works just like the others. Seems best equipped to grab full album or discography collections. It can grab search queries from a number of other sources, so that you could (as an example) add a song to a certain Spotify playlist and Lidarr would check that list and add the song/album/artist per your settings.

ElderWendigo,

I get this by self-hosting. You can try Plex, Jellyfin, some complex tunneled MPD setup. I’m sure there are other ways.

  1. I pay artists as directly as possible.
  2. Anything in any format that I can find and record is available.
  3. & 4. I can choose the appropriate hosting method based on context. Playing on my phone or through a smart speaker? PlexAmp app is very polished and makes navigating a large library mostly painless. Plex mobile app can work in offline mode too if you download before loosing Internet. Playing on another Linux machine, maybe a headless one connected to the stereo? I setup an NFS share and/or use MPD. There are android apps to remote control an MPD server that’s directly connected to a sound system too.

I don’t think a service will ever be able to match what I can do with self-hosting. I’m not even very good at it or put that much effort into it anymore. Other people have done so much more and there are some crazy home brew setups out there.

I want to get into Doctor Who, but it seems daunting and massive, any suggestions where to start?

Should I watch all 20 years of the original run or just begin with the new one which I think is been around for 15 years? What are the best episodes? I’ve seen only a handful of the old and New ones but I liked what Ive seen, just hoping for a guide to really get into it

ElderWendigo,

The 2005 reboot is where everyone else will tell you to start because it’s more accessible to today’s audience. And I’m not gonna lie, some of the older series episode arcs from the original run are hard to watch for various reasons. But, if you do decide you’re ready to check out some older Who it matters almost not at all where you start. The sprawling narrative format of the early show is more like a soap opera than Star Trek.

If you can get access to the episodes on demand, the check out the wiki. My old who episodes total about 200GB, but you may find DVD sets of individual specific story arcs at the library. Pick a Doctor or story arc that looks interesting and try them out. Hop around in the Doctor’s timeline. Go check out the introduction of UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. For the camp, watch a few episodes with K9 his robot dog or Bessie, his hi-tech yellow edwardian roadster. See how awful the original Cybermen and various alien or lizard people costumes are. Who’s this guy in the scarf with the Jelly Babies that everyone’s always talking about? The time lords weren’t always a dead civilization locked away in the Doctor’s backstory, they were the story. As you’re watching the new Who, you may notice other callbacks to people or places in the Doctor’s past, check the wiki and find the original series arc.

My personal suggestion though is to at least give the very first Doctor a real chance. He’s my favorite and not just because of nostalgia. He was way before my time. It’s almost a completely different show. It’s in black and white. Some of the episodes are just missing. But that Doctor is a bit wild in a way the others can’t touch. He has a grand daughter for a companion, not a potential love interest. He’s a snarky, witty, and sometimes mean old man. He lies. You’re not always convinced that he is actually the hero. His series has the first appearance of the Dalek’s and their origin story. The pacing of the earliest episodes seems a bit less sprawling than some of the later series before 2005.

ElderWendigo,

Drowning

ElderWendigo, (edited )

That also explains why the guy in the comic is being an ass or an idiot by listing his height to the nearest hundredth of a centimeter. A half inch or whole centimeter are more appropriate precisions for human heights. In your example even, a real-world measurement of 5’ 11" can’t just be blindly translated to 180.34cm because it adds precision that was not there in the 5’ 11" measurement unless otherwise specified. 180cm would be more appropriate but is still overstating the precision a bit. Using SI units without appropriate scientific notation and without respect to significant digits is kind of like watching a 3D movie with one eye closed.

Home entertainment with NAS?

Hi! My goal: I want to set up a beamer projector in my flat and connect that to some kind of ‘always on’ machine with which I can stream (currently Netflix a bit but that really is not a priority as I am thinking of cancelling it) but would also like it to be a torrent client (I have a VPN) to download some media. Though...

ElderWendigo,

Maybe they are illuminating their living room with the front end of a BMW.

Better yet, it’s a Pimp My Ride style makeover that replaces those unused turn signals with a projection system for an instant drive-in movie experience.

ElderWendigo,

In my experience, 2 devices will ultimately save you effort and frustration. Anything you choose as a good NAS/seedbox will be unlikely to have a good from the couch interface or handle Netflix reliable and easily. A small Android TV box may have a much better interface, simple app setup, and support all the streaming services, but probably won’t be very powerful or convenient to use as a NAS. The NAS is always on, plugged directly into the Internet access point, and tucked away out of sight and sound. The Android TV or Apple TV box is silent, small, and can be mounted directly to the Beamer/Projector.

Yes, Kodi exists and it’s add-ons can bridge this gap. But I still think that a SBC NAS running Jellyfin or plex + an Nvidia shield with jellyfin, Plex, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, amaon, etc. will be so much easier to setup, manage, find support for, and upgrade.

I have a similar setup even though my server has a direct HDMI link to my TV. I’m not a fan of viewing using the server it from the couch. Setting up IR remotes sucks always. And it’s confusing for anyone but me to use. But if my Nvidia Shield dies or I’m having network trouble, VLC a pretty good backup.

ElderWendigo,

What about Kirk? We see his Father and Mother in the Kelvin timeline. His brother along with wife and child in TOS and SNW. Despite them not marrying, I think that Carol Marcus and James Marcus still count as family. We also see Admiral Marcus, Carol’s father. Also Kirk did briefly have another wife, Miramanee, and unborn child. They got stoned to death before the episode ended and maybe the unborn child doesn’t count as seen.

My work feels very "off"...

I work in security at a northern michigan ski/golf resort. The resort spans 2 properties and has a combined total of roughly 3000 acres. As you might expect, it can be a tough job at times, with drunks, noise complaints, safety issues, etc but wtf do you do when your job is mostly just tough for simply feeling “creepy”?...

ElderWendigo,

Well then, say hi to the ghosts for me, just don’t sit down for a drink with them. Do read that book if you haven’t already; it’s one of my favorites and none of the movies do it justice.

ElderWendigo,

Do the buildings have carbon monoxide detectors? Are they old buildings with old electrical systems? You said it’s a ski resort, so I’d expect some banging and weird noises as the temperature of the buildings fluctuate. Portable electric/magnetic field detectors exist. Maybe portable carbon monoxide detectors too. These things can be measureable and often feel like ghosts. Rule them out. Then maybe introduce yourself to the lifeless guests and they’ll leave you alone. If none of that pans out. Read Stephen King’s The Shining. Real life is rarely as scary as Stephen King.

ElderWendigo,

The Stonewall riots is a good place to start your history studies on the matter.

ElderWendigo,

Oh, so you’re just trolling then, because I was answering honestly and you were asking in bad faith to be a troll.

ElderWendigo,

Don’t sleep on his sexual charisma, his flute skills, and his fluency in history, philosophy, and literature.

ElderWendigo,

I’m not sure what exactly is going on with the colors in the background, especially the fishing net, but the thumbnail is accidentally a bit obscene.

My mind may be in the gutter, but I’m staring up at the birds.

ElderWendigo,

You’re probably not preparing your garlic correctly for the recipe. It’s not always about volume.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

Downloading from YouTube or Spotify is still piracy. And those sources offer mostly shit quality far removed from the artist’s intent.

Believe it of not, there are things that aren’t on Spotify, YouTube, TIDAL, Apple Music, Bandcamp, or any streaming service. Sometimes when a streaming service does have a song or album, it’s either not the best quality or only a radio censored version available, even if Spotify claims it’s the explicit version. And that explicit tag feels like a slander because the original intent should be default and the radio edits should be the one’s with the CENSORED tag.

There is great music out there you can’t purchase or stream a digital release of.

There are old and often played CDs in my collection that can’t be ripped properly (by me) for one reason or another.

There are some really high quality vinyl recordings out there, done by people with better hardware and more skill than I. Again, many of these vinyl releases are not available in any other format and are no longer available for purchase anywhere.

The real primary reason I got into it, in the long ago times of Napster, was that I liked to make mixtapes/discs. When radio was no longer playing songs I wanted on those tapes, the wilds of Internet was the answer.

I still regularly support the artists I like as directly as I can: buying albums and merch directly from them at shows or their own websites. And I spend more of that money on more artists and especially less popular artists specifically because of the habits listed above.

ElderWendigo,

I’m stubborn. I refuse to give the machine the answer I know it wants. And no, that overpass is not a bridge. Usually there is an option to skip or verify another way, This is when the captcha drops the ruse and it’s clear that the machine was just analyzing my mouse movements and response timings anyway to verify that I was behaving randomly in a human way. Still a better game than any of those in YouTube ads.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose “any authenticator” and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it’s...

ElderWendigo,

Who cares? It’s a work phone that is used only for work, they are entitled and expected to track it as much as my work laptop or any other company equipment. That’s not a privacy issue unless you’re using company resources for personal stuff. If I don’t want them tracking me I just turn it off or leave it at home.

ElderWendigo,

This comment is just arrogant enough to sound enlightened and so absurd that it’s rage bait for anyone that has done any actual work in the field. Perfect trolling my friend. Chef’s kiss.

ElderWendigo,

The amount of downvotes on this comment is a symptom of how toxic this community has become.

ElderWendigo,

I think your first hunch was correct. The closer I look at this “photo” the less it makes sense.

ElderWendigo,

I’m going through another cycle of binging EVERYTHING. Yes he did transport regularly, but he also certainly complained about it multiple times. Orders are orders in the end. Sometimes the hardest part of keeping a job is bottling up and repressing all those little existential horrors.

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