I don’t agree with the sentiment that a word used by one guy next to a slur they also used imparts a derogatory meaning to the word as well. If this were the case, we would have a problem with a lot more words.

If someone said “F-slurs shine like a rainbow”, that doesn’t make the words shine or rainbow derogatory.

Furthermore with the contextual usage of glowie considered - if it is derogatory, then its usage shows that its derogatory to members of the CIA rather than people of color.

However if people continue to cite glowie as a slur for people of color, then people might start to use it in that context, and then it becomes a slur for people of color.

Therefore I would recommend not citing the use of the word in this way because all it can do is eventually add a derogatory connotation that doesn’t currently exist outside of being next to a slur during one usage or the creation of it.

first a quick question, if I switch over to jellyfin, is the same thing going to happen in four or five years? I’ll be all settled into a nice ecosystem and then they’ll just shit all over my face and I’ll have to start over?

Jellyfin is open software built by volunteers - it’s not a business like Plex. There are no subscriptions, or being forced to go along with stupid shit. If someone or a group of people fucked up Jellyfin that bad, the community would fork it and develop a working version without any dogshit.

So I would have to say no.

I configured Jellyfin on an old tower I had sitting in my garage for the last 10 years. It took about 15 minutes. I don’t have an ethernet drop where I wanted to put it and it doesnt have onboard wifi so I am connecting it to my network with a shitty asus wifi dongle I bought in 2012. It works flawlessy - full 4k streaming to the other computer in my home where I watch most stuff without quality degradation or any unreasonable buffering. The client and server are running Debian stable.

Wow thanks!

Awesome, thanks! It didn’t occur to me that IKEA could be an option!

Personal system but I work in technology, so learning solutions used in industry is always handy.

I want spinning disks as they have shorter life but a wider mean time between failure, which should be better for the RAID I want to configure.

Since SSDs have a definitive number of writes in their lifetime, as I recall it can be kind of dangerous to install several new ones at the same time in something like a raid 1 configuration.

That’s great to know, all four of my other machines are running Debian right now so I should have a pretty good idea of what’s up!

That probably is what I will do for some time, leaning it gently and securely against a wall somehow, but in the future rack would be nice - especially if I find some enterprise firewall for sale or something.

Also really happy to hear ebay might have iLO licenses - I have grabbed a couple one-time licences off there for windows machines before, but I didn’t know they sometimes had stuff like this too.

Thanks!

Thanks for the tips and the link, that’s super useful!

Unsure about the iLO, but I do recall powering on one of these remotely in school using it. I’ll have to wait until I find some power cable to take a look I believe, but I do see a sticker with the default user name and password for it on the side, so here’s hoping haha.

I have a PLA 3d Printer, but I fear PLA has too low of a melting point to use for server components. It would be neat if there were a caddie model out there I could test with though - will have to look around.

Thanks for the insight on the rack as well, that will be good to know in the future I am certain.

One time on Amazon, I purchased an air conditioner. The model they sent was not the model I bought so I went for a refund and to send it back the to the seller.

The seller representative basically tried to spin it as though the model I received was actually better than what I had tried to buy.

I told him that I didn’t care, it is not what I bought, that this “better model” is twice the width of what I wanted and it states in its manual that it needs to be on its own dedicated circuit.

The fucking guy kept this up over a few messages. I told him that if he didn’t take it back, I would just charge back my credit card because this was clearly a bait and switch

The next message the guy sends, he says that me “threatening” him by saying I’ll charge back the card is immoral of me, and makes an allegory equating it to murdering someone by shooting them.

At this point I contact amazon proper, and give them the entire message log. The amazon rep is fucking horrified and says that they will investigate the seller.

The fucking guy sends me a message telling me that I shouldn’t talk to amazon, because my correspondence with them gets CC’d to him.

I forward that message to the amazon rep as well.

The guy loses his fucking shit, starts making guesses at where I live, what I do for work, a bunch of shit. He says that he has a double major in marketing for some reason.

I demand that I never have to interact with him again. In his last message to me he tells me not to leave a bad review as it is a family owned business.

I leave a lengthy and scathing review, noting that someone with a double major in marketing who acts like this must have wasted a lot of money on their post secondary education.

I get connected to someone else who isn’t insane who in their first message sends me the slip to mail this fucking air conditioner back, and I get my refund.

Thanks!

Yea, I’ve been working on it.

It helps to try a lot of different mediums and styles to see what works for you. I have trouble with lines/proportions so I figured “what’s simpler than a line?” and the conclusion I came to was “well… a dot…”.

Tried this out and while it takes longer, the quality I achieved was much better than what i had been doing previously:

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When faced with a firearm or a knife, any self respecting martial artist will tell you the one technique that will save your life.

Running the fuck away and or taking cover.

When it comes to hand to hand combat, understanding the dynamics of how to protect yourself and control the opposer like in Jiu Jitsu is very useful and can also potentially save your life.

But no, if they have a weapon of any kind, get the fuck out of there.

+1 for air VPN, using it as well.

Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.

It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.

The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone’s data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.

The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).

Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.

Calls other guy an anti social loser

Pulled out ad hominem in the same breath

Congratulations, you played yourself hahaha.