I appear to have ruined my beautiful new email friendship with the Indian Chief of Police, who kindly informed me that I had pending legal troubles, due to his department's detection of illicit activity from my IP address. I couldn't resist playing the fool, accusing HIM in turn of high time-crimes, contravening the United Nations Pre-crime Treaty of 2083, but he could not be distracted. Eventually he revealed that he could make my troubles go away if I made a donation of 58,000 rupee... 🧵
When I finally sent him my next email, reporting I'd figured it out and sent the donation, I embedded an image showing a screenshot of the confirmation - 58000BTC sent to his wallet
After 30 seconds, that animated gif flips to its second and final frame, A BIG HAIRY ARSE.
I bought dozens of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld books when they first came out, but have lovingly given them all away to good homes during the various house moves since. Now I'm buying them all over again, to read with my 12 year old.
Just received, The Light Fantastic. <rubs hands with gleeful anticipation>
I should undertake challenging #reads.
instead of these #doomscrolling feeds.
But I've no strength to face
an escape from the base
of #Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Late last night in deepest Minnesota the gravel roads were dotted with people's cars pulled off to the side in remote dark spots, like it was some sort of country wide make-out contest. Will the aurora provoke similar madness tonight?
Meet our new #NAS. #Zimablade#SBC arrived. Wired it up to two 4TB hard drives. 5400rpm, for quietness and reliability. Installed Cockpit to pair them up in RAID1, and left rsync copying our media onto here overnight. Next up, a #Jellyfin media server will access media from here, and try #Syncthing as a Dropbox replacement...
@perfect5th Hey! Great to see you on here. I trust all is well. I'm having a typically parental weekend, kiddy soccer tournaments, family hike in a State Park, and tonight am assembling my just arrived new "zimablade" single board computer NAS device.
I've been a really happy #Plex user for many years - have loved it, paid $100/year and invested a lot of time to get my #movies, #TVShows, and #music collections set up the way I want them.
@tartley
They're continually updating Plexamp, and that's unrivaled in what it does. As far as Jellyfin, Plex still has the best client support by many miles
Watched the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man (2018) recently. What I want now is a version of the fabulous intense immersive scene The Landing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfNhkYHrfj0), same music, but depicting busy parents prepping kids in the morning, with constant interruptions, overruns, alarms, things breaking, kids going rogue. Tense cryptic communications with one's spouse, because you're both intimately familiar with what needs to happen, against the tight deadline of the final 08:59 school drop-off.
I'm writing a #vectorgraphics Missile Command clone to learn #Godot and teach my kiddo some programming. What's the best name for it (poll to follow...) #retrogaming
@vartan (waves) thanks for the follow. The pressure, though! Now I have to be erudite and witty and earnest! I have a plant oriented friend in the bay area, Andy Doran, director of collections at UC's botanical gardens. I bet you'd get along. He only posts on the Twitter though.
I was today years old when I learned that I can just type the plain small integers when referencing a git stash. For over a decade I've been typing out "stash@{2}" every time. Jeeeeeezuuuusssss.