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In that case, got to pay those lobbyists.

Report it to spamcop.net and/or dnsbl.info so they actually get thrown into email blacklists.

I almost bought OGSL many years ago too until I realized there was no damn chance I’d need the sharing functions anyhow lol… But same deal happened to me with aCar. Was a great app for tracking all my car mileage, service, expenses, fill-ups, etc, but even though I paid for lifetime unlock, that’s no longer valid. Such a crock of shit.

Same, I do that. I have it integrated into Todoist which Alexa is also tied into, so I can manage it from voice commands or the app all the same. I don’t need a very complicated set of features in the lists themselves, but I’ve found that if I can use voice commands while cooking, I’m far more likely to remember to buy things I need as I use them up.

Explain-explain, like-like

Sure, Arch is very much a distro that you only will install what you want and none of the extras until you find a need. There’s none of the extra bloat you get in most distros. And if you want to install something that isn’t part of a distro package, you can install it via the Arch Users Repository (AUR) which has a combination of both binaries and source packages that will compile at install.

And most importantly all of that is easy to maintain, including the AUR using either pacman (the package manager) or yay (a wrapper for pacman that can update not only distro packages but anything in AUR). The worst part about installing projects manually is usually you have to do all the work of keeping it up to date, with but yay, it’s just “yay”, say yes a few times, and you’re generally done for everything.

Yeah, I’m not a novice to Linux in general, but it was my first time using Arch. Was testing it out after many years of admin of Ubuntu servers and then trying OpenSUSE for gaming. I don’t think I could ever leave Arch now, it’s just so easy to maintain and I finally get the hype.

I found out about 2 months ago I had a dead stick because of my Arch install. I kept having data integrity problems and thought my NVMe was dying. And then the other drive was having the same issues. I had reinstalled Arch so many times during this that I memorized ALL the steps from start to end. I really wish I had tested RAM earlier, but was so determined to believe it was the drives.

Right? Always make personal accounts tied to completely independent email accounts. Never ISP, work, or school email accounts. It makes it hell to deal with if you want to switch providers, quit or get fired, or graduate. It’ll take weeks to get into all your old shit.

Yeah I see a comment like that or just “lol” as something that should have just been an upvote. And then because I’m cynical, I also assume they didn’t upvote.

More like 135°.

Yeah, how dare you use one of the oldest, most widely accepted forms of online payment, right?

I remember all the victim blaming back around 2010-2011 when PayPal users were getting banned on Steam because of random payment holds PayPal was conducting. They’ve done some really shady things over the last couple decades.

Yeah I have been saying for a couple years now that I have the lamest super power: a fairly accurate mental timer. It’s not like I’m always on time myself, hell I’m late regularly by a few min to most social events, but I have a weird reoccurrence of being almost right on time if I have a timer going.

I use Alexa to set timers at least a few times a day. For brewing coffee, cooking, and various other mundane tasks. Nothing exciting. But I almost always expect that when I go to check on the timer, in within 10 sec. I’m not even consciously keeping track or looking at what time it is when I start generally, and sometimes I forget I even had a timer until last few seconds when I check on it.

I remember a few months ago I was slow cooking a bean soup that I like to go for 12 hours. I started it a few hours before bed. I woke up, went downstairs to start coffee, and the moment I walked in the kitchen, the slow cooker chimed because it had hit exactly 12 hours.

One of these days I’ll use it to get my butt out the door on time. Maybe.

Not technically a movie, but the 1990 It mini series has always gotten me. I can watch the newer movies and it won’t bother me at all, but that show was masterful in terrifying me as a kid.

That movie STILL creeps me out and I watched it as an adult the first time. I don’t know what it is exactly that did it, but the way they hid their appearance from you much of the movie was a big impact.

I just always do it out of habit when I number movies because of the rare possibility of a series going into double digits. Obviously I wouldn’t need to ever worry about it with LOTR or anything that is definitely over, but regardless it’s not painful to go back and edit.

Edit: also I’ve considered switching to Jellyfin myself, but I’ve had a Plex Lifetime membership since line 2014 and as annoying as they sometimes are about emailing me, I do like the polish it has.

Yeah it’s not the end-all-be-all solution for sure, but it helps for a large majority of movie series. I also use Plex Meta Manager to automatically create collections nightly for series, actors, genres, and even a handful of playlists.

Edit: and to add onto your example of Bond, yeah I just make that a playlist because it’d be way too confusing for me and most people who watching from my server.

Even better, you can do it by editing the “sort title” so even in the library they show up in the order you prefer. So in this case I’d change them to be “Saw 01” through “Saw 10” and I won’t have to mess with a different view for those circumstances. I do need to go back through and edit a handful more of my movies because I’ve slacked off lately.

Agreed, uninstall one of them and don’t look back. I have moments I need some tech reference that I saved over the years on Reddit, but I don’t go looking for new content.

My biggest problem with the space is that if I had to sit with my legs out like that, I’d eventually cramp up and inevitably bang my knees on the chair above.