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Do you think that sitcoms today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older shows?

Little has changed really, I find most sitcoms are just "meh", kind of like they've always been.

I know of 3 sitcoms that are genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, and the most recent one has been off-air for 10 years ("Still Game", Scottish sitcom). The others are "'Allo!, 'Allo!" from 1982 and "Corner Gas" from the early 2000's.

New stuff I'm watching today isn't sitcom, because sitcoms are such a crap shoot and any teasers I've seen look awful.

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Tips on speeding up remote connection to personal server?

Connecting remotely to your home devices is dependent on your home internet connection's upload speed, which is usually a fraction of the download speed.

Then add the overhead of the VPN (Tailscale) and how direct of a connection it's able to make.

Then the connection of the device you're testing from - it may have some bandwidth limitations.

I just did a quick test - copy a specific file from a local server to my phone - just enabling Tailscale made that copy take twice as long, so it's definitely adding significant bandwidth constraints (could be an Android limitation).

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How it feels to try and get Plex to import all your torrented media

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Yea, Jellyfin is far from perfect, and it's what I use.

It's a bit more work than it should be, like it loves to identify stuff as Asian if it doesn't have a perfect match, sometimes with folders properly structured with year and IMDB ID.

I'm constantly having to fix metadata or even remove a specific movie, rescan, return the movie folder, rescan, and then it sees it right.

I've had to blow away my entire Jellyfin database multiple times this year because it just loses it's mind and won't properly identify something.

It's what I use, that doesn't mean it's perfect, but it is an incredible value, and it doesn't phone home or any other nonsense.

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2001 Infiniti QX4/Nissan Pathfinder - what is this noise?

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Probably.

An old shade tree mechanic testing tool is a long screwdriver - press it to a spit on the alternator and rest your head on it just near your ear - it makes a great stethescope.

If it's the alternator bearing, it'll very slowly get worse, you'll have plenty of time before it fails.

Honesty I've never seen an alternator bearing fail before the voltage regulator - that's the weakest link. But hey, take what you get, right?