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You like Lower Decks?
This gets my upvote for "applied phlebotinum"
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You like Lower Decks?
This gets my upvote for "applied phlebotinum"
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MREs?
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Well played, sir. Golf clap
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Tried my hand at rolls for the first time
Those are what Alton Brown would call "edible hugs".
They look delicious!
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Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?
Yes and yes.
Fast food has become even more expensive in the last 10 years, it's as much as some sit down restaurants with much better food.
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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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Basil smash
Add some soda water, makes an amazing drink too!
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Hannibal was right 🔥
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That was a joke?
Wasn't the least bit funny.
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom | Official Trailer 2
Hurray, more Shaun!
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What comedy movies aged like rotten meat?
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That would've been shockingly bad taste even then - they were probably going for shock value.
I'll check it out - got me curious.
Edit: Peter O'Toole and Barbara Hershey in the 80's? Sign me right up!
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Looking for speakers for my dad
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If the record is still playing
Go dad!
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Tips on speeding up remote connection to personal server?
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I would suspect he's getting relayed, and I suspect I was too for my test.
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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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Alan Rickman as Vicomte de Valmont and Lindsay Duncan as Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses stage play (1985)
And I think my favorite role of his is in Galaxy Quest: classical Shakespearean actor playing an alien in a sci-fi show as a second to an egomaniac in a role that should've been his.
Brilliant! Hilarious!
I panned that movie when it came out, I've since come to appreciate how much it has to offer.
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How it feels to try and get Plex to import all your torrented media
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But you MUST follow the folder structure rules or it won't know what you have.
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U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook, sling-loads a Mi-24 Hind out of the desert of Chad, during Operation Mount Hope III. June 11, 1988.
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I'm not sure, but maybe the Skycrane could do it?
I haven't looked at the lift specs in a long time, but it was specifically designed for large lifts.
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Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins
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Probably not, that's fair point for someone considering switching.
I have found a camera app with way more capability than any stock camera, I think it's open camera (can't remember for sure).
I do find any camera other than stock is a little slower but that's a small price to pay for all the other benefits.
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U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook, sling-loads a Mi-24 Hind out of the desert of Chad, during Operation Mount Hope III. June 11, 1988.
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Wow, thanks for the effort.
I'm kind of not surprised, the Chinook is a beast.
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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?
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Alan Rickman as Vicomte de Valmont and Lindsay Duncan as Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses stage play (1985)
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Romulan Rickman, Hahahahaha, that would've been brilliant!
I do think ToS was dead serious about it's Greek Morality Play presentation, which is why I can appreciate it.
It was a bit blunt and obvious, even for kid me.