My dog of 14 years passed away in April, and i haven’t really mourned him like i should. I keep having a recurring dream where he’s alive, and I’m mad at everyone who said he was dead. I wasn’t there in the end, life circumstances made me send him to my “parents” house, where he passed peacefully of natural causes.

I also have nightmares that feature my sperm-donor more often than I’d like.

Edit: I believe dreams are a window into the subconscious, but they aren’t exactly reliable or “meaningful”, other than a “huh, that was weird…”.

Yes! I had the candy bar version, the Slvr.

It scratched that cyberpunk itch.

I graduated high school in 03, a few months/years into the “no child left behind” bullshit. The last week of school, meathead asks, out loud, “why do people read”.

Almost ten years later and that dude has never had a job longer than three months. This. This is why people read…

Edit: i had a friend in highschool who passed away a few years ago, so I only know his employment status from highschool, up to the funeral. Deleted Facebook soon after

In Texas, we spent a semester (half the school year) learning Texas history, and the other half the year learning World History. This was during the start of “No Child Left Behind”, so it was basically “memorize the answers to the test”, instead of “actually learn the material”…

Last time there was a tornader in Garland, lightning flashed and lit up the jade-green sky. My mother and brother stopped talking instantly, and we gathered the dogs in the Harry Potter room under the stairs.

'Nader didn’t hit us, but it was still a shock to see the sky a color I’ve only seen in jewelry, or the random Pantone®© sample.

Macaroni and tuna, but you have to use the liquid cheese kind, not the powdered abortion.

Cool ranch Doritos and sour cream, saw this mentioned before and had to try it. Worth every penny.

I go by the shortened version of my name, because my full name was screamed at me so often, I can barely handle it when it’s used… That second syllable is like a gun shot, so one syllable it is.

I’ve heard rumors that they do play well together, but that’s people running it in docker with a “read-only” flag set for the content folder, with metadata saved in the config folder

I’ve used the Jellyfin app to listen to audio books, but for my purposes, it’s easier to run the separate client/server Audiobookshelf.

Dang, I just realized I didn’t explain the setup well enough:

An old laptop runs the Jellyfin server, but the Pi runs the reverse proxy. For some reason, trying to use the reverse proxied address causes problems, but connecting directly to the laptop via IP address and port runs fine.

I tried a Jellyfin server with a pi 2 or 3 and it couldn’t serve more than one client at a time. So i imagine a zero wouldn’t even be able to load the app, much less serve anything :/

My main reason for running my DNS/ad block/nginx through the zero, sometimes the laptop goes down, freezes, or fails to clear the transcodes folder, so having that stuff separate keeps at least part of the network running.

If I trusted the battery tech more, I would use an old phone. But I’ve had one of those white plastic Mac books hooked up to power so long, the battery swelled out of its enclosure :/

Maybe there’s a way to disconnect the battery, or an app that switches off charging, so it drains enough to keep that from happening

Oh nice! I’d love to run an ad blocker/dns/reverse proxy on something with a little more beef than the Pi zero I’ve got now.

Jellyfin and or Pi zero does not like streaming through the video.local address I’ve got setup, so i have to use IP address to get anything without stuttering.

Free fruit and granola bars were always available in the kitchenette next to the “fitness center”. I’d always end my work day with a few minutes on the treadmill, while noming on free food.

I remember the driver being female, and i want to say it was her mother in the passenger seat that was hit. Yeah, i stopped using digg or whatever it was for a while after that…

Alternate take: You’ve filtered out the obvious garbage and/or don’t care about YouTube drama!

“Andrew Garfield nice”!?

How many times do I have to manually enter “nude”!? I wanna see that Andy G, D!

1. I love garlic stuffed olives, but have to eat them with chopsticks to slow myself down.

2. My dogs love Pupperonis (one letter away from pepperoni), but I call them puppereenies so they don’t go ape shit when discussing toppings…

Edit: Swipe typing is getting worse every day, fixed auto assumptions…

Red letter media

I love Star Trek, but don’t want to watch the modern Alex kurtzman garbage, so they take the bullet for me.

I’m also not a movie guy, so watching their reviews/analysis while playing Minecraft is more entertaining than the movies they talk about.

Best of the worst is them watching B and direct to video movies that i wouldn’t otherwise know about.

“Just Jeeves it” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…

“freedom of speech” means the government can’t arrest you for your views. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to listen…

Same.

Bought a Blu-ray burner and “archive grade” disks for third location backups.

I made a list of files that is just a text document (3MB!) that sits on the root of the Blu-ray. There’s probably a better way of doing that, but it works for me.