As a metal head, I didn’t understand Ghost for the longest time. I didn’t hate it, but “this isn’t metal” was my exact thought, lol. Took me a few tries before I finally thought they were “okay”. Then I went to see them live, and now they’re probably in my top 15 bands.

Both times my btrfs drive started failing, it was bad RAM. The Arch IRC channel member helping me diagnose even joked that btrfs is better at catching RAM issues than filesystem issues, lol.

I recommend running a memtest and seeing what that says.

Same story. I actually did bounce back after getting a bad performance review, but then I got let go anyway, now I’m both burned out and jaded.

I like software engineering, actually solving interesting problems. I didn’t sign up to be a condom between Claude and prod.

Your family is incorrect. Been to Japan twice, the toilets are so nice, I invested in a very nice bidet when I got home after the first trip. Now I don’t want to shit anywhere else.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/

February of 2025, looks like.

Watch Together isn’t removed, but it’s been deprecated and has stopped working on at least one platform (Chromecast).

Really shitty move to be removing/deprecating functionality and then asking for more money.

It depends on the game. If the game doesn’t tie input handling to framerate, then yes, because your inputs will feel better.

I think both “per serving” and “per 100g” should be required. Some foods/drinks come with “0g carbs” or “0 calories” in small enough servings, but only because the actual amount is negligible. The problem is that once the serving gets large enough, those things do start to matter, especially for instance carbs for diabetics.

Multiple times I’ve run into a “low carb” or “low sugar” drink that said something like 2 or 3g carbs per serving, and then had 2 or 3 servings per bottle, which ending up raising my blood sugar more than expected. Technically that’s on me for not checking the “per serving” and “servings per container”, and I’ve since learned my lesson, but it’s still annoying.

Nah, I’m just diabetic.

Oh wait, I go to the doctor for that…

Reminds me of when I had a rogue ~ directory sitting in my own home directory (probably from a badly written script). Three seconds into rm -rf ~ and me wondering why it was taking so long to complete, I CTRL+C, reboot, and pray.

Alas, it was a reinstall for me that day (good excuse to distro hop, anyway). Really glad I don’t mount my personal NAS folder in my home directory anymore, holy shit.

The official self-hosted guide is actually quite simple and straightforward. I had it set up and going in a half hour or so, and that’s even with removing Caddy and using my existing nginx reverse proxy. It’s intimidating at first-glance, yeah.

That being said, the official self-host guide is also 5 months out of date. The alternative you linked requires jumping through a bunch of hoops because it’s just a small community of enthusiasts hacking together the current version of Stoat for self-hosting.

So I acknowledge that self-hosting current version of Stoat with voice is rather complicated and frustrating right now, but hopefully it becomes as simple as the official self-hosting guide eventually.

Third party pad support when? I want to use my 3D as a Smash Remix setup, but it doesn’t support my box controller with a standard USBC to N64 cable (like the actual N64 does).

Or ban them outright! Benefits of running my own isntance, haha.

Yeah, their BYOD plan works great if they sell the phone you’re using. My Pixel 7 I got from the Google Store worked just fine with AT&T for two years before I upgraded. I just didn’t even consider whether they sold the device or not to be important to the functionality of the phone.

Not with AT&T. Bought a Pixel 9 Pro Fold on a huge sale from Google themselves, but because AT&T doesn’t sell it, they couldn’t provision it correctly on their network. Went through all the troubleshooting, they sent me a new SIM even. Finally I did my own research online, found a reddit post where someone talked to an employee on some internal AT&T team that said they probably won’t ever support it properly since they don’t sell it.

So that was frustrating.

I host Smash Bros. tournaments. My mom, who’s never held a real job in her life, keeps asking why I do it if I don’t make money.

I dunno mom, maybe because it’s fun and I enjoy contributing to the community?

I’ve always wondered what the use case for Gentoo-but-binary is. I’m sure there is one, I just can’t think of one.

Not a “conflict” per se, but I know Nvidia drivers had an issue for years where it would waste a lot of CPU cycles if no Nvidia card was detected. I think that finally was fixed last year, though.

Yep. My 64 gigs of RAM died in my old setup a few weeks ago, and instead of paying out the ass for replacement DDR4 RAM, I decided to pay out the ass for DDR5 RAM and upgrade while I was at it. Only did 32 gigs, because I really wasn’t using most of my 64 gigs (I thought). A few days ago, I ended up having to set up a swap file because a Rust project I was working on kept crashing VSCode while it was running the analyzer. What are we doing here.

Use an Arch distrobox and install from the AUR.