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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • You’d just print the photo on the paper instead of that. Use the benefits of the medium to your advantage. Physical copies of photos has a history of working which is waaaaay longer than any current digital medium could ever match.

    This is likely more for things which require digital data storage, programs, longer form text that space constraints mean you can’t just print as a book, security codes, etc.


  • So, the tweet isn’t entirely true; my experience in the army was that we very much did irregularly do marches together, even after basic training. Every few months or so the battallion or brigade leadership would get an idea about a ‘fun run’ or whatever, and the start of those is always a march together. It inevitably switched to running together, but there was definitely a quick refresher on walking in step together on a regular basis.

    What the tweeter missed is that there’s tricks that every leadership command knows to do if they want a formation to look good.

    If you wanted to put a military parade on that actually looked good you’d do a couple things prior to running it. You’d tell your various units to have a competition for who does it best, and you’d put up a basic-ass award for the winners and runners up. This ensures that any ladder climbers go out and find all the people who are actually good at this to put together a small super squad of people who actually know what they’re doing. You then have them compete, and you pick the units that did the best to lead your parade.

    We actually did this in basic training; my drill sgts had a little demonstration where they put the people good at keeping time together and the people bad it together. It was damn impressive how much of a difference just doing that made. One or two bad marchers can ruin a whole formation with their lack of timing.

    None of this was done; at best they practiced for pt for a couple weeks before the event, but even that is iffy. They likely didn’t bother to filter the parade members who can’t march out, and that’d be good enough to turn this into a herd instead of a formation.

    This doesn’t rule out malicious compliance at all though; again, one or two bad marchees doing their best (or worst) job can completely throw off the timing of everybody behind and next to them. Same way as counting wrongly out loud can throw off someone trying to count up to 50.



  • I had issues streaming directly from one device to the other without transcoding on WiFi. (I know you’re wired! Heard me out.)

    I found that, although it didn’t fix the issue, it did help to switch from using SMB to NFS. Something about the way the protocol works meant that SMB had enough of an overhead that it worsened my stuttering issues outside of the spotty WiFi connection. For sure it significantly sped up scrubbing access times as well.

    It may not be the issue, but it may be a step worth checking just to see if it is a part of the issue.

    For what it’s worth, 4k remuxes can have bitrate spikes well exceeding the limits of a single gbps wire. If you have a player with limited memory, or just limited cache settings, this may also be a part of the problem.





  • Terramaster had some pretty gnarly security issues that they badly handled in the past. No big deal if you keep it walled off from the internet, but their software would never let you know it should be kept away from any internet access.

    Also, if you get one of their units that has an ARM chip inside instead of an intel one, there is basically no chance you’re ever going to be able to use anything other than the software that they have by default. This makes the security issues impossible to resolve without completely removing internet access to the device.


  • I too was unsatisfied with jellyfin’s music handling. Not only was the website disorganized and bad at using the built-in album art, but all the android music players i could find for it were also barely usable as well.

    I can’t use musicbee because it’s windows only. I still want synchronized play history, metadata updates, and everything between my phone, pc, and mp3 player so a single OS software was out of the question.

    I use a combination of beets, navidrome, and tempo. Beets is the metadata manager; once i’ve beet imported an album, it’s ready for navidrome to pick it up and serve it to any of my devices. (I have a custom sync script for my mp3 player that does the same). Navidome serves the music to any connected devices, converts it on the fly to lower quality (for low speed phone network situations) and also keeps track of my play counts, and my playlists for me. It’s not nearly as complicated as some of the other setups, which I also prefer.

    I use tempo on my phone to connect to navidrome on the go and it has worked out incredibly well so far.



  • Counterpoint; it required gigabit internet and still had noticable delay to my eyes. It also had compression artifacts as well as low-medium graphics settings. It also hitched semi-regularly for no apparent reason.

    All the above meant that stadia was only good for people with the money to spend on it and located in an area with fast internet and didn’t play any FPSes. It was too many requirements to be a popular thing, kinda like VR is.

    It also suffered from the “games get removed straight from my library” problem. They also couldn’t support every game, or even the bare minimum if most popular right now, simply because they had to make sure it’s supported on their backend.

    It should have stuck around, but I don’t think it would be a big thing until much later when internet is actually decent in most places, instead of a very select few.