I always rolled my own Debian servers on microitx boards. I found a cheap synology a few years ago though and gave it a shot… I’m a convert for sure. They fully live up to the hype and are absolutely worth the price.
Ages ago I did this with some cli tool that found episode/movie metadata stored in themoviedb or somewhere and just built a shell script around it. I don’t remember the name unfortunately. Now I just let Plex manage it and I don’t bother.
It’s extremely common here. There it feels like every other block in Tbilisi says “Fuck Putin” or “Russia is a terrorist state” or something along those lines… “No Russian is welcome, good or bad” was the most impactful for me.
I was having drinks with my neighbors and they were toasting for all the nationalities there. “For the Georgians! For the Turks! For the Ukrainians! For the Americans!”
I said, “But not the Russians.”
He got dead serious and looked me right in the eyes… “NO! FUCK the Russians!”
The Georgians are generally very friendly. I love it here.
I’m shocked the auto zoom function isn’t mentioned. I am zoomed into the area where I am. I search for something. The app zooms out to show me results from places literal hours away… Sometimes on different continents. I’m annoyed, I zoom back in to where I was, click on a result, and it zooms out AGAIN. WTF?
I still get nagged constantly to add a birthday to my Google account to make sure I am older than 13 or something… To satisfy some dumb law I think. The email account is like 15 years old though. How could I be under 13 if it’s that old?
Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”
That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.
EVERY American needs an escape plan if they get sick/injured.
My mom needed dental work done. She didn’t have the cash and asked if I could help pay for it. I started googling and a few days later we ended up in Budapest. We were there for a week. The flight, Airbnb, dental work, and some touristy stuff combined was less than 1/3rd of the cost of she had just went to the guy around the corner from her house.
If it’s non-life threatening or chronic… GTFO of the States.
He bought it in 1999. Adjusting for inflation, it costs about $490k in current dollars.
EDIT: Also the point isn’t really about how much it cost as it does who financed it and how the payments were made (or not). If someone who made a fortune in healthcare loaned a scotus judge money for a luxury home/vehicle Thomas would have a conflict of interest on cases involving healthcare.
I honestly have never had a problem sleeping on planes. If I’m tired before I get to the airport, I can often sleep through takeoff. On short flights I’ve only woken up after the plane lands.
For long haul flights I typically look to see what the local time of my destination will be when I arrive. If it’s at night, I stay awake for the whole flight so I can crash as soon as I get where I’m going. If morning, I’ll sleep the whole way so I can start the day fresh-ish. It really cuts down on jetlag.
For context, I got a remote job in 2016 and went full digital nomad basically until covid hit. I was living out of a single suitcase and flying once a month on average. I genuinely love flying. Pretty over the whole fascination with travel though… In some ways it kinda ruins you. Now I’ll only go somewhere if there are things I know I can only buy in the destination or if I’m going to visit friends or family. I have zero interest left for any tourist destinations, historical sites, museums, etc…
Kerning Cultures should be on the list of everyone who likes 99PI and This American Life. It’s like those two shows had a baby and it grew up in the Arab world.