I laughed at that more than one might expect.

I switched to Proxmox over the summer. My homelab has been rather neglected since then, but I have other things on my mind at the moment. Anyway, it seems robust from a few weeks of kicking it around and I’m excited about it.

What a great idea! I love Bash scripting, so I’ll look into doing this myself for fun tomorrow.

I download when I have free time to fill / kill. I watch one genre of videos and periodically check on a number of channels that have that content. I watch each video working down the list deleting them as I consume them. In the rare case that I want to save something, I toss it in an unmanaged directory of internet content.

My Plex library is where managed content lives. Stuff from the internet doesn’t deserve that level of care (in my system of data management).

I run a Plex server for my movie and television library. I just watch YT videos once and delete them, mostly in the background while I do other things. But I’ll look into both tools regardless because automation is always interesting to me. Thanks for the tips!

Yes. The only positive thing the Dilbert creator ever did for the world was teach me (and others) that Marketing is bad. (He’s a fucking creep and a Trump weirdo.)

I’ve landed on that page a couple of times. I’m just waiting to be blocked.

I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

What a dumbass. “Think I’ll just directly violate the findings of a court and see if they notice.”

You sound like a candidate for a book I enjoyed: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language

One of the only aspects of my previous employer that was smart and well-run was the attitude about RTO. Before the pan, the owner was planning to rent a second space in the same building to expand. Post-pan, we did a six week experiment where everyone came back two days per week. The metrics didn’t meaningfully change and we downsized. Everyone became fully remote unless they needed supplies from the office for a client.

They managed everything terribly, but at least got that right.

They used to sell cool tshirts but not anymore, it seems. You can get involved or show support here: https://sbworkersunited.org/

Those dogs playing poker in that well known painting looked pretty cool.

Tuition is also higher for international students.

That’s not at all evil. /s

From cat person to cat person, I wish you all the best as you go through a difficult time.

Hype for American superiority is now the stuff of TV, radio, podcasts, newspaper columns and magazine cover stories, which have a record of pointing the wrong way on future trends.

Exactly zero of the podcasts that I listen to think that we’re doing well. I realize that this is a self-selecting echo chamber, but anyone who can think knows that we’re not doing well.

Edit: see the Luigi memes for proof.

Companies that see IT as a cost rather than the cost of doing business eventually end up with bad results.

Never would have come up with this on my own. I think you’re probably right.

During the Bush jr years, I told a coworker that I’d realized that I better start being more mindful about what I posted online. They replied that free speech was their primary marker of liberty and I felt kinda silly.

As we go into a new Trump admin, I am again reminded that I should be mindful what I post because now it’s really gonna go to shit. That asshole plans to weaponize everything. Hence, why I plan on emigrating to a better society.

I do note that OP spelled “offence” the British way. They have less risk of being targeted by lunatics. I’m somewhat hyperbolic is suggesting that I’m moving for safety, but there were also a bunch of people who left Germany and didn’t end up dead. And because I’m not unaware of what I’m saying: see also, Godwin’s law.

No, I don’t, and I pay attention to Apple stuff. Got a link?