https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Mar 5, 2026 19:58
There’s a reboot starring Kathy Bates
And I am actually enjoying it. It’s entertaining.
Please forgive any typos, my brian is still very much recovering. I’m not promoting anything cause nothing I’ve made yet is really worth much to anyone but my self,and everything is far from polished. I’m just sharing what I’m doing. In November ‘24, I had a mid level stroke. I’ve had issues with motor skills, headaches, and short term memory, but for the most part I’m doing quite well. For the last 6-8 months, I build a home server, (AMD 3700x, 64GB of RAM, 6TBNvME, and 2x 12TB HDD, old NVIDIA 2060. I setup up Jellyfin, ripped our 400ish Blu Rays, DVDs, and TV Shows. Setup Navidrone, and ripped our CDs, Home Assistant, AudoBookshelf, ConvertX, MeTube, and several other apps mostly discovered here. I also wrote my own app to track our large physical Media Collection that has a few api calls for pulling info about the items., a dashboard app in the style of the old iGoogle, and I’ve started working on 2 other apps, one to track medical information like blood pressure, glucose, doc appts, care team, medications, etc. The other app is for TTRPG GMs to run games that will basically be a digital GM Screen with a dozen or so tools.
I was a web developer for 20 years before the stroke so I had some previous entry level experience with this type of stuff, but not on this level. Mine was more for like corporate websites. My doctor believes this process has indeed sped up my recovery significantly. So this is just a post to say thanks for this community that has given me tons of ideas for things to try.
I hope you get better! Im not active in community, not even a tech savy. I also didnt come up with something to share with community but I like the homelabing hobby (or movement if I can call this like that).
Jellyfin is such a badass app! I borrowed huge DVD’s collection from my grandpa (he had a store back in days) so I have like a bunch of movies only on my Pi5 with Radax (wchich is my only homelab device lol).
Again. I hope you get better fellow stranger from the internet!
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Been there done that. It’s much harder than it seems from this post. Your brain suffered severe damage, getting it to work again as good as possible takes huge amounts of energy and will power. Good job bro! (Watch yourself, don’t over do it)
Interesting, sounds good. But, from the article…
Does anyone remember when you could simply unclip, remove and exchange laptop batteries with just your fingernails?
Pepperidge Farm remembers…
How are they as actual laptops?
I got a Lenovo Yoga years ago and while the insides were decent for the money, the build quality was plastic crap.
I’d be interested to hear how the more flagship and business focused offering stands up.
A few years ago I decided to fix my biggest gripe with Unity’s InputSystem: there is no intuitive and fuss-free way of determining which UI, character controller, popup, etc. should be receiving inputs at any given time.
Sure, the Action Maps are a great baseline for handling this since they let you assign a set of inputs to each given system; but you still have to make sure to enable and disable them at the correct moment. This can be easy in a small project, but when you have dozens of systems and UIs to contend with; it can get kind of messy.
So I started working on a system that sort of “automatically” handles all the mess for me and handles the complexity on its own.
After a few years of working on it when I felt like it in my spare time, I’m officially taking InputLayers out of beta:
The short version is that it’s a system that lets you assign input actions to layers that “stack” priority. So when your popup comes up on screen, its layer is added to the top of the stack; and as long as no other layer takes its place, only inputs from that layer will be taken into account.
There’s a bit more depth to all this, with layer priorities that prevent less “important” systems from taking over higher priority ones; but at its core; it basically lets you set things up using a single configuration window; and then never have to worry about if your character will keep moving when your main menu is open, or whatever other similar conflict you can imagine.
I go over the core idea in a little bit more detail in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bXEuzpbGlCI
I’ve included a few sample scenes, though their code is a bit of a mess at the moment (I’ll be updating them in the next few days); but if you can get past the mediocre UI code, they cover most of the basic use cases.
I’ve set up the documentation over on GitHub for ease of access; and so that people can post issues they may encounter easily.
I understand that it isn’t originally a Disney+ show and that episodes arrive much later than in the USA, but they pause, release a few episodes weekly, then pause again. And all without communicating anything about it to the viewers.
They don’t even indicate that this is a weekly show. Or that season 2 isn’t over yet.
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The release schedule is one of the most fucked up I’ve ever seen. 7 months to show 18 episodes in US. It’s best to just pirate this shit, don’t reward this bullshit by subscribing.
for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.
Damn furrys… stupid, sexy furrys…
Waiting for the next fork: Contin-ara-ara-ity
Im German. English is not my first language.
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
[Google] tried unsuccessfully to have the verdict reversed, but then Epic came to the rescue. In late 2025, the companies announced a settlement that skipped many of the court’s orders.
Epic leadership professed interest in leveling the playing field for all developers on Android’s platform. But US District Judge James Donato expressed skepticism of the settlement in January, noting that it may be a “sweetheart deal” that benefited Epic more than other developers. The specifics of the arrangement were not fully disclosed, but it included lower Play Store fees, cross-licensing, attorneys’ fees, and other partnership offers.
The best option for people in other countries that believe in freedom and justice (in the true sense, not in the American polemical sense) is to get rid of all American platforms. At least in tech, there isn’t a single major US platform that’s not involved in open criminality (and even crimes against humanity) and/or have an outright malicious attitude towards customers.
Another option would be full white-labeling with transfer of regional IP (copyright, trademarks, patent - everything) and any key operational infrastructure. Essentially, the US HQ would have zero control over of the platform and would get a small fee and that’s it.
One small step forward, under the shadow of Google’s looming threat to crack down on the concept of self-ownership of any device with that cute little robot logo. For independent developers still publishing on the Play Store, this is, for the moment, better than nothing.
The settlement affirms that developers in the Play Store will be able to steer users to other forms of payment. This is what got Fortnite pulled from the Play Store (and Apple App Store) back in 2020. When developers choose to use Google’s billing platform, they’ll pay lower fees as well.
Modified from this recipe:
Everyone made it in the slow cooker! Haha yeah it’s that recipe but better. Very tasty!
Oh I still use the slow cooker, but it’s a versatile soup!
