Brewchin

There have been lots.

But my most recent was Moshoku Tensei and its current “future timeline (of the MC)” stuff. (I hope it’s just a “vision”).

I’m a middle aged dude and watching what happens to his 2 wives and then his lost love, Eris. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried (and am now, typing this) and lost actual sleep over it. You’re (probably) laughing, and I’m amazed at how much I didn’t know I cared about the characters.

Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯

Genuinely surprised by this (but also not really: everything is just a line on a spreadsheet to CEOs), as it seemed to tick all the boxes for monetised serial media: locked in, free stuff, paid stuff, freemium (pay to unlock sooner, timed wait for the next chapter under some circumstances, etc), endless nudges to buy their unlock currency, etc, and the mobile app is surprisingly good.

They’ve built a platform begging to be abused by its owners, but they’re axing it instead of turning the screws. (That’s the surprising bit for me.)

On the one hand, you’re absolutely right. When smoking was common/accepted, it appeared everywhere in TV and films. Then it became a niche thing, but was always incidental rather than core to the plot. Which I think is the point here.

Perhaps many of us lived in a place where it’s been so long without “smoking is normal” that it’s now jarring, but you don’t have to travel far to see that’s definitely not the case everywhere. Australia’s west versus east coasts, UK versus France or Italy, etc.

Seeing the recent smoking- and drinking-centric anime/manga (for me it’s Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk) is interesting, and makes me think of how easy it’s been to go from smoking and drinking being ubiquitous to fringe where I live.

Such a wholesome, fun manga. Always Look forward to it.

This was obvious to anyone who’s used it for any length of time. I’m just surprised the monetisation enshittification didn’t win the race.

The only thing I’ve used Portainer for in the last few years is to easily tidy up my old images.

Sure, it’s trivial on CLI, but why not. 😄 In short: nothing of value lost.

This week was almost entirely about the manager and Obata, which was surprising but sensible from a storytelling perspective to give more options for development and storylines.

Discounting the smoking thing (I avoided it for the longest time solely because I find smoking disgusting), it’s an uplifting and excellent slow burn cross-generational slice of life romance, IMHO. I get how it might put some off, but I’m surprised by how much I love it.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil does a surprisingly good job of it, considering it’s an isekai about flying mages.

Much of it is not-Germany fighting not-Russia while not-Italy are acting as neutral peace facilitators while not-UK are harrying the western flank, and they’re worried about the not-US getting involved and screwing up the balance of power. Lots of politics and strategy mixed in with some good action.

Have to say it: an outraged Myne is the perfect thumbnail image for this headline. 👌🏻

Definitely canon. The most yandere of succubi. 😄

It’s true that people on the internet can be dicks. Even more so technical people (and that’s not limited to online: those online dicks are usually IRL dicks when taking technical stuff). But that’s a hurdle, not a barrier.

There’s little anyone here can do to help OP, as they (if I understand it correctly) have already irreparably nuked their hardware. The current problem is significantly different and harder than the original problem. Asking randos on this community is unlikely to yield results. Hence the focus on variations of “Now… what did we learn? 🤨”

I’m not trying to help, as I’m not familiar enough with SAS nor the current problem. The same is likely true of others here.

Can you really blame anyone who turns to AI, because that garbage at least sounds like it tries to help you?

A comfortable lie is still a lie. Everything that comes out of an LLM is a lie until proven otherwise. (“Lie” is a bit misleading, though, as they don’t have agency or intent: they’re a variation of your phone keyboard’s next-word text prediction algorithm. With added flattery and confidence.)

There’s a reason experienced people stress hard to others about not using them as shortcuts to your own knowledge. This is the outcome.

Another way to look at it is “trust, but verify”. If you’re intent on relying on probabilistic text as an answer, instead of bothering to learn, then take what it’s given you and verify what that does before doing it. You could learn to be an effective sloperator with just that common sense.

But if you’re going to give an LLM root/admin access to a production environment, then expect to be laughed at, because you had plenty of opportunities to not destroy something and actively chose not to use them.

You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

I used to use Plex and when I discovered there was paid remote streaming function - that goes through their servers - my reactions were “Haha, no”* and checking whether my existing WireGuard setup would do it instead.

Whaddya know, remote streaming using Plex and PlexAmp at no cost.

*Not because I begrudge them recouping costs, but because it’s designed that way to justify charging for it, gives them whatever information they want from my viewing, and it’s not self-hosting if there’s any third party cloud/account component to it.