Most of the music I haven’t listened to since highschool are joke music: Stephen lynch, amateur transplants, avenue q (I lied I went to see it since high school) and youtube joke music james@war, Mister safety, cows with guns. I don’t listen to it, I do sing a lot of it still though.

There’s some stuff too emo for me in there: Automatic Loveletter. Some edgy music: Bolt thrower. Also, “you wouldn’t know 'em” music: My Only Danger. The lost of “I don’t want to listen to”, but the list of “it’s not really available to listen to” is smaller… But mostly humourous music that hasn’t aged well or I played to death.

Like everyone else I carried a lot of my highschool music with me and just kept adding as I grew.

Why would there be a deviled egg, just left there on the windowsill for 12hrs, if not for you to eat it.

The last series I finished was “Kingdom of immortal lovers” by Ruby Roe. Which is some f/f BDSM vampire smut.

I think Ruby Roe is mainly f/f, but the above was more smut than fantasy. That said, I don’t go out of my way to read romance, so I really wouldn’t know.

I can’t recommend, or not recommend the series though, it wasn’t written for me. Just here to say Ruby exists for f/f fantasy smut.

It was my understanding that romance, as an umbrella, was the best seller of books.

The reason “just write smut” was the advice given to struggling authors was because the demand was there to make it a best selling genre, but people didn’t typically write it. Now it’s fairly saturated so the advice is less relevant.

Joke’s on me, I don’t like romantasy either. I like my fiction to be philosophy disguised as magic and spaceships.

Romance is what sells though, and I’m glad something sells to keep authors around writing my pensive wankery.

I did toy with the idea of writing the chapter long smut pieces I see around. Then decided I would have to devote more time than I want to devote to smut to do it right and not scam people.

I thought the advice was “just write smut”, is it “just write YA” now?

There goes my plan of writing Micro-Smut scenes and selling them for 99p self published. What have I been reading all this literature for as research?! I don’t even like smut!

I loved early WTNV, the monster of the week format just suited me. Today is street sweeping day, RUN! As they moved to longer and longer arcs I fell a bit out of love, persisted a while, then dropped. I still go to their live shows when they roll through though.

The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are closer to zero than they are the ultra rich.

Cleanuparr+huntarr

Add a bunch to Prowlarr (filter by public, Torrent, Language, category) and then monitor the stats in Prowlarr to remove the ones not working out for you.

MagnetDownload has the highest number of successful grabs for me. Followed by TorrentProject2. I run a Bitmagnet instance though, and I have that as highest piority.

My original main was on FMHY, and this was my porn alt. But, FMHY died so I used this account to browse temporarily. The lemmynsfw admins kept making decisions I agreed with, so I just stayed.

When you’re an Atreides they just let you do it.

WAF has consistently held me down to earth. “What will that enable you to acheive that you can’t do already?” With a couple mini pcs and a rpi I’m good. I’d love shiny things, but beyond LLMs there’s not much it would enable me to achieve that I can’t already.

That, and other hobbies. I don’t want to be an amateur system admin during the summer. So all winter long, while I’m tinkering, I’m adding up how much it adds to my maintenance schedule.

Honestly, I wouldn’t.

I only run it this way because a VPS had 0 WAF, and I’m terrified of opening ports. VPS is the well trodden ground, there’s tonnes of guides. Mine’s a hack job borne of necessity, it works though, and I am proud of what I cobbled together.

It was my first time solving my own problems. I had my meager skill set, a basic idea of what I wanted, some vague notion of how I was going to achieve it, and a thick forehead to smash against the problem till it gave way for me.

I am going to keep running it this way though. To access my server you need to HAVE a relay rPi, and you need to KNOW a password. That’s two authentication factors right there, just built in.

I use tailscale for my non-tech family.

I run a rPi with tailscale, pihole and nginx on it in their house. They connect to the their WiFi, get adblocking for free. They go to “http://homarr.sever/” pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies to a homarr LXC on my server. From there they can click links to the services which are at “https://service/######.xyz”. Again, pihole captures the request, sends it to nginx which reverse proxies it over Tailscale to the appropriate LXC.

One poor soul runs a mini pc with 2 mirrored ssds attached, it runs everything above plus Syncthing. They have the privilege of running the remote back up for the server.

For apps on their phone, I intend to set their phone up with Tailscale and then just have the app go to “http://dockge:1337/”… Just as soon as I learn to write the access controls to allow admins to access everything, users to access services, and services to access nothing. I just looked and there’s a gui now so I could maybe do it this winter.

Get Ren this lizard blood, he must be protected!!

There should be both. Minimal config + gui options for people just getting into the hobby, or just want the thing. And a more open option for people who hit the limits of the first, or to do interesting shit, or to repeatably build a thing.

I go back and forth on my server. During summer I wish it was all Docker YAMLs so I can press “update” in Dockge and then enjoy the weather.

But, I also do non-typical things. Users have a rPi in their house that captures requests and routes them through Tailscale to my server for remote access without a VPS or opening ports.

I’m not too technical so I often struggle setting things up, and documentation can be less than helpful at times, sometimes I really wished there was a gui or wizard, but it’s doable.

I know it’s a meme, but it’s funny how often isitdns.com is right.

If you have even half a thought it could maybe be DNS, it’s probably DNS. Even if I’m sure it probably isn’t DNS, it’s DNS.

Tech: The wheel, chariot, loom, car, now AI.

Once Pandora’s box opens, it’s open. The best you can do is figure out how to use it ethically and how to regulate it so others use it … reasonably.

Hats used to be an art form, milliners where everywhere. Now they’re mostly all machine made, it’ll be the same with books, music, pictures etc. Sure there will be a demand for human made art, same as there’s a demand for hand made shoes… But who made your jumper, your hat, your shoes? A machine I bet.

I call it beginner butt stuff friendly, thank you very much