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Cake day: December 19th, 2023

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  • The article lists four things about the cyclist.

    1. “not wearing a helmet”

    Admittedly a no-go for me. There a lots of options for anyone.

    1. “was wearing “relatively” dark clothing”

    “Relatively” already gives the impression that we aren’t talking black, just that it wasn’t a signal or hi-vis color.

    1. “using an earphone”

    This wording makes me think the cyclist used one earbud and not both or full headphones. So he could hear his surroundings well.

    1. “his front light may not have been working”

    Not even a fact, but a possibility.

    To summarize, he was a traffic participant in a non-signal color, listening to music. That’s it.

    Of course cyclist are more vulnerable than cars, but anyone who sees fault in the cyclist behavior is often overlooking similar or worse behavior in drivers.

    Nobody ever asks the owner of a black car if they have a death wish or ask someone to turn of the radio, because they can’t hear the traffic as well.

    I wish people would hold all traffic participants to the same standards.



  • I have much more powerful hardware than you but Jellyfin shouldn’t take more than a few seconds to load directories.

    That has been my experience as well with accessing it via the web interface. I read up on the kodi addons a bit more. As I understand it the jellyfin addon integrates the jellyfin library and has to sync it. I think this causes the delay for me. I think I will give Jellycon another try, since it accesses the libraries themselves. I will take a look at my media management and refine the folder structure to make it work.

    TBH I find Jellyfin works best with media that can be scraped or that I’m willing to create nfo files for.

    Metadata is actually an aspect I have little trouble with. There are solutions for TV and movies and pinchflat actually provides metadata for the youtube videos in a format jellyfin can use.

    Pinchflat - How do I get media into Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi?





  • I’m not that invested in the switch 2 discourse, but always chuckle when someone says “now I can play Zelda at 30 fps or more”.

    Paying for a new console, because the last one was incapable of playing games at an acceptable framerate is a weird argument for your purchase.

    Some Nintendo games are undoubtedly masterpieces, but that doesn’t excuse some of their business decisions.



  • Check out refurbished Thinkpads T480 (14in) in your area. I basically got one that basically ticks all your boxes. Additionally mine has 32GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD and a free slot for another small formfactor NVME card. It has one internal and one removable battery, so you could get an additional one to switch on the fly.

    The T480 was the last Thinkpad model with “real” upgradability and was a popular business choice. Companies unload them in bulk. When I was looking for them the availability was good.