I think the main complaints from most people are that the pacing is a bit hard to watch. I know the original manga was fast paced and a little goofy, I read quite a bit of it back when I got super into gits years ago, a far cry from the slow and cerebral movie adaptations, but I think I had hoped this more direct and true adaptation would find the middle ground.
I'm enjoying it, but it's hard to watch, i'm nearly 40 and have always preferred "slower" media, and some shows can be either fast or slow paced and an episode is over in what feels like 5 minutes, regardless of how much or how little has actually happened, but this one is often a bit of a slog, never quite getting me into that flow state in a lot of episodes.
I doubt it's the last GITS adaptation we get though, I love when we get different interpretations of a source material whether every one is better than the last is irrelevant.
there are only a small handful of devices that can fully decode FEL, regardless of the software you run on it.
That's not going to change untill we manage to completely crack it and decode it in software or figure out how to bake it in via some kind of transcoder.
if all you need is a tiny NPU for things like image object identification or OCR the IGPU you already have will be better.
if you need slightly more than that, but not as much power as a large dedicated gpu, then you would have to look at a newer mini-pc with a more modern chip.
I do immich face/object detection and Birdnet audio analysis on the igpu of an intel 14600 and it's fine, tiny amount of usage and plenty fast. my other node has a core ultra 235 and the igpu is faster than the on-chip npu in every regard, the npu is also a bit harder to actually get working and put to use.
I know about the old command names, and I know they could fix it but the kernel and core explorer code is such a mess these days nobody dares change things that old. it's one of the reasons I think windows will never really get better, they dont have the balls to clean-slate it and start again, and if they did, it would be even more broken because they cant test everything.
one of my favourite apps is the old dialer.exe which is still there, sadly soundrec.exe was removed in w10, if you dig deep enough you can get a windows 3.1 file select window to show with the classic folder and drive icons intact.
I'm on a windows 11 pc at work, and that colour picker was the ancient windows 95 colour picker. no dark theme, no fancy glass, just the old school win9x colour picker.
I run two synchonised Adguard instances on two different devices as DNS servers for the house (and for my work PC via vpn).
on top of that I run local ad blockers on top of that. I dont care that my DNS ping times are a few ms longer. I dont want to be pestered, tracked, solicited or interrupted.
I cant stand the barrage of ads, especially on mobile websites, like its at the point where you want to read an article and you get two lines of text and the entire rest of the screen is ads you have to navigate.
direct from the artists whenever possible, Bandcamp, Patreon, merch and physical media, gigs when possible. lots of smaller artists are on bandcamp because it seems reasonably well run, pays the artists fairly (especially on "bandcamp friday" sale days, where the artist gets 100% of the revenue)
if you have contact details for an artist contact them directly, dont give them your life story or act like a crazy stalker, just say hi, explain you prefer to buy music directly when possible and you dont want to support companies like Spotify. This method is mainly for niche music and new artists that struggle to find audiences in the traditional algorithm based machine but it doesn’t hurt to try.
I'll download music from Soulseek (and I share TBs of it too) when all else fails, or in a try before you buy type of arrangement.
it's generally a 6/10 spin-off rom-com, but with one solid 10/10 arc that makes it all worth it that ties it in with the main series and movie so well I'd consider it an essential must-watch for Haruhi fans.
I’m either going to go into an anxiety hole due to having to make a choice about something, or I’m going to go hard on research for as long as possible to make a decision, then feel the same anxiety afterwards.
I like vinyl rips, for older music where vinyl is the best source if tape is not available. and I do like to have original versions alongside modern remasters where possible.
for new music it just seems like extra steps and it seems like there are more and more low quality rippers that have no idea what they are doing, have dirty records, and low quality gear.
I have 2 main servers on 2 different networks, but some block accounts as backup and a couple of indexers.
But for music, especially if its anything unusual, rare, or otherwise difficult to locate elsewhere, get onto soulseek.
I use N+ personally and have uploaded ~80TB this year so far and downloaded about 600Gb. I dont do torrents very often so SLSK is how I give back to the community.
Soulseek is an old school free file sharing P2P platform, like limewire, kazaa, winmx, ed2k etc. just like the good old days.
Yep, before I got a real, actual static IP I had a "sticky" IP that only changed once over 5 years, and they sent an email warning of it first. but most ISPs will offer a static IP upgrade for a reasonable price, even if they dont advertise it.
now I have a static IP and a giant IPV6 allocation to play with too.
I've always kept my apps and databases on solid state media, putting them on spinning rust, even in a well tuned ZFS pool with lots of disks is way too slow for their (admittedly inefficient) database.
It absolutely does but you have to do it yourself, they dont accept any liability for doing that and nor should they, so if you dont know how to do it with at least the minimal level of safety and security and accept that risk yourself then you really shouldn’t try.
Ideally you would only do it via a private VPN to trusted users.
Plex has some features built in to make just opening the port reasonably safe, though I'd still recommend against that. They also have a reasonably secure account verification system, and the software itself has proven to be somewhat safe.
Jellyfin has very little security built in and is not intended to be public facing, it also has the double edged sword of being open source, so you could read through all the code and pick it apart for flaws and exploits if you wanted to and we all just trust that when exploits or flaws are found they are reported properly.
JF is great but you are on your own if you want to make it available via WAN.
honestly Wholfin being so nice to use was my last hurdle to getting the whole house over the JF from Plex, just a few remote users with uncommon players that still need Plex and once they upgrade I can be done with it for good after starting out with OSXBMC way back in the day and being a lifetime licence holder from the start of paid plans.
I've fiddled with it recently and it's fine but not really better than something like Gemini, I dont really see the point of it.
If you tell it to use metric or imperial it still mixes them, and it seems really set on forcing you into the specific styles, with little room to experiment, like if you want a slightly more amber-leaning WCIPA (which is a very common deviation from the BJCP guidelines) it will push back because it wants you right in the middle of the style range, the XML it spat out in my test didn’t exactly match the summary it gave either. That was a week ago so maybe they've been tuning it.
I just feel like AI recipe generation will lead beginners astray because they dont have the experience to know whether it's correct or not. The AI will always say something that it comes up with is amazing and special regardless of errors, that's how they are biased, they will only correct those flaws when you point them out.
The only thing I can see AI brewing assistants being good at currently is to say things like:
"how can I adjust this existing recipe to a full volume mash/no-sparge brew without changing the end result too much"
"how do I adapt my all-in-one brewer process to a 2V or 3V setup, take me through the steps"
"how can I approximate this all grain recipe with partial mash brewing"
"I like this recipe but want it to be more floral, what do I change"
I think the main complaints from most people are that the pacing is a bit hard to watch. I know the original manga was fast paced and a little goofy, I read quite a bit of it back when I got super into gits years ago, a far cry from the slow and cerebral movie adaptations, but I think I had hoped this more direct and true adaptation would find the middle ground.
I'm enjoying it, but it's hard to watch, i'm nearly 40 and have always preferred "slower" media, and some shows can be either fast or slow paced and an episode is over in what feels like 5 minutes, regardless of how much or how little has actually happened, but this one is often a bit of a slog, never quite getting me into that flow state in a lot of episodes.
I doubt it's the last GITS adaptation we get though, I love when we get different interpretations of a source material whether every one is better than the last is irrelevant.
there are only a small handful of devices that can fully decode FEL, regardless of the software you run on it.
That's not going to change untill we manage to completely crack it and decode it in software or figure out how to bake it in via some kind of transcoder.
Viz Media coming after household cleaning chemicals next.
if all you need is a tiny NPU for things like image object identification or OCR the IGPU you already have will be better.
if you need slightly more than that, but not as much power as a large dedicated gpu, then you would have to look at a newer mini-pc with a more modern chip.
I do immich face/object detection and Birdnet audio analysis on the igpu of an intel 14600 and it's fine, tiny amount of usage and plenty fast. my other node has a core ultra 235 and the igpu is faster than the on-chip npu in every regard, the npu is also a bit harder to actually get working and put to use.
I've been running the RC's, smooth sailing in all regards.
Using Wholfin as my main client on all compatible devices, works great.
the fact that they wont just put a steering wheel on it and call it a model 2 tells me this is an investment scam.
I know about the old command names, and I know they could fix it but the kernel and core explorer code is such a mess these days nobody dares change things that old. it's one of the reasons I think windows will never really get better, they dont have the balls to clean-slate it and start again, and if they did, it would be even more broken because they cant test everything.
one of my favourite apps is the old dialer.exe which is still there, sadly soundrec.exe was removed in w10, if you dig deep enough you can get a windows 3.1 file select window to show with the classic folder and drive icons intact.
I'm on a windows 11 pc at work, and that colour picker was the ancient windows 95 colour picker. no dark theme, no fancy glass, just the old school win9x colour picker.
I run two synchonised Adguard instances on two different devices as DNS servers for the house (and for my work PC via vpn). on top of that I run local ad blockers on top of that. I dont care that my DNS ping times are a few ms longer. I dont want to be pestered, tracked, solicited or interrupted.
I cant stand the barrage of ads, especially on mobile websites, like its at the point where you want to read an article and you get two lines of text and the entire rest of the screen is ads you have to navigate.
maybe due for a re-watch then.
direct from the artists whenever possible, Bandcamp, Patreon, merch and physical media, gigs when possible. lots of smaller artists are on bandcamp because it seems reasonably well run, pays the artists fairly (especially on "bandcamp friday" sale days, where the artist gets 100% of the revenue)
if you have contact details for an artist contact them directly, dont give them your life story or act like a crazy stalker, just say hi, explain you prefer to buy music directly when possible and you dont want to support companies like Spotify. This method is mainly for niche music and new artists that struggle to find audiences in the traditional algorithm based machine but it doesn’t hurt to try.
I'll download music from Soulseek (and I share TBs of it too) when all else fails, or in a try before you buy type of arrangement.
The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan
it's generally a 6/10 spin-off rom-com, but with one solid 10/10 arc that makes it all worth it that ties it in with the main series and movie so well I'd consider it an essential must-watch for Haruhi fans.
Also, this version of Yuki is just adorable.
I’m either going to go into an anxiety hole due to having to make a choice about something, or I’m going to go hard on research for as long as possible to make a decision, then feel the same anxiety afterwards.
I like vinyl rips, for older music where vinyl is the best source if tape is not available. and I do like to have original versions alongside modern remasters where possible.
for new music it just seems like extra steps and it seems like there are more and more low quality rippers that have no idea what they are doing, have dirty records, and low quality gear.
lots of people using Usenet.
I have 2 main servers on 2 different networks, but some block accounts as backup and a couple of indexers.
But for music, especially if its anything unusual, rare, or otherwise difficult to locate elsewhere, get onto soulseek. I use N+ personally and have uploaded ~80TB this year so far and downloaded about 600Gb. I dont do torrents very often so SLSK is how I give back to the community.
Soulseek is an old school free file sharing P2P platform, like limewire, kazaa, winmx, ed2k etc. just like the good old days.
Yep, before I got a real, actual static IP I had a "sticky" IP that only changed once over 5 years, and they sent an email warning of it first. but most ISPs will offer a static IP upgrade for a reasonable price, even if they dont advertise it.
now I have a static IP and a giant IPV6 allocation to play with too.
I've always kept my apps and databases on solid state media, putting them on spinning rust, even in a well tuned ZFS pool with lots of disks is way too slow for their (admittedly inefficient) database.
It absolutely does but you have to do it yourself, they dont accept any liability for doing that and nor should they, so if you dont know how to do it with at least the minimal level of safety and security and accept that risk yourself then you really shouldn’t try. Ideally you would only do it via a private VPN to trusted users.
Plex has some features built in to make just opening the port reasonably safe, though I'd still recommend against that. They also have a reasonably secure account verification system, and the software itself has proven to be somewhat safe.
Jellyfin has very little security built in and is not intended to be public facing, it also has the double edged sword of being open source, so you could read through all the code and pick it apart for flaws and exploits if you wanted to and we all just trust that when exploits or flaws are found they are reported properly.
JF is great but you are on your own if you want to make it available via WAN.
honestly Wholfin being so nice to use was my last hurdle to getting the whole house over the JF from Plex, just a few remote users with uncommon players that still need Plex and once they upgrade I can be done with it for good after starting out with OSXBMC way back in the day and being a lifetime licence holder from the start of paid plans.
I've fiddled with it recently and it's fine but not really better than something like Gemini, I dont really see the point of it.
If you tell it to use metric or imperial it still mixes them, and it seems really set on forcing you into the specific styles, with little room to experiment, like if you want a slightly more amber-leaning WCIPA (which is a very common deviation from the BJCP guidelines) it will push back because it wants you right in the middle of the style range, the XML it spat out in my test didn’t exactly match the summary it gave either. That was a week ago so maybe they've been tuning it.
I just feel like AI recipe generation will lead beginners astray because they dont have the experience to know whether it's correct or not. The AI will always say something that it comes up with is amazing and special regardless of errors, that's how they are biased, they will only correct those flaws when you point them out.
The only thing I can see AI brewing assistants being good at currently is to say things like: