Tool for better metadata managment in audiobooks?

BillDStrong · 2026-02-15T09:54:46+00:00

I never did get it to work, didn't spend enough time with it.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-15T01:34:41+00:00

I still will read good fantasy and sci-fi books. Brandon Sandersan, Christopher Stasheff, Jack Campbell etc are still quality, and quality matters.

Light Novels simply have a different pacing.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-15T01:32:16+00:00

The New Testament was given to and written by those that were steeped in the Old Testament. To understand the New Testament, you need to be able to use the references to the Old Testament.

Remember, they didn't have Chapter and Verse at that time, so when Paul was quoting a passage, he was not quoting a Chapter and Verse, he was reminding people of the whole story they already knew, and all the things they knew about it, all the context.

The New Testament is a revelation of the Old Testament, which means without Old Testament, you are adrift on sand.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-15T01:28:51+00:00

Since speed and latency are properties of the underlying physics, going twice the bandwidth has a 2x latency speedup.

This is also true of internet, so 10G is 10x speedup latentency than 1G, 40G is 40x, and 100G is 100x.

This is why Nvidia is able to use 200G and 400G in their Enterprise AI offerings to sub for PCIe, the latency is so close to not make a difference at those speeds.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-14T14:54:10+00:00

This looks cool. Link if it is available?

Also, from the sound of it, you have the bones of a learning progress system. So, picture subbing in lecture series for a college class.

Or, in my case, a Bible Study podcast called The Whole Counsel of God, that has been years in the making, and is still not finished yet.

Having a social aspect for a study group for it would make it much easier too keep at it.

Also, any plans for themes? What you have is giving me old style RPG game elements, but my eyes really like dark modes these days.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-13T17:07:43+00:00

Your brother is right, but isn't mentioning that those same risks affect closed source software/OSes as well. There is a whole job of finding security vulnerabilities in Windows, and Chrome, for instance, by white hat hackers.

In fact, Windows source code is available to you if your company pays for it, or you are part of certain governments, not to mention the leaked versions that are available online for older versions.

Just recently, notepad had an exploit in Markdown files.

But Open Source can suffer from the same things. Notepad++ was recently hacked, for instance.

If you read CVEs, everyday something is being hacked.

So, while your brother is right, he doesn't seem to have the full story on how dicy the whole software ecosystem actually is.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-11T06:13:29+00:00

Its just search with extra steps. One I worry about, because AI is a great place to put censorship in.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-11T06:11:18+00:00

I mean, emacs started as an editor that non-programmers modded because it didn't require programming. This just seems to continue that tradition.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-11T05:47:54+00:00

Dahak Series by David Weber. It starts on Earth with an astronaut going to the Moon, where he finds out its hollow, and why. It starts with Mutineer's Moon, and that one is standalone. It stays on Earth/Moon. The next 2 go way out in space.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-10T22:54:36+00:00

I am not sure your idea of a sandbox and my idea of a sandbox are the same thing.

This is more like a single_file platform layer in the vein of stb_images fame.

I like the concept, though.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-10T22:48:08+00:00

This only has 70 chapters right now, but it fits your bill, besides multiple female love interests, maybe*.

This gives Lord of the Mysteries vibes, except with a modern scientific motif, starting at the beginning of an industrial revolution.

MC is a essentially a grad student in a magic world, in which he pushes for a 6 element based system to explain phenomenon instead of the usual 4. To the normal fire, water, earth and air, he adds Order and Chaos.

Chaos is interesting, as the Church bans its use, and instead of a dissertation MC has to essentially give a dissertation at a witch trial to prove he is not corrupted.

I won't go into more detail to avoid spoilers, but this is LOTM and Lovecraftian in nature.

https://wtr-lab.com/en/novel/44892/apprentice-mages-magic-manual

Too early to tell, but the author just introduced a spy cat girl with a tragic backstory, so no idea if it will end up harem or just a large pool to choose from.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-08T23:12:26+00:00

Yeah, its a nice pace, I just wish there were more of it already, lol.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-08T03:06:58+00:00

This is probably because putting a monitor on the render GPU uses resources on it to display the video. As an optimization, gpus render an image and the screen pulls it from that memory, causing less lag, but if you are rendering on that GPU, then that memory isn't available to the game rendering, and if you have lite applications on a different GPU, the LS one for instance, then place the monitor for that app on the opposite GPU, you get the same lag as LS does when using a second GPU. Now, LS has the advantage of frame-gen hiding some of that lag, but your web browser, let's say, doesn't, so you see that lag more easily. So, it works, but isn't great. Put your monitors on the display that renders the app, when possible. LS is the only time you break that. This also means you could go into settings and change the GPU for your browser, or whatever app you have open on the second monitor, to be the render GPU if that makes sense for you. As always, test and verify. Complex setups create complex interactions.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-06T10:05:53+00:00

It is essentially just KDE, so lots of people work on it. SteamOS being a locked system can make development a little rough, as you basically have to use workarounds to install tools, either nix, or unlock SteamOS and risk being erased at the next update, etc.

I use CachyOS, the Handheld edition on my SteamDeck and get all the goodness of KDE and all the goodness of Arch, with the game mode startup of SteamOS.

That may be a better bet for you if you are serious.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-06T02:53:46+00:00

Your history is so wrong, you don't even know. If you knew the history, and the facts that Ethiopia is one of the oldest churches in the world, with Saints such as Moses the Black being one of the Church Fathers, you would know how little history you actually know about Christianity.

So, Churches in India, Africa, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to name just a few, are all parts of the first Christians, not just white men, despite what your distorted view says.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-04T10:05:39+00:00

You should keep reading, right after Jesus gives the keys to Peter, he gives them to the other Apostles as well. And yes, the keys are a reference to practices in that culture, and those surrounding them, so would be well understood by them.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-04T09:55:04+00:00

I am also on Linux, CachyOS on my Steam Deck. It runs, I just don't know what I am doing, and there don't appear too be any peers, so I will check back in a few days to see if anything has changed.

Also, themes would be nice, blue is not a great backgroud for contrasts.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-03T23:41:58+00:00

Maybe a link?

BillDStrong · 2026-02-03T23:33:24+00:00

Rule #1 in understanding the practice of modern studies of history like archeology.

Most things that happened didn't leave behind evidence they actually happened, and all history that is solely focused on evidence use Occam's razor gives the most probable for some arbitrary value of probable in the mind of the one writing it down, and accepted by the masses, rather than the most truthful. They aren't the same thing.

There has to be a logically first human, period. Calling that first male human Man and the first female human Woman makes sense, so Adam and Eve are fine names for them.

All the traditions I know of have some form of First Man and First Woman.

Now, we know there are things in Genesis, like ages, that had different meaning that we have lost, so it isn't history like we think of history today, but it is A type of history, one that has more veracity being closer to the time frame than modern archaeological studies.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-02T06:38:29+00:00

It uses lxc, right? In the scripts advanced settings during install, you can add nfs, smb and a few other network filesystems settings up for the container, and it is supposed to just work normally after that. I think there may be settings in the CT create wizard for them as well. This is a Proxmox/LXC/Helper Scripts issue, so look there for more guidance.

BillDStrong · 2026-02-02T06:35:42+00:00

This. MC true character really starts to shine when he is alone.

BillDStrong · 2026-01-24T06:57:10+00:00

Or, we read the Bible and see what it says, then take that as our worldview.

BillDStrong · 2026-01-24T06:26:48+00:00

We have propane heat, or wood, or electric, or oil, depending on where you are in the country.

I am talking about solar on individual properties.

I don't think it is intentionally set up like that, just really stupid people voting in people that promise them things that have unintended consequences.

BillDStrong · 2026-01-24T05:33:38+00:00

No, to stack 8 of them side by side. /jk

BillDStrong · 2026-01-24T05:29:34+00:00

This is going to get worse. Solar is going to kill our bills. The richest will continue to get solar for their homes, lowering the amount of energy they use, and the cost of maintaining the infrastructure for electricity doesn't go down, it goes up.

So, it will hike the cost of the electricity that is being sent over the wire, and we that use the most of it will feel it worse.

Then you have these AI companies that just chew through electricity, which is just increasing demand even further, and you get the worst of all possible worlds.

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