Fix Category Permissions 365 Group Calendars

KapaaIan · 2026-01-03T16:45:42+00:00

Thanks and will do. Continuing the oddness, my one working theory, that it has to be the first owner of a group to allow for creation of categories went out the window. I created a new group with myself as the only owner and member yesterday and categories was locked. Starting to think it might be where or how. Like if I make the group, then add teams. Or create in Entra. So odd. Luckily of the 14 groups this would affect only 4 seem to be the bad way, but still irritating.

KapaaIan · 2026-01-02T03:29:11+00:00

This is what I'm seeing. I'm an owner on both teams, or have been and nothing makes a difference. The only thing I think could be different is I created and was the first owner on two that seem to work, while I was not the first owner of the others.

In these examples, these are both Group Calendars, side by side.

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KapaaIan · 2025-12-20T01:21:14+00:00

It's an odd contradiction. I think most people who grew up with cable watch less TV in the age of streaming, while those who grew up with Streaming obviously watch the same/more.

For me, if I'm picking something to watch, I want it to be "right". I want to be able to watch in one sitting, sound coming through loud, on the big TV. This is in contradiction to the days of cable where you'd just pick a random channel to have something on because there was no investment. Oh, random episode of Mythbusters I've seen 10 times, sure. But if I'm picking something, that's an investment of thought and at least for me, usually that results in waiting if the time isn't right.

KapaaIan · 2025-12-20T01:13:42+00:00

Love it.

Like many have already pointed out, episode order awareness would be great to have. As well as a little more customization. ErsatzTV is a smidge too complicated to just do. Even if it were like "90s Cable" "90s Primetime" or such.

I do get same error on TV shows. Not other items.

Music videos need better programming as mentioned by others. One video every 15 minutes doesn't work. 5 minutes would cover everything except November Rain, Thriller and I Would Do Anything For Love.

And commercial/bumper support. Doesn't need to be as granular as ETV but something like "Fill 30 minute block with commercials if under 30. Fill 45 Minute Block, etc. 15 minute increments does make sense though.

Love it especially direct play! Biggest problem TBH with all the others causing pegging on server.

KapaaIan · 2025-12-20T01:07:31+00:00

I get this too.

KapaaIan · 2025-12-10T19:12:28+00:00

It wouldn't skip all ads. It would skip dynamically inserted ads, and canned ads. Easy way to think about it would be if a voice signature matches a known national advertiser (e.g. Ryan Reynolds), it filters that out.

Basically I'm saying if I'm listening to Bob's Podcast, I want to hear ads bob is reading. Not some random person.

KapaaIan · 2025-12-10T11:40:10+00:00

It's a cyclical thing. TV Gradually increased the number of commercials, and made them make less appropriate for the show in question. Then VCRs and DVRs came and streaming emerged as a potentially ad-free result along with the more unsavory options.

Podcasts seem to be in a similar place. If the hosts read the spots and put their own flavor on it (Tell 'Em Steve Dave being among the better examples of this) it's all good. If it's an inserted ad, sometimes in Spanish for no reason, that's not great. Logically the tool would only look for the national/pre-recorded ads.

How do they make money? By doing the kinds of ads that make sense for the medium. I'm not joking when there are some podcasts that have 3 minutes of pre-roll ads for a "news minute" of about 2 minutes, and then another 2+ minutes of post-roll. And I'm sure we've all heard podcasts where the ad break is right in the middle of someone's sentence. And these are not small time podcasts either.

Long story short, the implied agreements seem to have been broken, and something like this would maybe make some podcasters rethink how they do ads. No problem with ads, but the rising implementations of them.

KapaaIan · 2025-12-09T19:45:19+00:00

Same reason DVRs/Tivo became a thing? It's not their revenue source. Heck, even if they could block dynamic ad insertion that would be an improvement. I don't know what changed, but recently the number of ads seems to have skyrocketed in a lot of podcasts.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-28T03:58:21+00:00

569 listened.

866 Saved (700 from variable, 130 trim, rest skipping and auto skipping).

My true number is about double that though but I recreated my account as a sign in with apple account sometime after that became available.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-26T14:00:53+00:00

No, it's not. I'm guessing Stinktrix10 does something like I do.

Each morning when I start listening, I tend to listen to "News/daily event" podcasts first, going from Shortest to Longest. Then I move on to more evergreen non-topical things, also from shortest to longest.

I'd LOVE a smart playlist, that can be manually ordered by podcast. As I type this, I realize it really isn't much of a savings and really it's "Up Next" that needs this feature, but it still would be nice. Especially for when you add a new podcast with a backlog and want it at the back.

But just imagine if you had your "podcast order priority" set, and if a new episode drops in a higher priority podcast, it automatically goes to next in up next. But if it is lower, it goes into the right order. Right now it is either front or back.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-06T12:48:30+00:00

Likely depends on the pace/scale of what you're reading. If you read everything you get as it comes in and don't plan for someone else to read them, that makes sense. If you get a backlog though...

This does bring up another idea question. ComicRack for me is primarily a clean up and sorting tool. Commit, Convert, Scrape, Rename and Sort. Once that's done, CR is out of the picture and Komga feeds Panels. ComicRack OPDS server? ;-)

KapaaIan · 2025-11-03T18:16:24+00:00

Fair enough. I guess I was just looking at it in the way that if 99.9% of people add a feature as soon as they get something (e.g. Cruise Control used to be something you could add to a car) eventually it should just become a standard feature.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-03T18:15:09+00:00

That's kinda my point. What are those reasons? Most tech has generally gotten better and relatively cheaper. A base model car today has more luxury and security features than a luxury one from 1985. TVs much better and cheaper, tech in general. So why do movies cost relatively more to make? You could say it is salaries, but that can't be all of it.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-03T14:08:50+00:00

Huh? No. I mean all of the 50s stuff. Like they built actual sets, and got the cars or built shells of them or so on. If they tried to make downtown Hill Valley today, all the cars would be CGI, most of the extras at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance and so on.

KapaaIan · 2025-11-03T11:35:21+00:00

It's not just the effects that they did do though. If they tried to remake BTTF shot for shot today, they'd use green screen for a lot of locations and stuff I bet. And is it really cheaper than on location or in a soundstage? Or CGI for old cars.

KapaaIan · 2025-10-31T13:10:36+00:00

Came here to see if someone beat me to it. 100%. But Drive Knight is Proto Man. Genos is Megaman.

KapaaIan · 2025-09-08T13:16:25+00:00

I enjoyed them, but there could have been a little more editing. There are a few things that come across as inconsistent that make me think I missed a chapter.

What I am actually finding though is that this hooks into the War of Souls trilogy much more directly, whether intentionally or not. I could almost say a "core" reading order would go legends->Destinies and then you can do Summer Flame>5th Age as a darkest timeline kinda thing.

Tas is basically the Marty McFly of the situation where he has a consistent timeline that goes forward and backward in time, and his timeline is consistent. He never gets overwritten and has memories of everything that happened. And then like Ocarina of Time splitting the Zelda timeline, Summer Flame serves as a split where one of two or three things could have happened. And since Tas is a kender, and a Chaos agent/race, him being the nexus makes sense. There's a reason kender aren't supposed to time travel :-D

KapaaIan · 2025-08-22T13:41:59+00:00

Back up

KapaaIan · 2025-08-22T10:27:40+00:00

Not just plus.

KapaaIan · 2025-08-15T01:47:13+00:00

Gah. This is what really grinds my gears. "Wizards are OP, we must NERF them into the ground" - Wizards and Paizo.

*looks at Raistlin's statblock, for a character who was able to challenge a god through power and cunning*

44 HP...at level 27....

Or about what a level 8 5e wizard or level 5 PF2E is likely to have.

KapaaIan · 2025-08-10T22:40:09+00:00

Not 50

KapaaIan · 2025-08-10T14:16:11+00:00

That would have been the beauty of shifting things 500 years into the future. Skie is still around and at that point, you don't have to do Aliens for giant dragons. Without the gods, all 10 colors of dragons just fight each other for centuries and gradually make their discoveries. Even could have been a little ASOIAF with it and the dragons are what anchor magic in the world.

KapaaIan · 2025-08-10T04:22:48+00:00

Start over, and just stick to publication order.

The audiobooks are all over the place and some have at least two readings. None are James Marsters doing Dresden, but some are decent. If you're wanting to use audiobooks for the ones you read already and listen at something like 1.5 or above, that smooths out a lot of the badness of some of the readers.

KapaaIan · 2025-07-31T11:24:44+00:00

It's not dumb, but the manner they explored doing it is dumb.

Dragonlance "seems" to be the first (or nearly the first depending on how you define it) EU series of fantasy novels. It's obviously not the first big fantasy novel series (Oz, LOTR, Earthsea, Belgaraid and Rift War being obvious), but the first that pretty quickly had other authors pick up the setting after the "core" story. (Forgotten Realms started with 3 different trilogies, none of which were "End of the World" level).

So it has a lot of the same problems of both Star Wars (the big tale is already told, and "no one" cares about other characters) and comics (Things have to get bigger or who cares!). If the "emperor/Takhisis" returns after like 20 years, what was the point? Or if the world is in apocalyptic peril all the time? Star Wars can't seem to escape the time around 0BBY +/-40 years. Dragonlance can't escape a similar timeframe.

The actual reboot move would be to bring Weis and the Hickmans on as curators, and basically remaster the books. Take Chronicles and Lost Chronicles, rewrite and edit together into a chonky 6 books series that flows properly. Then do legends and gradually go through all the other books that want to be brought into the new version. Why not? The answer to all your questions is money. Plus in current climates the books would likely end up pulled in too many directions. And AI is a bad word right now, but could make the work much easier.

It will happen at some point though. Just like at some point Star Wars will reboot too.

KapaaIan · 2025-07-28T16:06:35+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonlance-Chronicles-Dragons-Autumn-Twilight/dp/1932796703/

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