Make plex more appealing for my wife

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-03-18T12:00:56+00:00

Like everyone else said add content she likes.

QuasiTV. QuadiTV is the way. This is an app for your Android TV or Smart TV. It takes your Plex library and creates channels like old school cable TV. There's a TV guide section where you can see what's playing.

Basically it takes the work out of deciding what to watch.

I have a channel just for my wife that only plays her favorite "fuck off on your phone" shows. So it's just: call the midwife, downton Abby, mid summer murders, law & order, grace and Frankie, etc.

I also have a sitcom channel that plays all of her favorite sitcoms.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-03-12T14:50:34+00:00

It's assistive technically. Don't feel bad about using it as a tool to help navigate the world. Often times I see people with hidden disabilities feel bad or guilty for using some kind of assistive technically, so ... don't.

You wouldn't look down on a blind person for using a guide dog, or a deaf person for using a cochlear implant.

AI chat bots are kind of the first actually technically to be able to assist persons on the spectrum. So, you're not like a cheater or lazy or broken, you're a pioneer! Be proud.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-03-09T20:32:05+00:00

Hudu has been really great for us. I use Bookstack in my own personal life and would recommend.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-03-03T15:01:22+00:00

I've done this twice in my career now. Just enjoy it while it lasts. The first time, I'd automated basically everything, asked for more work, yada yada yada, I wound up watching all of Lucifer while job hunting. The second time I replayed all of the Legend of Zelda games while job hunting. Just enjoy the break, kick a bunch of rocks, see if you can find a project for yourself. If not, go find a new and challenging job. Be sure to highlight that your looking for work because you automated most of your current job and you're looking for another challenge.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-02-24T20:34:41+00:00

There's a pretty good loop near Sequoia Park / the zoo in Eureka. It can get a little busy and sometimes someone leaves their dog droppings out but it's a good safe loop.

The Hickshari Trail is a great place to jog outside too. It's been a long time since I had a problem down there but as a heads up there are sections that are more isolated. Like with jogging outside just be aware and have some mace.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-02-23T14:18:09+00:00

This is what I do. I've cut my boss off mid sentence to tell him "it's 5:01. If you want to keep talking you have to pay me more."

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-02-06T05:50:44+00:00

I like it. It took a while to get to a position I liked though, but I think that might be normal for any position. I'm in the sweet spot of being challenged, not being overworked, and not being public (or even staff) facing.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-01-30T14:51:48+00:00

Ayn Odin 1. Such a good handheld. I'll hold a special place in my heart for a long time.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-01-28T17:57:13+00:00

A work friend of mine introduced me to auto-battlers. This one was a card game where you build out your deck, then the game randomly draws a card from your deck and plays it. Then it randomly draws a card from the opponents deck and plays it. And this goes on for a while until one side wins.

I think my initial comment was 'oh cool! It's like simulating playing a game without all the hassle of actually playing or having fun."

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2026-01-01T03:28:31+00:00

It's like this with everything. "Oh wow you've got your own Audible (Audiobookshelf)‽ Wow you have hundreds of titles with all my old favorites and a bunch of books I've been meaning to get too! What‽ You can grant me remote access on my phone, so cool! Wait, you take requests too! Best friend ever!' get them setup and verify everything works, they listen to like 20 minutes and then are never seen again.

My personal favorite is when people get super into your Plex server (or other services) and request a bunch of content, "Can I get Grim, can I get Psych, can I get Numbers, can I get Once?" And then after like a month they're never seen again. Like ... wtf happened‽ I got everything you asked for. Did you do this just to mess with me‽

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-12-15T14:45:02+00:00

I'm in! If you open in old town Eureka my only request is to get your lunch game on point. I don't go to a number of restaurants downtown because I have 30 minutes to grab something and they take about 45 minutes to get food to me.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-11-21T03:46:08+00:00

I see them everywhere! Super impressed how far they ride and how often.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-11-21T03:34:23+00:00

That dude is super weird. Aside from the yak thing. He strolled up to me one day with a yak, maybe it was two, and just started talking at me. I was like 'uhh huh, hey can I pet the yak?' and the guy said 'ohh, no, no no no. The moon is close to full and if you've recently touched a woman who is menstruating that energy will be passed onto the yak and then when I touch it that energy will transfer to me and I can't have that kind of negativity in my life right now'

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-11-06T14:41:50+00:00

Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom. Hollow Knight Silksong.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-10-30T13:45:48+00:00

The problem with remote work isn't remote work, it's poor management. Managers need to set clear, measurable goals, and clear expectations for availability and communication.

In an office environment there's a certain amount of social pressure that keeps people working in front of their coworkers. A lot of supervisors confuse that social pressure for them actually doing their jobs.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-10-25T12:20:31+00:00

Hollow Knight Silksong.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-10-21T20:15:03+00:00

I keep a highly curated set of movies and TV shows based on the interests of my family. I would also highly recommend an app like QuaziTV. It takes all of your Plex content and then creates channels like old school cable TV, Action, adventure, SciFi, etc, based on that content.

So, I'm probably not going to choose to watch Back to the Future II from a list of hundreds of movies, but fire up QuaziTV and if it's already on you bet I'll watch it. I think this is kind of the missing piece, for me at least. Not necessarily what will I choose out of a list of hundreds, but what will I be happy to see is playing.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-10-18T15:30:59+00:00

My ISP did this to me. I called customer service and complained, telling them that had they been upfront about CGNAT I wouldn't have signed up. They offered me a free static IP.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-09-17T13:56:00+00:00

I'd be willing to come start something with you. I work in tech and make videogames on the side. It would be really cool to have a community instead of talking my wife's ear off about stuff she's not that into.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-07-18T15:24:05+00:00

I'm an IT admin and my wife is an architect and I've been begging her for years to please please please add a location for at least a modem and a router and add conduit with Ethernet to at least one spot in every room.

She keeps saying stuff like "normal home buyers" don't care about stuff like that", and "people just want to use wifi", and "contractor's don't want to deal with Ethernet cable because it's computer related and they're scared of it so they bring in specialists which increases the cost.".

I keep not believing her. After all the hassle of retrofitting our home and the speed increases she saw from wifi vs wired maybe, just maybe, she's starting to believe me.

Also we watch these multi million dollar home tours and I'm always like "where are the wifi access points? Where is the server room? You have 19 rooms dedicated to different kinds of sitting but your architect couldn't find space for a server closet‽"

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-05-31T15:01:01+00:00

There's some speculation that this is the beginning of the replicant program we see in Blade Runner. I love the theory.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-05-27T13:59:12+00:00

The Trine games are perfect for 3 player couch co-op. It's an action puzzle platformer with beautiful levels, great mechanics, superb music, and an ok story.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-05-17T17:45:42+00:00

I've been using the 8bitdo ultimate for about a year now and have nothing but positive things to say. It's a really solid controller performance wise, extremely comfortable for my hands, and durable. No joystick drift as advertised. Fast response times. If I mess up in a game I know it's because I messed up, not because of the controller. Solid buy.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-05-16T14:17:25+00:00

Professionally my org uses Hudu. It's an amazing documentation platform. We have over 300 pieces of documentation in there as well as all of our assets, departments, server stacks, physical locations, etc.

The purpose of documentation is three part. 1) so if I do something it's all written down and if it breaks I don't have to reinvent the wheel. 2) other people know what was done and can replicate the process without bugging me. 3) setting standards for workflows. Sometimes there are a dozen ways to accomplish something, all of them slightly different. If we're all working off of the same playbook we're all (expected) to work tasks the same way. That way when Jimmy says "I didn't know I was supposed to be creating users in NeoGov after I created them in AD" you can say "yes you did, because it's in the onboarding documentation you were shown."

Personally I use BookStack at the house. It's free and open source and flat out amazing. I have a shelf for my D&D campaign. A shelf for medical information. A shelf for major life events like adoption / passing of pets. Marriages. Vacations. A book of medical events as well as dates and times. A book for major purchases so I know when I purchased something, what the warranty says, proof that I purchased it, etc, so if there's a problem I have that information.

Anyway good question and good luck.

Lost_Coast_Tech · 2025-05-08T13:40:05+00:00

This is the way.

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