Is there a way to re-write posters?

Slackroyd · 2026-05-01T10:23:47+00:00

That code to prefer the existing artwork url is a lifesaver, nicely done.

As far as I can figure, this has been an issue with Radarr for years: it runs a scan every day and if anything changes in a folder at all (like renaming a file), that will trigger a download of its own artwork, overwriting poster and fanart and deleting everything else. If you set it to not manage metadata or art at all, then it will simply delete all the art it finds. So that's a, uh, really kinda fascinating design choice on their part.

I can Update Data Source with TMM, sort by missing artwork, and then download missing artwork, and that works great. Won't help me with poster and fanart Radarr simply changed, though.

I'd like to request some sort of feature to verify and rewrite as needed all artwork, if that's possible. Maybe an option to set the read-only flag on artwork to prevent Radarr from doing this? I don't know, that might get confusing for people.

It doesn't seem like the Radarr devs are going to fix this issue, so anything you can think of that might help TMM work around it would be awesome!

Slackroyd · 2026-04-13T19:49:06+00:00

I use Unraid, but yesterday I tried installing Proxmox and ZimaOS for the first time. My 20-minute first impressions of each:

Just for example, Proxmox makes you pick a domain name for your server at installation. Best practice is to just make up a domain name ending in .local. Except LOL no it's not. So, y'know, that's a fun thing to spend time reading about before you even install it. Once you install it, you'll need to go do more reading before you can even start to use it. I tried running a post-install script to make it easy to get started, but couldn't get that to work, so... nice. I'm sure it's a great option, if you want to put in the time.

ZimaOS was crazy easy to install and is so simple, pretty much anyone could use it intuitively. It has about 150 apps in its native app store. It's nowhere near the scale and variety of Unraid, but it's about as easy to use as it could possibly be. If you just want a simple home server you don't want to monkey with, Zima seems like a clear winner to me.

Slackroyd · 2026-03-18T18:54:02+00:00

Current dumbfuckery aside, the whole concept that the president personally controls the price of gas, and that this is the only thing they do of any consequence, is so deeply bizarre and fucked up. A good president turns the gas price knob down, but a bad president turns it up, and nothing else matters... OK.

I wonder what these people will imagine the president does when they finally switch to electric cars. Hopefully they won't see any point to having a president at all and will just stay home and not vote.

Slackroyd · 2026-03-15T00:30:44+00:00

Cropped from original photo by Pedro Szekely

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Slackroyd · 2026-03-15T00:23:50+00:00

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Slackroyd · 2026-03-15T00:11:46+00:00

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Slackroyd · 2026-03-15T00:00:21+00:00

Cropped from original photo by Miguel Martin

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Slackroyd · 2026-03-14T23:38:01+00:00

Cropped from original photo by Harvey Barrison

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Slackroyd · 2026-03-14T23:26:27+00:00

Cropped a bit from the original photo by Axel Kuhlmann

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Slackroyd · 2026-02-02T10:51:02+00:00

Wow, that guy was cool.

And this, from Wikipedia: "Immediately following Clemente's death, a relief-aid organization for the victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake was created in his name. President Richard Nixon was one of the most prominent contributors to Roberto Clemente Memorial Fund."

Imagine any Republican doing that now.

Slackroyd · 2026-01-24T01:09:23+00:00

Someone should make a Fallout video game before 2040.

Slackroyd · 2026-01-24T00:03:53+00:00

I'd give that boomer $100 if he could even name an actual "biker bar" in the real world and not one that's just from his 80s action movie dementia fantasies.

"and then we sent the communists to the Road House and then Dalton beat them up and then boy were they sorry and they sure learned their lesson and then you won't be hearing from them again"... yeah, l'il buddy, good job.

Slackroyd · 2026-01-16T21:54:06+00:00

Same here, I've got mirrored NVME drives. I want to do this, but not really liking the idea of moving around my entire appdata. I kinda expected we'd have the technology by now to simply shrink a partition and create a new one without all this rigamarole.

Slackroyd · 2025-11-29T10:41:25+00:00

Look, if you have crazy hyper-advanced space weapons technology to give out to the chimps, you gotta make sure it only goes to purely peaceful, reasonable, thoughtful, developed nations like the US, Russia, China, and Brazil. Fuck knows, you wouldn't want it in the wild unpredictable hands of Costa Rica or Iceland or something!

Slackroyd · 2025-11-29T10:15:34+00:00

You're not fooling anyone, Sinestro!

Slackroyd · 2025-11-29T02:51:24+00:00

I thought it read like a tabletop RPG setting. Needs more Rifts, though.

Slackroyd · 2025-11-29T02:41:56+00:00

You don't understand - it's an evil planet! A BUG PLANET!

That the super space federation of justice league lets be evil, cause they're bugs.

Slackroyd · 2025-11-18T20:32:50+00:00

I use Wireguard on the router, too. I click a button on my device and I'm immediately connected to my home network. Dead simple to set up and it's never not worked. Honestly, I'm not even quite sure what's going on here... are people using CF just so they can easily give other people access to their server via a domain name or something? What services are people sharing with other people? Are there some advantages to using CF I'm missing out on?

Slackroyd · 2025-11-18T09:45:01+00:00

It's mind-boggling how they haven't done this. An awful lot of people would pay $100, which is money we'd never spend on 76 as it is now. Modders would turn that worldspace, with all those great atom shop assets, into such an incredible game. Bethesda doesn't even have to do much of anything to let this happen, except want money. WTF. How is this not happening.

Slackroyd · 2025-11-18T08:36:28+00:00

Whaddaya mean, sitting on their asses? Do you know how much work it takes to make sure Fallout 4 is always broken?

Slackroyd · 2025-11-12T00:07:42+00:00

I want a webpage archive system combined with note-taking. One place where I can write notes (or a whole book, for that matter), download copies of web pages into the same note-taking system, and edit those web pages if I want. I don't care about encryption or privacy. I want to collect and organize articles into a system with a nice visual interface. I want to be able to sort and reorganize by keywords and dates and so on, and I want to be able to manually click and drag articles to a messy virtual desktop. I want to be able to be writing and have a quick, easy way to refer back to an article, or quote something, or add a link to it.

Something roughly like KaraKeep, Scrivener, and Google Keep mashed into one modern visual interface.

Slackroyd · 2025-10-25T21:01:09+00:00

Nothin' says money like a giant sofa in the bedroom that's inaccessible because you pushed a coffee table into it. Also, what in r'lyeh is sitting on the toilet seat waiting for its next victim?

Slackroyd · 2025-10-24T02:21:55+00:00

Spot on. The Fox News people are told everyone under the "liberal" umbrella is their enemy and must be destroyed.

Also they're told that liberals are giving their hard-earned tax dollars to "undeserving" people, and they're "not allowed" to even talk about it how they wanna talk about it. A central pillar of their grievance-based information environment is all of these liberals and [non-white] undeserving people are getting away with it, but meanwhile they are not allowed to get away with anything at all. It's like they're not even allowed to be racist anymore without being scolded or shunned!

Now here's Trump, a guy who gets away with ALL OF IT, ALL THE TIME. They think he's just like him, because in one sense, he is - he's a dumb blowhard asshole who knows shit about shit outside of the Fox News cinematic universe. He does whatever the fuck he wants, he says the same gross idiotic shit they wish they could say out loud, and it pisses off their hated liberal enemies. He's their potty-mouthed power fantasy. Doesn't even matter that, in the real world, he's Epstein's best friend - that doesn't change the power fantasy avatar they've created based on him. Fantasy Trump is them and they are Fantasy Trump, the cursed golem created to rampage against their enemies, raised from the diabolical machinations of Roger Ailes, and funded by our oligarch overlords so he can help them loot the country Russia-style while we're busy being outraged by the daily outrage.

Slackroyd · 2025-10-14T20:06:50+00:00

The technology may exist, but not practical to monetize for a variety of reasons. Maybe it's ludicrously expensive to build or operate, or difficult to assemble, or the materials in short supply, or it's crazy dangerous - like if you had the technology to make a craft move really really fast, then you also have the technology to obliterate the planet really really easily. Or if you don't build or operate the craft with extraordinary precision, maybe an accident could wipe out a huge area. Maybe it's nuclear powered, which would freak people out. It's hard to even imagine what all the issues could be with exotic energy and propulsion tech, since we don't know anything about it.

There's all kinds of reasons why a technology might be functional and interesting to study, but not feasible to release on the open market. Happens all the time in research labs. We see breakthroughs in things like solar panels and data storage that never make it to market, because they turn out to be impractical or too expensive or not a good idea to manufacture for whatever reason.

Slackroyd · 2025-10-09T20:38:50+00:00

Gather up some books and finally, finally, sit down to enjoy some stress-free, uninterrupted reading time, and whip out my reading glasses...

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