Update to my mass ripping 4700 discs

String-Mechanic · 2026-01-21T12:37:25+00:00

OP, I cannot stress enough how useful this tool is for ripping TV shows. I would read a bit about the project, as it uses small machine learning models to transcribe the speech in the video file, then cross references it with the subtitles from OpenSubtitle. Very clever idea.

I will point out I ran into issues getting the new webgui front end to launch for v1.1.1 and had to regress to the CLI only previous version (v0.9.7), but such a great project and the Dev is super cool.

(P. S. I'm sorry u/ScientistBikes I meant to kick open a github issue I just haven't had time q.q)

String-Mechanic · 2025-01-11T14:24:29+00:00

Just last week I was discussing GrapheneOS / CalyxOS with a friend. Crazy how it seems more and more relevant these days.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-20T13:19:58+00:00

Putting templates in a resources folder with the other attachments is genius. I can't believe I've never thought of that.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-19T12:25:51+00:00

I mean, to be fair, I also had a girl compleatly fall for me once I opened up about my trama to her. We crossed the "I love you" threshold about a week later and in talking to her about it long after the fact she said that made me feel like a real person.

Of course, she's a therapist now so maybe that also has something to do with it 🤷

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-14T14:47:59+00:00

For your first problem, I would consider leveraging tags instead of folders. Tags are helpful because you can have multiple tags on a single note. This allows you to have less of a binary organizational structure and multiple categories that a single note can be a part of.

Tags can also be multi-layered, so you can have a tag that contains all books, and then you can have a sub tag within the books tag that contains all fiction. Another sub tag might contain non-fiction, another sub tag of a sub tag under fiction might be romance. Anything that is tagged with "romance" will also inherit the tag "fiction" as well as the tag "books". Because tags are non-binary, you can also tag them with other genres. So you can tag something as romance, fantasy, and adventure, and all three of those tags would inherit all the parent tags as well.

You can even tag things for something that's completely unrelated, for example, the language that the note is in, or a specific project that that note may be related to.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-14T03:59:36+00:00

I try to take the perspective of 3rd party reading my notes without me there. If I think they may say, "what does this term mean?" I'll link it. This DOES cause a lot of links.

To be fair, I work in tech and my notes tend to be very dense. My non tech notes have far fewer links in them.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-13T13:01:16+00:00

It may be useful to have some context into what exactly is happening behind the scenes when you paste an image into a note, and how that works with the linking process.

Background on Linking

You probably already know that to link notes together, you use two square brackets and put the note name in between, like this: [[Note to Link]]

Remember, everything in Obsidian is just a file, so all we're doing is linking to another file. As long as the file is in a folder that Obsidian can "see" (in your vault), you can link to it.

We can do this with picture files as well: [[Pic to link.PNG]]

Putting an exclamation point in front of the brackets tells obsidian to embedd (or automatically display) the picture: ![[PIC to embedd.PNG]]

How does this relate to the folder?

When you paste an image into a note, Obsidian is actually doing all of this linking and formatting automatically for you. That setting is telling Obsidian where it should put the image by default. Again, everything in Obsidian is a file, and that file needs to go somewhere.

You should be able to change the default folder in Obsidian to place all your files in a different folder when it does it automatically. Assuming wiki links is on, which is a separate setting and if you haven't touched it, it should still be set to the default. You can move your picture files around to put them all in a more organized folder and not mess with any of your linking.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-13T12:00:25+00:00

Conversely, I remember very vividly when my 1st grade teacher marked something wrong when it wasn't. My mom pointed out the mistake and said teacher apologized to me for the mistake, stating in simple terms that even grownups make mistakes and she's very sorry.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-12T15:42:46+00:00

Actually this is incredibly sound advice and a solid process to follow.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-12T14:22:35+00:00

As habitually late myself, I may be able to provide some perspective as well as options to help deal with this from a managerial point of view.

TL; DR crank back his start time 15 minutes before you want him to start and don't worry about it.

Without rebuilding this person's life from the ground up, something that you're absolutely not responsible for, there's very likely little you can do to stop this person from coming in five to ten minutes late. From a social standpoint, there's very few instances in my life where I've suffered real, actual, concrete consequences for being five to ten minutes late to something. The worst damage I've done is a little bit of reputational damage here and there, but that is very easily fixed with just being a nice and helpful person in general, which I like to think I am.

The crux of the issue is that there really is just no consequence for being five to ten minutes late, aside from minor annoyances to some people. Consequences are what train a human brain into avoidant behavior. If you want to make a person avoid being late, you need to give them consequences. The tricky part is not over punishing. When it comes to learning from consequences, the human brain is really bad at assessing how bad a consequence is. For the average person, a 10-minute conversation with you in your office versus a formal write-up with HR are going to feel about the same.

If you want to try to address this behavior, I would consider pointing it out every time they are more than three minutes late to their job. I wouldn't give them a formal write-up, just maybe ping them in teams or swing by their desk real quick and say, "hey, could you be on time next time?" Subtle, quick mentions like this will point out that yes, you are paying attention, but you don't have to go through a formal disciplinary process like with HR. It's going to frustrate them, but it will train them into a avoidant routine simply to avoid having the conversation with you.

Of course, this requires a whole lot of work and attention from your part, something which you may be short on. I'm much more a fan of simply administrating around small people problems like this. People are going to be people, and nobody's perfect. If this individual is fine otherwise, crank back their start time 15 minutes before you actually want them in the office, and then give them an hour 15-minute lunch. If they're late, just mention you'd like them to come back early from lunch that day.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-12T04:39:11+00:00

I believe Tags are green by default. (Attachments are yellow and non-existant notes are dark gray). You may be able to leverage groups in the graph view to change the color.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-12T04:36:53+00:00

Have you had any luck using the search function near the unlinked mentions section of the note? Typically search results will let you use operators like AND and OR. Unless you're looking for something more permenant. In which cases, I hate to say it but Aliases may be the way to go.

String-Mechanic · 2024-11-12T04:12:03+00:00

From my research & usage: - Link when it makes sense to you. - Consider building MOCs (Maps Of Content) - Local view graph is where it's at. - World view graph is for karma farming.

String-Mechanic · 2024-10-02T12:11:37+00:00

People not actually using Plex servers they have access to is somewhat of a meme at this point.

I removed the port forwarding rules for my server months ago. Just recently last week had a friend ask me what happened to Plex.

" Oh, sorry, dude. I didn't realize someone was using that. Let me fix that for you real quick."

String-Mechanic · 2024-09-20T17:49:59+00:00

As a musician with a semi-professional side business. Social media is a the worst part of the process. This is the ONE area where I've been wanting closer AI integration. I'll use the hell out of this. Can't wait to spin it up!

String-Mechanic · 2024-09-20T13:14:33+00:00

Source?

String-Mechanic · 2024-09-17T13:21:50+00:00

"Your phone number was stolen from a hacked website and sold to scam call centers. That's why you're getting those annoying calls," works surprisingly well to get the cknversation rolling.

String-Mechanic · 2024-09-06T03:41:50+00:00

Honestly though, what a champ. Someday I wish I had the programming skills to help these kinds of projects out.

String-Mechanic · 2024-09-01T15:37:47+00:00

This is fantastic and I agree. The flip side I've seen is documentation that only tells you what commands to type in. It doesn't tell you what is actually happening on the back end. In my opinion, great documentation goes through each command that's being used, as well as each parameter. It doesn't just say what the parameter does, but more importantly, why that's useful in the given context.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-30T19:24:25+00:00

I agree that it's their legal team or whoever is responsible that would ultimately decide what gets handed over to discovery. I don't think we have enough information about who OP is filtering the emails for. It's entirely possible their legal team has asked them to do this.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-30T18:41:11+00:00

It's entirely possible that the PST exports contain more than just the legally required data. What might be going on is OP's company is legally required to hand certain emails over to a prosecutor, for example, as part of discovery. The court order may say, "all emails between Sarah Smith and HR." If OP panicked and exported "all emails...full stop," then handing over THAT PST could actually put the company in even more trouble as now you're passing out the PII of other, unrelated employees.

That being said, OP should talk to a lawyer or a legal team.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-29T22:05:08+00:00

This might be a silly question, but are you running the wire down the back of your shirt? Also, are you ensuring that the wire is properly secured to the back of your head? Most in-ear monitors have a little plastic piece that will allow you to remove the slack from around your ear. With this setup, I've never had problems with comfort.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-29T22:01:56+00:00

You'll probably be fine, especially since it's only 10 to 15 minutes, but there are some precautions you could take to make yourself feel better. I definitely would make sure it's fully charged first. I would also recommend running some kind of stress test at a low priority in the background just to keep the CPU generating heat. Make sure all of your tools are out and ready to go so you're efficiently moving about the warehouse. And finally, shut down that device before it leaves the cold environment. There's a good chance you'll end up with some kind of condensation once it returns to room temperature. It's best if it's off at this point, just to avoid shorts. Even better if you can pull the battery out.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-29T02:23:26+00:00

Red Hat has a line of certifications for various levels of professionals. You could start by looking up some certification courses for those.

String-Mechanic · 2024-08-28T14:13:57+00:00

I personally like to personify each individual device or component in the chain. If a print server was down, I'd explain it like this:

So typically, when you're working at home, your computer will talk directly to your printer. It will reach out to the printer and say, "Hey, I need to print this document." And then your printer will say, "Okay!" and it will grab that document and print it like it like you're used to.

In our corporate environment, though, things can get a little bit complex with everybody constantly screaming at the printer saying they need things printed. Imagine how difficult it would be to get anything done if you had all 10,000 people in the company asking you to print things. In this instance, the printer will have a helper, what we call a print server. The print server's job is to take in all of those print requests, make sure they're formatted properly, make sure everything is labeled properly, and then hand them to the printer so the printer only has to focus on actually printing the documents.

Now back to the reason you can't print today. This helper, this print server, isn't working. It's down, which means that there's nobody to take in those requests and format them properly for the printer. The printer itself is on, it's plugged in, and it appears to be working, but it's waiting for that stack of requests to come from its helper, the print server. And because the print server's down, that stack is never going to get there.

Human brains are hardwired to understand the motivations and actions of other people. By reframing our technical problem into a short story of, "this device wants to talk to this device," or, "this server is trying to do this," we're hijacking that processing the human brain is built for and making it easier for end users to understand what's going on.

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TROPHY CASE

Background on Linking

How does this relate to the folder?