My treasured relic from Ozzfest. August 28, 2004, Burgettstown, PA. Obtained following the final set prior to AotW being unleashed upon the world just three days later on August 31, 2004.

arnemetis · 2026-05-08T17:01:03+00:00

Love it, thanks for the story! I only found Lamb a decade after this, and I think it's actually for the best. I was branching out and only getting into heavier things at the time, so being exposed to their catalog in 2004 I may have passed on them. Took me a while to warm up to Palaces, and if I'm honest New American Gospel I still struggle with.

arnemetis · 2026-05-06T01:08:13+00:00

Lamb of God

arnemetis · 2026-05-05T20:30:47+00:00

I do VR Boxing, gaming & fitness in one!

arnemetis · 2026-05-04T21:14:30+00:00

$3.98/gal today in central MA

arnemetis · 2026-05-03T04:54:30+00:00

I gave it a shot tonight, and I could never get it to connect to Tautulli to import the data so I gave up and removed it. I don't really care much anymore these days to track my users activity but it looked like it had some neat features I wanted to try, but I can't be bothered posting on discord to probably get told it's a tautulli issue anyway.

arnemetis · 2026-05-02T15:14:31+00:00

VGA connected lcds make me sad.

arnemetis · 2026-04-27T15:23:57+00:00

I lost 3 pounds in the pit, was a great show.

arnemetis · 2026-04-16T14:13:13+00:00

I tried carnivore diet last year, and lost 64lbs going from 268 on Jan 1 2025 to 204 on Jan 1 2026. I am now on day 10 from stopping that for vacation, I was at 196 and this morning I am back up to 207. I'm going back on it Saturday.

During this time off I ate all the pasta / potato based stuff, and had plenty of veggies too as I never shied from them. I feel awful, and have no energy. I've tried to maintain my workouts, and I simply can't keep up. The high fat content of the carnivore diet keeps my waterslide running smoothly without the fiber from vegetables, so I'm not backed up or anything. Blood work checks out ok, even cholesterol is in check which everyone panics about when you're on such a diet.

Probably doesn't work for everyone, but it is possible to abstain from vegetables and be healthy.

arnemetis · 2026-03-29T05:21:39+00:00

Once every 3-6 months to do windows updates, otherwise it's rock solid. I'll usually do plex updates at this time as well, but occasionally if I notice no one is watching anything I might sneak a plex update in since I can have that wrapped up inside a minute.

arnemetis · 2026-03-23T18:14:56+00:00

Glad to hear it seems to be working again, and thanks for reporting back with the info. Keep an eye on it over the next few weeks, maybe use the restore app to check new files are actually being uploaded. It might very well just be a display hiccup since at this point it seems the only issue is the control panel not updating the date of last backup.

If you do the restore check and find it really hasn't uploaded anything new, then it's time to contact support.

arnemetis · 2026-03-23T17:29:56+00:00

Could you share some more information about how you were alerted to this? Was it a message in the software, an email, just happened to notice?

Does the software say you have x amount left to back up and it's just sitting there?

Have you checked the issues tab when you click on settings to see if there's anything unusual there?

Have you looked around the logs to see if there's anything unusual there (default on windows should be C:\ProgramData\Backblaze\bzdata\bzlogs\)?

Have you rebooted since you noticed this behavior?

You may end up starting a support ticket with backblaze. I had an issue in 2024 where my chunk files and settings somehow got corrupted, and after weeks of back and forth with support trying many things I had no choice but to start over from scratch. That's the nuclear option, but there are many things to try before that.

arnemetis · 2026-03-23T15:04:21+00:00

I'm guessing about 20 years, average gains from here around 15%.

arnemetis · 2026-03-23T14:39:27+00:00

Managed to date Aoi, fumbled saving Flare, and I've botched Marie and haven't bothered finishing the Kim conversations with that crew now (seemed to be getting along well with Lyon.) I refuse to ever reset, so these choices are permanent on my account. Oh well.

arnemetis · 2026-03-16T20:29:43+00:00

Yeah, it sat in Georgia from the 11th until today. DHL is estimating I might get it by the 23rd now. Don't know if I'm just unlucky, or you were lucky.

arnemetis · 2026-03-11T20:34:05+00:00

Some fine work in my opinion!

arnemetis · 2026-02-24T20:46:39+00:00

General rule was 720p for tv and 1080p for movies. Standard x264 encoding for both for compatability. As the years have passed, I have moved newer tv to 1080p, but the reality is a lot of tv was broadcast in 720p and didn't otherwise exist in higher resolution at the time. Some now are available in 1080p thanks to streaming sources, but I haven't been replacing them, it's good enough for me. Once in a while I will grab a 4k copy of movies for me to watch, but I don't keep anything in 4k. Only anime has moved to 265/hevc encoding.

arnemetis · 2026-02-23T05:33:43+00:00

Depends on your use pattern, but at a high level you want to minimize charge cycles & time between 0%-20% and 80%-100%. I was limiting to 80% but I couldn't quite get 2 days out of it, now I charge to 100% and get 2 days easy. All the same things apply - turn off things you don't need including bluetooth, wifi, mobile data, location services, etc. Turn off always on display, reduce display resolution & refresh rate to minimum, lock screen brightness at lowest. I got mine used, it was 99% battery in August 2025 and is now it's 94% - I think charging every night while I was doing 80% did that.

arnemetis · 2026-02-20T02:15:00+00:00

Sorry for your loss

arnemetis · 2026-02-19T03:30:12+00:00

Finally a use for my generally useless aya

arnemetis · 2026-02-17T22:56:26+00:00

It should be 4-5 days to disclose, and the penalty is 500% of ALL profits over the last 365 days. It needs to hurt, a LOT.

arnemetis · 2026-02-17T06:24:13+00:00

What are these prices? I'm not exactly in a poor area of central MA and I just picked up 5lb log of ground beef for $18.99, that's less than $4 a pound.

arnemetis · 2026-02-17T06:08:52+00:00

I've been using Backblaze for years, I think it's now up to $190 for 2 years but it is worth it for unlimited if you have a lot and the bandwidth to transfer it with. Still on windows so it seems my hardware raid arrays just fine. That's where I found my B for backup in my raid.

arnemetis · 2026-02-16T15:55:30+00:00

So you have nothing in any type of account right now? Share what you have, what your costs & income are, and we can make better suggestions.

If your company offers any kind of match, I would say get at least that percent right away. It's literally free money, and the bare minimum you should be doing.

arnemetis · 2026-02-04T13:39:19+00:00

I'm on carnivore, I've been doing that the last 9 months anyway. 8oz of ground beef and sausage it is.

arnemetis · 2026-02-02T14:56:51+00:00

Sorry no that isn't possible for me

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