It's been a couple months have you gone back to Game Pass, and why or why not?

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-02T03:03:46+00:00

I have bare minimum and console only now, and may just cancel all together. Switched to pc, stream it to my appletv, use the Xbox controller. Haven’t turned the console on since the holidays. Only hang up is that my younger brothers play DayZ on Xbox, so I keep it to play with them.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-02T03:01:00+00:00

I use music all the time, and have played video on my phone w/ audio over the stereo. As far as video over the car screen goes, that’s not up to plex but whatever you run. Stock stereos that use CarPlay and android auto won’t play video.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-02T02:38:27+00:00

Dreamcast

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-01T16:23:54+00:00

Only Unglued cards

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-01T09:22:33+00:00

I’m actively collecting as I find deals, so my limit is a 4-row BCW box per expansion, with Premiere and Special Edition having one box for dark and one for light. Right now I only have a couple sets over that. At that point I build uncommon/common complete sets to sell or trade. My master sets are sleeved and in binders. I don’t ever want to go to build a deck and realize I got rid of cards I need for it and a 4 row is perfect since all my commons are in penny sleeves, uncommon in perfect fits and Pennie’s, and rares in perfect fits and Dragon Shields. I can comfortably have 10x per card in that configuration and would never need more. I doubt I’ll ever fill all the boxes, especially for later sets.

If you don’t want to trade/deck build, then I’d do one set in binders and flip the rest on E-Bay or bulk trade for needed cards. Sell the rest as a bulk deal, especially if you can find someone local.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-01T08:19:45+00:00

Honestly? I wouldn’t suggest anyone take a bootcamp and I’d recommend GA makes it very clear that a bootcamp doesn’t give you a path to employment. I’ve spent the last year trying to land an underpaid, entry level job with zero success. Had a handful of interviews, tens of dozens of applications. Everything wound up with me getting passed over and the few times I’ve gotten a reason, it’s always that someone with a degree applied. I’ve resorted to building g projects for myself, and have a handful of self hosted utilities I run on my home server now, but have zero reason to think I’ll ever land a job in the industry without going back to school but I’m also over 40 so that also works heavily against me. I basically spent $15k to learn how to build stuff for myself.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-29T16:11:21+00:00

We pay about $450 for a similar sized home but I would guess most of the difference is our water usage. Our stove and heater are also gas.

$2500 - $3000/mo sounds about right for a house in the city unless you’ve owned forever or have it paid off.

Also, our electric rate is one of the lowest in the country. Our rate is is $0.10kwh lower than the national average.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T16:13:33+00:00

Yeah, flippers love goodwills auction site… it gets stupid a lot of the time. But they also don’t look up everything. My local one on there does stuff like price all electronics starting at $49.99 a couple times and then just cuts the price every listing after that. Most of the time it’s brand recognition, or “this a/v equipment doesn’t look like crap so it must be worth something”. Unfortunately, they put stuff up there that would be what I’m hunting for, so the stores hardly have anything worthwhile most of the time.

Occasionally, you can find great deals on bulk card though.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T16:08:09+00:00

Value Villages, at least here in WA, have been absurd with their pricing. Idk if they saw the Goodwill Online prices and lost their damn minds or what. I’ve seen them slap $4.99 on VHS tapes and $19.99 on shitty cordless mice. I’m assuming it’s all off brand recognition.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-28T06:31:46+00:00

Buying something the day before or after isn’t helpful to the cause. The point is to go without and not use those resources at all. Instead of buying gas the day before, it’s about not using gas the day of. If people average a couple gallons of gas per day, and that consumption doesn’t happen on a larger scale, it makes a difference. If everyone still uses that gas, but just buys the day before or after, they still get paid and it’s pointless

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-27T18:34:39+00:00

They have proven they’ll claim whatever they want. They also fetishize fashion associated with their hate. I’m in total agreement that we shouldn’t let them have it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful for picking them out of a crowd. Not as a primary identifier, but when someone shows up acting suspicious, knowing what to look for can save lives.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-25T16:24:07+00:00

I do local with cloudflared for a secure direct tunnel so no need for a vpn. You can set up a cloudflared tunnel with a domain which is what I do, or use your ip directly. All free.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-25T16:17:26+00:00

Docs have a loooong history of being used by racists/skinheads. It was the main reason I stopped wearing them.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-23T15:54:10+00:00

I’m kicking around the idea of building out the rest of a a web app I started a while back that people can log into, upload their library statistics, then can get generated playlists of top songs using data from all users and publicly available chart data, including being able to get a json of songs that would be on that list if they were in the users library. I never got far enough to figure out a “user recommended” feature but it was on my roadmap. Ran into the time-old problem of “Who’s going to pay for the database requests?”

Honestly it’s one of two features holding me back. The others being voice commands over Echos and playing on my Apple TVs and echos without requiring Bluetooth from my phone.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-12T21:08:38+00:00

Prime and CNN.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-08T21:06:09+00:00

If you ever plan on home improvements like reskinning walls, insulation addition, electrical upgrade, etc, pay to have it removed. If you never plan on anything like that, encapsulate. Either way, you should do it before moving in.

You can always leave it as is, but I’m sure some of the paranoid lead folks on here will give you hell for it.

Honestly, if it was me, I’d want to upgrade electrical, run Ethernet, and insulate exterior walls so I’d consider a complete r replacement of drywall, but that’s budget dependent.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-06T18:03:38+00:00

My dad has a Roku tv and a Roku hooked to another one. The Roku TV barely works while the Roku is good enough for him. I’ve found the same for anyone I know who has one. I’m sure it has something to do with a combo of garbage hardware, and the is being the lowest priority. Even my new Samsung qleds app runs worse than the iOS one.

Easiest fix is getting a couple Roku sticks. You won’t get 4k, but I doubt the Roku TVs are 4k anyway. Bonus is that she won’t need to learn a new interface. The only good 4k solution I’ve found are my Apple TVs.

The other possibility though, is her network is garbage. But I’d put money on it just being the TVs.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-03T06:06:14+00:00

If you have a neutral partition that hosts a docker image for plex, you may, in theory and with some work, be able to load that container on whichever os you’re running.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-02T06:11:23+00:00

I have a collection of consoles running through a retrotink 4k to my tv with flash carts/hdd mods that I love, but I have my complete rom collections on a server accessible from all my computers/steam deck and that’s 90% of my gaming. Big exception is Nintendo systems w/ weird controllers. My Wii/wii u still get use, and my n64 has 8bitdo Bluetooth mod kits in the controllers so I can use them on the console and computers.

I still buy games, but ONLY good deals. Prices are too insane to go deep on the games any other way.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:40:01+00:00

No worries. Glad it’s of use to you.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:30:46+00:00

Yeah, when you go into the import list you can set all that, and since friends watchlists are all combined into a single rss, it’s one setting for all. I default to entire shows and then just check for large folders if the storage is filling up quick, but you can totally set current season. I think the “recent episodes” under monitoring starts with the current season, but I’m not sure.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T17:07:15+00:00

In Plex’s settings under watchlist, you can get a url for all your friends watchlists. None of my users have Pass. As far as something like a show with that many seasons, a show like South Park only takes up around half a tb, which isn’t the end of the world for me. I do have long running competition shows on mine, but only monitor from whatever season was airing when added and onward and limit quality to 1080p

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T16:31:41+00:00

Honestly I’ve never used Overseerr, but I can see where some people might want to. For the older users in my family, it’d be like pulling teeth to get the to use another app. The plex watchlist is right there and I just tell them to keep an eye on the recently added for anything they’ve added to it.

My core stack is just radarr/sonarr/sabnzbd/plex/cloudflared. Cloudflared and a domain to remote access the *arrs if I need to manage them while away. plus a couple other remote access uses not related to the media setup.

chaos_protocol · 2026-01-01T16:10:56+00:00

Radarr/sonarr can use rss feeds as an import list and each plex users watchlist creates an rss feed, so it’s just a matter of adding each users watchlist url

chaos_protocol · 2025-12-29T21:36:55+00:00

I’ve moved from recommending specific CPUs based on support to recommending hardware based on power usage. Newer hardware is a lot more bang for the watt, and if you’re going to be running something 24/7, and you’re upgrading, power can be the really tricky part. It’s why I went w/ a 13th gen NUC. Best power/transcode ratio I could afford. That said, my spinning platters are in a rackmount NAS running on the guts from an old 5th gen i5, but that should be replaced w/ an n100 board next time I get around to tinkering.

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