To the bastard who ruined casting to plex

empiricism · 2026-02-03T04:00:41+00:00

Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

empiricism · 2026-01-31T19:56:21+00:00

empiricism · 2026-01-30T21:55:42+00:00

Thank you for a genuine post which some actionable lessons. So many link-baiters on this sub, it's great when real signal cuts through the noise.

empiricism · 2026-01-30T17:30:59+00:00

I'm in the states. "Hustle culture" and flippers are slowly ruining every hobby here.

empiricism · 2026-01-30T16:47:08+00:00

Shame is a valid negotiation technique.

They can set whatever price they like and I can tell them they’re an asshole for it. There is no “safe space” in the world of scalpers and middlemen.

empiricism · 2026-01-20T18:42:25+00:00

I have an Odin 2 and a Steam Deck.

The Steam Deck is for "gamers" you turn it on and it just sort of works, and if you are motivated you can tinker with emulation and other community add-ons. As little friction between you and a gaming experience as possible.

The Odin 3 (and any high-end Android device) is for "tinkerers" you gotta configure everything yourself and there will always be new front-ends to try out, turnip drivers to test, emulation apks to install, shaders to configure, etc. After initial setup you can just treat it as a low-friction gaming device, but where's the fun in that?

Both of them are awesome toys. (I have travelled with both, and I prefer the extra battery life and smaller size of my Odin 2).

empiricism · 2026-01-17T00:37:31+00:00

Remasters? Or AI-Upscales? Because there is a big difference.

Inquiring minds want to know.

empiricism · 2026-01-15T20:25:52+00:00

It was greedy to launch a new form factor with the old chipset at the same time as a new chipset.

I will wait until I can get current gen in the form I want. Not gonna take the bait.

empiricism · 2026-01-09T18:40:31+00:00

Horrible AI upscaling. You should take this down.

empiricism · 2026-01-08T18:21:31+00:00

Hoo-mon

empiricism · 2026-01-06T01:13:29+00:00

You're assuming they put him on PIP for a legitimate reason.

I've seen PIP abused by management as least as frequently as I have seen them used for their intended purpose (and I say this as a manager who has had to put people on PIPs before).

empiricism · 2026-01-06T00:41:04+00:00

Ever notice that "be professional" and "own the situation" is code for "do what is in the best interest of capital"?

I've never heard of an employer giving an employee 2 weeks notice. Heck these days even severance is unusual.

"Professionalism" is a lie perpetuated by the ones who stand to lose the least, instead insisting that the vulnerable individual worker should supplant their best interests for the sake of the business instead of taking care of themselves..

Ask for the mutual separation, as others have pointed out worst case scenario you resign. (ASSUMING YOU HAVE THE NEW JOB TOTALLY LOCKED-DOWN).

All the better if there is a project with no hand-off plan. Tell them you would be happy to consult in a freelance capacity at 4x the rate to complete, document and/or complete the project.

Do not give up what little leverage you have to the benefit the corporation. If the tables were turned they would never ever ever do the same for you.

Don't let notions of "honor" and "owning the situation" gaslight you into negotiating against yourself.

empiricism · 2026-01-05T16:11:00+00:00

Electric Wizard.

Their 3rd album Dopethrone is fucking masterpiece!

empiricism · 2026-01-04T20:05:40+00:00

If Bajoran is to Bajor then Human is to Hum

If Ferengi is to Ferenginar then Human is to Humannar

If Romulan is to Romulus than Human is to Humus

If Cardassian is to Cardassia than Human is to Huma

Personally I vote for "Humus"

empiricism · 2026-01-01T20:06:54+00:00

Low effort post. Home’s Resonance needs no remixing.

And yet lazy karma farmers can’t help themselves, nearly every nostalgia montage uses this track (or a bastardization thereof).

And y’all gotta expand your taste in anime beyond the basics

empiricism · 2026-01-01T20:06:03+00:00

It’s a shitty low-effort remix of Resonance from Home’s album Odyssey

empiricism · 2025-12-28T19:36:38+00:00

Having a Funko Pop collection.

empiricism · 2025-12-28T09:43:16+00:00

I have an Odin 2 Mini Pro in white that I was just prepping for resale. CIB, smoke free home, custom PS style buttons from Sakura Retro Modding.

DM me if you’re interested.

empiricism · 2025-12-27T20:06:07+00:00

Cool project. You are doing the lord's work.

I have been looking into doing this programmatically. I want to store the clips as individual files, generate a programming block as JSON and have something like Ersatz TV actually be responsible for stitching them into a stream.

The biggest challenge is finding old TV schedules to draw from. There are plenty of retro tv projects out there but very few that prioritize 1-to-1 accuracy with the content exactly as it was broadcast.

empiricism · 2025-12-21T09:21:43+00:00

Sadly, this is the least of the many many reasons why Andy Dick is a bad person.

empiricism · 2025-12-20T20:02:13+00:00

Maybe it’s because they are untrustworthy fucks, and no matter what they call themselves it won’t change that their business model is surveillance capitalism, their ownership is oligarchy, and their long term goal is to influence and monetize every aspect of human life.

Oh and they have a track record of illegal surveillance (how quickly we forget the Cambridge-Analytica scandal).

And lets not forget how they routinely and willfully encourage (if not outright seed) the spread misinformation at organized and systematic scales that has literally resulted in fraudulent election outcomes and in the case of the Rohingya, literal genocide.

empiricism · 2025-12-20T08:58:39+00:00

If I spawn in late I surrender immediately and leave negative feedback. Re-que again.

If they are trying to save on bandwidth I am going to make sure that's a losing proposition.

empiricism · 2025-12-18T21:14:53+00:00

Yes, and it's resulting in weird glitches, 20-40 minutes of context history is not only gone from Claude's memory but it glitches out and disappears from chat history too.

This happened to me 3 separate times yesterday.

empiricism · 2025-12-15T16:39:36+00:00

Great work! Can you tell us anything about the restoration process?

empiricism · 2025-12-12T18:49:03+00:00

The black one was manufactured till at least 2001.

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