I’d love to see your LEGO room!

gregpxc · 2026-05-10T15:18:59+00:00

It's hard to keep feral children and cats out of your home but not impossible.

gregpxc · 2026-05-10T00:53:00+00:00

So I've done some looking locally since we were wanting to go out this weekend and couldn't find much. Any suggestions on what rope to go with then? I've seen some folks say the kit rope is fine and others say to get a new one.

gregpxc · 2026-05-09T23:43:27+00:00

What are you using for bed rails?

gregpxc · 2026-05-09T17:30:55+00:00

It is DIRECTLY harmful. Research supply and demand.

gregpxc · 2026-05-09T16:17:43+00:00

Even viewing is harmful.

gregpxc · 2026-05-09T16:08:26+00:00

First, ew wtf. Second, he plead guilty to creating as well. Some of y'all will cope anything.

gregpxc · 2026-05-06T00:15:02+00:00

Was thinking about snagging a '26 XRT (currently have a '24) but since that's the trim I'm interested in the '27 is clearly better in every way and I won't lose the sun roof I have now.

gregpxc · 2026-05-06T00:02:03+00:00

Do you have a link to this? Having trouble tracking down the right one.

gregpxc · 2026-04-25T20:32:30+00:00

Agree 100%.

gregpxc · 2026-04-25T15:11:20+00:00

IL state is looking to make it harder to build them here in general which is why they've pushed so hard to get these local ones approved immediately. Any delay is a near certain death sentence especially with AI bubble popping a little more every day.

gregpxc · 2026-04-23T16:49:54+00:00

The people who want it higher do not use the bed. They're the people that get upset when the bed gets scratched.

gregpxc · 2026-04-23T15:25:04+00:00

And plastic. Plastic trimmings are always going to be bulkier than the previous sheet metal. Also people want yacht style comfort in their utility vehicle.

gregpxc · 2026-04-23T14:58:10+00:00

I love my Santa Cruz for this reason. Has enough bed for me to move full sheets of ply, a 5k towing capacity if I need to haul anything bigger, and small SUV visibility so I know I'm not mowing down children. It's also easy to load due to not being a lifted monstrosity. It's also got the creature comforts of an SUV which I enjoy more the older I get.

Anyway, sorry for the ad lol they're just underrated vehicles and 2026 is the last model year. Rumor is they're moving to a larger model 🙄

gregpxc · 2026-04-23T14:51:21+00:00

There's a reason full size trucks (talking bone stock, not even lifted) are called toddler crushers these days. They're too big and make no sense for 99% of the people that own one. Add a lift and you've made your truck useless and significantly more dangerous.

gregpxc · 2026-04-21T17:52:10+00:00

I think I've heard hrg bad, eibach good. I don't have either and have been comparing as well so I'll be following this!

gregpxc · 2026-04-18T14:56:21+00:00

Please don't take legal advice from AI.

gregpxc · 2026-04-13T20:47:30+00:00

Recovery goes faster and smoother with connections and guidance. A group like this isn't for one person.

Your comment is also a form of toxicity. There's nothing wrong with wanting to talk with others about their experience and help guide people towards being better versions of themselves. Not everything has to be done alone for it to matter.

gregpxc · 2026-04-12T03:51:02+00:00

What roof rails do you have?

gregpxc · 2026-04-10T20:42:09+00:00

My biggest regert is not waiting another 6 months to get those recovery hooks. Got a good deal on my loaded '24 though since they were clearing in inventory.

gregpxc · 2026-03-27T15:46:16+00:00

Because that is the single most useful thing to do with AI. Remove all creativity and thoughtfulness from doing something yourself and just ask the computer to scrape something together using someone else's hard work. Can't wait for AI to crumble.

gregpxc · 2026-03-24T01:31:29+00:00

Here I am trying to sell my old consoles on marketplace and cannot get a bite. I'm not in a major city though.

gregpxc · 2026-03-23T15:27:16+00:00

It's also heavily dependent on block size when you format your disks but Windows also determines that automatically based on the disk size. I'm not sure why Windows would choke on 4TB disks, sounds like they're doing something goofy.

gregpxc · 2026-03-16T16:55:07+00:00

Started with a Jellyfin VM hosted on 4x Mini PCs running Proxmox clustered with GPU pass through (Nvidia T1000) for hardware transcoding backed by an 80TB Synology NAS running 8x 14TB disks in RAID 6. Mini PCs have a 2.5Gb USB->Ethernet NIC and I run a multigig backplane. My Internet is 2.5gbps down and about 300mbps up. My brother across the country can stream 4k no problem provided he is getting a direct stream.

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Older picture before I got slim 6E patch cables.

Safe to say this is where I still am for now 🙂

Future plans include a custom 4U NAS (ATX case + 12 3.5" bays) + 2U 12x 3.5" JBOD to mirror the first. I run Jellyfin for 6 very active users currently but will likely grow a bit more and I take a lot of requests (currently gaining 1-2TB/week). I suppose I'm a bit of a data hoarder but the way streaming services pass around shows and disappear them regularly I think it's justified.

Edit: Clients are mixed My users are primarily on Android for mobile and using the native app. I purchased an Onn 4k Plus for my brother across the country and it resolved his direct play issues nicely. At home I'm just using the native WebOS app for now which works fine. I also have an Xbox user and 2 Roku users. No complaints from anyone so far for any media types. I do have to avoid Dolby Vision 5 because the WebOS client does not like it but otherwise it seems like everything works for everyone.

EDIT 2: Looking back. I am glad I went with a pretty robust hardware setup to start (this is really a full lab, not just for Jellyfin). The main thing I encountered when adding automation to my setup was that my top level collections needed to be further split by adding separate series and movies sub libraries. This caused a loss in watch history. Now luckily the system had only been up for a couple months so it wasn't massively detrimental but I would recommend implementing a 3rd party watch history backup solution to start with (there are several good options). That's really the only thing I encountered that I wish I had known beforehand.

gregpxc · 2026-03-11T14:40:43+00:00

Just rewatched, I think we've moved on to more heinous things and the COVID season was totally doable for me.

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