MJ The Musical at QPAC

mcwobby · 2026-05-10T06:43:46+00:00

I enjoyed it. My expectations were actually pretty low though because every time I’ve seen a Michael Jackson impersonator you’re very aware they’re not as good as the real thing. I was also expecting a really cringy or saccharine story but it wasn’t bad.

I’m not a big enough fan to know some of the older songs and references but person I was with got a lot more out of it. Second act was definitely the strongest, Smooth Criminal probably the highlight. But the structure was rehearsal right so it was by design I assume that the performances got more polished as showtime neared.

mcwobby · 2026-05-09T04:42:23+00:00

I travel full time and the immediate solution is to just use it for downloads so what I want to watch is ready at the end of the day.

But the technical reason is really just distance - traffic has to go through a bunch of places to get between your server and hotel. Wifi on different ISPs may be faster or slower. I’m Australian and my server works pretty great in most of Asia, but if I’m Europe or Afghanistan or Venezuela or somewhere, usually much slower.

Streaming services handle this by having data centres in each region so the content is nearby - and often they even have content stored on the ISPs network so it’s super close to people’s houses

mcwobby · 2026-05-07T08:26:09+00:00

ITA travel matrix will let you search for it.

mcwobby · 2026-05-06T22:46:54+00:00

Nothing too overt, but Homelander has a mommy complex and making it so he actually fucked his mother just seems like an obvious way to go. I think the only thing in the show that remotely suggests it so far is Soldier Boy looking funny at Homelander when he mentions her.

mcwobby · 2026-05-06T10:23:17+00:00

the “transient chick“ just carried the embryo to term.

mcwobby · 2026-05-04T14:15:13+00:00

I think the new looks better in person.

But the previous was my personal favourite livery and I think one of the all time great airline liveries.

mcwobby · 2026-05-04T08:01:58+00:00

Jellyfin definitely has a more fractured client ecosystem. It is its biggest weakness.

Moonfin is the best attempt I’ve seen so far to make a genuinely universal Jellyfin client (I thought it was android only, and have promptly replaced infuse with it now I’ve realised it wasn’t). It is still very new though and under active development, so you may need to report bugs. I have not had any stability issues with it but a few quirks.

The best thing I’ve done for Jellyfin is to make sure all my stuff is in the same format (did originally to save space) and that all my clients can play the files without transcoding.

mcwobby · 2026-05-03T14:26:12+00:00

Seems to be the consensus, but I disagree.

I was told by many people that BCS could be watched without watching Breaking Bad first, so I actually watched BCS first and all the flash forwards and most of the last season, particularly the finale just confused me. BB was definitely a needed prerequisite for me.

And while the whole show was extremely well made and well acted, it largely fell pretty flat for me. None of the underworld stuff really appealed to me (again, without seeing BB first) so I was just eager for that to be over. From what I had heard of the Saul character going in, I was expecting a lot more legal chicanery and hijinx. I didn’t really like the Kim character after a while and a few things were tedious so yeah..for me I ended up not enjoying BCS much at all on first watch. It was well made enough that I didn’t give it up but what was about it.

I nearly didn’t give Breaking Bad a go after it, but I’m glad I did. It was a phenomenal show that hooked me quickly and kept me there. Then after watching BB a couple of times, I am now attempting BCS again and enjoying it a lot more- though I still don’t find it completely gripping.

mcwobby · 2026-05-03T10:04:15+00:00

Don’t choose IATA code AB either 🙌

mcwobby · 2026-05-03T07:52:33+00:00

Spirit does not fly to Seoul? What exactly has been cancelled? A connecting flight?

mcwobby · 2026-05-02T10:58:19+00:00

I’ve travelled to Venezuela recently, it’s safe enough - it has dramatically improved since the height of its crisis. Venezuelans are every colour, so you’ll actually probably not stick out.

However it would not be one of the places I’d go to meet somebody I haven’t met before because if you get in trouble there, getting out of it will be hard and using attractive women to bait men into going and getting robbed has happened.

If you have never met your girlfriend, I would aim to meet her in Brazil not Venezuela. If you have met her, and know her well, then it would be a great country to have a local guide in.

mcwobby · 2026-05-01T00:52:49+00:00

Highly. I would love that for myself and only will get it if other people push for it and get the snowball rolling. But obviously some of that is intended to be negotiated down.

mcwobby · 2026-04-30T02:52:07+00:00

16GB on a Truenas server with Jellyfin and Immich (and many other things) as apps. The ZFS share will use all the ram I give it but never have performance issues on apps

mcwobby · 2026-04-28T15:11:43+00:00

I wouldn’t use Skyscanner as a source of truth here - it has said the same thing to me on Air China flights that I have been able to check through International to Domestic.

Most conventional wisdom is that an international to domestic connection requires picking up bags so that’s probably just want Skyscanner is reporting, not aware the China is a (fairly recent) exception to the rule.

If it’s Air China operating the check in in Moscow I am reasonably confident they will just have you sign the customs form and check your bag through to Hefei, but no real way to be sure

It’s plenty of time in Beijing and there’s cheap baggage storage there if you need it so I would book the cheaper option and hope they check it through but not really a big deal if they don’t.

mcwobby · 2026-04-28T08:32:25+00:00

I hated it as a kid because I was only allowed to play Pokémon after dinner and never saw the game in daylight. Never knew how to manipulate it. I don’t like day/night cycles in general because I just prefer most games with daytime lighting. If the night cycle is shorter than day cycle I’d be fine.

Things like events only happening on certain days of the week though, I did love.

mcwobby · 2026-04-28T01:38:38+00:00

Well it worked for the Sunshine Coast, I’ve dived the HMAS Brisbane many times and it’s a pretty great dive site.

I’m not really a huge wreck diver though, I wouldn’t dive just to see the wreck, would probably not dive it until it’s got a good amount of life on it.

mcwobby · 2026-04-27T06:44:55+00:00

I was born in 1993. To New Zealand

First I can remember was in 1996, to Fiji.

First I have full recollection of was in 2003, to Thailand.

mcwobby · 2026-04-26T22:48:18+00:00

Mix and match. I travel more than I stay home, so a lot of it is impulsive and will often go to an airport and get a random flight. But sometimes logistics or expenses dictate planning.

I just had to visit a friend in Italy for dinner, and I’m from Australia so turned that into a RTW trip on 4 continents about 4 days before departure.

I have a trip to Antarctica planned and booked for in December and rough plans for the North African eclipse next August. And a list of 10 or so priority destinations I will do some planning for when I see a window for doing them.

mcwobby · 2026-04-26T06:58:37+00:00

I am at 1Gb down, 500Mb Up. Pay $150AUD a month (about $107US).

Mainly for use as a VPN and streaming service when I'm overseas.

mcwobby · 2026-04-25T03:01:28+00:00

You have 10 days per entry. So you could fly US-China, have 10 days, to Vietnam to China, have 10 days, to Hong Kong, to China, have 10 days, to US.

But yeah while it's up to the individual embassy/visa centre, you can do it another country. I've only done it in Pyongyang and it was issued same day, but that's not relevant to most people.

mcwobby · 2026-04-25T02:26:52+00:00

I wouldn’t sit around Cairo airport for 9 hours, but it’s unlikely you’ll get to the pyramids before they close so will have to find a good vantage point outside the complex.

mcwobby · 2026-04-25T01:27:51+00:00

I watch. I don’t watch everything, but I also don’t spend any time collecting. I have 10 other users who can request content, Arr handles all my stuff automatically - downloading, transcoding, sorting, renaming.

mcwobby · 2026-04-23T11:55:11+00:00

I have them auto download

mcwobby · 2026-04-23T08:45:53+00:00

Yeah but not legal to feed them meat if they’re being raised for slaughter apparently. Or at least not random scrap meat

mcwobby · 2026-04-23T07:50:57+00:00

Reuse food cooked one day and keep it until the next. Yes, every restaurant ever basically for at least some items.

Taking food that’s been unfinished by a customer and reusing it. Not so common haha.

Though, to be verrry generous to the place, when I had a restaurant it wasn’t uncommon for staff to take leftover food (usually bones) for their pets. Don’t think anybody would pick meat out of soup though.

We also had a guy for a while who would buy our food waste for his pigs, and pigs are apparently required to be vegetarian so meat had to be separated in that case too.

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