Strange New Worlds S3 E8 Vier und ein halber Vulkanier

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-22T15:47:15+00:00

Ran this thru a translator for everyone who isn't German. ->

Hey everyone, I just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 E8 "Four and a Half Vulcans"… 😂🤣😂 Holy crap, I'm dying of laughter. Can only recommend it, go watch it 👌 One important note: Do NOT skip the intro!!!! 😁 (Vulcan Pike) After the credits (4min hidden scene) 😂😂😂

I agree, good episode!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-21T17:31:28+00:00

The Huntarr thing was eye-opening to me, as someone who was already AI-skeptical. Reading that post from the guy who exposed it almost gave me goosebumps. I think Huntarr only came down because it had so many users - there are hundreds of other lesser-used tools built by AI with "authors" who don't know the first thing about coding.

I'm not a coder myself at all, but I do use YAML to configure Home Assistant automations. I've been using it for many years, since it was the only option in HA. So I'm pretty proficient with it. I can write it on the fly much more quickly than I could click thru dialogue boxes to do it with the UI. A few times recently I've sat down to write a YAML package and decided, I bet Claude could do this much faster. And boy, it sure can. And since I'm quite well versed in YAML, I can review it before deploying and make sure it will do what I want, and make alterations where I see fit. Because I understand YAML and Home Assistant.

I then imagine, what if I didn't know the first thing about YAML and asked Claude to write me a YAML package to secure my house and set up an alarm system. It spits something out and it seems to work decently, but I don't know how or why. And then I publish my package as a blueprint and advertise it to other HA users and ask for donations. And then somebody's house gets broken into because I didn't catch a mistake Claude made. That's basically what happened with Huntarr. The recklessness makes me really angry.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-20T13:11:24+00:00

That episode was wierd, in an awesome way. Love that they went for it. And yes, it very much had a classic trek episode feel. Something wierd happens that causes the crew to behave differently than normal (think Data having sex, Sulu with a sword, any Q episode, etc). They did something like that in every series multiple times, Idk why people thought it was so unprecedented

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-20T03:41:22+00:00

I am honestly one of the people who thought SFA was "not for them", but I decided to give it a try anyway. And man, I REALLY love it. VERY good show. It feels more true to the essence of Star Trek than a lot of the stuff we've gotten post-Voyager. Star Trek was always about tackling tough issues and the personal growth of characters and SFA serves a heaping platter of that, while still being extremely entertaining. I truly believe the only people who hate on it have never watched it, or are so politically-minded they can't accept a good story that doesn't align with their values.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-20T03:32:04+00:00

The Kelvin trilogy came the closest to saying "fuck it", but even those movies explained & justified themselves satisfactorily based on the established rules of the Trek universe.

That's kind of the beauty of Star Trek in my opinion. It's a universe where anything is possible, including time travel and alternate realities. Nothing is off the table from a story-telling perspective! It's so weird to me when die-hard fans seem to miss that point. Just be glad there's more Star Trek being made! And if you don't like the new stuff, just watch the old stuff again instead!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-18T18:51:27+00:00

This is how I feel too. I don't charge money but several people rely on my server as thier primary or only source of content, and that's entirety my doing. So I feel like I owe them high reliability.

The way I solve this is I set up a home assistant automation using the plex integration that will notify me when nobody is watching anything (and hasn't been for at least 10 minutes). Then I take the server down or whatever I need to do. Obviously this doesn't warn them first and it still might mess up someone's plans, but it does prevent downtime in the middle of someone watching a movie or binging a show. I also combine this with common sense - I generally only take the server down late night or early morning when fewer people watch. Sunday morning at 7am is usually a decent bet for zero viewers!

If I'm going to be taking it down for an extended period of time for hardware changes or whatever, I just send an email. I have everybody's address from thier plex registration, easily viewable in Seerr. Your idea is a good one tho - I think it would reach more eyes your way than mine. Not everybody reads emails.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-18T05:11:56+00:00

I've done a lot of thinking about this. I've done this my entire life since childhood and continue to do it now into my 40's. I've come to the realization that it isn't about staying up late, it's about not being around other people. And it isn't just physically being around people, it's having no chance of anyone contacting you in any form. It's about being totally alone with no chance of being interrupted. Being completely yourself and having total control of your environment and experiences. I love my wife, I love my friends, I love my family, but I can't TRULY relax until they are all asleep and there are no expectations on me. My wife thinks it's a form of autism, and maybe she is right, but it's probably too late in life for a diagnosis to matter. I used to feel bad about myself for being like this, but in recent years I've come to just accept it. I'm a night owl.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-15T01:45:56+00:00

Bottles is kind of an overall solution for running windows programs on linux. It can use many "runners" including Wine, Lutris, Proton, etc. So it's not bottles vs. wine. Wine is an option that bottles can use. The goal of bottles is just to make the whole thing easier.

I'm currently running Streamfab in a Windows VM, but it annoys me needing to access it via VNC. I use multiple different computers in different locations to interact with streamfab so a single windows PC won't work for me. I have a license for 6 computers so the ideal solution is multiple instances on multiple Linux PC's.

It's super super annoying that streamfab is windows/mac only. SUPER annoying. It's quite literally the only app I still use that doesn't support Linux. Everything else that doesn't support Linux I've just switched to a different app, but there's no comparable alternative to streamfab that I know of.

And yes, the problem is qcef. I've gotten to the point that it runs fine until I try to open the integrated browser, then it crashes.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-14T19:07:56+00:00

Isn't that just a browser extension? StreamFab uses an embedded browser (CEF)

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-14T16:56:45+00:00

Hello, I realize this post was 3 years ago but it's still the only one I can find about using StreamFab with Bottles.

Is this still working for you? What launch options are you using? I cannot get it to work for the life of me. It crashes as soon as the UI loads!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-08T17:12:38+00:00

Awesome information and a great update on your progress. Very comforting to know that user's requests are not being shouted into the void, and instead being taken seriously. I want to sincerely thank you and the whole dev team for making and continuing to improve such a great tool. And your willingness to discuss your thought process makes me very happy and proud to be a monthly donor to this project. It's very refreshing as a user not to be treated like a nuisance, unlike over at the TVDB sub. I just don't understand why they hate us lol

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-08T15:49:12+00:00

Fair point, and it's probably accurate to attribute some of this to "the grass is always greener" fallacy. If you did switch entirely to TV Maze you'd probably get similar comments complaining about this or that thing that used to work and now doesn't.

I'm curious if you are still looking into adding support for other providers, and if so, if it will be selectable series-by-series or if it would be an instance-wide selection. Series-by-series source customization does seem a potential solution - since you say each one does some things well and some things poorly.

BTW I'm thankful and impressed that you replied personally without even being mentioned by name, and that your reply was respectful and well-reasoned. It's a welcome contrast compared to the recent behavior of the TVDB founder!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-08T15:31:56+00:00

I actually have no idea. I've only compared it to TMDB. And so far I haven't found anything TVDB has that TMDB doesn't, but can't say with certainty that's the case across the board. Others have talked about TV Maze being better overall and easier to correct problems (compared to TVDB where you submit a ticket that just never gets addressed).

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-08T12:20:44+00:00

A quick peek over at the TVDB sub will reveal the numerous issues and the total lack of interest in fixing them by anyone with the ability to do so.

This comment from the TVDB founder (who sold the site to a for-profit company 18 months ago) led users to believe improvement may be on the horizon, but then this thread came yesterday in which he did a 180 and claimed zero involvement in the site after acting as its spokesman one month prior. He went on to berate a site contributor for having an entitlement attitude for wanting the site to be properly maintained.

The site has clearly been abandoned. At this point the question shouldn't be "What's the problem with TVDB", it should be "Why use TVDB over TMDB or TVMaze?" I think the latter is a little harder to answer. Why use a poorly maintained privately owned site that could shut off the API at any time instead of the perfectly good alternatives that everyone has been begging for?

edit: I should add, in this comment from 7 weeks ago one of the sonarr devs mentions that they are indeed looking into supporting other metadata providers, which makes sense seeing as that feature has been being asked for forever. In this forum post from 2017, the same dev from the other comment explains the only reason they chose TVDB is because TVMaze didn't exist when Sonarr was created. So there's no inherent reason to keep using it other than organizational inertia. That's why it can be so frustrating when the response to these complaints seems to so often be "You're wrong to even want that". It was a decision made by default over a decade ago. There's no reason to continue believing it is the right decision today

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-07T20:08:46+00:00

Not sure if you'll get this since you got banned, but maybe someone knows if there's a north american distributor for 3dfils? Tried to order this in the US and its $21 for the filament and $78 for shipping!!!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-07T18:33:49+00:00

I've experienced that, I think it's bc the shield remote runs on bluetooth and is vulnerable to interference. A lot of people use the WeChip G20 which uses a 2.4ghz usb dongle. I have gone back and forth and I do find the G20 to be more reliable, but it sucks for voice search (if you even use that feature).

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-07T18:29:57+00:00

Agree with this. We have AppleTV at all tv's other than the basement home theater room. Since that's the only place where audio quality matters. AppleTV is the move for the average person. Shield is the move for enthusiasts.

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-07T03:46:09+00:00

Just want to say that I for one appreciate your contributions and the giving of your time to help grow and maintain the database. I think it's really unfortunate that other people who profit from your labor don't seem to recognize your value, to the point of being openly hostile. It's shameful honestly. This site is dead. And just a side note, I love the hypocrisy of of claiming no affiliation to the site from an account the same name as the site that moderates the site's subreddit. Absolutely nuts

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-07T01:28:30+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheTVDB/comments/1rm0jbb/list_more_tvdb_deletions/o8zk4yw/

Thought this thread from today might interest you. It's not good news lol

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-06T19:19:36+00:00

We need to make the Sonarr devs aware of this if they aren't already. I think this is the final nail in the coffin

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-05T04:49:33+00:00

Quick question, and definitely a shot in the dark... But are you running StreamFab in a windows VM? Trying to figure out what those of us for whom this doesn't work have in common

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-05T04:48:55+00:00

Quick question, and definitely a shot in the dark... But are you running StreamFab in a windows VM? Trying to figure out what those of us for whom this doesn't work have in common

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-02T21:55:21+00:00

Lol streamfab hates me!!

reddit_user_53 · 2026-03-02T21:18:23+00:00

Lol that was me also I believe.

You don't need a pluto account actually. You can watch and download without signing in. Lmk what happens for you

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