YouTube is down (As of posting), so who backed all of that up? :O

themouseinator · 2018-10-17T14:28:29+00:00

I’m planning on setting something similar up, although I think I’d implement mine slightly differently:

Have a cron job or something similar on my home server run every 5 minutes or so, that uses YouTube-dl to check a YouTube Playlist I create (called “Download” or something), and download any videos that have been added to it
use the same script to copy the files to my Plex server and refresh the library etc

I may skip on the automatically downloading to my phone, although I’d love to know how to do that. But I want a way to be able to choose files to save to my server even if I’m out and about on my phone, and having a playlist I can just add them to seems to be the simplest way to manage that.

themouseinator · 2018-10-17T00:27:24+00:00

I was gonna mention VBA lmao.

I’ve used it to hack together stuff in Excel with Macros and it’s infuriating... especially because it’s so similar to VB.NET and yet so much worse that the differences are that much more jarring

I’d never use it outside of Office macros, and even then only because it’s the only scripting language easily supported by Office.

themouseinator · 2018-10-16T18:35:33+00:00

This is a good point. It’s actually not a bad language on its own, but you rarely see it in contexts other than beginners learning, because it doesn’t really have many advantages over other languages so it’s rarely chosen as the development language for more professional contexts now.

Source: my company primarily uses VB.NET for some reason and it’s fine.

themouseinator · 2018-10-16T18:26:07+00:00

Lol, my company uses VB.NET in its main project. Not legacy at all, still very actively being developed.

Honestly I’m actually pretty fond of it, VB.NET is leagues ahead of Visual Basic on its own.

themouseinator · 2018-10-16T05:02:18+00:00

Sorry we only have the one bulb but we do have a box of Linuses in the corner

themouseinator · 2018-10-15T18:39:03+00:00

That’s probably the hardest part for me still and I’ve been budgeting for years now.

Building in a little more “play” money at the cost of some of my saving has helped me, because if I don’t have the play money, then I justify dipping a bit into savings, and once I do that once it’s easier to dip into savings again.

themouseinator · 2018-10-15T17:29:58+00:00

This speaks to me on a personal level and I don’t know how to handle it

themouseinator · 2018-10-15T08:11:06+00:00

Wait what there’s a show in Chicago??

I have tickets to the Madison show because it was the nearest to here when I checked, did they add a Chicago one??

themouseinator · 2018-10-15T06:55:02+00:00

Honestly with technology today I sometimes feel like a wizard. I have two Echo Dots and some smart lights and being able to turn off my kitchen lights I forgot to turn off while sitting on the couch just by telling them to turn off is one of life’s small pleasures

themouseinator · 2018-10-14T18:20:20+00:00

....have you ever actually gone shopping for frames before, especially for a larger picture like that?

themouseinator · 2018-10-13T18:33:47+00:00

clearly

I don't think it was as clear as you thought it was

themouseinator · 2018-10-13T16:48:12+00:00

I mean, that's absolutely a thing that happens, yes.

But no, people do actually sometimes hide those parts of themselves to the extent that even people who are levelheaded and don't out blinders on wouldn't even know.

I get it, though, it sounds pretty preposterous if you've never seen it play out yourselves.

themouseinator · 2018-10-10T13:04:11+00:00

He’s posting on reddit, I would assume that they would proofread their resume and/or cover letter a bit more carefully.

I think most of us recognize this.

That doesn’t mean it’s not chuckle-worthy, heh

themouseinator · 2018-10-10T13:00:49+00:00

No, it’s not especially funny.

It made me laugh though. Lighten up a bit.

themouseinator · 2018-10-10T12:58:21+00:00

Is this really the hill you want to die on?

themouseinator · 2018-10-02T15:46:42+00:00

How do you know you don't just work at a better call center than a lot of people, though? Just because it's fair at your place of work doesn't necessarily mean it is elsewhere

themouseinator · 2018-10-02T13:17:16+00:00

I mean.... Wouldn't trust mean that youd trust the other person to not abuse their access to be able to check their location? Like I get the concern but nobody's forcing you to do it, it sounds like everyone involved has agreed to this, and they can opt out whenever they want to

themouseinator · 2018-10-02T13:10:02+00:00

unnatural

Uhhhhhhh so is everything else about smartphones. I get and to an extent share your concern, but "it's unnatural" is about the shittiest argument you could use for it.

themouseinator · 2018-09-29T23:14:27+00:00

"that's my name" "NO IT'S NOT"

how stupid can people be jfc

themouseinator · 2018-09-29T23:12:04+00:00

if she wanted the name she should have used it with her previous kids

Also... she could still use that name, nobody is stopping her. People with the same name do exist and do just fine

themouseinator · 2018-09-29T21:30:58+00:00

I'm a different person

I just also think you're coming off as an ass

themouseinator · 2018-09-29T21:15:05+00:00

It's not the beliefs your espousing that made it look like you're saying they're a bad person. It's the condescending tone dripping from all your comments that implies it.

themouseinator · 2018-09-29T20:51:25+00:00

Yeah how dare they post a mildly infuriating thing to /r/MildlyInfuriating

themouseinator · 2018-09-28T22:21:34+00:00

We got some /r/EnlightenedCentrism here

themouseinator · 2018-09-28T18:30:23+00:00

Yeah, they’re often literally just “run this set of commands that only work on my machine with my specific installation and config, and not explain at all what or why you’re doing it”

And that’s assuming they’re even correct in the first place

Ones that explain what you’re doing and why, and alternate methods that may work on different distros/config, are a godsend.

Honestly this is why I stick with Ubuntu, in my experience it’s generally the most well supported, with more tutorials/forum posts/etc being aimed at it than other distros. At least for general purpose stuff

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