Standing up a home media server is fun. Populating your home media server is fun. Streaming from yur home media server? Fun! Maintaining your server? Mostly fun. Maintaining and updating your content? Now you’ve found all of the usability issues as well as the effects of past decisions.

“No one told me about carbs!” -Chris Griffin

Humans' Love of Carbs May Go Back Before Farming

And, technically, before we were Sapiens Sapiens

A Contrarian Clarification of Free Speech by Charles Hugh Smith

Where your rights and your expectations may collide

The toolkit with the bits I used to open the case and remove the battery was more than twice as expensive. Torx bits needed to open the case. iFixit for the win for a decent kit.

Grateful for the ubiquity of replacement parts for aged enterprise laptops. $30 and 15 minutes of my time and I have a replacement battery on board

When you scavenge parts for that aging workstation that you’re keeping alive, and then the hardware insists, because you’ve added more memory modules in more slots, that you install proprietary fans you didn’t know you would need. Thank the gods for eBay.

I’m interested in the kind of leadership that brings out everyone’s best. I’m interested in people working to make everyone’s life better. I’m interested in everyone feeling like they are enough.

Demands for unity or loyalty create competition and showmanship.

Has anyone used PodSnacks? It seems like an amazing idea, but I’m worried it’s just going to feel like more SPAM in my inbox.

Stop me if this sounds wierd, but I have been modifying my driving habits. I have stopped trying to be the fastest, and I have stopped speeding in the vain attempt to make up time. I did not drive faster than 65 MPH during my commute this morning, and I was never in the left lane. And I lived.

14th iteration. If Nordic myth and Renaissance Masters had crossed paths.