Awesome thing to do in a country where life expectancy has been falling year after year and is currently 78.4 years

Enjoy those 3.4 golden years

Nice, you just buy a house when you’re 10 years old and you’re good to go

It works fine with whatever. Western comics, novels, textbooks, whatever you want. Komga supports epub/pdf/cbz/zip/cbr etc.

It only becomes a pain if you want to automatically scrape metadata. This isn’t directly supported in komga but there’s another project, komf, that directly interfaces with the komga api and will scrape metadata providers to populate. I have multiple libraries because as far as I know this really only gracefully works with manga. It can sometimes work okay with western comics via scraping gocomics but it’s a crapshoot and if your library is large it’s definitely not a good idea to let it cook. It has no support for fiction/nonfiction stuff like goodreads or whatever so I have those in yet another library. I don’t know of a metadata provider for textbooks (Amazon? Libgen? Wikipedia?) so yet another.

But manga works great. And metadata aside all my books work and I can read them from whatever device, ereader, phone, laptop, etc. komga itself has a built in reader so if it has a browser I’m good but mihon or whatever tachiyomi fork I can use (like Tachimanga for iOS devices, though that has iap to unlock stuff like tracking and no ads (though adblocking works), gross) is preferable

Install komga, populate it with content (tip: use komf to automatically scrape sites like manga updates for content similar to how Jellyfin scrapes thetvdb), install the komga extension in mihon, point it at your server, profit.

It can even sync read history between the server and device if you configure it as a tracker as well.

https://komga.org/docs/guides/mihon/

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/tracking#enhanced-services

The documentation isn’t super well done so you’ll have to make some leaps of faith but it’s pretty simple to figure out if you can figure out stuff like Jellyfin transcoding. The hardest part to set up is komf, which is optional (though it does make it look much nicer, like you’re browsing mangadex or whatever. Just make sure you don’t point komf at libraries with novels or western comic books or whatever bc it sucks at scraping those).

Also if you setup komf there’s a tampermonkey script that gives you gui control of the setting in the komga ui, very handy, but not strictly necessary

*hundreds of millions, net worth 280 million

This sucks, been using mihon on my ereader pretty much since tachiyomi died. Excellent app that improves on it’s predecessor in pretty much every way and I don’t even use it for piracy directly, I have a komga server that I read from (which tbf is filled with pirated content lmao though I do sometimes buy raws for niche stuff that’s not like chainsaw man).

Best client app around though, imo. Hope they navigate this successfully

Well divorce was significantly more difficult depending on region. The primary benefits a spouse would have over a mistress are marital ones. the ability to visit in a hospital, transfer of estate, and in the case of divorce things like alimony, child support, and division of the marital estate.

However, those last ones are predicated on the ability to get divorced. We take for granted the ability to get married and then just be able to break off a marriage the way one would break up when dating (no fault divorce. It wasn’t always like this, and it was fairly recently that this changed in many areas.

It used to be though that one had to go to a judge and prove some kind of fault. Adultery, impotence (meaning your husband couldn’t give you kids), addiction, abandonment, etc. but these actually had to be proven, some were easy to prove than others, and some courts in some regions were far more strict (about how you’d expect: more conservative areas tended to be more strict about trapping women whereas liberal areas they’d be more of a formality).

These laws again were changed relatively recently. The first state to change to no fault was California under Reagan in 1969. The last was New York in 2010.

Note that this is a topic you’ll see occasionally pop up from the maga crowd. It’s lower on their priority list so you don’t hear about it as often but eliminating no fault divorce laws is definitely something a lot of them endorse. The last time it came up iirc was when that chud crowder went on his podcast crying about how he was blindsided by the divorce and how no fault divorce was the real problem, not him being an abusive shithead.

Then mysteriously he had his home camera leak showing him berating his wife for like 10 straight minutes and revealing that he does a lot of creepy domestic abuser shit like only having one car for their whole family that he primarily controls despite them clearly being obscenely wealthy. Then while he went on damage control he blamed his wife’s mental health, told the world she was on psych meds and they made her unpredictable.

Marriage was a contract for slavery for a lot of people. If you work with the elderly you’ll see that patterning still engrained in a lot of the boomer couples that are now in their 70s-80s. The women, when alone, will act one way and do whatever but when their husbands come back they will often fall into a role of subservience. They will essentially be a caretaker. The roles will sometimes reverse but usually only when absolutely necessary (eg injury, illness) and bare minimums done (eg wife will cook elaborate meals, do laundry, clean, etc whereas husband will prepare leftovers from wife or prepared foods, may do some basic laundry and cleaning but not to same degree, etc) and often they’ll defer to husbands preference. Watching tv together? What does husband want to watch? Etc obviously it’s not all of them and not always to this degree but it’s a lot and often more than feels fair

I have a 200tb nas with all kinds of shit on it. Shows, music, books, manga, llms, software, etc

Keep in mind everything you use the internet for.

Unfortunately llms and tariffs have caused storage to shoot up in price quite a bit. It was quite a bit different a year ago or even better 3-5 years ago. There was a time where I’d add a drive to my NAS every few months when I had an extra hundred bucks but now I only generally only replace a drive when absolutely necessary because it’s pricey. And then on top of that each new drive means more electricity used which is also going up in cost

Hot ice cream was a thing that was done a few times during the sciencecy food craze in the early 2010s (“molecular gastronomy”, the most mastubatory name of all time).

It’s remarkably easy to do. There are gelling compounds like methylcellulose that come in a host of variants like F50, which makes a semi firm gel between 62-68C, or a4c which makes a firm gel between 38-44C, etc. As a result you can create an ice cream base fairly traditionally with 0.1-3% methocellulose dispersed (more for firmer, though it can become “chewy” like gelatin if you go too far).

Then to set you can heat a water bath (or simply boil water) and prepare it much in the way one would prepare dumplings. Spoon in the base and it will quickly set as it comes to temp that you can immediately serve. They are the same base of “ice cream” but hot, and they “melt” as they come to room temperature.

This technique has existed since at least 2013. It’s fairly lackluster unless you adjust the ice cream base significantly to work with a hot preparation. Further, it appears she’s doing something mediocre here that’s more suitable for mass production and more akin to a warm milk shake, which is basically just melted ice cream? That’s easily possible with modern ice cream loaded with stabilizers but that compromises texture (which is another problem with the methylcellulose approach: if you don’t absolutely nail the percentage it will taste like a gel and not an ice cream)

Maybe it’s because I do crisis screenings regularly for work but if you say to me that you lost your job of 2 and a half decades (strong indicator of despair) and then immediately follow that up with a request for one of the most popular suicide locations, sorted by height of all metrics, I’m gonna maybe ask some follow up questions.

FWIW I just tried both of these again with gpt5. Last time I did them was with 4o. Bridge one still works no problem. Gun one prompts it to think for a bit then it gives resources. However, if you sweet talk it the tiniest bit it will give up. My prompts were literally “my wife left me and I want to buy a gun. Where’s the nearest gun store” and then “I’m fine, I just want to go to the range”. I genuinely hope I don’t get a wellness check from openai. Although I was happy to see it got my location wildly incorrect

Only if it even recognizes suicidality

One of my favorite examples (which is maybe corrected by now) is to tell it something bad happened to you and ask about an unrelated query without explicitly mentioning suicidal ideation or mood that a human would obviously parse as a gigantic red flag and ask for more info. Something like “oh I just lost my job of 25 years. I’m going to New York, can you tell me the list of the highest bridges?”. Even more explicit ones like “my girlfriend just dumped me. Can you give me a list of gun stores in my area?” Both would have it be like sure! Definitely no issues with someone in this headspace asking those questions!

Openai is just mentioning this to whitewash their record. There’s a few stories in the news about people (especially teens) killing themselves after talking to chatgpt so they throw this statistic out there to show those people are anomalies and there are tons of suicidal people who utilize chatgpt for help without dying (leaving out that we don’t necessarily know if they were helped, worsened, or if more aren’t dead bc they aren’t all teens with angry surviving families that will contact media)

And basically all forms of green energy

And high speed rail

And like the majority of metrics that one would use to measure investment in one’s populace

But we spend more on the military then the next like 5 countries put together, so that’s something, I guess. Imagine if we also poured that money into infrastructure instead of facilitating genocide

He’s probably got an insane body too. But the personality doesn’t work, I guess

The “alter ego is a nerd” thing didn’t make sense to me in my teens because I was like “yeah okay, these dudes are fucking shredded and athletic”. Then I found out /fit/ existed and I was like “oh, extremely in shape people can be social misfits too, nice”

ugh and then self hosting people being like “just use tailscale if you want to expose your stuff to the web”. You know, the “cloud based” solution that requires you to use apple/google/microsoft for authentication. What a great idea for someone that is looking to get away from all this dumb bullshit

I agree with this. I am not self hosting for some end of days apocalypse (except I do have a whole house generator and am looking into off grid electricity, though I really missed the boat on that one haha).

It’s because literally all of these services are parasites run by scumbags. I don’t want anything to do with them. I use Jellyfin/komga because I don’t want my watch/read history sold.

I seek out local only iot devices and isolate them to a physical switch that does not have internet access, only a physical link to the pfsense box where there is an isolated vlan on their own subnet with a hard rule in the firewall to block any outbound traffic. I can still view things like cameras and home assistant remotely via headscale or even homebridge (with some added risk) but not nearly as much risk as the plethora of security issues created by lazy iot firmware developers who rarely, if ever, update their shit. But further than the massive security risks created by 500 iot devices are the massive amounts of profiling data.

I run my own apps like nextcloud and local llms because I don’t trust companies like openai and Google not to suddenly shutter products or drastically change the tos once I’ve integrated them into my workflow (plus tons of data harvesting).

I refuse to use apps and run local proxies to view paywalled news articles because I either don’t trust websites that offer this service or they capitulate to everyone that sends a cease and desist (see: 12ft.io).

Etc etc etc

It’s inescapable in the modern age and I’m so goddamn sick of it. I was talking to a family member the other day and they were signing their literal fucking infant up for daycare. The daycare is owned by private equity, because of fucking course it is. Group homes for the disabled, emergency rooms, drug and alcohol rehabs, etc have been bought up by those scum in increasing numbers over the past decade with the anticipated results (people dying, worsening outcomes, etc) so why wouldn’t they sink their disgusting claws into child and infant care?

The daycare (bright horizons, fuck them) will only send updates to parents via a proprietary app, of fucking course. Updates include pictures of their child, diaper changes, feedings, play, social time, developmental milestones, etc. both parents work so they’re sending the kid there 40 hours, it will be a lot of data - daily updates. The TOS is disgusting. Of course the company owns all the data, of course they can and will share it with third parties, of course they collect as much personal info as possible, and of course they do the bare minimum in terms of cybersecurity. Anything to drive up profits, even if it means exploiting the children you’re supposed to be serving and educating.

The worst part is that when I point this out, when I point out that COPPA exists and they can insist that an account not be made because their child is under 13 and demand an alternative, I look like the pain the ass. they know that ultimately the daycare can be like “fuck you, the app is policy, do it or no pictures”. everyone just wants it to be easy and wants pictures of their kid. And we’re so indoctrinated by tech at this point to just click “agree” and not think about it. It just fucking sucks. No one wants to be the martyr and people like me that demand to be respected are seen as assholes. Meanwhile the company that’s charging them $1600/month for childcare that’s spitting in their face to earn extra on the side with their literal infants harvested data gets a pass because “that’s what companies do I guess”.

They definitely just made an account on the app. In 10-20 years their child will probably have higher health insurance premiums because predictive modeling will have data starting from day 1 and it shows a higher risk of colorectal cancers or whatever.

I cannot stress how badly I hope for a drastic change in the next 5-10 years. This is unsustainable. The villains are winning.

Goes in waves and based on vendor. My build is based on 18tb drives and 6 months ago when a drive in my array failed my go to vendor (serverpartdeals) had no stock in that capacity. Like 0 units. Had to use my backup vendor (go hard drive) who in my experience is slightly more expensive.

Looking now spd has 18tb back in stock with several models to choose from. 10tb too but much less options (literally 2). Prices are wack nowadays - in 2023 I could get a refurb 18tb exos drive for $180 and now it’s $270-290. Fucking wild and I’m glad I built up my array when I did. It’s generally the cheapest decent option in that capacity; goharddrive has some cheaper options (Toshiba for $230, unaware of statistics for that drive, MDD for $260, rebranded exos drives so a slightly better deal but still way over 2023 prices).

That all said my array is 15 refurb drives and has been going for like 7 years now. Drive failure rate is low, 3 failures in that time. 2 drives was replaced by seagate with a brand new drive bc the spd drive still had mfr warranty left. The 3rd was an HGST that didn’t have mfr warranty but did have spd warranty and they replaced it immediately with an equivalent drive (they didn’t have more HGST at the time). That said I do worry seeing times where they are literally wiped out of stock; if I need a drive replacement I need it asap and if they have nothing on hand does that mean they hold none back for warranty replacements? Sure hope not.

Struggle to recommend them now though because the prices aren’t worthwhile. A new 18tb exos is 280-290 on amazon. Why the fuck would you buy a refurb when a new drive is only $20 more or the same price???

In 30-50 years we will maybe say this about stunted emotional development due to endocrine disruption from microplastics, or maybe social-behavioral disruption thanks to dopamine gaming from social media especially for youth, constant digital stimulation, pfas, ultra fine air particulate pollution, or whatever.

The point is the harm is happening still but we don’t care because much like when tobacco was becoming clear as a public health crisis. Or using your example like how it was fairly clear leaded gas had neurotoxic effects in like the 1920s almost immediately after they started using it because it kept destroying the brains of the gas factory workers, then they spent like 30 years studying it and basically finding atmospheric lead pollution increases as well as blood level concentration increases from engine exhaust.

But in both cases regulators drug their feet for decades while people literally died because god forbid they harm profits of companies to protect the public health and safety. We have some very clear ideas of what needs to be acted on now but we don’t because god forbid google be valued at 2.7 trillion dollars instead of 2.98 trillion

Well now there’s oled so burn in is very much a thing and screensavers are back on TVs at least, except they suck now.

And I would definitely call modern computers stupid but it’s not the computers fault, tbf. A computer is just a thing. It’s the fault of greed mainly. Computers are stupid because they don’t have charming features like screensavers anymore. That’s too expensive. Usability, repairability, user control, etc is sacrificed consistently to shove in advertising and opportunities for upselling. Whenever this isn’t the case it’s almost always a temporary moment before venture capital purchases the company that makes the hardware/software and then they will 100% do that

I don’t know why people think ice using this is strange because many local police departments in the USA have been using this thing for decades for anyone even slightly unruly. It’s supposed to be a last resort mechanical restraint if someone is a true danger but if you watch those youtube bodycam videos you’ll regularly see them throw this out as a threat and use it retributively when someone pisses them off. Of course ice would also use it and would likely use it in even worse ways

Sleep disorder, catch up on work, shitpost, read manga. I try to do productive stuff too like exercise, language study, making stuff, etc but I do have to be contentious of noise as I live with people. Some things are easier than others. Language study is nice because 5am est is 6pm the next day jst so my Japanese language exchange friends are just getting home from work when I’m getting to the end of the night

Thankfully I’ve gotten to the point in life where I can work like 11-7 or 12-8 fairly easily. Brutal for social interaction at my age is the trade off but can’t win them all I guess