Finally learning when to leave good enough alone
So I finally got the homeserver happy (It's current uptime is at 41 days, 20 hours and 33 minutes!) Plex was getting killed when trying to do intro/outro detection on an ANCIENT anime DVD rip. I ripped a new copy and Plex stopped dying every night. Once it stopped dying every night, I stopped gettin...
Honestly, I just need to learn to leave good enough alone.
In an update to the previous Home Server Saga: It crashed again. Same issue, systemctl-journald core dumped and it was unresponsive. I had noticed during my previous log reviews that every time, before journald dumped core and the system became frozen, that Plex was running its Chapter Thumbnail g...
No seriously, WTH.
I have, for DECADES now, had a personal server of one sort or another to run the web pages and ill conceived projects that come into my head. The first dedicated server was an old Dell Pentium 3 workstation that I got from an office move that I was contracted to help on. They ha...
Lots of little tweaks can make a big difference!
When I get into a handheld device mood I don't go half way, apparently! After getting the Anbernic RG353M I started thinking about filling the "larger, more powerful device" niche. I think a Steam Deck was always in the cards, but I thought of it as a more remote purchase, as I wanted to get the "bu...
Sometimes you need a second look
Last week I wrote a mostly effusive post about the Anbernic RG353M. I still stand by my overall thoughts, it's a really solid device, the emulator performance (for the most part) is excellent, and it having a metal body makes it feel very premium and rugged.
But I did the Android OS portion of it...