In the age of A.I., and in software programming in general, it’s often the opposite.

Where I am in AUS, it seems to be crane rental. I guess pretty easy just to invoice out a days rental and sit around doing nothing.

A few years back, I moved into an old farmhouse in the countryside. It was peaceful, except for the noises that would come from the attic every night, a soft thumping like someone walking around. After a couple of sleepless nights, I finally mustered the courage to check it out.

I climbed up to the attic with a flashlight. It was full of dusty old furniture and trinkets, probably from previous tenants. As I was examining a pile of old newspapers, my flashlight caught something - a pair of eyes glowing in the dark, staring right back at me. I nearly dropped the flashlight in shock. As I shone the light in the direction, I found an old portrait of a woman. The eyes were eerily lifelike. I convinced myself it was just the way the light was hitting it.

The noises didn’t stop, but I learned to live with them. But the weirdest part was when I left the house a 6 months later. The movers came to get my stuff, and I told them to leave everything in the attic, I’d Grabe those items myself. I mainly needed movers for the big heavy stuff. Later, when I returned to pick up some remaining items, the portrait was gone.

To this day, I still can’t figure out where it could have gone, why just that. Probably some completely logical explanation, but it still gives me chills when I think about it.

Hmm. If it needs to be live, something like red pill media may have japanese content.

I have a similar problem wanting to watch Dutch and German TV. I just gave in and found a couple of good Usenet indexers for each Language, and just host a plex media library for both. With a radarr container for each language.

I find that even with the best diffusion models, replication and character sets are virtually impossible. Also text does not work.

Do you need to watch them live?

You seem on top of everything. No red flags when I look at what you are considering. Any will do great.

The Topnton i3-n305 Mini PC is a good choice. Intel NUC is another solid option, especially when used with a RAID enclosure for storage. Remember cooling is crucial for these devices, particularly if they’ll be housed in a small space. The importance of a good cooling solution cannot be overemphasized.

As for the operating system, Ubuntu is user-friendly and well-supported. You can run your desired applications like Plex or Jellyfin for media serving, qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr for torrenting, Wireguard for VPN, AdGuard or PiHole for ad-blocking, and Home Assistant for home automation, all on Linux. For managing these services, consider using Docker. It can help keep your system organized and simplify the process of updating. If you’re currently using them in a nas, you’re probably doing so already. But take the opportunity to clean things up, and if you’re not doing so already, use docker compose.

Foe backups, rsync can be used for local backups and Rclone for backing up to the cloud.

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Sometimes, it’s surprising how life unfolds. I remember back in my second year at boarding school, we were all set to return for another term, standing on the train station platform. Fooling around, we missed the train.

With no other options and perhaps a bit of youthful audacity, we took dads old ford and we ended up driving it all the way to school.

The car broke down, we almost got caught. Then crazily, we crashed into a famous tree on campus.

However, as wild as that was, missing that train might just have saved us.

We later found out that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened around the time we were meant to be on that train. A deadly monster, a Basilisk, was slithering around the castle, able to kill just by meeting your gaze.

Who’s to say we wouldn’t have bumped into it, had we made that train? With our track record of stumbling into trouble, it seems more than likely. It’s a chilling thought.

Xoxo Ron

I’m conflicted. They look great.

Like one of those treadmill bikes?

A treadmill bicycle, or a treadmill bike, essentially functions by having the user walk or run on a treadmill platform that then powers the wheels of the bicycle. In theory, this could be more suited to a hippo’s physiology than a traditional bicycle, as it would utilize the hippo’s natural gait.

However, even with this adaptation, the hippo would still face significant challenges. First, the sheer size and weight of a hippo (up to 3,000 kilograms or 6,600 pounds) would necessitate an extremely robust and large treadmill bike, likely much larger and heavier than any existing design.

Second, even though the treadmill bike would allow the hippo to use its natural walking or running motion, the speed of the bike would still be limited by the hippo’s walking or running speed. Given that hippos’ top speed is 32 kph (20 mph) and this is only achievable for short sprints, a sustained speed on the treadmill bike would likely be significantly lower, especially over the 40-kilometer bike segment of the triathlon.

Third, the endurance issue remains a key factor. Hippos are not built for long-distance speed or endurance. Their large body size requires significant energy to move and maintaining a high speed for a lengthy period would likely exhaust them quickly.

Taking all these into account, an average human athlete would still have a significant edge in a triathlon competition, even if a hippo could use a specially designed treadmill bike.

Now, if that hippo was some anomaly of a freak, evolved to run long distance, then we are all screwed.