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user@user-890D:~ tldr view-log
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<p><a href="/blog.html">> Back</a></p>
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<p><a href="/blog.html">> Back</a></p>
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+<p><a name="10-9-plex">I Think Plex is Proof Proprietary Software Isn't Always More Simple</a></p>
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+<p>The desktop app sucks, so you have to use the website. But good luck if you do because watch.plex.tv is ONLY FOR THEIR LEGAL STREAMING SERVICE and you have to use app.plex.tv for media server stuff, except all the justwatch links to plex only link to watch.plex.tv. So even if you do use app.plex.tv for both, you're gonna have to relog in on watch.plex.tv just because you clicked a link instead of searching. That's not getting into the fact that it already integrates justwatch, so while potentially convenient, that means you get search results on plex for stuff that is neither on the official servers or any media servers you have access to. All this makes it potentially confusing.</p>
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<p><a name="9-17-october-watch">> 9/17/2026 - Stuff I'm Gonna Read and Watch for October</a></p>
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<p><a name="9-17-october-watch">> 9/17/2026 - Stuff I'm Gonna Read and Watch for October</a></p>
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<p>Lately, I watch a lot of movies during October in preparation for Halloween. Here are some things I'm planning on watching and reading then:</p>
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<p>Lately, I watch a lot of movies during October in preparation for Halloween. Here are some things I'm planning on watching and reading then:</p>
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<p>Reading:</p>
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<p>Reading:</p>
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<p>Sometimes I'll be watching a newer movie, enjoying it so far and then out of nowhere, one or two lines will sound like they've been dubbed over with a LLM. And then I'll roll my eyes and have to debate whether or not it ruins the movie for me. Now, I'm not name names because ultimately, I could be wrong about this. But LLM voice overs always sound glitchy and low quality to me. Like there are random breaks and pauses in between words and syllables. Everyone points out them being monotone. But I see no one points this out even though I overhear LLM generated youtube videos my dad is watching a lot and that's what they often sound like to me. It's annoying because like don't you trust the actor you hired enough to redo a fucking line in post?!</p>
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<p>Sometimes I'll be watching a newer movie, enjoying it so far and then out of nowhere, one or two lines will sound like they've been dubbed over with a LLM. And then I'll roll my eyes and have to debate whether or not it ruins the movie for me. Now, I'm not name names because ultimately, I could be wrong about this. But LLM voice overs always sound glitchy and low quality to me. Like there are random breaks and pauses in between words and syllables. Everyone points out them being monotone. But I see no one points this out even though I overhear LLM generated youtube videos my dad is watching a lot and that's what they often sound like to me. It's annoying because like don't you trust the actor you hired enough to redo a fucking line in post?!</p>
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<p><a name="9-11-piracy-money">> 9/11/2026 - Everything Has An Element of Consumerism, So Let Yourself Have Hobbies</a></p>
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<p><a name="9-11-piracy-money">> 9/11/2026 - Everything Has An Element of Consumerism, So Let Yourself Have Hobbies</a></p>
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<p>I remember I was once friends with someone who got weirdly defensive about a video calling gaming PC builders "consumers" to the point where she made a passive aggressive remark about me "having a 1 core CPU." I brushed off at the time as a misunderstanding on my part until she was trying to push them onto me despite not being into gaming myself. I didn't know the video was even about gaming PCs when I decided to watch it with her because of the vague title, I just thought she'd like Vanegood. I then, during the video, figured "surely, she won't take offense at a hobby being called consumerist, right? After all, anime fandoms and fan culture in general is written off as consumerism and I don't really care too much."</p>
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<p>I remember I was once friends with someone who got weirdly defensive about a video calling gaming PC builders "consumers" to the point where she made a passive aggressive remark about me "having a 1 core CPU." I brushed off at the time as a misunderstanding on my part until she was trying to push them onto me despite not being into gaming myself. I didn't know the video was even about gaming PCs when I decided to watch it with her because of the vague title, I just thought she'd like Vanegood. I then, during the video, figured "surely, she won't take offense at a hobby being called consumerist, right? After all, anime fandoms and fan culture in general is written off as consumerism and I don't really care too much."</p>
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-<p>Why do I bring this up? Well, we don't usually think about it, but piracy can involve things like: paying a VPN subscription, paying a Usenet provider, paying for a DVD to rip it and upload it somewhere else, paying either a VPS or media server company to host your media online, and hosting a piracy website using cloudflare. We usually don't think about this because for most people nowadays, it's as simple as going to a sketchy website and hitting play. Now there are some ways around this. I2P and some other proxies let you torrent without a VPN. There are media server apps that are completely free like Jellyfin. Plus after looking it up online, you don't neccessarily need an account to rip from streaming services, but I'm not entirely sure. However there are still possible problems that fed into consumerism. For one thing, there are ways companies keep track of which torrents are popular. There's an LLM called <a href="https://nettrace.in/">NetTrace</a> used to tell how popular a torrent is. I'm sure this is used for finding which torrents they'd have an easier time suing someone over. But someone else brought up the possibility that companies use it for popularity rankings of media and adjust accordingly. My point here is while looking for the least consumerist option is nice, we live in a society of money and we shouldn't beat ourselves up for not avoiding it when possible.</p>
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+<p>Why do I bring this up? Well, we don't usually think about it, but piracy can involve things like: paying a VPN subscription, paying a Usenet provider, paying for a DVD to rip it and upload it somewhere else, paying either a VPS or media server company to host your media online, paying for a seedbox, and hosting a piracy website using cloudflare. We usually don't think about this because for most people nowadays, it's as simple as going to a sketchy website and hitting play. Now there are some ways around this. I2P and some other proxies let you torrent without a VPN. There are media server apps that are completely free like Jellyfin. Plus after looking it up online, you don't neccessarily need an account to rip from streaming services, but I'm not entirely sure. However there are still possible problems that fed into consumerism. For one thing, there are ways companies keep track of which torrents are popular. There's an LLM called <a href="https://nettrace.in/">NetTrace</a> used to tell how popular a torrent is. I'm sure this is used for finding which torrents they'd have an easier time suing someone over. But someone else brought up the possibility that companies use it for popularity rankings of media and adjust accordingly. My point here is while looking for the least consumerist option is nice, we live in a society of money and we shouldn't beat ourselves up for not avoiding it when possible.</p>
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<p><a name="9-10-new-psu">> 9/10/2026 - New Power Supply is Working</a></p>
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<p><a name="9-10-new-psu">> 9/10/2026 - New Power Supply is Working</a></p>
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<p>The new power supply unit has been working lately. We were worried we were gonna have to buy another new piece of hardware days ago. But apparently, my dad mistakenly hooked up the PCIe cable instead of the CPU cable. Good thing I noticed!</p>
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<p>The new power supply unit has been working lately. We were worried we were gonna have to buy another new piece of hardware days ago. But apparently, my dad mistakenly hooked up the PCIe cable instead of the CPU cable. Good thing I noticed!</p>
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<p><a name="9-6-auteur">>9/6/2026 - Auteur Theory is Spreading to Non-Cinephiles! Stop this nonsense</a></p>
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<p><a name="9-6-auteur">>9/6/2026 - Auteur Theory is Spreading to Non-Cinephiles! Stop this nonsense</a></p>
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