I found myself needing a Mastodon server that I could manage for testing on a project I’m working on. I found a walkthrough guide for the setup that was pretty close to my situation, but not quite, and I found myelf a little stumped at certain points when things weren’t working out quite right.
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felis ambitiosus
June 11, 2010 – September 8, 2025
On December 6, 2010, my then-wife adopted a young cat from the Animal Welfare League of Frederick County (Maryland), already named Lola at the shelter, a.k.a. “KITTY #8 LOCKLAIR,” according to the initial vaccination document that we were given. Her cat Lola moved in the same […]
I was recently watching The Color of Money (1986), a sequel to The Hustler (1961), and that got me wondering — how old is the concept of a “legacy sequel,” and could I think af any earlier sequels?
After posting my question on farious social medias, and chatting with friends, I think we came up […]
My old Blu-ray drive just died on me, so I had to get a new one. The only one that I could pick up locally that seemed to be on the MakeMKV approved list was an LG BP50NB40 with the SVC code NB52. As of this writing, they are still available at my local Best […]
Recently, Plex keeps importing old movies in my library as new, and I’ve been trying to figure out why that’s happening. It’s been especially annoying, as it is discarding the custom posters and other metadata that I’ve entered for the movie, and wiping out a lot of work I did to make the metada nice […]
Came across this by accident today. Love this idea of using polarization to add funky colors
This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability, and notifications of errors. This server currently runs Plex, DEVONthink Server, Sonos, and Apple Music.
The scripts in this document have some sensitive information replaced with placeholders, for privacy. Otherwise they […]
