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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • Here’s a fun selection of grievances against King George III from the Declaration of Independence.

    “He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”

    “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”

    “For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”

    “For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial:”

    “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:”

    “For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:”








  • I would double and triple check your not transcoding. Even if you’re watching on the client at whatever the files native resolution is depending on the codec of the file you might still be transcoding. For instance with 1080p anything h265 or AV1 is transcoded into h264 by the server. There’s also a few other situations where Plex with force transcoding or down convert the video whether you want it to or not.

    Your NAS shouldn’t be having trouble serving the file to Plex I’d bet it’s transcoding in the background and you just don’t realize it.




  • A quick primer in case you’re interested.

    Torx is a 6 pointed star pattern. There’s also a security torx with a post in the middle of the stars. Hex is just a hexagon shape. Robertson is a square. Phillips is a cross but there’s also like 5 different types of cross fasteners Phillips is just the one that most referenced in America. Slotted or flat head is just a single line across the fastener head.

    I’m sure there’s more but these are the ones I know off the top of my head and are the main ones.



  • I used to work with a couple Czech dudes. One day my coworkers and I were badgering the one dude to tell us a Czech joke. He was pretty reluctant because he said he could only really think of one joke but wasn’t sure it would translate well. When he finally told us the joke he got us with this masterpiece.

    Two balloons are floating along, one says to the other and hey look a cactus.

    All of us were confused by this, he told us it was much funnier in Czech because balloon and cactus sound similar so it’s a pun. So we had him tell us the joke untranslated in Czech and balloon and cactus sound nothing alike.

    I’m still not sure if this dude was fucking with us.