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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Yepp, normally would be a bummer but it is still under warranty. That said I had no idea how long that process is going to take (Seagate has the drive atm), so I wanted to swap it with a new one then just add whatever Seagate sends back on top of my pool (only around 70tb! Need a better NAS chassis…) but 18tb Exos have shot up $100 since I bought one last year. Found a different random brand (shout out diskprices.com!) for the same as old price, slapped that in, parity(cus Unraid) rebuilt.

    Just waiting on the warranty drive, then I get to rebuild parity again.

    If I didn’t find that cheaper 18tb may have been enough to tip me towards decommissioning it.


  • I can +1 for Stremio+Debrid (RealDebrid is just one provider for those that haven’t dove in)

    I would argue this is one case where FOSS shouldn’t be priority #1, unless you really want to spend the time, effort, and (most importantly in 2026) money to maintain a NAS, in which case the *arr stack + Usenet and Jellyfin are great. But you really can’t understate how much of a rabbit hole dealing with the entire thing can be. For the most part, Stremio just works and well enough I can send a guide to normie friends and they could follow along and get it running in like half an hour.

    I do a hybrid approach, I own blurays of anything sentimental or low bitrate destroys (think Redline, XFiles (so much low/dim light low bitrate makes it look like a pixelated mess)), have a large collection of older media on my Unraid NAS (typically the Achilles heel of the Stremio/Debrid setup is anything that isn’t at least semi popular), and stream the rest w/Stremio. Works out to like $60/yr for Debrid/Usenet. I did just lose an 18tb drive in my NAS which really made me think hard if it was worth continuing with, but for now decided to keep it.



  • The last time I was visiting my parents in South Carolina we went to a local art faire thing, and one of the stands was a dude selling art of Confederates. Not just any Confederates, Black Confederates. And the dude selling this art, was a older black man in full fucking Confederate uniform. The best part was the massive bread boards he had full of tiny font Confederate apologia that read like a SovCit manifesto.

    Don’t think the color of a person’s skin naturally dictates their opinions on matters that you think it should, people will surprise you every time.