tomkatt

Watched Jacob’s Ladder a lot, I take it?

Technically sigterm first says “please stop. Don’t make me shoot you.” It only goes John Wick on a process when civility fails.

Been going hard on Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Besides that, I’m 10-11 hours into Stella Glow on my 2DS XL, and have been playing Grim Dawn and Slay the Spire 2 co-op with my wife.

Honestly, 100 mil or even 50 mil is more than enough for any human to live a carefree life, without the need to work ever again and without any material want or need. I did the math; I’m in my early 40s and I’m pretty sure I could retire comfortably literally right now with around 2.5 million and just subsist on the interest and or investments on that for the rest of my life. 100 or 50 million would just be utterly excessive for any actual needs and the majority of possible wants.

TIL. Holy shit, that’s wild.

I’d rather not imagine being Spotify. Feels gross.

I’ve got a home assistant server hooked into homekit with voice (via an Apple HomePod). I can say something like “turn on home theater” and it will turn on the receiver, TV, and Apple TV, and will set the receiver to the Apple TV’s input. Then, other automations. Like, I’ve got a Lytmi Fantasy 3 Pro light strip behind my TV, and when I launch video (via streaming, plex, whatever) on the Apple TV, it will automatically turn off the living room lights except for the color strip. Then if I stop or pause the video, it will turn them back on. Stuff like that.

I dunno. This doesn’t seem anything at all like Max Headroom.

It’s blocked at my router. I’ve had two routers the past few years, an ASUS AX5700 and a NETGEAR AXE7800 (RAXE300). Both allow for blocking a device from internet without blocking LAN access. So you give it an IP on your network, and then just block it from internet. I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve read that some TVs will seek to connect to open networks if it’s not connected at all, so I figure that way it’s totally blocked, and I still have access to its APIs for Home Assistant and Homekit use.

So glad I blocked my LG C1 from the internet ages ago. Haven’t received updates in forever, don’t care. It’s a TV, it shows pictures. I even still have it LAN enabled so it can be controlled via Home Assistant automations, it just can never leave the home network, and that’s how I like it. I can’t even remember how long ago I set it up to do this, I think it was when I heard rumor they’d be including ads in the UI, maybe 2023 or so.

Something that existed until the beginning of 2025.

Heresy!

Damned Cornites.

I just need Jellyfin to fix their subtitles issues on Apple TV and I’ll be all set. Swiftfin needs some work yet, though I’m told the fix is in the pipeline for release soon^T^M (probably by Q1 next year?).