Damn good movie. Such a trippy mix of sci-fi and body horror.

Chu Ishikawa is amazing! Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, Nine Inch Nails did the theme song for the third movie.

I saw it a few more times because I loved the filmmaking surrounding the movie. The acting is really good, and Wayans really surprised me. The mother-and-son relationship was tragically beautiful.

Also, go watch Satoshi Kon’s (sp?) Perfect Blue and you’ll see some very familiar scenes.

Would you like an example to carry on the conversation in good faith?

I don’t know how good of advice this is, but I’ll share what I’m doing.

I believe in “don’t be scared; be prepared” and “I’m not paranoid; I’m ahead of the curve.”

TL; DR: make a hobby out of your fear.

Basically, there’s some comfort in learning about how to secure your well-being, whether it’s by having safe places to turn to, learning how to protect your home and family, securing your tech from spying, having a “kill switch” for your phone, etc. (like GrapheneOS’s duress pin).

Join like-minded communities. Do things that give you back peace of mind.

I have a NAS for storage. The pi sips power, doesn’t make any sound, and runs what I need.

I think it means I can give 1/40 of a shit. We could definitely care less about FuckenYahoo.

I can respect that, especially if the sweat is from some fun.

• Watch: ghost-hunter shows (they put us right to sleep)
• Listen to: post rock (a lot of The Album Leaf and 65daysofstatic)
• Do: recline with a blanket and cuddle

My SO’s skin and hair after a shower.

You you could do most of that with a raspberry pi5, 8GB. With a whole kit, you can get it for under $250. I’m running 3 at my place: 1 for media (servarr stack, JF, Navidrome, Invidious), 1 for the Fediverse (Mastodon, Piefed, Peertube, WordPress), and 1 for anything else.

Edit: I also missed the part about truenas, but you can still run containers on any other OS just fine.

Out of those two, I would go with Navidrome. Jellyfin is more monolithic of an app, and navidrome (more specifically, subsonic clients) is more Unix-like (or modular). You can’t edit the tags as easily as with Jellyfin, but beets works really well for tagging and embedding everything from album art to synced lyrics. Beets has great plugins to do all this, including a web app plugin and an auto update plugin.

Edit: I forgot to mention all the frontend choices. Many frontends work for both apps, but I believe subsonic clients have more options.

I’ve used Funkwhale, and I really enjoy it for what it can offer (multiple radios, playlists, and libraries for different types of users) but if you’re not really willing to share your music in the Fediverse, I’d go with JF or Navidrome.

If you don’t really care about an all-in-one media player with a GUI, you could serve your music on gonic and then pick the frontend of your choice. It handles podcast subs, online radio, scrobbling, etc. it also plays well with subsonic clients and beets plugins.

If I could get it fresher, I would. I tend to freeze meats unless I’m going to cook them right away.

People are just wired that way. I absolutely love burgers, chicken, pork chops, etc., but when I prepare them (especially with pork), the desire to eat them goes away. Certain smells make me gag, even if they’re not unpleasant to other people.

I thought I didn’t fit a stereotype, but being a light-skinned male making conversation with the LGBTQ community makes me feel like one. There’s a little imposter syndrome with it, too.

Yeah, I can see that with chicken sometimes. Pork chops? Hard pass.

An electric grill? That’s pretty surprising. I also go for charcoal, but I wasn’t aware of the carcinogens. I tend to just use regular charcoal and paper. No lighter fluid or starters, if that’s any better.

Kudos for sharing. Before it was called the Man-O-Sphere, I used to listen to Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan. That was over a decade ago. Once Trump came onto the scene and they pivoted hard to the right, I couldn’t listen to them anymore.

Most people don’t know that I left the Marine Corps an expert rifleman and sharpshooter with a pistol. I really miss hitting the range. It’s kind of therapeutic for me.