I was a library “aide” in for a year and a half about a decade ago. We were the ones who shelved books. Who cleaned the section, who had to answer some questions of people around the floor. We also, and this was the majority of the job, had to go through the DVDs and CDs and books to make sure they were in good condition. And make sure there were no bed bugs in them. We found loads of bed bugs. So many. It sucked.

We also had to just do whatever we were told so we had to do jobs of higher paid workers some times because they weren’t able to schedule someone for the couple hours of time we had to fill. We also got paid 10 cents above minimum wage to “be competitive” and were limited to 30 hours.

We also had higher ups saying “well 30 hours and not paid a lot is fine because this job is meant for super young people in or just out of highschool or while in college. It’s not meant to let you make a living.” But almost every single one of us aides were between 20 and 35 with multiple in their 40s and were not in school and many were living with their parents because our job wasn’t paying us enough to survive by ourselves.

They also had this “hey maybe if you stay here long enough in this job that doesn’t pay enough and won’t provide insurance, we’ll hire you for a higher paying job. Maybe.” Only a handful of aides in the entire library system got hired on for a higher paying job during my time there. This was a system that had like 15 branches. They gotta simultaneously dangle the carrot of higher paying job after years of being there while also saying that the job you have isn’t meant to be something you stay in for very long and isn’t meant for non people in highschool.

In short, if you’re the lowest rung employee in a big system, it sucks ass.

I wish this wasn’t being framed with “Big loss for corporations” and instead was being framed as “Big win for consumers.”

A cane, bent glasses, and a SSD filled with movies.

There actually was a second season with an actual ending but it definitely deserved more.

X: Old and Busted

BlueSky: New Hotness

I hope this leads to being able to have a Proton sheets or whatever name the Google sheets equivalent will be.

I’ve started blogging about videogames. So I’m just enjoying writing about stuff and looking forward to my posts on Wednesdays. No one reads it but it’s nice to write my thoughts down about games that I play.

Quick notes from an avid jellyfin user. When you have a show or movie or whatever you want, not get identified, there’s a simple identify option you can do on the client on a computer or phone by clicking the 3 dots on the media. You get to search and label it. The only time this hasn’t appropriately assigned metadata for me was for shows with duplicate episodes in one mkv or whatever. That did take a lot of renaming, which did suck and is reasonable to not want to have to do. Especially for massive libraries.

I definitely agree about the roku client not having a marked as watched feature, that should be added.

There’s a lot of work to be done but it’s not just being done in the basic edition. For instance, there’s plugins that allow the skip credits and skip intro functions you want. And there’s ones for fanart, and allowing other databases of Metadata to select from. There’s a lot of plugins and more are being actively developed rather often. Even I’m trying to develop a “continue watching” feature like from Netflix, but it’s going slowly.

Jellyfin definitely takes more finagling than plex, i switched at the beginning of the year, but I’ve had multiple times since where my internet is out and because jellyfin is local network I’m still able to stream my media.

So yeah. Just some info about jellyfin. I get wanting the ease of plex, but I’ve personally really enjoyed adding the plugins and fucking around with everything it has.

Does anyone know if this was also an issue that was impacting ryzen chips in Windows 10?

If someone left their partner to be with you, they’re capable of leaving you to be with someone new.

Breaking: Rich tech guy thinks that the energy draw from rich tech projects is nothing to worry about.

I’ve had basically the same conversation with my sister who lives in Albania. I just want to use something encrypted like signal but she just refuses and says it’s either WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. Cause of that I barely talk to her.

The press release even has a “quote” from chat-GPT even though it is not an AI so is not capable of making the quote without prompting. This is so so stupid.