I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐

Apples and oranges.

Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.

Whether there’s a setup wizard doesn’t have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run “apt install ddclient”, for example, it’ll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.

So that’s not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It’s just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.

There’s literally no good reason to replace it with a shell script on a website.

I fully agree that a package manager repository with all those tools would be preferable, but it doesn’t exist, does it? I mean… content is king. If the only way to get a certain program or functionality is a shell script on a website, then of course that’s what is going to be used.

Oh, if only I had that kind of power :D

Imagine arguing that ‘solutions’ like NAT444 isn’t broke as fuck

Well… yeah, why wouldn’t that be “broke as fuck”?

Basically too many professionals who haven’t learned a new technology since 2005 and refuse to try new things keep holding the world back

If it ain’t broke…

Probably talking about a thighfuck, pretty standard

I guess that’s plausible. “Hold” made it sound rather static though.

yeah BUT some knowledge you regret learning, and oþer people’s kinks teeter dangerously on þat brink.

While I was mainly trying to be vaguely poetic in a silly context, I can honestly not think of anything that I’ve ever regretted learning and I likewise can’t think of anything I wouldn’t want to know.
At best I would factor opportunity costs into it, but that still leaves me with only wanting to learn some things more than other things.

Learning about random internet-users’ kinks…? I guess there’s worse ways to spend a friday :D

Never let that toddler’s joy and wonder, the joy of learning something new and then suddenly understanding one more aspect of the big and complicated world around you and all the other people living in it, fade away.

Here’s hoping OP will chime in and lift our veil of ignorance 🤷

when in doubt, assume it’s a sex thing. Seems to work with basically all of these “I LIED, instead of [x] we do [y]”.

Oh, I have no doubt in my mind that it’s a sex thing, but I’m clearly lacking either the imagination, experience or cultural background to solve for [x]. It seems awfully specific, that’s why I’m asking

Help me out here, I’m having a senior moment. What on earth is the context? Holding what with their thighs? There’s some kind of joke or backstory or implied scenario here that’s going completely over my head.

Well, I didn’t regret reading the article, I’ll probably even recommend it to others…

It would be strange if we were having a big national conversation about limiting YouTube watching or never buying books or avoiding uploading more than 30 photos to social media at once for the sake of the climate.

… but I’m certainly a bit amused over how often the author just stumbles into a natural segue to an anti-consumerism rant and then just… takes a U-turn 🤦

Does anyone else never use them ever?

Indispensable on laptop computers!

I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won’t work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?

HDD prices haven’t really moved in any meaningful way over the course of the past years and I don’t recall them ever moving significantly even during special promotions (short of pricing errors). I strongly suggest to treat high-capacity hard drives as the luxury consumables that they are and just buy them as needed. Unless you particularly enjoy bargain hunting as a passtime I really don’t think it’s worth the effort and opportunity costs in this particular context.

Fair, I guess.

I see, thanks!

Possibly? I have to admit, I’m probably just misunderstanding the usecase. I have plenty of multi-language content available in my libraries, but that’s all solved via different audiotracks and subtitles embedded in the files themselves, not via separate libraries.

In addition to the usual Movies/Series/Music (I don’t see a reason to uncouple Anime from other series) I have two additional libraries: “Stage” (for theatre productions, musicals, opera and other concerts) and “Youtube” (which is linked to a local copy of all my subscriptions and playlists, provided by Pinchflat). I also used to have a “Music Videos” library, but curating that proved too cumbersome to be worth it.

I stopped to retag and rename music files. Right now I prefer them to be as original as possible because preservation reasons.

Aren’t you then just preserving some random music ripper’s organizational preferences or default settings?
Either way I don’t see any issues with adding more tagged information. More information always more good 😁