#tech adventures

[tech-aficionado]

Tech came along as my emotional support clone. Got back to the hotel and he wanted to finish his origami project then get to work fixing the zipper.

[tparadox]

Okay, Docker is installed on my OMV NAS machine. Turns out that just in the last month or two, OMV completely changed how you install Docker (making it way more complicated) and completely broke all the tutorials.

It was super easy to installl Portainer from there, but I've hit a wall installing Transmission. It's probably got something to do with how I used a stack written for the "Transmission and OpenVPN" container but I edited it to work for the "Transmission/OpenVPN/rss" fork, but I can't connect to the Transmission web GUI and the fix for that in the documentation said to do something that was already part of the stack I copied, so I don't know what's up. Also it seems like it's constantly restarting and it doesn't have an IP address assigned by Docker so that's probably why I can't connect. I'm done beating my head against this for now.

There were one or two other things I wanted to install in Docker but I forget what they are now.

[tariqk]

linux game machine: you have 2 new updates

me: cool, let's update

linux game machine: (tries to update)

linux game machine: (fails silently)

me: huh. I wonder what's up

me: ok linux, open terminal

me: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

linux game machine: it's failing because apparently your drive is in read-only mode?

me: oh. that's odd.

me: ok DDG, what's up?

duckduckgo: looks like there might be some problem with your drives? can you check dmesg?

me: ok. linux, dmesg

dmesg: you've got several errors here that ask you to run fsck and e2fsck

me: cool, I'll do that--

duckduckgo: BUT DON'T RUN IT WHILE BOOTED UP, run it in single-user mode

me: .......whoahhhh ok ok ok

me:

me: how do I get to single user mode?

DDG: you need to access it from boot options

me: ok... I'll try that

me: computer, reboot

computer: ok

me: ok, lemme boot into recovery mode

EFI: what's that?

me: what do you mean, what's that?

EFI: I've only got popOS, and these stubs that used to be Ubuntu and steam-os that you never really cleaned out

me:

me: ok, ok, how do I get that back then

DDG: you *could* redownload the OS and burn it into a thumbdrive and go from there

me:

me: which means I need to find a thumbdrive

me: and download a 2 GB ISO

me:

me: (feels the weight of the universe land on my shoulder)

me: i'm so tired.

[ghostpainters]

Tim Drake: Talking to You Makes the Whole Night a Little Bit Better 

Anyone else have someone in thier life who only wants to text late at night? No, just me? XD 

[allhailkingsquest]

andrewjaycohen: “King’s Quest III saved positions!!! Don’t erase this disk, please!” [x]

[damailbox]

November 1998

[speakingbubblez]

What should I do next. ?

[lightwise]

 Analysis of Phee and The Bad Batch

I know that this topic has been heavily discussed the last few days, so I apologize if any of these points are repetitive. I also am not discounting anyone’s differing opinions. I was a bit hesitant about shipping Tech and Phee together going into S2 E13, but five minutes in I was fully on board both with this amazingly sweet relationship and Phee being a straight up badass role model who I think is GREAT for the Batch as a whole. 

WHO PHEE REALLY IS

When Phee is introduced I think we all were expecting a typical pirate a la Hondo Ohnaka–funny, charming, dangerous, but ultimately just out for themselves and the chance of financial gain. Phee has way more complexity to her than this.  

Moral Compass: She’s a good person. She has a moral compass, and a great one at that. She spends most of her time traveling the galaxy both to explore history and natural wonders but also to restore artifacts (many of which don’t even hold monetary value) to refugees who have lost their homes and cultures due to war. And she often risks her own life to do so. For a pirate she’s pretty dang honorable. I think this is when Tech really starts to warm up to her, because he is intrigued by and respects her value of these other cultures and her efforts to give people who lost their homes a sense of belonging. 

Intelligence: Phee is so smart both in intellect and emotional intelligence. She’s been around the galaxy for awhile and knows who to trust and who not to, even when she considers someone a friend (cough Cid cough). Her adventures require her to know and love history, science, and the appreciation of the art and cultures that she explores. While her mind works very differently than Tech’s, she has more than enough curiosity and learning to engage with his level of intelligence. 

Bravery: Traipsing around the galaxy searching for lost treasure requires a lot of bravery and survival skills, especially when traveling alone. The Batch have pretty unique skill sets both as soldiers and survivors, and Phee is more than a match for all of them with both weapons and her ability to navigate dangerous situations. 

Compassion: Her dynamic with Mayor Shep and his daughter Lyana, her help throughout the natural disaster the island faces, and the specific ways that she shows care for the Batch members and trusts them with her community, all speak highly of Phee as a person who adds safety and value to all of her relationships, something the Batch members desperately need. 

PHEE BOTH SEES AND CARES ABOUT EACH MEMBER OF THE BATCH

Hunter: He trusts her now. We open with the Batch playing bodyguard as Phee is negotiating a tense deal. Hunter is absorbed in the moment and is fully prepared to defend Phee no matter what. It’s clear that his previous dislike/distrust of her in their first encounters is gone, and that he trusts having Omega around her even in a dangerous situation. Phee has also softened towards him and talks with him quite a lot, both teasing him in a very sibling-like manner: “so why bring us?” “makes you wonder, doesn’t it”, but also quite seriously respecting him as the leader of the squad and the father of Omega. She directly voices her opinions and concerns to him and goes to great lengths to let him know she cares about Omega’s and their future, and he listens to her concerns. She knows that he wants to keep his family safe and settle down, and she wants to give him an example of what that could look like.

One moment that really solidified this for me is how Phee reacted when Hunter pushed in between her and Tech as they were watching the sunset. Someone less acquainted with Hunter’s skills and brooding nature might have thought that he was just cutting between them or dismissed his qualms about what he was sensing. Phee’s reaction proves that she takes Hunter seriously because she immediately knows something is wrong and isn’t at all offended that her moment with Tech was interrupted. 

Wrecker: While their interactions are more sparse, it’s clear that Phee understands Wrecker’s motivations too–food, helping others, rest. She brings them to a place his hunger can be satisfied, where his physical strength is an asset but it’s not the only reason he’s accepted, and she convinces Tech to let him and the girls sleep a little longer when Tech is ready to wake them up. Her face here says it all.

Omega: In episode 5 we could have argued that like some other pirates we’ve had the pleasure of coming across (ahem Hondo again), she might have looked at Omega as just a little sidekick who she could impress and teach a few lessons. Here we see this is not the case. While she is impressed by her fighting skills, Phee is genuinely concerned about Omega’s livelihood and welfare as she gently suggests to Hunter that she needs friends and a stable place to grow up. By bringing them to Pabu she is able to introduce Omega to another girl her age, give her a chance to relax and be carefree, and show Hunter and Tech that there are sides of Omega that need to be nurtured, without dismissing their current life with Omega at all.

Tech: Alright. The main reason why this post is being written 🥹🥹🥹. This little romance is the sweetest thing to me and with how much character growth we have gotten from Tech this season, I think seeing how Phee interacts with him only continues to highlight that growth and social connection.

I cannot get over how sensitive Phee is towards Tech. She understands how his brain works and doesn’t shame him for it, but simply tells him what her thoughts are without invalidating his. She accepts him for who he is while also showing him other ways of viewing the world. The way she pushes lightly against his boundaries and social awkwardness (especially around physical touch), but in a very respectful manner, always giving him the space to pull away or say no. How she knows that he’ll hate an overly boisterous social gathering and lightly teases him about it. How she gets him to put the data pad down and experience the world through his other senses. And as other people have more eloquently mentioned (shoutout to the Star Wars Universe Podcast), how she makes him feel safe. Safe enough for Tech to feel fully comfortable being himself around her, and also to begin to get curious about who she is and her points of view. She is giving him the space to meet her. And boy is he.

We’ve already seen from previous episodes that Tech has a strong moral compass and cares about people suffering in the galaxy. Her sense of moral justice and care appeals to him and he respects it. Tech just watches her in awe and interest at how she deals with people. He is steadily falling for her. She shows him beauty. She shows him compassion. She shows him new ways of relating to others. She understands his family and how they all work together. She matches his level of interest and fascination about the world. And he’s melting in the face of it.

THIS SMILE??? THIS MAN SMIRKED AT HER. SMIRKED, I TELL YOU. 🤩

Putting this caring, sensitive, socially awkward, neurodivergent, nerdy genius of a man and this badass, independent, kind-but-takes-no-bs, intelligent woman of color together is so fun to see. I’m loving these two and can’t wait to see where this goes.

[prompt-master]

I love the difference in Draxum and Splinter's best worst dad energy

Splinter loves all his sons but he does have a favorite (altho that can change depending on the way) and that shows but at least will usually tell you that he doesn't have one

Draxum on the other hand would not hestiate to say "i do not care for the blue one"

[chimaeras501st]

Sometimes its good to sneak away and read a book

[tech-aficionado]

“Cyare, join me will you? I thought it was a documentary about a book, but it seems to be some entertaining holofilm about unraveling a historical quandary. Typically I do not like fanciful stories but I quite like this.”

[tparadox]

Okay, so I had trouble with the procedure to SSH into Armbian and to install Open Media Vault 6 a few weeks ago and reflashed the SD card with standalone OMV4 from four years ago. But I can't install any plugins or updates because they moved hosts and the script to change the address of the repository only works for OMV 5 and up.

When I figured out what my problem with SSH had been (I actually think the firmware image was bad and the NAS machine wasn't actually booting), I already had the OMV4 install set up and integrated into my workflows (play flows?) so I was reluctant to overwrite it try flashing Armbian again.

It turns out that class 10 32GB micro SD cards are like five bucks, so I just bought another one to swap out on the assumption that I could switch boot media back quickly without messing up any settings if something went wrong.

More misadventures under the cut.

I put the Armbian card in the machine and booted it up, this time successfully signing in by SSH. Following a guide on a Reddit tab I've had open since before the blackout I downloaded and installed updates and then went to the third party software installer. And OMV wasn't on the list.

Turns out the latest version of Armbian, Jammy, doesn't have OMV support. This has something to do with being based on Ubuntu instead of directly on Debian. So I need to downgrade to Buster or Bullseye. That means pulling the card and flashing again. Glad I didn't overwrite the OMV4 image.

After a brief panic where the machine appeared to boot successfully but didn't appear on the network (I forgot to plug the network cable back in after unplugging it to get at the SD slot), everything was just where I left it. Unfortunately, Kodi on my primary Android TV refused to open and I had to clear its data and re-import the library anyway. Backed it up once I was done so I shouldn't have to do that again.

I did have a bit of trouble finding a legacy image of Armbian Bullseye to download but it's ready to go the next time I'm ready to tinker.

[tariqk]

Carl Sagan: “One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science.”

Scientists: Amen, preach, brother!

Computer: (does a thing for no reason)

Scientists: This device is haunted by a demon and must be exorcised.

[eriexplosion]

The Batch, apparently assuming they're already wanted men so it's fine: *does insane shit like raid Dooku's castle for loot and race under their real names*

Crosshair, who lied to a man that could and would have him executed just to try to keep them off the Empire's radar:

[pointlessjey]

My faves from 2022 🧨🎇🎏