My friend had the Master System and I can credit Phantasy Star with sparking my love for RPGs. I didn’t even get to play it much at the time, but just seeing it was enough. It is a great looking game.

Boy, I sure do love an article about a video without a link to the video. I hope that it’s just my ad blocker not letting it be shown or something.

Holy shit. I started to type “What is wrong with people” but then I remembered which timeline I’m living in and there is no need.

Die Fledermaus

Now I want Paper Mario: Corruption

It was just a joke. No, of course Paper Mario isn’t in MP3.

You’re clearly not a gamer.

I mean, I got it, but that doesn’t really change the sillyness of it.

Jim Steinman’s songs are dramatic, overwrought, full of stupid, juvenile lyrics… And just fucking awesome. One of my all-time favorite albums. Meat just sells all the absurdity and put so much dramatic emotion into it. I mean, this might be on of the lease ridiculous songs in the record, but still…

I appreciate this song working as both a breakup song for the dumper and the dumpee. The narrator admitting in the last verse that he’s fucked up his relationships because of what happened to him always felt really honest.

I have a Beelink Mini S that I got 4 or 5 years ago (N5095, 8GB RAM, 256GB SDD). It was $200 new at the time. It’s easily handling the hosting of 20-25 services.

For the little that you plan on doing with it, I think you could grab just about anything.

I mean, yeah, but federal minimum wage is only $7.50 an hour. Hardly a livable wage anywhere in the country. The minimum for tipped workers in this town is $6.50 an hour. So at most an employer would need to cover $40 a week under that law.

I wish I could award you more than one updoot.

Talking about restaurant dining only… My baseline is 20%. Higher for breakfast and/or a great job. Shave some off for truly bad experiences.

I 100% agree that servers should be paid a full living wage before tips. But the truth is, they survive entirely on their tips. Not tipping over 15% isn’t sending a message to the employer or the industry. The only person that is impacting is your server who probably doesn’t even get to keep 100% of what you leave and makes an hourly rate that’s probably 50% or lower of the minimum wage.

My hometown has a lot of restaurants and a few years back had a measure on the ballot to ensure that servers were actually paid the full hourly minimum wage by their employer. Somehow, the servers were convinced that it would be a bad thing and were against it. The measure failed.

I hope so, otherwise it’s a sadder story than it means to be. It can take a good year for a cat to settle in and get comfortable with new people. Then poor Larry just has them ripped away and replaced.

Eden for Switch and Cemu for Wii U as well.

Plus a number of options for the older consoles and handhelds, but Retroarch would cover those.

Another vote for CWA. It’s been a year and I can fully remember my reasons for not going with something else, but I tried several and nothing was quite as complete for what I needed.

I also don’t want or need much for automation. I want to curate my library, there are few authors I’d want to monitor and grab everything from. Then from a metadata front, CWA lets me easily search for and cherry pick bits of metadata.

Navidrome server on the NAS. If I’m away from home and using a computer, I have it exposed to the internet and just use the web app.

On my home computer I’ve been using PsySonic lately and like it quite a bit. Quirks here and there, but it does get updates.

On my phone, and so just about everywhere, I use Symfonium. None of the FOSS apps I found last year did it for me. Symfonium is ridiculously customizable.

Disclaimer: I’m old.

My first concert was with my mom back when I was 12 or 13. Poison at the small local hockey arena. It sounded like shit and I didn’t love it.

But the pull of seeing my favorite bands in person was too great. A few years later, friends and I went to see Guns N Roses on the Illusion tour - our first without parents. And it fucking ruled.

Ever since then, I’ve been an avid lover of live music. Sometimes it does still sound like shit. With or without earplugs, I always had trouble with voices at shows though. Always muffled sounding to me and it’s just something I’ve accepted. I did get a pair of Loops Experience (I think that’s what they’re called) plugs a while back and those work pretty well.

The draw of live music for me is being in a crowd with a bunch of other people enjoying and appreciating art happening live. Mistakes and improvs happen. New songs and covers can be played. If I want clarity, fidelity, and perfect performance, I have my CDs. But if I want community and just a little of the unknown, I’m going to a show.

Thank you for the more detailed response. Like I said, I’m no pro at any of this. I just want to learn when I can.

And for the record, I don’t know who downvoted your comments, but it was not me!

That still doesn’t help me understand why you would clone the entire repo just to install the docker image. You create the compose file (and the variables file if that’s how you roll) and docker handles the rest. For someone who is already admitting their unfamiliarity with things, the whole idea of getting comfortable with git just seems unnecessary and unhelpful in this context.

It’s fine, you don’t need to reply again. Just different outlooks, I guess.