True, and I do play chess. When I said ‘I wish I could play games’ what I meant was all the really cool stuff with intense graphics. Sorry.

Question: What does BackBlaze B2 give you that BackBlaze’s personal account doesn’t?

I have a seizure condition brought on by a traumatic brain injury, and really intense, fast moving graphics will cause me to roll around on the floor like I’m trying out a new breakdance move, and eat my tongue. LOL I used to play Cities: Skyline which was a really in depth game when you really get into it kind of like Minecraft, which I used to be heavily into.

Thanks. I appreciate the solidarity. ;)

I wish I could play online games. There are so many titles that really look like a whole lot of fun.

I’m just here for the violence.

(I don’t think I still do 🤣)

Learning is one of the facets of selfhosting that I genuinely get a kick out of, and as you say, it is much fun. It’s a very useful, very practical, and entertaining hobby for me. My servers are like a huge playground. I’m still that kid running out to the mailbox to get the latest edition of Byte magazine.

Also, I’ve seen you post here often!

Much to chagrin of some I am afraid. LOL I am an expert at nothing, but if I may be of service in any way, please do inquire. There are a lot of people here willing to help.

Wow! So it’s Maintenant, watchtower, Portainer, and a few other apps rolled into one. That’s pretty awesome. I’m using Portainer and have been for a long while. It’s good for what it does, and I know how to drive that bus. I’ll definitely have to check out Arcane tho. Especially if it replaces several apps that I don’t need to run, and make room for others. LOL

Thanks for sharing.

You must be a big fan of Pendleton wool blankets and clothing. It sort of ties in with some of my American Indian (BlackFoot) bloodline. It’s quite an interesting story of how that came to be. A lot of their designs tend to gravitate towards more traditional patterns and construction.

Interesting. I’ve heard of Arcane, but never dabbled. From the demo, it looks pretty tight. I see it also gives you ‘vulnerabilities’ kind of like Maintenant, but built in. Nice!

OK That’s cool. Didn’t know what your set up was like. So, scratch Thunderbird. LOL

That’s a respectable server set up you got going there. Kudos!

I use Calibre but I don’t have any automated, download, pipeline. I just upload the books as I buy them. I guess I’m boring and vanilla like that. LOL

Giving Mealie a run for the money. ;)

I don’t really use any e-mail clients on my computer

Curious as to why. Is it a security issue or is it just not convenient…

Thunderbird will import .mbox files but you’ll need a plugin called ImportExportTools NG.

Import:

• Mbox files (including structure)
• EML & EMLX files
• Individual or all directory files

That’s awesome news! Happy to be of what little service I can. I’m hoping the new SD card does the trick.

BlueBeam: So I get a complete set of new construction plans sent to me. Basically I count for money. Say it’s an HVAC contractor that wants all the HVAC equipment counted For example: all grilles, all air handlers, all everything it takes to complete the HVAC portion of the new construction. BlueBeam will just about count for you if you set it up with some special scripts and macros that have been programmed in. Then when I’ve counted everything for HVAC, I call vendors for pricing and work up an estimate to send to the contractor for his approval. He then takes all of that, decides what he might need to add as far as $$. We call it the ‘D’ factor or the difficulty factor because working in and around trusses, tight spaces, crawl spaces, etc takes extra. Then he puts his O&P on it and sends it out for bid.

But if you boil the ox down to the bouillon cube it goes like this: Count with the count 1, ah ah ah, 2 ah ah ah… that’ll be $4500 Mr. contractor sir.

It would be nice. I’ve hung on to my stripped down Windows 10 now because I use a program called BlueBeam for one of my business ventures that absolutely has to run on Windows. There is no Linux equivalent, and there is no running it in Wine.

MusicBee

It was, and imo, still is a great piece of software. I’m not always on a Windows machine, but MusicBee is a staple when I am. Every so once in a while, someone writes a piece of software for Windows that just kicks ass. Few and far between, but it’s pretty good stuff.

What methods do you use for managing a large music library?

I have a physical collection I have been accumulating for decades now, that goes as far back as 1937. I have converted everything to flac and it resides on a NAS drive. I have used Beets and Picard, and back in the day MP3Tag for tagging, and surprisingly, MusicBee (Windows) is great for embedding lyrics. It takes a while to embed lyrics in a large collection. Currently I have everything tagged, in their respective artists/albums, and embedded lyrics for about 75-80% of them. I run Navidrome and stream via Feishin locally, and Substreamer on my mobile.

ETAL I have also used czkawka_gui in the past to clean out duplicates.