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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

  • I have to ask… Are you actually happy with Kodi? Did you find a way to make it more usable?

    I set it up on a RPi, got Netflix and Amazon working on it, and I really, REALLY wanted to like it…

    But I just can’t. The interface is awful. The sorting is nonsensical. You have to manually enable thumbnails. You can change it, but you have to change it for every interface. And then it doesn’t remember, so you have to go through all that again the next time you use it.

    Sorry if I sound whiny, but I’d love to know if you got it to be more usable than I could.




  • We each have our own checking account. We also have a joint account. Each of us receives our paychecks in our personal account. We each keep a small portion in our personal accounts for each month for personal expenses, gifts, etc. The rest goes into the joint account.

    We set up credit cards the same way. This gives us the means to buy gifts for each other without the other knowing. It also provides redundancy for lost cards.

    We can both see the joint accounts. We cannot see each other’s personal accounts. Our bank has it set up so I can see everything I have access to on a single online account.

    This arrangement has been working well for years.





  • It’s almost pointless to try to go to concerts anymore. Deftones is coming in a few months. I tried to buy tickets about 5 minutes after they went on sale. Already at that point, half of the arena was up for ‘resale’.

    I chose a couple of seats that hadn’t yet been touched. In the few seconds it took me to decide, it let me know they were no longer available. I refreshed, and saw they were now up for resale for +50% or so.

    Don’t count on Ticketmaster to stop this. Why would they, when they get a cut of the resale? Regulation is needed, and fast.