Zedd

I lived in Ames. There’s nothing great about it. The local government hates the college, and passes laws that fuck up the town just to spite them. ISU students are more than 50% of the population of the town. All of the apartments rent from August to August. Get there any other month, and your lease goes until August. This means that everyone in town is moving the same day. Worst town I’ve ever lived in.

That was all just good fun

Am not!

Everything auto converts to 1080p x265 using tdarr. Ombi is set up so any of my friends with access to the plex server can request whatever they want.

Originally, I was too poor to afford software. Then my CD/dvd books were stolen and I couldn’t afford to replace the media I’d been collecting my entire life. I bought an external drive, an s-video to RF modulator, a Bluetooth keyboard and connected my computer to channel 3.

Eventually Pandora and Netflix were released and I stopped pirating. I spent most of a decade buying all of my media. Then I tried to buy a complete set of Good Eats and it wasn’t possible.

There was literally no way to purchase every episode legally. So I took the $500 I was going to spend on that box set and put it towards an ebay’d server and some drives.

By the time the streaming wars started to gain steam, I had everything automated, and was pushing 50TB of storage.

Sorry about that, the formatting got stripped.

It hadn’t ever occurred to me to look for pirated patterns :D Here are some sites with a ton of free patterns.

https://www.allfreesewing.com/

https://vintagepatterns.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

https://sewingsupport.com/

https://threadsmonthly.com/free-sewing-patterns/

https://lovesewing.com/free-sewing-patterns-projects/

Z-Library also has a ton of stuff.

I didn’t realize there was a patreon, I made a Ko-fi account just for this.

Man, I didn’t realize there were only 22 people supporting you monthly.

I've owned nearly every version of the nook, and haven't had a problem getting stuff onto it.

For hosting my collection, I use https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ it has a built in reader that saves states, but I primarily download to my nook and read with moon reader +.

There's a docker compose and env file in https://github.com/zedd00/Boater-HAT/blob/master/docker-compose.yml that have my entire setup.

Windows DevOps techbro here. I am 100% sure when ads are embedded in Windows, we’ll sort out a way to block them. My entire career is based on my ability to bend windows to my will, and I’m not about to let it advertise at me.

That being said, look at grabbing a steam deck to learn Linux. It provides an easy way to fuck around with Linux, while giving you some training wheels for when you break it.