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God save us, everyone\ Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns\ For the sins of our hand, the sins of our tongue\ The sins of our father, the sins of our young? No!

Yum. source

youtube • video ID: LROnjfhnZMo

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Where do you think you’re going?
Don’t you know it’s dark outside?
Where do you think you’re going?
I wish they’d care about my pride

Where do you think you’re going?
I think you don’t know
You got no way of knowing
You got no place you can go

I understand your changes
How long before you reach the door
I know where you think you’re going
I know what you came here for

And now I’m sick of joking
You know I like you to be free
Where do you think you’re going?
I think you’d better go with me, girl

youtube • video ID: RjTgQaocG90

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Since people are “celebrating” the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, I also remembered that you can use a SteamDeck to set up Xbox Cloud Gaming Xbox Remote Play*, so you can play the games from your Xbox on the go. The process involves installing the Edge browser, adding it to Steam, and running a specific command in the terminal and customizing the Steam shortcut.

Just in case the video ever gets down, the terminal command that you need to run is:

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flatpak --user override --filesystem=/run/udev:ro com.microsoft.Edge

and the thing you need to append to the launch options of the shortcut is

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--window-size=1024,640 --force-device-scale-factor=1.25 --device-scale-factor=1.25  --kiosk "https://www.xbox.com/play"

FYI, while playing from at home I had no issue while playing a game (which I will review soon) and Forza Horizon 3, 4 and 5, and as long as the game is not extremely fast paced, the latency is decent to very good, depending on the title.

*PS: While Steam Cloud Gaming is only available in a very small list of countries, you can use Xbox Remote Play everywhere, which is what I wanted actually in the first place.

A few days ago I had to break apart some episodes of Top Cat from the uncompressed Blu-Ray rip to individual MKV files that can be read properly by Plex Media Server (as it’s not working with BDMV folders).

1. Install mkvtoolnix, using the instructions from their Downloads Page

As I’m using Ubuntu 18.04 Server on my home server (if it ain’t broken, why change it?) so I used the respective commands:

_You first have to import my public GPG key because all of my pools are signed. Run this once: _ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg https://mkvtoolnix.download/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg

Then

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/ bionic main deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.gpg] https://mkvtoolnix.download/ubuntu/ bionic main

And then the only things left to do are to run sudo apt update followed by sudo apt install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui (I skipped the second package as I’m on the Server variant, so I don’t need a GUI)

2. Create a .sh script in the directory with the MKV files

touch fix_metadata.sh vi fix_metadata.sh

and added this content:

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#!/bin/bash

# This script takes all mkv files in the current directory and sets the filename
# (without .mkv) as its title in metadata

for mkvfile in *.mkv; do
    mkvpropedit "$mkvfile" -e info -s title="${mkvfile%.mkv}"
done

Then you just need to make the file executable and run it:

chmod +x fix_metadata.sh ./fix_metadata.sh

And presto! Each file should have the title set like the filename (so Top Cat - 01x02 - The Maharajah of Pookajee.mkv will have the title “Top Cat - 01x02 - The Maharajah of Pookajee” and generate this fairly generic output:

The file is being analyzed.
The changes are written to the file.
Done.

And this is it!

Unless you’re living under a rock, the entire Internet is buzzing around the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2. So basically, you get a SteamDeck that:

• Has no OLED screen
• Is severely underpowered
• Is completely locked
• Sells you the same games over again
• Is costing 80+ euros per game
• Has no music player
• Has no internet browser
• Has no apps for streaming services (or Plex 🏴‍☠️)
• A device that’s over 520 euros and is not a computer

And 99% of that 99% spam is usually retarded AI startups scrapping the internet training their retarded LLM. Here’s a list of the IPs and classes I’ve already blocked in the last month alone, as defined in my goaccess.conf file (as of June 2nd 2025).

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New site theme dedicated to Children’s Day of 2025, inspired by Top Cat!

youtube • video ID: 6fvhLrBrPQI

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Top Cat, the most effectual
Top Cat, whose intellectual
Close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it’s with dignity

Top Cat
The indisputable leader of the gang
He’s the boss, he’s the pip
He’s the championship
He’s the most tip top
Top Cat

Yes he’s the chief, he’s the king
But above everything
He’s the most tip top
Top Cat!

Happy Children’s Day, kids!

youtube • video ID: hJE8nZ01W5k

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Că ăștia n-o să-ți zică și că ura-i doar otravă
Că orice glonț omoară doi de orice parte-ai sta la țeavă
Dum, dum, dum, dum

They won’t tell you that hatred is just poison
That every bullet kills two no matter which side of the barrel you’re on
Bang, bang, bang, bang.

Loretta Swit, who played the lovely Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in MAS*H, has joined today the great cast in the sky. Rest in peace.

“Did you ever show me any kind of friendship? Ask my help with a personal problem? Include me in one of your little bull sessions? Can you imagine what it feels like to walk by this tent and hear you laughing and know I’m not welcome? Did you ever once ever offer me a lousy cup of coffee?”

Remember when Apple products were easy to service yourself at home? Changed today a battery on the HP-branded 4th Gen iPod Classic and as well on the OG iPod Photo. Their new capacities are 830 and 1300, respectively. Maybe soon I’ll replace the batteries on the U2 variants.

Fun fact: the headphone jack assembly has the serial number “UR FAT”, lol.