Sounds like that old Vizio soundbar sounds fine that I had. If you turn the volume up, and it’s Dolby Atmos. Pretty sure if I turned that up and was often enough, I’d find out somebody doesn’t like it though. Also, if you don’t watch very many movies, what’s the point?

I doubt the shows I record with Channels DVR have Dolby Atmos. And I’d only want the volume turned up if watching a movie anyways.

Also, might not even have enough room to have it sound better. The speakers were farther apart as well.

I do know, I should have turned that CEC crap on when I had it, cause you can change some of the soundbar settings on the TV, at least if the soundbar is Vizio and the TV is Vizio. Don’t know what happens with a Vizio soundbar and non Vizio TV, or some other soundbar brand and same brand or any other combination.

I should listen to this new setup first though. But it sure sounded better then I remember ever hearing it sound. But a subwoofer might not do much anyways. Might need more speakers. But I might still need more bass.

Also, those loud ass shaking vehicles, are their subwoofers expensive? Cause if they aren’t cheap, well then I probably can’t afford a good subwoofer anyways. Those don’t sound good to me.

Wireless might be nice too, or a wireless adapter. But a wireless adapter might cost at least $100. Don’t bother with Best Buy for much of anything, their own brand, which is for speakers, but may work with a subwoofer as well, costs $150. Well, apparently Crutchfield has some stuff for cheaper then Best Buy. Thought everything on that site was too expensive for me.

Only way I’d spend $100 for an adapter though, is if the subwoofer is $70, so probably used, at a pawn shop. Also, that should be a really good subwoofer, and should be good in my opinion as well. And also, shouldn’t do any massive shaking, or anything that will bother anybody. Especially if it’s turned way down. And if turning it way down, means it does nothing, or the same as speakers, I don’t want it either.

Also, AI sure fixed searching the internet, now when trying to find about subwoofers, you’ll just find ads. All those links on that site, they get money if you click and/or pay. Then when I search for the model and see the price, glad I didn’t bother reading what they wrote either.

And if you put budget in the search, you’ll still get ads. Also, budget subwoofer, might mean something different to everybody, including the ad sites.

I wonder if a Bluetooth transmitter and receiver would work for a subwoofer. Don’t need much range. I do know, the thing I got for Walmart to send a cheap record player to my computer over Bluetooth works as well. Could look it up, but might just find ads, that say “Nope, you need to pay $1,000”.

Also, I don’t like Monoprice enough to spend very much if any money on their stuff.

Wireless, so I can put it behind chair, without the cable going all the way there, not far, but still might trip on it. Also, how many cables do I want going over the floor behind my chair? There’s already two flat ethernet cables. Do they make flat subwoofer cables?

That would likely be cheaper, or easier to do for cheap. Especially if I get a subwoofer at a pawn shop.

9 months ago, somebody mentioned “RSL 10e” on Reddit. Well, another brand to look at, they said it cost $300 then. And how much is that wireless adapter? I can’t click it, and I’m too lazy to read the entire page.

And also, why 10". Well, some people need 10 inches. Some people prefer 12 inches, and so on.

Well, that brand is too expensive for a small apartment. Their wireless adapter is $100. But I’ll maybe look up a flat cable eventually instead.

Well, you might get no complaints with that subwoofer. But why 10"?

And another opinion, don’t buy a subwoofer. Well, that’s cheaper anyways.

You can feel subwoofers too? Not sure I can feel any subwoofers though. Don’t think I want to feel a subwoofer though. Then I might be shaking.

Well, you might need to know a lot more anyways. Cause apparently cheap ass ones can shake shit too.

Hmm, if I got hemorrhoids, and that explains the blood, well, then I guess I may just not be able to feel much pain. There has been pain down there, but not enough to make me think hemorrhoids is the only thing. Also, what about the weird pain I’ve gotten in my stomach and also the weird feeling I have woke up with? Might be a full feeling sometimes, or every time. Hmm, so if I eat enough before bed, or that day, I’ll still be full when I wake up? Interesting either way. Especially if I sleep for at least 8 hours and that happens.

Another opinion, you can rattle people’s stuff below and above you. In that case, better off with no subwoofer.

Another opinion more headaches then it’s worth. Literal headache? Not sure my head hurts, may have earlier though.

Also, considering there was a paper on my door, and probably everyone’s door, about little speakers, going through the entire building, maybe a subwoofer is a bad idea.

But a 8" Dayton is on sale for $142. Also, it has a volume knob. And also the other things that person said. So if I can’t hear it and it does absolutely nothing or causes issues on a low volume, then give it to somebody, or you know maybe send it back.

But what do you set the gain and crossover to? The gain might be volume related, so maybe very low for that one.

Well, you need to lookup info on your receiver if you buy a subwoofer as well. First need to see if they make the right flat cable. Or actually, need to look at receiver specs first. Or manual.

Don’t ask me if that’s a good subwoofer either, or a good price or anything. Somebody’s opinion said something about it on Reddit.

Might be a RCA cable that subwoofers use. Searching for flat subwoofer cable, doesn’t find anything. Neither does flat rca or flat rca cable. Do flat RCA cables even work if they exist? Cause flat ethernet cables work. You might need to search for single if searching a search engine as well. Also, looks like mostly ads.

Might be called a coaxial cable as well, and Monoprice doesn’t appear to have a flat cable for subwoofers. Well, then maybe they don’t work. Or they cost $70+.

Under related items that has that subwoofer, they have a restocked, one for $83, I think the same one, but then you get a 404 error. So their site is broken anyways. Not a good sign.

Somebody mentioned a brand, and a link, but redirects to the home page. And found no subwoofers. Network music players, and they want $599 for the cheapest one. Not sure there’s any point in searching for a subwoofer on that site. Found the subwoofers, and that brand they mention starts at $399. Why not spend almost 2 grand then? How about 50 watts? Polk Audio makes one and is $160 on that site. Seems expensive for 50 watts. Also, what does watts even mean for a subwoofer? Does that mean it’ll be impossible for it to shake? Well, I need it cheaper anyways, cause it’s $160 for 50 watts.

Refurbished, 50 watts, and $160? Guess it’s up to 100 watts. But 50 watts is better, cause it might not shake anything. Maybe ten watts is even better. But it might also do nothing.

Doesn’t it need more power to shake something? Cause watts means power in electricity. And doesn’t the subwoofer need power?

And good luck finding that for sale very many other places. And that site might be all refurbished stuff, and in that case, it’s out of my price range.

According to the opinion site Reddit, you need a shielded cable, and you can’t put a shield around a flat cable. That means a wireless kit, which may cost at least $100, or just use a regular shielded cable. Can I get a refurbished wireless adapter? Also, the site that isn’t Amazon, that sells Dayton, they have a 404 error when I click a link to see the restocked subwoofer. Might be my browser though. Still annoying and not a good sign.

Also, on Reddit, you may be able to use a Bluetooth thing as well. Also, if you use a soundbar, that might not work. Nice, another reason to not have a soundbar. Just like all the issues with HDMI and it’s DRM. It’s a money pit. Reading books is cheaper. You don’t need electricity either.

Well, can’t buy anything yet anyways. Got to also ask somebody, maybe they know a good subwoofer. I know nothing about any brands of subwoofers. Or the specs, or much of anything. I do know how to smear shit all over my ass with toilet paper though.

The wireless Bluetooth possible thing they link to is $200.

Says that one is for interference, well the record player has no issues, with the interference here. Don’t know if a subwoofer would or wouldn’t though. Also how about just 6GHz? I don’t need range anyways. That does 5.8 GHz, not close enough to 6. Also, 6 GHz only.

Maybe one of the Bluetooth low latency ones, say if it does subwoofers. If it says, then it might work fine. If it doesn’t, it might, or not.

But if it’s not shielded, you might be able to hear “aliens” on Mars. And even humans on Earth. And even Uranus.

And that site most likely just has a dead link, cause if you search for Dayton Audio SUB-800, you can’t find the restocked one. Should look for that on eBay. Maybe they sell on eBay too, cause their site is broken. They might sell on Amazon. eBay might be broken too, if you search for that with Audio, I found nothing, removed audio and found it, and in the title it has audio. This AI is really fixing search up, even for making them money.

Well, not that many sellers of that apparently, so probably not worth the price. Pawn shop is cheaper probably as well. Should have looked at the subwoofers when there.

Is Bluetooth’s frequency around 5 GHz? Well, that’s probably better then 2.4 GHz, or not, if you scan for Bluetooth where I am, somehow that might find more shit, then scanning for 2.4 GHz. So might not want Bluetooth. Wonder about 5.8 GHz though. Or 6 GHz. You have to scan with the right method or app if using a phone, I used an app myself, cause I’m lazy. I’m sure you can scan in Linux on Bluetooth and find a bunch of shit. Hmm, actually, when connecting my universal remote using Bluetooth to Atari VCS, I wonder how much shit it found. I stopped the scan pretty quickly though, might have been getting too much shit.

And if Bluetooth is only 30 FT, that doesn’t make much sense. Well, I’m no good with feet anyways. Surprised I know how to walk.

Well, I don’t think I’d buy a used subwoofer online, or maybe even a new one. Cause how cheap can it be with free shipping? The shipping for a used Polk Audio subwoofer is around $50, and $60-70 for the subwoofer, too lazy to find it on eBay again.

Looks like I forgot I was updating the WiFi AP, as the IP might have changed as well.

Cool, the MAC address is the same, and it has two IPs, or only one IP. How did that happen? Cause the other IP is assigned. Can’t ping the assigned IP either. Or the other IP. Maybe it needs to be reflashed again, or maybe it takes a very long time. Oh wait, the other IP could work, but firewall might not have a hole to allow me to ping it. Still wondering why the fuck it has a different IP with the same damn MAC address. And it has an assigned IP. Maybe cause it has a hostname now, guess it didn’t before. Now to reboot the switch it’s plugged into.

That didn’t do much. But pinging both IPs from the router now.

And looks like it may be dead. Now I got to get off my ass. And then I might have to lookup how to do whatever I did the first time I switched to OpenWRT. The official firmware is based on OpenWRT, but has annoying bugs, at least in web interface, after updating.

Also, maybe the router is messed up, cause it says it’s active/online. And for both IPs. But it has a funny light on the AP. And maybe use RC instead of a snapshot. Didn’t know there was an RC now. Also haven’t updated it for a while, so maybe it can’t keep any settings or something. Now where did I read that flashing instructions anyways? Might have nothing on their Wiki. Or maybe it’s in the generic section. Maybe under recovery, but which method? Well, did it using a browser, I think, so maybe uboot, cause it might have uboot.

Instead of clicking each link, go here and look for model. Or a same brand of one.

Hmm, that may have been for the stock firmware, or maybe it doesn’t touch it. And off to a search engine I go.

“QPST Tool”, pretty sure I used a browser. Off to search for openwrt and brand name and recover.

Oh yeah, it’s got a reset button too.

UART? Still, I did it in a browser last time.

Well, looks like I might need a new WiFi AP instead, one that doesn’t get bricked with OpenWRT or from OpenWRT.

Well, they say to go to an IP. Got to plug the damn thing into the damn thing. Well the ethernet from some damn fucking thing, to other fucking thing, with fucking backdoors, and fucking malware, and a money pit. I’ll use the fucking laptop, so the desktop doesn’t mess anything up.

Looks like I need the file that says factory before the extension. Cause I’m a file hoarder, and have a file like that. Still waiting for laptop to boot, I didn’t enter password for it boot right away, cause I was snacking, and fucking, and sweating, and pooping. Hmm, why is it taking so long to boot? It seems to be stuck after Grub, the splash part. Maybe cause it’s plugged into the AP. Oh yeah, maybe a network mount. Well, must have been 90 seconds or whatever.

Hmm, connected to WiFi on my phone, and got an IP from router. Internet works as well. Thought I said I wanted Luci. Also, firewall in OpenWRT blocks the WiFi clients from accessing it, so may be blocking me too on my desktop. And also don’t know which IP, cause there’s two. Well, another hole it is. What does the clear DHCP leases do? Well, might need to reboot AP now. It might have no IP, and rebooting might be faster then waiting. Or the IP it said, just doesn’t show it. Or unplug the AP, and go to sleep instead. And then smear shit all over my ass, once I shit again with it.

Can ping the shit now. Guess I have to install Luci now, if I want a web interface. Cause it’s a dick, and didn’t include Luci, or not enough Luci. Maybe use apk upgrade first though. And you can’t use * when adding a package. Now to see what’s in my backup I made before flashing it, to see if there’s a list of shit that was installed. Then I need a command to remove the newlines, and then copy and paste it.

Or you know if it doesn’t, you can search for luci again, and > /tmp/luci.txt, and then run the command to convert it to one line.

ERROR: ’liblucihttp-lua-2023.03.159b5b683f-r1’ is not a valid world dependency, format is name(@tag)([<>=]version)

and then -ash: apk: Argument list too long. Well, I only needed to run “apk add luci” anyways. Guess you have to reboot after that, cause I’m too lazy to search, or figure out how to start it. Typing reboot is easier. Now I get to search. Or see what provides luci-app to see if that exists. Too many search results, now to continue the hard way. Cause I can’t remember shit. Also, it’s –providers, not –provides.

apk list –providers luci* works, maybe I typed the add command wrong when I tried a *.

Nice commands on the apk wiki page don’t work, or at least that one. Also, don’t run apk upgrade, so I need to flash again as well. Now can I build the package, with all luci crap in it? So I don’t need to fuck around anymore? I don’t even know what the field names are, so it only outputs the damn name. And too lazy to remove all that as well. Star doesn’t work with that either.

Maybe apk add luci-nginx will do enough. Or just manually install each package, cause that’s easier then removing the crap I don’t need from the output. What is luci, if you need luci-nginx? Fixed it, now building the image with luci-nginx, and downloading it yet again. Now to wait for the server, to actually be done, so I can download it.

Good thing it didn’t brick, by running apk upgrade, said eventually it will though, so it’ll probably brick itself, even after re flashing, I didn’t read all of what it said though. Too lazy. Their server may be broken. The output looks fine to me though.

Or maybe the folder link doesn’t ever work either.

Also, a list of installed packages might be in /etc, maybe installed_packages, should have ran find -name package instead of without a * in front of it.

And looks like I downloaded the right file, and luci-nginx is all I needed.

Now to upload this, or keep on posting crap and not uploading. Got to look in the folder, to see if I want to delete anything.

Looks fine to me. Is it only the laptop I have to run the script more then once? Probably their server doesn’t like me using rclone or whatever.

Well, I clearly was thinking about this speaker crap too much. All I needed to do was wait to get picked up, and then we went to the pawn shop.

$70 for the speakers, and $110 for the receiver. Not the cheapest option I could have done. But I did get it in one day. No soundbar. Don’t need that annoying HDMI switch. Didn’t exactly save any space on the coffee table though. Might be taking up more space then the soundbar. But how much is a small receiver that can do all this? Depends if you can get a used one, a new one, would likely be expensive. Unless Pyle makes something, but it how long will it last? All I know is Denon’s receivers are expensive, a new one might cost at least $400, at least from their site. This is an old model.

The speakers might cost $150 or so on their site, sold out though.

Both are old, and some soundbars you can still buy new are old too. Don’t need or have 8k. Don’t have that much money for a TV obviously anyways.

The speakers were still in the box, it was open though. She said they were “new”, which she could have meant actually new, just open box. Or they look new. Well, they work, so who cares.

And also, I paid $11 for a 6 month warranty, I think only on the receiver, which is fine, as the person I was with looked at the speakers, and took something off, and they know more then me. What all can go wrong with these kind of speakers? They use speaker wire, that’s all I know.

I sort of know how to cut speaker wire and get the plastic thing off so you can plug it in. The cutting part is easy, after you figure out to use the part that looks sharper. I was only paying attention to the part they showed me on taking the plastic part off clearly. I mostly remembered to just twist. Need to know that if soldering as well. I’ve cut the entire cable, and now some cables are shorter then I intended because of it. Well, I didn’t waste any speaker cable. Got 100 FT though, probably the only one Walmart had. No optical cables, but the receiver has ARC anyways.

I don’t need all that speaker wire, but they might need some of it, or all of it. Said something about setting up a speaker system in their garage.

And the ARC took too long to get working, cause I forgot some stuff, like my TV don’t fully turn off when you turn it off. Not sure disabling the option to not keep the USB on would solve it either. And the other option is set to the mode that should be right. Didn’t bother changing the USB power setting. Too lazy to plug it into a power meter thing, to see if it’s still using power when off after doing so. And if it’s still using power, the question will be why? And also, it may fix it, and still use power. And it’s working, so no point in changing the settings. Unless the receiver dies. And if changing the USB power setting, doesn’t fix it, I wasted time turning it off.

The manual said something about turning shit off. And then somebody about some problem with the receiver said to unplug the receiver. Well, I unplugged both the receiver and TV. Also, reset the damn thing too. I reset it two times, not sure how quickly I reset it either the first time, might have been before I was trying to get the ARC to work. I got sound first using Bluetooth. Then the Atari VCS, which is plugged into the receiver. They also say you need the HDMI control turned on to send it sound, well it wasn’t working after I enabled that either. It was connected, just no sound. After turning TV off and on after enabling CEC on TV, and enabling it on Apple TV, I could see the volume changing on the TV and receiver. Probably a TV issue, but if unplugging shit, unplug the receiver too.

Should have plugged the receiver in very last, plug speakers in, unplug TV first before doing anything, then plug receiver and TV in. Then turn it on, then reset it.

There’s two ways to reset, the menu way, might not be a complete reset. If you hold the buttons down, the setup thing may have been different. But also, I may have been on the wrong input the first time, when I thought the remote wasn’t working right. It shows stuff on the TV, and you have to be on the input the receiver is plugged into on TV. Never had anything for sound do that either. Kind of cool. But that means you have to use an HDMI port possibly, to show the setup thing. Maybe if no HDMI is plugged into ARC, you don’t need that to run the setup, cause if you do, that could be a problem for some people.

Well, if I ever get a new receiver for whatever reason, I’ll try to remember the above, to unplug the TV, not plug receiver in, reset the receiver.

Clearly this receiver wasn’t reset, as it didn’t show the setup thing right away. Also, how were the speakers configured? Don’t remember, did look at it I think before resetting it. But then realized, I should just reset the damn thing. Why didn’t whoever brought it to pawn shop reset it? No way to know why at least for me.

Also, those speakers sound fine to me, might even like them more then soundbases as well. So apparently $70 speakers, are better then any soundbar I’ve had, including the Vizio with Dolby Atmos. That was probably $300 or so. Not even sure I need a subwoofer either.

You’ll find lots of opinions on the internet about those speakers though. Might as well all be opinions. Somebody was wondering if those speakers are as bad as people say on the opinion site Reddit. A review for them on that site, even said something about opinions.

The best way to know if you will like something, is to hear it before you buy it. There’s other options, well Polk makes some expensive stuff, some people seem to like some of their stuff. The person I was with noticed the speakers. Said they were good. Well, I got lucky, and only spent $70 on the speakers. If there’s ever a problem, I can get new speakers anyways. The receiver and speakers appear to be fine so far, haven’t done much though.

Also, can the plastic thing on speaker wire be removed without also removing at last one little piece of wire strand? Well, more then that for me. But not sure it’s possible to do it perfectly. Better then me, most likely. But it works, and I didn’t completely cut the wire again. Well, I probably cut off too long of a piece anyways. So I could have kept cutting off the end for a while, and not have to cut another piece. Good thing I’m bad at guessing how long something should be, and too lazy to measure it or anything. Got 100 FT, why do I need to measure it? Not going to use 100 FT obviously for one speaker either, or even 50 FT for both speakers, that I might be able to not do. There’s probably over 50 FT left, but I’m too lazy to measure it. Clearly I never should have measured my cock either.

The receiver only came with a remote, and the power cord is attached. Power cord attached kind of sucks. But it works for now, so who cares. Didn’t even know about it having the ability to use a microphone to optimize the sound. Can I use any microphone or a cheap microphone? Well, then I might need to put it on a tripod. I could do so. Might have more then one way to do so as well. I know I have a video rig, the microphones I have can attach to. Also, if it’s only a USB microphone, what kind? Cause the thing I plug those into, plugs into shit using USB. Now if it uses a microphone that isn’t USB, that might work as well, cause those plug into the USB thing with some kind of cable.

Too much thinking. And what does optimizing mean anyways? Cause it sounds fine to me. Though I might have to have the volume up louder then I think I should have to have it up. But I can just change various things to fix that anyways. Not sure changing the distance does anything, changed it to 6 FT I think, not very far from it, I know that. And that may have not made it louder. Not for volume level? Well, no idea then what that’s for.

There’s a PS5 in front of one of the speakers, and sounds fine too. Neither speaker appears to be louder then the other either. You can do that if you want though, change the DB for one of them to a higher or lower value then the other.

That may be the best option for me. Never happy with any soundbar, and not paying a ton of money. Soundbases were cheap enough, sounded good to me, and I liked better then soundbars. This soundbar, cost at least $300. I may have had a soundbase that cost about that much, but it died, and now they apparently don’t make them.

My ZVOX soundbase might have been cheaper, but the monitor lives on it, and I might want to use it with computer. ZVOX only has sounddbars now.

Well, I found some powered speakers with a remote for $150, and to convert optical to RCA, is $30. At least those prices in town, assuming Best Buy has it.

A soundbar in town, is going to likely cost $150 at least. If I want any chance of me liking it.

Edifier - R1280T Powered Bookshelf Speakers/Computer Speakers/Studio Monitor Speakers, 2.0 Active Near Field Monitors 42 Watts RMS - Brown those are the speakers, I assume IR for the remote, which means, I can use my universal remote as well. Don’t need a dedicated subwoofer most likely, as it has some bass. Not even sure I got the bass turned down enough on this soundbar for me. I have an issue where the volume isn’t perfect for me. Could be too much bass, when I turn the volume up, even if the bass is turned all the way down. Won’t pay for anything that makes dialogue clearer either, that’s what subtitles are for.

Now if I really do need more bass, I can likely get a cheapo subwoofer and it’ll be fine. But is there something that converts optical to RCA and has a subwoofer output? I guess adding something somewhere might work as well.

The people buying the speakers and all the other crap you need, are most likely spending a lot more money then me. And more then soundbases cost as well. Some speakers are over two grand. Powered speakers, may be the cheapest option, other then a soundbar that might just suck.

And I like how these speakers look better then soundbars anyways. And I don’t have to wait. If Best Buy has the speakers. Somebody else may have something to convert the optical, or not. In that case, I’ll get speakers, and wait for optical thing. Or you know, find a seller with those speakers and optical thing. One seller is easier. And no thanks to Amazon.

And Crutchfield is likely out of my price range, unless I want a soundbar, that I might not like.

Also, no Bluetooth, is a bonus to me. Don’t have to worry about it letting somebody connect using Bluetooth while on a different input watching TV. Cause if it has Bluetooth, I then have to look at manual to see what it says about the Bluetooth, not enough info, and I won’t buy it. If it sounds like it can’t do that, then it might be fine.

On the site for those speakers, FAQ says mainly designed as computer speakers. Why? They’re expensive, and should be better then a soundbar for me. Don’t want the crap behind my chair either that this soundbar has. What do you need surround for, if you don’t even want the volume up that loud? And you live in an apartment?

And it’s IR, looked in manual, don’t search for ir in manual though, just go down to where it says everything is. But if you must search, search for infrared. Got to search for part of what ir stands for, if you search for ir. No Bluetooth, so ir is most likely. RF or whatever, makes no sense for speakers, but nothing makes sense, except for these speakers.

Speakers sold out on B&H, they were only $130. Might have a better optical to RCA converter too, and then if that’s only $30 as well, $10 more then just speakers in town. And you don’t need to pay for fast shipping from them, they just give you fast shipping for lots of stuff. Probably not everything. They had some wood ones for $150, sold out too though, bummer. Won’t pay $150 for white ones, when I like black ones better, and they had them for $130. Might as well buy black ones at Best Buy if they have them for $150 in that case.

Looks like I need to look for active bookshelf speakers. And then find some with a remote. Passive may be better, but for who? Not me most likely. Are soundbases “passive”? Well, they might just be soundbases, with optical or whatever. Not spending the money on passive speakers myself.

My TV does PCM, so don’t even need to convert digital. Pretty sure my TV has optical, I should check. But there’s a way to hook it up most likely without optical. And most TVs have optical and/or RCA. TV might even have RCA for all I know. Might need an optical cable though. Also older TVs likely have optical or RCA at least.

Looks like in town might be as cheap or cheaper then B&H.

Those speakers under $100 refurbished on eBay. Shipping might be slow though.

Well, wasn’t on the right manufacture site as well. Was wondering if they sold them directly. The site I found on the other site, redirects to (edifier-online.com)[https://edifier-online.com/]

$130 on their site for wood ones. Or white ones I think. And more speakers to look at. If shipping is fast enough, whatever that is, then I suppose ordering directly from them is fine. Just have to find a converter, either online or in town. The shipping should say about the same time as the speaker shipping. If they both say two days, then worth the wait, even if it all takes three days. But if you order something on eBay and directly from them, you might get speakers and then a week later get the other thing you need.

$120 refurbished, I like refurbished anyways, might as well save another $10 if I buy online. Might be the cheapest ones, without Bluetooth. Not paying more for Bluetooth. And they have a cable for $15 that might work for connecting TV. So if they ship both together in the same box, you get it at the same time. You only got to wait one week or whatever.

But it it regular or mini? Cause the speakers might only be mini, and I can’t click the mini one.

Probably the wrong cable, cause that speaker seems to only have RCA. Do they got an adapter? Or better RCA to optical?

RCA to RCA and RCA to 3.5mm, don’t know if TV has 3.5mm either.

Do they have an all in one speaker? Either with optical, or comes with everything like the optical to that other plug for $15. If it has optical, then it should come with optical cable. And depends how much it costs. Otherwise, do it the hard way.

Home Theater speakers too expensive from them.

Hmm, passive speakers for under $90. But then I need something likely to connect them and so on.

D12 Integrated Stereo Speaker sort of looks like a soundbar, but smaller then most. Line out, more speakers or subwoofer with that. So sort of better then the other ones anyways. Cost $180 though.

I need to talk to somebody that likely knows more about speakers, especially this kind of speakers. Cause they might know a cheaper brand, that’ll be just fine for me. Or a better brand that costs the same. Or where to go in town. Better could mean anything to anybody though, but if they know more, might as well be better for me too. And I’m talking about the more technical part as well. I’m not even sure the best way to get what I want. I just know, not a fucking soundbar. I don’t like soundbars.

Well, might need the mini cable for that thing, as the regular isn’t 3.5mm. Will any optical to 3.5mm cable work? Cause the mini cable I can’t click. Also, you might need a converter anyways. Don’t even know what their mini cable is, cause I can’t click it.

Doesn’t need to be big, cause I don’t need it loud. Isn’t bigger louder? Well, that’s what the ladies scream.

Well, they have some Bluetooth speakers for $100, not sure about the remote. Less watts. What do the watts mean for speakers? No idea. Louder? Well, then less watts might be fine, but I need a remote. And don’t even need Bluetooth.

No remote, too lazy to stand up as well.

Well, I think I’ll probably end up ordering some or all the stuff online. Cause I doubt anywhere in town, has enough shit to look at anyways. Best Buy might not have speakers or even the converter. Though if I really think I’ll need the converter and go there, then I’ll probably get it. But I should just find something online, that isn’t Insignia. Their HD docks work great, but I’m not sure they know much about audio. Also need to figure out if I can just get a optical to 3.5mm cable or RCA. The TV has PCM, in fact it’s set like that.

Hmm $144 for white, or $180 for wood. Not a big fan of the white one, but might be worth buying anyways. The $144 is refurbished. And it has a remote, almost forgot to check. But still might sell out before I can order it anyways. Still got to talk to somebody that knows more. Might just need to say what I want, and they’ll know what is the cheapest option.

Two speakers, maybe a subwoofer, and for the TV. No fucking soundbar.

Well, even if my sister can’t reinstall Windows, if whatever happened, happens again, she said she didn’t care about data. Doing a loop and not booting. Needed to see if it was a hardware problem, doesn’t appear to be. It’ll be easier for me now. Especially if the recovery partition gets corrupted, and the drive is fine.

She might need it fixed sooner next time, like same day. And if the drive dies, and it’s soldered, well, I can’t fix that easily. Might cost somebody a lot of money. And no PCs aren’t better then Macs, there’s plenty of PCs with soldered shit. If all I want is USB 4.0 and maybe AMD, not that matters anymore, but I may want more RAM, I should be able to get a cheap laptop with USB 4.0 and upgrade the RAM if I ever decide to. Makes no sense that AMD and USB 4.0 is so damn expensive. Well, maybe not if you get it soldered.

But don’t need USB 4.0 anyways. Need open source firmware. Most likely, it’ll play retro games, good enough for me. No computer is fine as well. Also, if I can’t just buy the damn game, put it in system and play, then no thanks. Not relying on the internet for entertainment anymore either.

Hmm might have had a optical to RCA thing, no idea though. Too lazy to look. Probably gone anyways.

They make an all in one cable, probably gets power from USB to convert the digital to analog. That might look worse then the little box though. And the cables sticking out of Uranus.

They do make a DAC with a remote control and Bluetooth. Then I don’t need speakers with a remote maybe. Turn the speakers up all the way I guess. Then turn the volume way down on the other thing. What about passive speakers? They might have no volume control on them.

Is Rockville any good? $60, so more then Insignia. But looks like it might do more crap. It’s got a volume control too. Well, Crutchfield doesn’t have that model, do they have anything from that brand? They might only have audiophile crap, and a soundbase sounds good to me, so I don’t need anything on their site possibly then.

Need to look at those cheap passive speakers, I assume you get two, it says speakers. On Crutchfield, it says each or pair for stuff.

Passive speakers with an active sound profile, whatever that means.

Speaker wire only, didn’t think it’d have RCA or optical anyways. But do they have just an amp that converts optical and has a remote? Cause a full blown receiver, well I’d have to find a cheap one, as I see no point for 2 speakers.

Pyle doesn’t seem like a very good brand. But they probably have something cheap enough that’ll work. Fosi might be better, but can I buy not on eBay or Amazon?

Somebody on Reddit may have mentioned Fosi, and they sure got opinions on Reddit.

Fosi can be bought from them, assuming I’m on their site. But do they ship from the US?

Well, that thing looks better, but it’s $85. Only RCA. So I’d need speakers with RCA. But probably way better then the $30 Insignia thing. And has sub out, so I could get the first speakers I found for $120 refurbished.

And also, all it does is decode. So speakers with speaker wire, how are you going to control the volume with an amp? How much is an amp with a remote? Well, they got amps on their site. Do they got a decoder and amp built in one? Or is that a “receiver”?

You might have to pay $150 for anything with a remote that is some kind of amp from them though.

$80 will get you Bluetooth, but no IR.

So maybe the opinion I read is everything more expensive is better. In that case, I need it made in Japan, cause they make good shit there. And also, if it’s not made in Japan, why is it expensive? They might have no refurbished stuff either.

Should look that other brand up. See if it can be bought not on eBay. I might have something from Pyle though, but not sure what it is anymore, forgot. Probably a pre amp. Or something. No remote though pretty sure.

Well, somebody could search for “Rockville reddit”, and then they’ll probably find out they suck, cause it doesn’t cost enough. Well, better off asking somebody I know then Reddit.

This brand has more stuff in my price range. And one is only 2.1 channels. I don’t want Bluetooth though. Cause I don’t want to read the manual before I buy it. Or at all. And no optical on that nice looking sold out on their site one. Hmm $70 + $30 + $120. Need optical converter for $30 or less if you buy it on eBay. Also, if that thing has a remote, then it might have speaker wire outputs. In that case around $80 for speakers, should see if they have those refurbished, so I can pay maybe $45 instead. Pictures don’t work on their site in my browser.

Why is that fancy amp in the receiver section? Don’t think it has a remote, yet it has Bluetooth. You got to go to a different site to find all info, if you use LibreWolf anyways.

What is the reverb site? Might be used stuff, cause it says listing ended. Or new and used stuff, might be like eBay then.

Don’t think that has a remote anyways. Well, they got something for $200, that might be everything you need. But those speakers don’t look as good as the ones I found. Look like cheapo plastic.

All their “receivers” have Bluetooth apparently.

Don’t know nothing about reverb. Should ask about that too. Maybe they’ve heard of it. But if they take PayPal, what can go wrong? Except for shipping out of the US.

Search for dac on that site, and you’ll see how much people spend on audio. A lot of the stuff I saw said used, and some is over a grand. How much did they pay? Over a grand? If it’s really old, it might cost over a grand as well. And might not be a good site to find new stuff on either. Unless you have the model number.

eBay might be the cheapest place, but then you might get to wait the longest to.

If this eBay store is really, direct why is it more on their site? Also, there’s stolen shit on eBay. What’s a sookshelf speaker? Well, could be the direct store, it’s not what I searched for. Let’s see if Fosi has anything with a remote that’ll work with passive speakers. Cause the speakers that aren’t passive, have a remote anyways. Also I should search for the converter thing from this “direct” seller too. Some of the stuff on eBay says refurbished in title, but open box under it. Open box if it works sure, refurbished if it says it is, is more likely to work, if the manufacture refurbished it.

Well they have something for over $140. Or I mean over $150. Now how much is it refurbished by the manufacture? Cause their site didn’t seem to have anything refurbished on it. And you need RCA or XLR on the speakers, or you know convert it. Might as well just try finding the converter decoder thing for less, like refurbished. Cause it looks better then Insignia.

Their site has a refurbished page, I found it by searching for “Fosi Audio refurbished”. You just need to know what menu to look under on their site. Might be the Explore whatever one.

If you don’t need a remote and know you don’t need a subwoofer, they got something for $60 refurbished. It has Bluetooth, but no remote. Also, if using optical, you got to convert to RCA. How do I convert the volume controls on it to IR? Well, you may need to make a robot. Or open it up and modify it.

Hmm wifi and ethernet, might be some way to send audio from a computer to it. But probably not my game consoles. But then I can just buy the $120 speakers, and plug directly into a computer. Does the Atari VCS have 3.5mm or RCA? Cause then I could maybe find something to plug the optical into the Atari VCS. Cause you know, nothing makes sense to do it any way or any other way. They got USB DAC things as well.

If this thing has AirPlay or something, maybe the Apple TV could send audio to it. But what about the consoles? No idea if any of them do any network audio. Probably not, cause it would likely result in latency. Well, it has AUX in, so you know, convert the audio from the TV into it. And then you know, send the audio from the stuff you can send audio from to it. And while you’re at it, get yourself a tin foil hat.

Well, the Apple TV can send audio over Bluetooth, and some or all my consoles can as well. That’ll add latency likely as well. It does AirPlay, and also DLNA, so I can send shit from my phone if I wanted to. But says something about NAS too, so my file storage stuff might be accessible as well. And also, no TV needs to be on to listen to music. But I have headphones.

Might not be refurbished, but says I can get 30% off, can I get 30% off the converter thing and both? Cause now I need both, something for the TV, and something to use speakers without the TV on. And without having to try and fuck around with the Atari VCS without the TV on. And without SSH. And without setting something up, so I can just send shit to it. Or you know, select shit without the TV. Hmm, DLNA, will it be sending from my phone, or just be controlling it? I think controlling, which means that’s better then fucking with the Atari VCS anyways. It’s got it’s own DLNA. No need to install anything.

Doesn’t say anything about the code on the other thing. Now to look at their dongle things. I could just look at my dongle though. That’s for headphones. Might just have to get a cheapo ugly one.

How much is a DLNA thing? Cause the speakers or the other one, might have more then one input. And that’s probably cheaper, and makes more sense, then buying the Fosi thing.

The D12 has AUX and RCA.

The speakers for $120, have dual RCA. Also they look better, cause they’re taller. Don’t some people like taller better? Longer, taller, same thing. They look like regular old speakers as well. Except nice regular old speakers.

Hmm, and DLNA would solve my problems with Kodi as well. And even having to use the Atari VCS. But a dongle with just HDMI, ain’t going to let me play music with the TV off.

Also, Kodi may be working good enough. So just need one with RCA or 3.5mm. Cause I think 3.5mm can be converted to RCA with an adapter. Unless it’s sending the wrong format. Also for video, I may or may not need 4k, depends if I ever want to watch something in 4k. Might as well just use the Atari VCS for that crap, since it does 4k. Need to search “dlna rca”. Also, maybe find it not on eBay first. Then if I can’t find to buy anywhere else, eBay.

That site lists a bunch, that cost way too much. In that case, use the Atari VCS. If it has 3.5mm or something. Cause I might just need to wake it up, and control Kodi from the app, the best part or maybe only good part about Kodi. But now I’m wondering how much DLNA music players are. If they even make any cheap ones. Or maybe DLNA is too expensive.

Seems like DLNA would be better, if you aren’t using Apple, Google, Microsoft.

Why do I need an amp or anything? I just need DLNA.

So Bluetooth is cheaper then DLNA for music? Interesting. Oh right, it needs WiFi or Ethernet to play music. I think everybody wants spyware now, like AirPlay, Google Cast or whatever.

Now to see if I can find the Fosi Audio Q6 Desktop DAC for less. And then I’ll just get the $120 speakers. So hopefully they have enough bass for me. Oh wait, that’s the converter/decoder with sub out. So I can still get a subwoofer, if I ever need one. I’ll buy a cheap used one though if I need one. Now to look for Reddit opinions, to see if anybody recommends something for under $85 for optical to RCA. Probably not. Haha, didn’t even have to click anything, and somebody is recommending something for $100, but that was three years ago.

Might be easier to just spend $205 + tax though. Unless the person I know, knows something more. Like cheaper speakers, cheaper DAC. Cheaper whatever. That isn’t a soundbar.

Oh yeah Monoprice. Just don’t buy on their site. They claim that nobody got my card info from their site. No idea. Not worth the risk. They are on eBay though. Is it cheaper then $85? Cause Insignia might be junk. Reddit mentions something for $60, an old model. Possibly a year ago they posted that. Some old Fosi stuff on eBay too. Just didn’t click any of it yet. Wait Q4 is for headphones, not optical. Well, maybe no old Q6 thing then.

Maybe monoprice doesn’t sell all their stuff on eBay, or I still don’t know what to search for. They got some speakers for $280 with optical inputs and even subwoofer output. Got any cheaper ones with just subwoofer output and optical input? And don’t forget, the remote.

Under $10 for optical to RCA from Monoprice. Why do some cost $85 then? That’s coaxial. Guess I should search optical to analog. Or digital to analog. $22.99, somehow cheaper then Best Buy. Oh wait, Best Buy isn’t very cheap. Might look the same, probably is the same. Sold out from Monoprice, and Newegg wants $40.

Another brand is Fiio. Looks like the Monoprice one. Their site sucks though. Might only be $20 for the Fiio D03K. Might not be a current one though. Now who sells their stuff in the US? Cause I can’t find a list of sellers on their site, cause their site sucks. I found the page on their site, by searching a search engine.

Chinese manufacture, but most stuff is made in China anyways. If it’s not made in Japan, then there’s no point in paying extra. Also, I should have just searched for that brand on B&H. Cause they list them. Too expensive. Sescom looks like Monoprice one as well, and it costs $60 or so on B&H.

R1380DB those should work fine $135 or so refurbished. Damn, sold out refurbished. $170, still better then buying converters and crap. More then one input. Also, if I don’t want to listen to music with headphones, I can use my ZVOX anyways. And if you have issues getting speakers to work right, not sure it’s the speakers fault. Cause they got them to work. Also, what can possibly go wrong? Trying to use Bluetooth? Sounds good to me, cause I don’t want Bluetooth.

Bad tech support? Lots of people do that. And it might be fine, even though it has Bluetooth. Might not always be on from what it looks like. Did all my soundbars do that? Or just the ones with Bluetooth or just one brand? No idea. But the soundbase might have had that problem too. Different brand.

How long is “standard” shipping? Cause I don’t want to pay $20 for faster shipping.

Well, Best Buy has some speakers same brand, optical input for $200. It has an s at the end of the model. Better? No idea. If they actually have them, I don’t have to wait that long at all. So I might just go to Best Buy first.

Windows breaks itself, you might be able to “repair” it, but she said she didn’t care about data. Well, shouldn’t have reinstalled it, as the touchpad on the laptop wasn’t even working in the installer.

I forgot Windows needs lots of drivers. Now I have to use a VM on my desktop, to add drivers to the wim file. Doing so with Windows, is probably easier then in Linux. If it’s even possible in Linux, too lazy to keep searching as well.

My custom flash drive boots, but to boot anything other then Windows, I had to disable secure boot. Didn’t try enrolling the key though. Cause Windows 11 installer booted. The touchpad and WiFi both work in Linux without installing any driver. Surprised the flash drive works though.

And to run a power shit script, you have to right click the script and run it that way, as if you open the power shit shell thing, it says you don’t have permission. Nope, not fucking around with Windows to enable permissions to run a script either. Have to extract the exe files from Lenovo’s site, for the drivers, doing so with Linux or 7z in Windows isn’t going to work. The script does all the drivers all at once as well. And I didn’t have to make the script either, don’t know how to make anything in Windows or for Windows.

Well, good reason to not go to college though. I don’t want a Mac or Windows. And you likely need one or the other.

Apparently Windows is slow, at least in a VM. Think it’s Windows 10. Don’t plan on updating the VM, especially if it costs me money.

Also, don’t like malware anyways.

Might go to college though if there’s a massive internet outage, cause then you won’t need any computer to go, might be no power as well. Nothing like making the education system rely on the internet.

The Windows VM disk image is on a NVMe drive. Well, external. Might not be a very good drive, nor a very fast external port. But either way, it’s slow. And I’m blaming Windows.

Well, Christmas is apparently the day of diarrhea. Got home, had the runs. Ate a piece of fudge, more runs. And if I can’t eat certain things with lactose in it, that’s not a good solution, cause it went away. Might as well say it’s random.

Well, the read speed on this SanDick flash drive is fine, let’s see how long it takes to copy the ISO files to it. Somebody claims, you only need a FAT32 partition, and the Windows files to boot. Well, hmm, might need to be exfat though. Good luck with FAT32, that install.wim is over 7 GB. Well, let’s see if exfat will boot. Otherwise, I’ll have to find a way to make an ISO, just to write it with woeusb. Or can woeusb use a folder instead of a ISO?

My PNY is super slow. Won’t buy a flash drive based on brand name, cause I’ve even had SanDick die. That may have been the last one I bought as well.

She needs a flash drive, to backup homework, and to reinstall Windows, if it shits itself again.

If SanDick is faster, then I should buy a 256 GB one, and put all the PNY files on it. Cause the PNY is way too slow. I’ll keep it as a backup though.

Hmm, her laptop has a lot of RAM and space, for just basic homework. Guess Windows needs 32 GB of RAM, I think that’s how much it is. No wonder Windows sucks ass.

The small files, none of the Windows installer crap yet, was fast enough. If it can stay at 50 MB/s, then it’s probably faster. Then again, 10 MB/s is probably faster. USB 3.0 on flash drives can be useless.

Down to 30 MB/s or less, probably not worth buying a SanDick for speed, at least not a cheap one.

No issues ejecting, but I was eating a cookie probably when it finished. Either way, the PNY would still be blinking, and not let me eject it. Not sure why I ate a cookie though, not hungry. Probably cause they taste good. Was going to eat dinner, until I ate a piece of fudge, and more diarrhea came out.

Got some Whiskey flavored fudge too. Might only be able to eat one piece of that. It’s a good Christmas present for somebody that is always talking about whiskey, and making whiskey jokes. Don’t drink whiskey though. Might need to take another runny dump though.

Also, KDE is buggy, it crashed after I ejected the flash drive. Now how do I make this bootable without making a damn ISO?

Well, maybe change to GPT to first, not sure dos works with UEFI anyways. You can set it to be bootable, but not sure that’ll fix it.

I might get a new soundbar though, since no soundbases are sold anymore new. Won’t be Vizio, this one had good reviews, but sounds about the same as most soundbars. And don’t need Atmos. Mom might want it. All I see it doing is taking up room, and speaker wire for the rear speakers plugged into subwoofer. 2.1 channels is plenty for a small apartment, and then I can get a smaller soundbar, and put more crap on the coffee table that soundbar lives on. Or it might come with a wall mount too. I don’t know where the Vizio one is, and that doesn’t solve speaker wire problem. Bose has some on sell. My Bose headphones sound fine. The main reason will be it’s under $200, and it’s small. And there’s a chance I’ll actually like it, non like all the Vizio ones I’ve had. And the Yamaha one I had. And don’t know what other brands if any. The TV speakers might work too, but that might also be worse.

And to make it bootable, you have to have two partitions. I was trying to avoid using Grub. Oh well. And now it’s slowly unmounting.

Well, a small USB SSD would be faster. I have a good SATA SSD enclosure, but good luck finding a good cheap SATA SSD in town. Apparently you can’t resize exfat.

That crashed KDE too. Gparted did.

That reminds me, I took photos, I need to copy those to my computer.

If I get a new soundbar, it’ll be using optical most likely, won’t pay a premium for something I don’t need, like ARC and a HDMI input. Not using a HDMI port just for the soundbar either.

Oddly chainloading to a FAT32 partition works, but exfat doesn’t. So the Grub doc, should say FAT32 works, but exfat doesn’t. I split the file with wimsplit, and copying the installer to it’s own partition, and created a big exfat partition she can use for whatever. Still waiting for it to finish, to see if this works. I could use Ventoy, but that might not work at all. Doesn’t on my computer.

Tested it in my VM, and exfat doesn’t work in there either. The internet is a liar, that AI doesn’t know what secure boot is.

Might have had a Philips soundbar too, that might not have been loud enough, or the dialogue was no good at all. Looks like it’s trying to boot the installer now in VM. Looks like it works, now I can pee.

Nice, reinstalled, WiFi works, but still no working touchpad. Not even in installer, and I modified the boot.wim too. Guess I won’t reinstall until the touchpad works in the installer. And maybe I should delete the Grub partition as well, probably not even needed.

Downloaded the FN one and the Wacom one. And they’re extracted. Now to check in that Windows crap if it’s actually in the wim files. Might need to remove the built in touchpad crap, as it may be conflicting. Got to love Windows.

An easier solution, since Lenovo and Microsoft are both dicks, find the fucking NOVO button. In that case, I can remove the fucking Windows from the fucking flash drive, and she can have one big fucking partition. But why can’t I just use the Windows installer?

And touchpad not working, might be a common problem. With Windows 11 update. But I’ll try FN + F6 first, or just F6. All that does is brightness. Don’t think it has a NOVO button either.

Maybe it needs a bios update. Or maybe the bios can install the shitty drivers it needs. Looks like it’s F2 or FN + F2. Don’t think I will update bios, considering, Windows breaks itself.

LOL NOVO button hole is on the bottom, that above link might not have said that. The manual for this laptop does though. Hmm, wonder if it can create a working USB drive, since the one from Microsoft doesn’t work apparently. And I don’t want to fuck around in a Windows VM trying to fix it. NOVO it is. Or F2.

Well, ran the troubleshooter in the NOVO menu, and it’s resetting. Slower then reinstalling. Going to make a proper ISO once it’s done, if the touchpad works. Problem is, you have to connect to internet to use it at all. Malware as far as I’m concerned. Well, USB ethernet it is.

And Windows 11, may have gotten rid of them mouse in the setup.

It’s most likely reinstalled from the recovery partition, I only touched the big partition. Guess I have to connect to internet to see if the mouse works. Pretty fucking stupid. How do I get it working in the installer though?

Well it’s downloading updates, more like malware. Think I used the Switch USB ethernet, which must be blocked from internet. Found another one. Not using my laptop one, cause I don’t want it to use that IP.

Maybe an update fixed it. So going to see if I can somehow get the updates on the ISO, so when it’s done, I’ll have a working USB installer possibly. In case the NOVO menu craps itself. Like the drive corrupts itself or dies.

The easiest way to get the updates, is from Windows 11 apparently. Hopefully it’s done and the touchpad works.

Mouse works, but still not in installer. And apparently MS now requires you to login with an online account to use it. Now looking for a bypass.

Nice, Rufus might come in handy. But can it get the updates? Cause I need the updates, to make an ISO, in case the drive craps itself.

Well it’s fixed, took a long time though. Can think of one or two ways that may have fixed it faster as well.

Well, soundbases might not be available new anymore. The one I have for my computer should still work which is a ZVOX. I had one for my TV, which started with an F, would have had to pay to ship it to Canada to get it fixed. Assuming what I read was right, but seeing as the same thing happened to somebody else, there’s no point in paying to get it fixed. Who knows when that died. That is likely long gone, as I put it in the dumpster a long time ago.

Looks like to get good sound for cheap, you basically need a receiver and speakers now.

This soundbar with Dolby Atmos, probably the most expensive sound thing I’ve had, and I like the soundbases better. My headphones might as well be better too. Hmm, using my headphones might solve my audio issues as well.

The HDMI switch I have, or one of them, is annoying, it uses the same codes as the soundbar, meaning you can turn off the soundbar just by changing inputs on the HDMI switch. One reason not to buy anything on Amazon, too much junk.

If I want to buy a HDMI switch with Dolby Atmos, that’ll cost $120, if you want one that might not be junk. And aren’t buying on Amazon. The Fosmon one might do Dolby Atmos, which is $43, or maybe less on eBay. Could be better then this one. Or just pay $55 for the one from B&H. And enjoy possible audio latency.

The Fosmon one doesn’t say anything about audio on their site apparently. Probably a cheapo brand as well.

But if I don’t want Dolby Atmos, I can get a 4k one for $20 or less.

Oh and HDMI can lick my smelly stinky asshole. The DRM might be the reason HDMI 2.1 doesn’t work with the open source driver in Linux. Good luck finding a TV with DisplayPort in the US. Well, I think I’ll avoid upgrading my TV. To upgrade to HDMI 2.1 for only the stuff you want isn’t possible, you get the DRM crap too.

My TV might not support variable refresh rate anyways, I think I remember noticing that in the game menu before, it says variable refresh rate: no. No idea why it bothers saying that though, if it doesn’t even support it. But if it does support it, either the HDMI switch and/or soundbar don’t. Or a cable. Don’t know if I ever plugged something directly into the TV that supports that. Don’t even know if the Apple TV supports it either.

Where are the don’t tread on me people? Oh yeah, watching their 100" TV with a HDMI source. Well, DRM is great for controlling what people can watch on their own TV, including the news. They just need to make a show people want to watch, then people will “upgrade” their shit, spend a bunch of money, and can no longer watch anything old they have. And depending on if or when that happens, all the people that could crack it, might no longer be alive anyways. Also, why spend money if you need to crack it?

Speaking of, I’m pretty sure there’s boxes you can buy to crack HDMI, or whatever you want to call it. Hmm, so the DRM doesn’t even work.

Also, not looking on Amazon for a soundbase.

Best Buy might have something for $700. No thanks. Cheaper to buy a subwoofer + two speakers + receiver, most likely.

I don’t think I actually liked any of my soundbars, therefore, they were all a big waste of money.

And since they got rid of soundbases, I’d go very cheap on a receiver. But I probably won’t bother. Preferably with no Bluetooth, as then you have to make sure somebody can’t just connect to it, when not even using the Bluetooth input. Luckily, it should be configured like that on this soundbar. After I did something most likely. Should come like that by default though. And all this shit about “security”.

Got to encode the rest of the shows I haven’t watched, should have thought of that after I thought I may have fixed my script. Ahh well, might as well re encode the other files again too. I could re encode everything, but I already watched it. Just want the chapters working, so I can skip commercials easier. Too lazy to modify script so it doesn’t re encode crap it doesn’t need to. Wouldn’t take much to do so though.

Not sure I like Kodi or not, the main problem, is apparently video files have to be encoded correctly when using ffmpeg. Apparently Handbrake is easier to do that with.

There’s always gmrender-resurrect, and if it’s still available in Debian, apparently it uses that code. Only using Kodi for Jellyfin, so Kodi might be overkill anyways.

Finally remembered to get the picture I took off my camera, well, two photos, but only one is probably usable. Need to fix the eyes though. Either red eye wasn’t/isn’t on, or doesn’t work on dog eyes.

Might need to reboot or turn off laptop as well, that short expensive cable from Best Buy kind of sucks, if I open the desk to get card reader.

And Digikam might be useless, for dog eyes. Looks yellow, not red. Enable preview on mouse over, and on somebody’s sweater, it changes that too. Or I mean all the sweaters. Well, I’ll send an image with just the colors “fixed” as well. They said it was fine. But doesn’t look like what I saw with my eyes, the white balance was likely wrong, because they had a lamp on. Well, RAW images are nice. Yellow eyes, not so much.

This lens has vignetting. Well, lens wasn’t $1,000, so who cares. Just use the auto correction thing, apparently it supports this lens and camera. Need something else for removing yellow dog eyes. Cause this thing ain’t working, and I’m too lazy to fuck with it.

Found instructions for using Gimp, but no idea how to select a medium sized edge paintbrush. Well, off to bed I go.

And haven’t taken photos so long, I should have titled flash up, and then I’d just need to increase the power most likely, instead of decrease. Also, haven’t used this Panasonic camera much, now I have three folders, and not much in any of them. Maybe they want me to retake the pictures or not. Might be easier then fixing the eyes.

The easiest way to get the voicemail to say your name to all calls, is to record a voicemail. Otherwise you need to manually add every contact, and then also know all future numbers.

That’s a problem if you want to use it for voicemail from a different phone number.

All I could find is old info, and just setting the name doesn’t solve anything. Made a new XMPP account on a different server, and then instead of saying my Jabber ID, it said the JMP.chat phone number.

Well, saying the JMP.chat number, or my Jabber ID, would probably result in some people not leaving a message. As then they’d think they dialed the wrong number.

You could use Asterisk or something with it probably, but do you need ports open?

You can get free Snikket hosting, but you have to contact JMP.chat support to get it. Does that need ports open? Probably. Guess I might just have to contact them, eventually. Or not. Just leave the damn thing as it is. Not fucking around with a VPN so it can be accessed from anybody. I’ll be able to access it over the VPN, is that good enough though? No idea.

And looks like Snikket needs ports open, bummer. No idea how to configure the VPN thing I use to do that anyways.

Apparently comchap doesn’t work. I’d have to edit it to make it work, or convert the audio. Not sure what the point in using comchap is actually. Just take the commands you need from it, then modify them, and then put it in my own script. Or maybe not. Don’t want that much crap in the file. Just remove everything I don’t need. And then do the chapter thing with the encoding I already do.

Got to love this outdated search engine, comchap isn’t even needed most likely anymore. Just output to ffmeta. And if you tell it to only show results from the last year, you don’t even get that many results. This search engine is not private. I bet if you search wit it, with some other browser, you’ll have no issues. Looks like I might as well ditch this search engine.

A bunch of options available in comskip.ini can be found here. The official site link, doesn’t work anymore, a nice 404 error.

Was looking for a comskip alternative, apparently it’s still basically the only thing.

Apparently, if you don’t set it up with XMPP, you can get Snikket without contacting them. Might have to contact them to do it now though, bummer.

Looks like my script works, at least the one to re encode a bunch of crap. Modified the other script, but won’t test it till this one is done. And at least one video failed to encode. Should have sent the output to a txt file, it’s long gone now. But then I’d have a giant text file.

There’s this, which can run in Podman. But uses Asterisk, which might need ports open. But there might be a way, without opening ports as well.

Dear Alien Overlords,

I have a simple request, about reincarnation. When I reincarnate, I’d like a dick, a vagina, and balls, and titties.

I’d also like some memories, or one memory. The memory of my purpose of having all those parts. My purpose will be for every time I reincarnate, to be a fucking machine.

I might need another memory as well, that I don’t give a fuck about who has what parts, including myself. Cause if I have an issue with having any parts, I may be unable to fulfill my prophecy. Also, can you outlaw everywhere I can reincarnate, the law that allows newborns to have unnecessary surgery against their will? Cause if you don’t, I may be unable to fulfill my prophecy.

Now if I can’t be a human, with all those parts, can I be a species that has all those parts? Well, that’s in a humanoid body. Also, the same if I can’t have any memories.

Also, where do I find more people that want all those parts as well? Cause, then we can have massive orgies. Especially, if all our purpose is the same, to be a fucking machine. I guess those people, will have to write their own letter.

Another human’s paradise, is another human’s nightmare.

Thank you for your time Alien Overlords.

One more thing, if the above happens, then I can go fuck myself easier. Oh I would have needed to request a very bendable cock possibly. I can then ask whoever tells me to go fuck myself, “would you like that on video?”, if video’s a thing wherever I am then. Can’t fuck myself most likely as I am, cause my dick probably doesn’t bend too well. And also, too lazy to try. In that case, I also would have needed to request not to be able to get pregnant as well. But that’s what birth control is for. Or surgery you do want.

No I didn’t put this on the wrong site either, I put whatever I want on any one of my sites, whenever I want.

Now to take my medicine, before I forget to like yesterday.

Damn, I forgot to put the song part in the request, oh well. But only applies, if we have a massive orgy.

Hmm, scratch the memory part. More fun, to see what happens, if I know nothing. I might be a fucking machine every life anyways. Good thing there’s no size requirements for anything, that’s boring. And if I reincarnate in Paradise, maybe I’ll just fuck myself for an eternity. Unless, I have no body.

I’ll only believe the Alien Overlords. As a human getting the required evidence, probably isn’t possible in one lifetime. They’d have to find the original equipment on a lot of people, past, present, and future.

And also, didn’t know until recently, that somebody could be born with a vagina and balls. They probably have a scar, to prove they had surgery. Who said what the surgery was for? It’s still a lie though. I’ll believe the person, because there’s people that have a dick and vagina. They aren’t too happy that they had an unnecessary surgery, thanks to their parents, and the law for allowing it. Or maybe weren’t happy, depends if they care anymore.

If I had a scar down there, I’d be pissed too. Unless I consented to the surgery.

But you know what some people don’t want to be legal? People under 18 taking hormones. Then it’ll be everybody after that. No wonder people don’t want a ban on abortion, they aren’t stopping at abortion. Don’t know where they’re at yet, as I don’t watch the news anymore.

Also, how do I get all political BS out of my head? Ahh, I should have requested, a political blocker in my head for all future lives anywhere with politics. I don’t want any of it, none from any party, or anything else that is political. Then I can live in peace, until whatever happens happens. Oh wait, too late. Well, might work in a future life, if there’s politics. Now how do I make a political blocker for my brain? There’s always memory loss as well. Might be better to wait for what a politician said happens though.

I wonder what options I need to change though. Looking at the script, I don’t see much that would matter. Guess I need to add options.

Will it work on bare metal and everything? It depends, does everything let you enroll the key? If no, then the answer is no. I don’t even know if my sister’s laptop will let me do that.

I’ll just try, it’ll work or not. I will buy another flash drive though, therefore I can put Linux and then Windows on that flash drive, and do it that way. Since I don’t want to wipe this flash drive and copy everything back over, too slow.

Apparently you have to use woeusb, or something similar, apparently using just dd does not work. I might have knew that, but I clearly forgot. Well, I had woeusb installed, so yeah, I probably knew at some point for some reason.

The command for that I used woeusb –partition /path/to/win.iso /dev/sdj3. Might work with a loop device, no idea if Grub will be able to boot that though. Yes, you can boot raw img files, but with Windows? I don’t know. The installer boots, but does it fully work? I don’t know if the way I’m doing it that either. All I know, is the installer won’t actually work.

I could test it on one of my computer’s, but I spent plenty of energy, trying to make this work, even after I thought it must not be possible. Well, when you search the internet, if you don’t search right, you don’t find what you want.

Also, then I might spend a shit ton of time making it work bare metal. Doesn’t seem like a good use of energy. Opening a VM or rebooting the VM, is not only faster, easier as well. Well, maybe easier, cause you don’t have to wait as long. The HP laptop actually might be slower then this desktop as well when rebooting. Cause of all the “security”.

How secure does anybody actually think anything is? iPhones have malware, Android and so on. If somebody really wants to hack something, they are likely going to succeed eventually. But I guess “peace of mind” might mean something to some people. Got bigger things to worry about then “peace of mind”.

And yes, Apple is a liar, and their privacy, security, environment, those are at least three of their lies. Hmm, if Apple was lying, now Google is lying, and Microsoft might require Secure Boot for Windows 11, they are most likely lying as well.

The shim-install command I used is shim-install –removable –no-nvram –bootloader-id=Grub –efi-directory=/path/to/efi/partition –config-file=/path/to/grub.cfg. And if not using openSUSE Tumbleweed, you might not have shim-install. If using Arch Linux, they might have a command that’ll work. Or just run grub2-install with correct options, and don’t use disable-shim-lock, and then copy the shim to it manually, and make sure the Grub efi isn’t boot whatever efi. If it is, well you need to know what the shim is looking for, in openSUSE Tumbleweed, I think it’s grub.efi maybe.

And I probably signed that file and nothing else with sbctl sign /path/to/boot.efi. Or did I sign the shim and the grub? And does the Shim even need to be signed?

Looks like I signed three files, according to the history command, grub.efi, bootx64.efi, MokManager.efi.

And you can export the sbctl keys, and I’d copy the entire folder to the EFI partition. I might have more then one key installed, and you might only need one. If I get that far when I try fixing her laptop, well I’ll find out. You probably need to export them for them to be in the right format. Otherwise, you might get a nice error trying to enroll them.

And to boot Windows 11 installer that’s on a partition on my flash drive, I use the below: menuentry "Windows 11" { insmod chain insmod exfat insmod part_gpt search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 3759-E978 chainloader /efi/boot/bootx64.efi }

You can get the correct UUID with blkid /dev/partition. And not sure the insmod exfat is needed, probably not, as it’s using FAT32 I’m pretty sure.

Also, I tried with NTFS, thought it had the module, but it just said unknown partition, and couldn’t do much. So I’d just use FAT32. Does Windows 11 use FAT32 itself for the EFI crap? Well, probably. Otherwise, a lot of computers wouldn’t be able to boot it. I think I read that not all computers support booting NTFS.

Also, thought I read the chainloader didn’t work with shim, well it does in a VM. Well, probably didn’t read everything, or click the link. Somebody also said something about the chainloader shim and Linux. So you can’t boot Grub from Secure Boot Grub? Well, I can’t seem to get that to work, well Ventoy isn’t exactly Grub. I got it to say unofficial once. Then I got an error once, saying unsupported or something. Unsupported and they put code in to block you? Hmm, well the people that are doing that, can all likely find a way around it. If all the source code is available, then they can just remove the blocks as well. Also, I don’t know much of what I’m doing, I do know Ventoy seems to have grub.cfg files though. And somehow, I got it to say unofficial. And show a menu, but probably the wrong menu.

I wonder if those module things, work in Grub. Or if you get their thing in unofficial mode, and it’s loading your menu, and you try loading using the same stuff in the “official” config.

Well, that might be a good way, to get people to try harder to boot it. But I do know, that it won’t even boot my Linux ISOs on my laptop. Some memory error. Older version though. Might be out of memory, which clearly isn’t true. So it doesn’t even fully work, just was messing with it, if I couldn’t get Grub to boot Windows 11, don’t know if it can boot a Windows 11 ISO or not. Well, looks like you might just need Windows 11 installer on a partition, and use the right tool for the job.

Well, in that case, it may not be possible then. If you want to do the above bare metal. Easier to disable Secure Boot, but Windows 11 most likely requires it. And it’s not my laptop. Oh wait, I could disable Secure Boot, boot Linux, backup data she wants, then put Windows 11 on the flash drive I buy. And turn Secure Boot back on, and reinstall Windows.

Assuming it lets me disable Secure Boot. Oh and apparently there’s some other “secure” BS thing, that my flash drive might not work at all with, and if I can’t turn that off. Well, that’ll make this a big pain in the ass. Probably won’t be doing it at home, so I’ll have to use somebody’s computer. Guess if what I think is happening, they won’t care. But still annoying. If it can be disabled, then my flash drive might work. But don’t know shit about what that thing is, can’t remember what it’s called either. Just remember something, about something not working with it. Maybe the shim doesn’t work at all with it.

Well, I don’t think I’ll ever “upgrade” my computer. It’s bad enough that it has all this BS crap, that I can’t view the source code, nor can anyone else, like somebody that would understand it better then me. But better hope they aren’t a shill for somebody.

Better to understand all code yourself, and only rely on yourself with computers. But security doesn’t exist, so better to ditch tech.

Also why do I have a bunch of medicine ready? Well, better call my mom back, before I forgot again to tell her. And before I look at the CVS app, as then I might forget again. I thought only one thing was ordered, and don’t recognize all three or how ever many it is. One of them might be the heart burn, but wtf are the other two? Did my blood work come back already? Hmm, well need to tell her somebody called too. But no message left, couldn’t answer the phone, either in the bathroom or shower most likely. Don’t feel like looking number up. And also, not the right area code. Might just be my health care yet again.

I shouldn’t have answered the health care call once though. Then a day or so later, they call again. Then I have to say hello multiple times, I think now their phone doesn’t work, cuase then they asked something, didn’t hear what they asked, tried asking what they said, and apparently somebody hanged up or call dropped. Maybe they called back finally. Possibly from a different number as well. Not sure a VoIP service would solve this problem, as it might be on their end. Also, the “easy” way to get a VoIP, would be to port this number to it. And then Ultra Mobile will cancel my service. I’d have to ask them if I can port this number and get a new number, might cost money as well to do so, if I can. And I don’t really want a different service, or to have to resignup. Tello is cheaper, but I don’t really care.

I can’t even remember the exact reason for switching from Tello. Don’t really care though either. Probably should have just kept it actually. Lose my number if I kept Tello? Oh well. Well, they aren’t supposed to be able to do that, but this FCC or whoever’s is in charge of that, likely wouldn’t care. Unless it happens to a rich enough person. And they might own the cell service they’re using, so unlikely.

I was putting one of those flavor packets in my water, and she was acting how she does when I give her canned cat food or her treat.

Then I finally noticed, the packaging looks like her treat packaging.

Not really an intelligent thing, more of a paying attention thing.

Dogs don’t care about packing, as if they smell meat, they want it the most. Apparently my mom’s dogs, do nothing if she’s eating a salad with no meat. Chips they want too though. But not salads with no meat.

Not surprising cats and dogs pay attention to different things. And apparently some people just don’t pay much attention to anything. Maybe some dogs look at the packaging. Some cats probably don’t as well.

But these flavor packets are probably expensive. No sugar, and no artificial sweeteners, but have more flavor then most flavored waters. The only one with a chance might be Spindrift. They have 15 calories somehow, even without sugar. Don’t even know how they make this powder stuff.

Think when I looked at ingredients, it said it had vegetable juice or something in it. Mom gave me some to try. Didn’t even see her grab them at Costco. She doesn’t remember how much they were, and I never knew apparently.

Might not have stirred it up good enough. But all of it tasted good, so I must have. Some people might use more water though. I don’t think I’d use less water. Says between 8oz-16oz of water. My bottle is probably at least 16oz.

I like plain filtered water, as long as it mostly tastes like nothing, I like it. And apparently the cheaper PUR filters are capable of that. At least for my taste buds.

I need to find out how much these are though. If they cost more then $9.49 or whatever, then probably not worth it. I think she was going to get some Spindrift, but I didn’t want her to spend a bunch of money on anything I’ll be drinking. And if I’m the only one drinking it, she probably shouldn’t. Finally found a cheaper one, I think it’s the L brand, that I should be fine drinking all the flavors. Sucks when you get two flavors you don’t like, and there’s only three flavors. I sent her money, for one thing of those, and some garbage bags. Too expensive for me to get my own Costco card, wouldn’t really save any money. Not even enough money to shop for everything there. Not to mention, too much food for one person. Be throwing lots of food out. I did get one food thing. Hmm, how much was it though? I don’t know if either of us know. Should have paid for that too. Oh mayube $8. Too lazy to do math on what I gave her, I’ll just ask tomorrow.

I finally took a bloody dump, wasn’t sure I was going to shit today either. Guess I needed to go to the digestive doctor to get my bowels moving. Barely worked though, with that constipation. Didn’t do much anyways, talk, take blood, pickup poop catcher, schedule more stuff, that I may or may not do, probably will though, if I can.

I don’t care about them sticking a camera up my ass, and a camera down my throat to look in my stomach. The only method they know of. There’s theories about the government having secret tech and crap. No idea, and don’t really care. Clearly it’s a secret if they do, and the doctors aren’t in on anything.

Though I will say, if the doctor says they like sticking camera’s up asses, or think they are saying that, you should probably leave and find a new doctor. Didn’t happen to me, but sounded like somebody was saying that about their doctor. I don’t think I’d have it done. Charge me? Then I’m going bankrupt.

The reason is, there was some creep, that was filming women, I think their vagina, while he was doing whatever, he was or is a doctor.

If somebody is putting camera’s up asses, and filming it, well, they are probably filming more then my ass, and some people would have a real problem with that.

No idea what it even means if a doctor likes putting camera’s up asses though. Doesn’t seem like it’s good though.

Didn’t really need to wait as long to go though. But might in my mind prove that women are better then men. What happens when you’re a kid, will likely shape what you think as an adult. Women seem to care more, and are nicer, and so on. But that’s just what I’ve experienced, probably some people have had the opposite happen.

If I knew I’d get this doctor, and how she is, then I probably would have just gone way sooner. Could have been years sooner.

Don’t understand depression at all though. Don’t think the brain fog being worse now, has anything to do with the depression though. I seem to feel better then I’ve probably ever felt in my life. And no idea how 25mg of this medicine can do that. They said most people take 100mg or maybe even more.

She tried increasing it, mostly because I didn’t think it would last. Well, that didn’t work, probably felt worse, and puked once. Went down, and everything is better again. Glad I didn’t try the other medicine, you have to take with a certain amount of calories, basically when you eat. Well, if you don’t eat enough, you might be puking.

That reminds me, I wanted to see how much I weighed at the other doctor place last time, since I haven’t been weighing myself. Scale wasn’t working, thought batteries were dead, but put on charger, didn’t look that dead based on voltage. Never bothered putting batteries back in to see if it works or not. I even got some new triple A rechargeable batteries, a different brand as well, but still haven’t done it.

I’d rather buy a new scale, that I can use with an open source app. But probably can’t buy such a scale in town. Well, the doctor didn’t say I should weigh myself or anything, so I guess I probably won’t. Actually, not sure anybody has.

I also need to get rid of some old batteries, since I got some double A ones too. The remote seemed to be dying sooner, but with whatever ones these are, still hasn’t died. Might just eventually get rid of all the really old ones. Not sure you’ll get the recharge count if they’re 10+ years or something. But maybe these batteries had an issue, and just using them and recharging fixed it. Better then doing the refresh thing on my charger. Did that with new batteries, on a low current, and took over a day. I forgot about that, should have done it on the charge/discharge mode.

That might only do three things. No idea how much the refresh mode does. Maybe the charge/discharge mode, whatever it’s called, charges, discharges, and charges. I forgot though, and don’t pay much attention.

Batteries might last longer if you don’t use a high current to charge them.

China made batteries are a hit or miss, I know that, got some of the R brand ones, and might have only got one use out of all the batteries. If they cost more then non rechargeable, a big rip off. Luckily Energizer is Made in Japan, doesn’t mean they are as good as Eneloop, but might be good enough for me.

Some of my Eneloop batteries, are I think Sayno or Sanyo, who owned it before Panasonic. Well, I don’t even know how old those are then. Most of them might actually be before Panasonic bought them.

Ended up buying these at Ace Hardware. Not a fan of Best Buy, Walmart or Target. CVS probably only has regular batteries. Took long enough to find them at Ace Hardware, even though I think their site said they have them. We were in the right spot, they just had a bunch of regular batteries too. Might still be there, if my mom didn’t find them. She wouldn’t, but I might. Unless they remove me from store. Or not, I’d probably just decide they don’t have what I want.

Wonder if Walgreens has rechargeable batteries. That’s like CVS, so maybe not. Or maybe CVS does, I don’t know. But there is one closer to me then the Ace Hardware we went to. Maybe there’s an Ace closer then that one. CVS’s site sucks on my phone though, probably because of my browser, or maybe it’s the app that sucks. And maybe their site sucks on my computer. Does the Walgreens site work?

Also, I think CVS’s site said no rechargeable batteries, at least if you search for whatever I searched.

Somebody else might have more options on rechargeable batteries that isn’t Ace, Target, Walmart, or Best Buy. Well, there’s the battery store.

Walgreens has Energizer batteries on their site. Doesn’t seem like any other brands for rechargeable ones though. Might not have at local store either.

Only went to Target for microwave, because it was easier, and more likely wouldn’t have to look somewhere else a different day. Well, was a good choice, this microwave was on sale. Didn’t have that many though.

There are some bad reviews on Energize on Amazon, but probably are for Eneloop too. As long as they don’t completely die, and the capacity is reasonable for long enough, good enough for me. Also, reviews on Amazon, are probably mostly useless now. Based on the crappy cheapo “smart” watch I bought. No idea how that has so many good reviews. Now this one, I think is the best watch I’ve had, and only $60. There’s plenty of people who have a problem with this one as well. I don’t need much though. I mostly want notifications. Don’t care about replying to anything either. Oh and working in Gadgetbridge.

The long battery life is nice as well. One less thing to charge every day. Except the phone isn’t draining enough. But then I’d have to charge at weird times. And I might need to answer it.

And no, you don’t need to date anybody, or fall in love, to completely change your perspective on lots of stuff. Looks like The Last Shaman is kind of right. Also, you shouldn’t probably be in a love relationship, if you are super depressed or something else anyways. I know it would be hard for me.

Also, I know what choices my dad made, when it came to his drinking. He went to rehab, stopped for a while, started back up. Maybe more then once. You have to want to do something, to do it. Depending on how bad depression is, you may not want to do shit, include think positive things. If you aren’t thinking anything positive, you probably won’t feel great. No idea why he didn’t want to stop drinking. From the things I heard, it sounds like his childhood wasn’t very good. So he may have been drinking, because of issues. Don’t know if that’s the case for everybody, but might have been for him. If nobody is helping him or he doesn’t want to, address those things, he probably isn’t going to want to stop drinking either.

The worst thing is, I don’t know how many people even cried when he died. Probably me, and my sister’s. And maybe his other kids. But who else? He has other family. If not everybody in your family, that you know, had a relationship with, cries, then that seems kind of horrible to me.

I do know, somebody didn’t want him at his mom’s funeral, so I don’t think he knew about it, my sister’s didn’t, I didn’t. Probably because they’d be embarrassed. I think anyone should be at their parents funeral. If they aren’t causing any issues, and are drunk, I don’t care. If they smell bad, I don’t care. Why care about that?

Well, I guess I’ll forget all that anyways. Humans forget, and God and the Divine forgive.

For some reason, him not knowing about the funeral still bothers me a lot. He most likely is fine now, is with his mother and so on.

And also thinking, might make you cry. but if you don’t process anything, that isn’t good either. Crying a shit ton like I did after Tonka died isn’t good either. Processing it though, is much better. I’m pretty convinced that if you cry about somebody that died or is “dead”, that it affects them. Might make them sad as well. But crying a little is probably fine. Not crying at all, could affect them too.

I do know dogs usually handle death better then me. Two of the dogs I grew up with, we let see Buddy was dead. Well, they seemed to be able to handle it way better then me. Doesn’t mean they didn’t care. Could mean, they understand shit I don’t. But I really don’t know what it means, other then what I saw. They weren’t crying like me. Don’t think that means they don’t love him either. They most likely are experiencing all of this, very differently then a human.

An elephant, is experiencing this very different then all creatures on Earth. They got more neurons. They might process things with things, that humans don’t. Doesn’t mean they are going to have tech and crap or be in a humanoid body. I doubt tech is the point of anything. It can help a species survive, but it can also cause them to not survive.

Personally, I’d rather be more spiritually evolved, then technically evolved. Maybe that’s what will happen to me, I don’t know.

One of the best things to do on this planet, is to pet animals. Then some people will say sex. I’d rather pet animals.

Good name for Secure Boot. Saw that on GitHub.

But I think doing what I’m trying to do so it works in Secure Boot isn’t possible now.

Now to see what happens if Grub isn’t signed, but has a partition with Windows 11 on it, will it boot that partition? If so, then good enough, since I don’t need or want Windows. Going to try fixing somebody’s laptop, and they want and/or need Windows.

I suppose Grub in Secure Boot mode, might work with Windows on a Partition. But I now want to know what happens if Grub isn’t signed but something else is. Also, might be different in a VM then on bare metal. Also her laptop could have a hardware problem as well, and then I won’t be doing much.

Apple doesn’t want you doing what you want with the shit you give them money for. Google apparently doesn’t anymore. So I doubt Microsoft does. Good way to not let people do what they want? Secure Boot. It’s not about security. About money? Not even sure of that.

Clearly somebody or a group of people, have been planning on what’s happening in the US for a long time.

Something on internet said you can’t select the profile to boot from.

But if you use a VM, and it has secure boot turned on, it’ll try to boot the partition with secure boot. Said some of the shit Windows does, but couldn’t find it, probably because it wants the first partition.

And if you click enter fast enough, it just goes to the menu thing where you can go into the settings or try booting the drive again, but then trying to boot drive again, it does nothing.

Well, either way, it doesn’t work in a VM. Bummer.

Not the way I use it, the dock and eGPU, isn’t plugged into a UPS. Froze the laptop. Turned it back on, but then turned it back off, correctly that time though. Not even sure that monitor is plugged into UPS, might be, but turned that off. Unplugged the dock as well.

Not sure my UPS has enough power for the dock + eGPU. Might not play games on the desktop anymore or anything lately, but desktop still does shit that uses who knows how much power. Don’t want two UPSes, and don’t want to buy one with more power.

A good UPS with more power, isn’t going to be very cheap. I want one, I can easily replace the batteries in. I bought some CyberPower one, well it was defective, thought it might just be the batteries, replaced batteries, still didn’t work. Didn’t return it, too hard to reconnect batteries or whatever. So a big waste of money. Won’t buy any CyberPower UPS again, and probably not any “Home” ones either.

And I don’t think the cat likes this weather. Maybe that prophecy or that remote viewer guy, is right, shit is going to happen. There was flooding in Seattle apparently. So some shit already happened. If time doesn’t exist, it can be easy to get the date wrong.

The cat seems nervous, and was twitching her tail. Now she might just be looking around, while laying by me. She didn’t care about fireworks. But this could be worse, animals can sense shit we can’t.

The power flickered once, and that wind is loud. And the cat doesn’t seem to like it. Those are the only reasons I know of, for why I don’t like it myself. Might as well, mostly be because the cat doesn’t like it. Leaving the laptop off, not a big deal.

Might not be a good idea to watch TV though. And I wonder what else lost power or rebooted. Might need to turn most of my shit off, or risk losing data. My Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi have lots of data, and no UPS.

Well, think everything lost power. Got to reboot pfSense, well first check it, then reboot modem, then pfSense. Fucking MAC Address “security”.

And if the power does it again, kind of a problem. Need to download Windows 11 ISO, if I don’t have it. Cause my sister needs help with laptop.

Ahh, she got a new laptop, cause the one I gave her, is only good for browsing and basic stuff. One of her kids is using it. I put Windows on it for her. Linux worked fine for whatever I was doing when I used it, probably not much. Thought it would work for homework, but not with Windows maybe. Use whatever OS you want. Her homework might also need Windows. Maybe not everybody wants to figure out how to do it in Linux or use a VM. Might just want everything to “work”. Whatever that means. I wonder though, if she’d want my Mac mini. Easier then Linux probably. I refuse to use it though. Apple is a liar, don’t care about privacy, or the environment. And why is their shit manufactured in China? Their shit should be way cheaper if it’s made in China.

Google is a liar too though. Their moto used to be “don’t be evil” or something. Well, some rich companies and people, love to deceive.

Well, internet might almost be working again. Should fix the problem, of the internet needed a bunch of work, when this happens, or even if the internet just goes out. Think all I’d actually have to do, is change the MAC address in pfSense to match whatever it is on the host. And make sure it’s not going to get an IP in the host. I don’t need the host to get an IP on the interface itself, just the VM. Passing through may or may not work with pfSense, because of the chip on the network card. Linux supports more network cards probably then FreeBSD.

Hmm, do you just disable “connect automatically” in Cockpit for the VM? It’s only assigned to bridge interfaces. Not sure I need to do anything. Other then change MAC address in pfSense.

And Cockpit might suck, won’t let me copy the MAC address easily. Or this browser won’t. But doesn’t look like it will get an IP.

Now to SSH so I can run a command, so I can copy the fucking MAC address.

Then I get to reboot the modem and VM again. Got to love this so called “security”. More like to make it so people that know nothing, have to use their shitty router. Or no router. Oh and after it connects, I should reboot the computer the VM is on, to make sure it comes back up, without me doing crap. And to make sure the host isn’t getting an IP. Maybe just check network config on SSH, since Cockpit is kind of useless.

Did I check for updates on it yet? Not sure. So maybe do that too before rebooting it.

And looking at nmcli, it should be fine.

Apparently apt dist-upgrade, will remove shit you don’t need, even if it’s doing nothing else, like upgrading something. I checked my running kernel version, not the same, so should be fine. Unless it’s lying, or I’m blind, or insane.

Now rebooting the computer.

If making the MAC address match, isn’t good enough, then I might need to make a script to fix it for me. But how will it know if the internet is just out? So completely automatic, might be too much work. Now you could put a Limit on how much it does, and how often.

Guessing it should match the actual network card’s MAC address. Not the bridge. But who knows. Too lazy to look anything up, or think of what to look up. Search engines only work if you know exactly how to search for what you are looking for.

Hmm, didn’t work. Does Comcast require you to reboot the modem if the router reboots? Well, there’s more MAC addresses to try. Or do nothing. I could just leave it not working as well. Maybe whatever the “default” MAC address works though. Instead of cloning it. Wonder what it was cloned to before anyways. Maybe what I “changed” it to. Just deleted the cloned MAC address. Now waiting for it to apply. Guess I can get off my ass and unplug the damn thing again, and plug it into the damn smart surge protector, so I don’t have to keep getting off my ass. Thought that thing was broke, but I think the USB cable that was plugged into it, the cat chewed through, and might have made it reboot. Hasn’t done it again though, that’s all I know or remember. Hmm, wonder which port this is on surge protector? One? One way to find out though. And wonder what all is plugged in, same way as the other way to find out.

And it’s one. How do I rename the outlet in Home Assistant? Might have to edit the config file, too much work. Easier to make a note, that says modem is on outlet one. But easier to just guess. Go to entities in Home Assistant. It’s under Devices.

And the cat might have noticed, when I turned the power back on that outlet. Might make a noise, or used to. Couldn’t hear it though. Other noise though. Hearing might be worse too.

Phones are dicks, they refuse to use WiFi by default, if there’s no internet. Just used the Home Assistant web interface on my computer. No wonder phones are mass surveillance devices. And the internet.

And if rebooting doesn’t work this time, Comcast is a dick. Well, that’s a fact anyways. Giving me a shitty upload speed, and it’s been shitty the entire time Comcast has been here. They refuse to upgrade their shitty network.

TDS’s network is new, but how much better is it? Well, mom’s upload is at least 100 MBPs, but more like matching the download on whatever WiFi is getting. I’d have to do a wired test to know much. WiFi sucks. And so does Amazon devices, like their WiFi routers. It’s her money, use what you want. Thought it was fine at the time, and also it wasn’t always owned by Amazon I don’t think. Probably was when she got it.

Well, how do you do network bridging with pfSense and reboot the host, and not do anything so internet comes back up? Might not be possible with bridging. Bummer. Not sure the network card is supported in pfSense directly. Or might work for a while, then crap out. And if pfSense wasn’t in a VM, or you passthrough the network card, would it even start fully working again with Comcast anyways? Might not even do that with a modem + any router. You might need an all in one router for that.

I do have an EdgeRouter, I could test it out. And plug the WAN from pfSense into the EdgeRouter. And get lots of natting. Or maybe some bridge mode on it would work as well. Don’t open ports, so how about double protection?

Hmm, Direct Attachment mode, can use virtio, and might be using that anyways. Fine so far. Should check though. Then reboot the modem again. Well, might have to clone the MAC address to the host, cause I don’t think I can set it to the interface with the attached interface. So that probably won’t fix anything either. Since the network has to boot up first, then the VM. Might not be possible then, without passthrough.

And if you set the MAC address to the interface “Cannot set interface flags on ‘macvtap1’: Address already in use”. Well, you could get the IP on the interface, then use it’s IP maybe. They can share an IP maybe.

But does this have a firewall installed? pfSense has a firewall. Kind of lazy. Well, need internet to figure out how to configure a firewall, or install one if it doesn’t even have one installed. UFW is easy, but it’s not installed.

Virtual Network, is recommended for dynamic interfaces. But I could just clone the interface to whatever the bridge is and see if that works, and how I want. The Direct might work how I want, for the WAN interface anyways. Need to recreate bridge if I do the bridge method though. The direct depends on the switch. If the host and guest can talk to each other. Do they need to talk to each other if it’s a WAN interface? Also, the direct mode, might still need the MAC address changed on the host, since it’s different in VM. Well it’s booting. Is the modem still off? Should have been 30 seconds or more by now. Well, the router VM has to boot to turn the modem outlet back on. Home Assistant says all of them are off. Probably no connection to it.

Nice that you can add smart homekit surge protectors to Home Assistant. Don’t want to buy a new smart outlet. Now if I can get an Ethernet one, I might. Cause WiFi sucks. Oh yeah, can’t search internet, modem is still turning on.

Is the power going to flicker again? Cause I’m going to want to watch TV, after I’m done messing with this. Doesn’t mean I’ll get this working how I want. But I might just stop messing with it.

Well, IPv6 might not be working, can’t ping Google. IPv4 might be working though. Well, reboot anyways. Oh yeah, it always does that with pfSense, but I don’t think both network interfaces can have the same MAC address anyways. So reboot and see what happens. Then maybe give up.

Well, it might work how I want. But does IPv6 work? Looks like it does, and fixing it wasn’t that hard. But how secure is using pfSense in a VM? Can the host be accessed by the WAN IP? Too lazy to port scan myself, and would be best to do from not my own connection. Don’t have a VPS or anything, and might violate their terms as well. Oh yeah, there’s online port scanners.

Guess I should see if any common ports are open now. Or the port of Cockpit. If so, just change where it’s listening maybe. Nope, I know nothing about the Virtual Machine tech, or the different network modes. That’s why I left it broken for so long. I’d also have to look at the source code to know anything as well.

The Windows 11 ISO is finally downloading though. Well, this port scanner site might not work, at least in LibreWolf. This site might work, but doesn’t tell you your own IP. Got to look that up. And also, they only give you two free scans. I can scan one port on two IPs, one IPv6 and one IPv4. But I need three, to make sure pfSense isn’t listening on the port Cockpit is on as well. Well, it might not scan IPv6 anyways. Off to another site.

Oh yeah, just use this for IPv6. Nice, you can even add a custom port and scan the default ones, all at once. Still scanning, but no echo. Nice, I thought you had to be pingable with IPv6. Also, that test has said echo worked in the past. Not sure with pfSense. Also some ports were open, that might not have been anything of mine as well. Maybe Comcast is blocking all incoming connections to IPv6 now.

Well, looks like it works how I want.