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Podcasts sure, but I'm mostly thinking of good tv shows and webseries here, movie franchises and documentaries too. I want to set it going in VLC and turn the screen off, which is basically how I watch YouTube slop.

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[–] WokePalpitoad@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You need to listen to Your Kickstarter Sucks and you need to get publicly mad about Plex and your NAS server more often.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've listened to a bit of YKS and I respect that they have a particular vibe but I got the unshakable feeling that the funny era of the podcast was already long since over.

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago

YKS makes me laugh so hard sometimes

[–] WokePalpitoad@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

On the bright side, I'd started using alternate ASCII characters to keep my digital files and folders sorted and pretty, like using the raised colon ˸ and reverse solidus ⧸ . So I'm pretty pleased about that. Linux allows the slash but I don't know about the colon.

that's simultaneously cool and fucking horrifying