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Jellyfin in, Plex in the bin

Plex in the bin

Jellyfin Media Server has taken the place of Plex for my media streaming.

With Plex Inc. recently implementing their new "features" in the way of a new tier system, which includes charging you to stream your own media from outside of your network, I decided to jump ship to Jellyfin. Plex Media Server has been churning away on my server for some time now without any major issues. I've never had a need for a Plex Pass subscription. The media…
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Musical quirks and some more T-Shirts

Super Mario Tee: A t-shirt depicting a black and white picture of Mario holding his hands in the air. Above is the text 'Legend' in white caps.

In musical terms, it's been a strange few months

There's usually a variety of musical offerings on my iPhone. Legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen and Bob Marley are usually constants. Lately, the usual playlists haven't been doing it for me and instead I've been craving something different. I've been wanting to listen to some of those mismatched rave compilation CDs* from my youth. *I usually had the cassette tape versions back then so I could listen to them…
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From Vaping to Spectrum to White Lines…

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RANDOMIZE USR

If anything ever really offered a true representation of the randomness of my life it's been these last few weeks.

Vaping ...

It all started with a loose 510 connector on my Vaporesso Target Pro. The tank kept getting a wobble on so I stripped the base down to find the 510 connector is a "pop-on" type. I wasn't going to open it up every other week to pop the connector back on so I decided to order…
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