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  • Blender is really amazing. The last 3 years have been really good to the project. I forced myself to learn/use Blender 2.79 as an alternative to Maxon’s Cinema4D which I had been a long time user of. It was… tough, but after dozens of hours of tutorials it got easier, then fun, then powerful. Then the 2.8-3.x updates started to roll out! I love Blender now.

    It has an amazing real time renderer in Eevee, the Cycles renderer is quite amazing too; Geometry Nodes can do some crazy stuff, but the UI; man has the UI gotten so much better.

    If you’ve tried Blender in the past but felt it was awkward, give it another shot.




  • Agreed. I have been working so hard to get my young kids to understand file systems, directory structures, keyboard shortcuts, etc; all that stuff that just never gets learned anymore with all the iOS/Android interactions.

    I’m building a new PC for myself in the next few weeks and if they want to continue playing Genshin/Starcraft2/BeamNG/Trackmania on my older PC as it becomes the “Family PC” they will need to sit with me and learn how to reassemble it, install Windows, attaching peripherals, and setup a few basic things.

    That’s the price and that’s the reward.

    Many of us grew up in a world where you had to figure this shit out or simply not have a working computer/piece of software.


  • Sounds like Apple may have forced their hand behind the scenes.

    https://9to5google.com/2022/07/11/youtube-pip-iphone-ipad/

    My initial experience is that it was missing, then tested, then removed again.

    Since you don’t have premium and can still use the feature on iOS, that means they were forced to make it available in general to iOS users. It was off by default for me though, so maybe they made it work but just didn’t turn it on by default?

    Someone else above was saying that Apple has rules about this, and another poster was saying that on Android you need premium for PIP. So maybe iOS did without it for years and then they were forced to add it for all iOS users regardless of the premium sub.




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    “Background playback” is behind the premium paywall; NOBODY gets YouTube PIP support on iOS; such a shame.

    I repeat, even if you pay for premium you simply can’t do PIP using the official app. You can however use a browser and use PIP that way I think (there used to be some weird workaround but I’m not sure if it still exists).

    Edit: I was (happily) wrong! I see now, they added it halfway though 2022 and I needed to go into settings and explicitly enable it. I’m a happy camper now! Thanks for the correction


  • Nothing too crazy. I use Proxmox on hardware that used to be a gaming rig (4th gen Intel) and I upped the RAM to 32GB.

    • Plex
    • Home Assistant
    • NextCloud
    • VM to host Duplicati + Samba which backs up some shared storage.
    • VM that contains the extremely specific build environment for one of my mechanical keyboards
    • VM that contains my ESP Home environment.
    • VM for Docker based web development because as good as WSL is, it still sucks sometimes.

    Some of my “VMs” are actually LXCs but I can’t remember which are which at the moment.

    Playing with ZFS was fun too, and it puts all that RAM to good use!

    I’ve also been meaning to create a VM for Dokku, but I haven’t had a strong enough need yet.