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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The one thing that sucks is this doesn’t cover gear stored in the extra mog… whatever it was called storage you could pay extra for.

    And you can’t pay just for that inventory, you have to pay for your account before you can pay to enable the storage.

    And finally, if you had important shit stored in those bonus inventories, you can’t access it til you pay for it

    Result: players that prior paid for and used the extra inventories basically can’t leverage the free login, they can login but can’t access their stuff unless they opt out of the free login and fully pay for the month + inventories…

    RIP


  • The fact that they prioritized Helluva Boss (which does follow that type of storyline), on their own YouTube (which they have control over), whereas Hazbin was put onto Amazon Prime with only 8 episodes honestly is what I think caused it.

    My gut instinct was to assume they had to agree to certain conditions to get onto Amazon Prime and the money from that is what got us Helluva Boss (which if you haven’t watched that, it’s so fuckin good)


  • It’s a musical, the songs are catchy.

    However I disliked how fast paced the writing was, and how even though it’s called “Hazbin Hotel” and the pilot framed it as a sort of slice of life “bunch weirdos” hanging out and getting redemption, instead that weirdly became the B plot?

    Somehow they took the whole story and shifted it over to the B plot and pulled this other big high stakes thing out as the A plot.

    That’s not really what I was wanting to watch, and it feels a bit like they hit swapped out the story on me, so I kinda got a bit turned off by that.

    I don’t give a shit about some high stakes angels vs demons war end game shit.

    I wanted to see interpersonal relationships of weirdos learning to co-exist.

    Tl;dr: I was expecting something closer to The Good Place, but instead that got side lined by some huge MCU style plot no one asked for.







  • The rabies vaccine seems to have an actually higher negative reaction rate in some pets.

    We have had 2 of 4 of our ferrets react severely to it on the second shot, of the “emergency midnight trip to the vet” variety.

    Here’s key reasons why you can’t compare this to human vaccines:

    1. It’s not covered by health insurance. You too would balk at a covid vaccine if it ran you a $600 or so.

    2. Pets are way more likely to get injured. Even a small child knows not to flip out and bite a doctor, or jump off the table when getting a needle. Your little dumb fuzzbutt on the other hand very well may attempt this…

    3. From what I’ve been told by my vet and some others in the community, the rabies vaccine has an actually higher than usual allergic reaction rate compared to what you are used to seeing. I’ve heard numbers along the lines of 5% to 10%, compared to something like less than 1% of humans reacting to most vaccines.

    4. Emergency midnight hospital trips also aren’t covered, and will run you easily another $1000+, whereas if your kid has an emergency at night you still are covered

    5. Dosing benadryl for a tiny pet is way harder, it’s way riskier and easier to fuck it up and potentially cause harm. As opposed to how a small child can be given a tsp of children’s benadryl, your looking at like 1/10th of a pill for your pet. Better not have shaky hands or your pet is dead… (or be like me and happen to own a jewelery scale so I can precisely get the dose right)

    6. Have you ever even tried to administer benadryl to a pet before? If you haven’t, you have no idea how hard it is. Normally my ferrets are good with meds but benadryl tastes vile to them and they make it very known.

    7. Finally, it’s pretty normal for exotic pets to just… never go outside anyways, my ferrets have the run of the house but they’ve only been outside (not in a kennel) a couple times, and they didn’t really like it much. Spent pretty much the entire time climbing up me to get away from scary noises and hiding in my jacket to get away from the wind. When I opened the door to the house they bolted back inside. We don’t do outside time with em anymore, they just don’t super like it as indoor pets. Too loud, too scary, too cold.

    So yeah, all the above combined perhaps makes it a bit more understandable why people are leaning away from these shots.

    Larger pets like dogs and cats though are much lower risk. They can handle larger doses, aren’t exotic so can be covered by insurance, normally spend lots of time outside, etc etc.

    But rabbits? Ferret? Hedgehogs? Etc etc… naaah not honestly terribly worth it. Huge risk for basically zero reward.

    Your ferret/rabbit that never steps outside isn’t gonna get rabies.







  • I have been using Reolink RC-522s outside in the harsh Canadian cold winters. Even at -40 they kept working and their quality hasn’t degraded.

    I tried out q few options for NVR software, and I’ve settled on Frigate NVR, it was pretty painless to setup and “just worked”.

    Shinobi I found worked at first but three times it shit the bed, silently failed one day, and just stopped working. I’d wipe and re-install and it’d just fail after awhile. Frigate has never had this issue so far.

    I use Power over Ethernet for the cameras, so i only had to run 1 single cable (ethernet) to each camera outside, no need to run high voltage which makes it way easier to install.

    I use a small mini itx PC as the NVR with a 960ti installed in it for transcoding.

    I have a fancy managed 48 port gigabit poe switch which is overkill for just cameras (I have tonnes of other PoE devices on my network as well justifying it), but any “dumb” gigabit poe switch will work for you, as long as you have enough ports for your cameras.

    I personally use kubernetes for my machines running self hosted apps, but for most folks that’s overkill abd you can just use docker compose!