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Considering that was the conclusion that machines made two centuries later (Morpheus mentioning to Neo shortly after retrieving him that they were closer to 2199) does not bode well.

Yes, the Wachowski sisters originally scripted humans being used for neural networking, which was both much more realistic and incredibly ahead of its time. Executives told them that the audience would not understand it, and pushed the battery idea.

But… the whole idea is that the world we’re living in now is the Matrix. Agent Smith and the Architect both described previous iterations of the Matrix where it was designed to be a perfect world where everyone was happy. Humans rejected it, and they found less rejection when they made humans miserable.

I just finished fixing my storage setup and was ready to add more… 😭

LOL I found the github page before the website when I discovered it. So many folks mention Handbrake, but after canceling my Adobe subscription, using this was the first time I wasn’t missing Adobe Media Encoder.

I feel like it’s a nice intermediate step when learning the commands. man is great when you already know you have the right tool and you just need to check a flag. A newbie who just left Windows is gonna be so overwhelmed by a lot of manpages, but this does a nice job of easing them in using examples to give the user an idea of what that tool is capable of.

I like using Podman Desktop to keep an eye on containers and glance at logs, but more often than not I’m doing most operations on the CLI.

ffmpeg is great, and doing simple things is pretty straightforward, but if you work with a lot of media and do different kinds of operations, give Shutter Encoder a shot, it’s an amazing FOSS GUI tool for ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and more!

A couple years ago when I was preparing for a possible future exodus from Discord, I tried to self-host a Revolt instance, but I found that it was lacking in some important features, and there was some internal drama going on about licensing. I don’t know the specifics, but it felt messy at the time and I ended up just hosting a Matrix instance instead. I haven’t seen what it’s like these days.

Oh, that’s easy to remember!