mostly reblogging awesome things because I have no idea or skills to make anything. sometimes I ramble about my life.
I'm also REALLY bad about tagging stuff. I try to keep spoilers to a minimum, but if something bothers you please let me know.
As a crazy note, I can’t even find a spot on the internet that will tell me what this scene was supposed to be about. But. Arwen. With The Hobbits. Her smiling. That adorable outfit. WANT.
CUT SCENES CUT SCENES GET YOUR CUT SCENES
(it’s p much arwen to be honest)
helm’s deep fight scene! ^
the WHAT?
ARweN Fights at THE BATTLE OF WHAT
OH i would LOVE to see some of these… Arwen and Hobbits! Arwen and GALADRIEL!!!!
And Arwen fighting at Helm’s Deep….. 👀
I get that this would really change the plot even further (esp Arwen at Helm’s Deep) and could potentially create plot holes, and I can see why they decided to take it out. BUT I’d still love to watch this footage, even separately from the films themselves. They should release it !!
The WORST part is that in the special features Liv said they removed the helm’s deep scenes because people where whining about it online and basically calling her arwen warrior Princess and being horrible about it
They weren’t just whiny about it, the Tolkien fanboys were so viciously hateful about it they reputedly made Liv Tyler cry. Tolkien fandom has a long history of misogyny, unfortunately.
If you are the techiest person in the house (and for many of you, this is not techy at all), today is a good day to build a pihole thanks to Google’s new TLDs.
For the record, this straight up stopped Dad from getting computer viruses when coupled with the Ublock browser extension, so I will volunteer my time to get you set up. We will find an evening and do a Zoom call. I am serious.
Prerequisities:
Before you start, this will be way way easier if your router has a magic way to:
Set static IP addresses
Set a custom DNS server
If you can’t do this, I’m not saying you’re stuck, but there’s some non-obvious failure modes and maybe it’s time to buy a better router.
Some method of flashing the card if you don’t have one (Some come with SD to micro-SD adapters, if not a USB to SD/micro-SD adapter is about $10 off Amazon)
If you really feel like going nuts, go buy yourself an Argon case and then very very carefully never ever install the software for the fan that does nothing. The value is entirely in having a big giant brick that is self-cooling. If you want to play MarioKart, I would consider this a requirement. https://www.amazon.com/Argon-Raspberry-Aluminum-Heatsink-Supports/dp/B07WP8WC3V
Setup:
Do yourself a favor and ignore all the signs telling you to go get Raspbian and instead go grab an ISO of Ubuntu 64-bit using RPi Imager. Because Raspbian cannot be upgraded across version WHY U DO THIS
Download Rpi Imager, plug the microSD card into your computer,
Other General Purpose OS -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
So now you have an operating system on an SD card.
Assemble the case if you bought one, plug in the SD card, power supply, ethernet cable if you have one or mouse and (mini) HDMI cable if you don’t.
If you bought that Argon case, you can just plug a keyboard (server OS means no mouse gang; In this house, we use the Command Line) and HDMI cable into the Pi. Turn it on.
Gaining access
The end state of this is that your pi is:
Connected to the internet by cable or wifi
You can SSH to it (Also not scary)
If you plugged in an ethernet cable, once it’s done booting (1-2 minutes?), you should be able to ssh to “ubuntu@<the IP of the system>”. Look it up in your router. It may make sense to give the static IP NOW to keep it stable.
If you’ve never used SSH before, I think the standard is Putty on Window or you can just open a terminal in Mac. (And if you know enough Linux to have a Linux computer, why are you reading this?)
If you didn’t plug it in, and need to setup the wifi, there’s magic incantations to attach it to the wifi and to be quite blunt, I forget what they are.
Your username is ubuntu, your password is ubuntu and then it will ask you to make a new password. If you know the meaning of the phrase “keypair-based access”, it may make sense to run `ssh-copy-id` at this point in time.
Router settings (part 1)
Give your new Pi a static IP address, and reboot your pi (as simple as typing in `sudo reboot`).
Open a new SSH session to the pihole on the new address.
When it’s done, on your other computer, navigate to <the ip>/admin
Login with the password you just set.
Router settings part 2
Give your new Pi a static IP address then point your router at that address
Set the DNS servers to the static IP
Then ensure you’re blocking something. Anything.
Then do what you want to do.
You’ll probably need to whitelist some sites, blacklist some more, but the main thing is going to be “Adding more list of bad sites”. Reddit has some lists.
And… enjoy.
/But seriously, there’s some stuff to do for maintenance and things. I wasn’t joking about the pair setup.
Honestly “thanks I hate it” is one of the funniest phrases in the English language
i one time told my italian professor “grazie lo detesto” and she lost her shit, so it’s not just english
“¡Gracias! ¡Lo odio!”
“Danke, ich hasse es.”
“Merci, je déteste”
Tak, jeg hader det.
Bedankt, ik haat het.
Спасибо! Я это ненавижу.
go raibh maith agat, is fuath liom é
どうも！ それが嫌い。
411 Writing systems of standard forms of languages
.شکریہ! مجھے اس سے نفرت ہے
(shukriah! mujhay isay nafraat hai.)
kiitti! mä vihaan tätä.
תודה! אני שונא.ת את זה. Toda! Ani sone.t et ze
谢谢，我厌恶它！
Takk, jeg hater det.
Hvala, mrzim to.
Dankon! Mi malamas ğin.
Nah, the Chinese one doesn’t work at all. That’s why the meme is just 我真会谢.
谢 (thank) already has the second meaning of ‘to wither’ and ‘to refuse’.
mulțumesc! urăsc asta.
in filipino, the literal translation would be smth like, “salamat, ‘di ‘to gusto” or “salamat, kinamumuhian ko ‘to” but if we’re to use it coloquially, I think it’ll have to be smth as simple as “salamat, ah? bwiset” (wherein bwiset/bwisit has no english translation) or even just a very sarcastic “salamat, ah?”
If you get a new blog following you and immediately sending you an ask requesting help with vet bills for their cat, that is a scam. It is always a scam.
This time, the blog in question was created yesterday and reblogged a ton of stuff to seem legit.
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
