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#1
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver  Part One wasn't that long ago but the impact it had on me must have been miniscule as I had little recall as to what had actually happened. Luckily these movies as so shallow the story makes little difference. This part 2 is like a Magnificent Seven in space where the heroes band together to protect the poor farmers. The gist of it is: the galactic empire places massive importance on some grain from a sad little village on a distant planet. So much so they decide to launch a large scale attack on the villagers. And erm that's about it. The first half is dull as we build up to the battle. The actual fighting scenes are quite spectacular but nothing we haven't seen before. 4/10 I've forgotten it already - what was I talking about again?
#3
Literature / Re: Bought a book recently?
May 01, 2024, 08:20:27 PM
I've just picked this up for a couple of quid from ebay. I'm really looking forward to this one:

One For The Record - The Authorised Biography of Galahad by Andrew Wild

https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Record-Authorised-Biography-Galahad/dp/0957007701

'One for the Record', the official, authorised biography of Galahad, charts the first quarter century of the Dorset-based band's existence: the highs and the lows, the challenges and the achievements, the numerous line-up changes (Yes have nothing on Galahad!)  including six keyboard players and eight bassists, the occasional madness on the road, the writing, recording, rehearsing and gigging.'
#4
I stopped at a Zebra the other day to let some pedestrians cross only to be passed by 4 cyclists, 2 on either side of me and oblivious to anything around them. Cocks.
#5
General Discussion / Re: Weather Watch
May 01, 2024, 06:16:01 PM
Full sun ALL DAY here tomorrow - I'm going to the beach and having chips and gravy on the front - yay.  8)
#6
^ I've got the last episode to watch tonight. I do recall the incident but not so much the detail that this documentary is showing us. Gripping for sure and very well done.
#7
Technology and Science / Re: IT Homelab
April 30, 2024, 10:18:28 PM
Have you thought about Airsonic instead of Subsonic? Airsonic forked when Subsonic went closed source and remains FOSS. Airsonic itself became Airsonic-Advanced which is still being maintained by kagemoni (I mention this as there is yet another Airsonic-Advanced fork which stopped being maintained). This is the latest:

https://github.com/kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced

I have it running on a Raspberry Pi4 behind a Caddy reverse proxy for remote access. App wise I use DSub on my Android phone - as you probably know there are quite a lot of apps that work with *sonic servers, but I like DSub as it runs with Android Auto in my car.

#12
We finished Avatar - The Last Airbender. It was OK - the visuals were quite stunning at times but the actual show I think is definitely aimed at children (I suppose the Nickelodeon link makes it obvious). There are 3 books in the original animated set and this last series was book 1 only and I believe Netflix has commissioned the other 2. Will I watch those? Probably  ;)
#13
Sport / Re: Football
April 25, 2024, 06:14:06 PM
Quote from: Thenop on April 25, 2024, 06:06:12 PMOur manager at Feyenoord is now being rumoured to be the next Liverpool manager. Not happy, obviously, but it is well deserved if he went. Let's see how he gets on then.
Mind you, nothing has been decided or signed.

Not a fan of the rumour mill at all, but this sounded credible considering the source here in the Netherlands.
The BBC are reporting on it too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cnl4ql0p4pqo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c72plnjy4qeo