u/WraithTDK

I'm thinking about a "staycation" this summer. I don't have the funds to go anywhere, but I have a little bit to have fun with locally, and most importantly, to just not work for a week. Since I'm not basing my staycation around an event or anything, I thought maybe I'd do it when there's a "hatch 20 eggs" challenge. I could get out and do a route every day (which I also need to do for one of my level 71->72 tasks), and make sure that the goals is reached.

But I want to fair notice that I'm taking off for a week. Do the goals rotate so I can predict the next one?

Upon discovering Plex's .NFO scanner (which I've been waiting several years for and am very excited over), I intend to re-do my entire library with local assets for greater resilience and portability. I don't want to screw up my library in the meantime, however (it's going to take alot of time to properly redo my whole library with Tiny Media Manager). So I created this:

https://preview.redd.it/kc72fqbbqi0h1.png?width=463&format=png&auto=webp&s=48a1d98483bfb6b371473d95348c7e7ff836babb

Going by the description, it should recognize the NFO files if there, and if not, use the Plex Series scanner to scrape metdata from online. Best of both worlds. But I'm testing it with a proof-of-concept librayer. One TV Show that's properly scraped with NFO files (which works perfectly) and one that is named properly, with the TVDB code in the folder, and works perfectly in my current setup (I just copied the folder from my functional setup to the POC library). But the result I get for that is:

https://preview.redd.it/muwumknwqi0h1.png?width=853&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8ad7c63d318592e802a073154b7d79de351cdf7

What am I missing? Shouldn't it be looking for NFO files in this folder, realizing it's not getting the info it needs and the scraping from TheTVDB?

Edit #1: u/ExtensionMarch6812 found a Plex forum thread that explains it. The fall-back source will pull any metadata it doesn't find, but it won't actually match the show to a source. So if I had an nfo file for the show, but not any episode data, it'd pull in the episode data. But since it has no way of identifying the show through the primary scanner, it just aborts.

Disappointing, but makes sense. Guess I just need to be patient and change the scanner when I'm done with the nfo transition.

Edit #2: what an odd thing to down-vote. The verbage does not make this clear, and inevitably somene's going to have the same confusion as me. Guaranteed having this thread come up in a Google search is going to help someone one day.

Anyone else notice that they're no longer offering the community day bundles that included an Elite TM? Those were always my favorite because ETM's are so hard to come by!

I'm watching an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and there's a scene in a 1957 movie where someone mentions earning 75 cents a day. I wanted to know how much that was, adjusting for inflation.

"OK Google, how much was 75 cents worth in 1957?"

I've asked the assistant "inflation adjustment" questions for a decade now. I bought an assistant the first month it was released. This has always been a thing. It was a thing a month ago.

Today, I got the single most baffling response I've ever gotten, because we are currently in the Gemini era. The era of "who needs an old-fashioned assistant, when you know have your own personal AI? It'll understand you! It'll answer your questions and take in context, and be more natural and conversational! Gemini is going to improve everything! It's so much more than just a smart home tool!

So what response did I get?

I cannot. Make. This. Shit. Up:

https://preview.redd.it/6ebxcdze90yg1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7baf7272fb5f2333c15b8de8291695bfc1c2a30d

What. In. The. Actual. Fuck? TEN YEARS AGO this thing was a smart home assistant, and even THEN it could answer this question. Now we have "the glory of AI" and all you can do is control the fucking lights? Which you get WRONG half the time?

Worthless. Piece. Of. Shit.