u/catsclaw

I've just installed Proxmox on an old laptop I had lying around. I'm planning on playing around with it and slowly scaling it into the core of a home lab/automation hub. The first thing I want to do is install Jellyfin so I can stop hosting it from my personal notebook.

I've got my media library offsite, and I rsync the changes down locally. At the moment I've only got Proxmox hooked up to my local hard drive. I'd like to set up the Jellyfin VM so that it can read that data from a shared location, and once I get a proper NAS setup it's easy to migrate my data over there.

What's the best way of doing that?

I've just installed Sonarr and I'm trying to import my existing library. I'm struggling to get it to work. I have all my files in /video/existing and I want Sonarr to put them into /video/shows. I've set /video/shows as my root directory, and I can import all the files in /video/existing.

Sonarr imports them but doesn't rename or move them. I can go to the series and click "Preview Rename" and it'll rename the files and sort them into season folders but doesn't move them into my root directory or rename the directory they're sitting in.

Does Sonarr just ... not do that?

Americans always like to think of themselves as rebels who stand up for themselves and who'll fight when the chips are down, but when I look at the United States these days I only see tiny pockets of genuine resistance such as in Minneapolis, or the way black representatives in South are standing up after the gutting of the VRA. The vast majority of the country seems to prefer to lie down and take it (such as the VA democrats who meekly accepted their court defeat) or just meekly wait for the next election to vote someone in and hope they'll solve the problem.

It really feels to me like the United States just flat out doesn't have the stomach to fight for its democracy. Between the unprecedented levels of corruption, the attacks on clean energy, the unjustified and illegal wars, and the gross economic mismanagement, I'd have expected a lot more popular anger and political activity. Instead, most people just seem to be keeping their heads down and hoping to ride it out.

Why is that?

As someone with virtually no experience in woodworking, nine months ago I signed up for Rowden Atelier's 12-month woodworking/design class. I start in a little over three weeks. If you're interested in my reasons, I started a Substack but apparently that falls into "self-promotion" so I won't name or link it.

I've been working through the assigned readings and preparing to begin, but I wanted to ask what people here think I should be doing to get ready or how I should be preparing to get the most out of the class. What do you think I should be studying now to be ready? What do you think I should focus on as the course begins?