S6E22 Serena Stops the Show
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S6E22 Serena Stops the Show

This shot really threw me for a loop. I'm guessing that's a standin for Elizabeth Montgomery in the background, which they did an amazing job of matching for her face. They did a really clever job of editing it to sell the illusion!

Do we know who the stand-in was?

u/fluffycritter — 9 days ago

HomeKit keeps forgetting/re-adding Curtain 2 devices every day

I have a number of Switchbot Curtain devices in my home, some version 2 and some version 3. They are all connected to HomeKit via a Matter Hub.

This was working just fine for months, but for the last few days, every single day the Curtain 2 devices are acting as if they'd been removed and re-added to my HomeKit setup; the name changes back to the default, the location gets reset to the room the hub is in, and all of my automations disappear.

The first time felt like a fluke, but this "fluke" keeps reoccurring and it's driving me batty.

My Curtain 3 devices do not have this problem.

Does anyone know what might be happening and how to prevent it from repeating in the future?

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u/fluffycritter — 16 days ago

[TOMT] 90s rock song starting with "doot doot doot" that isn't Tom's Diner

I've been trying to remember the name of a 90s/00s alt-rock song that was upbeat and starts with a bunch of doots. It is not Tom's Diner. It had electric guitar and percussion, and the melody sounded something like this: https://voca.ro/1aemvbiO0lH0

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u/fluffycritter — 23 days ago

Default UI mode for Alchemy in Logic 12

Ever since the update to Logic Pro 12, Alchemy starts up in the "advanced" view instead of the "browse" view. Is there any way to get the browse view back to the default?

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u/fluffycritter — 1 month ago

Merging watch histories

I had set up Jellyfin on one server, and I ran into issues with it and ended up setting up another Jellyfin instance on another server, with the same content. Now I've finally gotten the first server working again, but I have diverging watch histories on both servers.

Is there any way to transfer my watch history from one server to the other, such that it will include the history from both servers? So, for example, if I watched episodes 1, 2, and 4 of a show on server A, and episodes 3 and 5 on server B, then the resulting database shows me as having watched episodes 1-5.

Thanks!

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u/fluffycritter — 3 months ago

How to stop syncing bookmarks that come from profile.json?

Hi, I use Firefox Sync to keep my extensions and bookmarks synchronized across computers.

I also experiment with a bunch of different Linux distributions, and there's a very annoying tendency as of late where many Linux distributions will "helpfully" add distro-specific bookmarks to the profile.json file. What I'm finding is that as a result, every time I launch Firefox on such a distribution, all of those bookmarks get re-added to my bookmark toolbar, and then those synchronize across all my computers.

Is there any way to make this stop, or at least to get Firefox to stop automatically re-adding the bookmarks every time I launch it, short of modifying the distribution files? (which will just get reset the next time things update anyway)

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u/fluffycritter — 3 months ago

How'd they manage such tight match cuts?

I've been watching the whole series in order lately (having only seen a smattering of episodes in syndication as a kid) and I'm really struck by how good a lot of the effect shots are, especially the match cuts whenever there's a quick change. Are there any behind-the-scenes things out there showing how they pulled it off?

Doing stuff like that is tricky even with today's instant-feedback digital production, and the fact they were able to do it so consistently well, sometimes even including background and extras' movements, with 1960s production technology is absolutely incredible to me.

Two episodes I just saw which really stood out to me in that regard were "The Corn Is as High as a Guernsey's Eye" (with Samantha appearing in the lobby while random people walk by) and "The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara" (with Samantha changing between her human and witch clothes).

The crowd movement match cuts aren't perfect by any means but they're still damned impressive.

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u/fluffycritter — 3 months ago