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Why did my computer’s monitor wake up? That hasn’t happened for a long time. That is waking up not because of me.

I was just watching The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch. And then Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, that episode not great for watching after 8 PM.

The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch may have found proof of real worm holes though, you have to watch the next episode next week to know.

On Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, somebody suggested, dimensions bleed over in certain places. Not that dimensions make any sense to me whatsoever. Humans aren’t taught dimensions in school, but possibly taught we are alone in the universe. I think that was the native guy from the tribe that said that. Everybody else doesn’t want any of that to be true. You have to go to the older cultures to find anything out.

I was wondering why the fuck the monitor was on, I thought it’s been long enough for it to turn itself off, sure enough it woke up somehow.

Somebody claimed nukes cause issues to with other dimensions. That info may or may not be true though. We might find out in World War 3 though, if the nukes or most of them are disabled by unknown intelligence. They might have said something about bleeding over.

But the stuff about Skinwalker has been going on before we started testing nukes. Except, then you get into how everything has already happened and crap. You can travel to the past and future. And if everything has already happened, how does being alive work? How are you slowed down so you can experience it not all at once? And how could you experience it all at once anyways?

Did you see the latest Beyond Skinwalker Ranch? Well, they got bugged. And found possibly a secret military base.

If the bugging tech is remote somehow, that means the future will suck ass. No more freedom of speech, and possibly many people will be murdered. Police state? Perhaps.

In some other mirror universe or something, there is a police state in the US, maybe it’ll spread here. Somewhere Germany won as well.

It appears the bad things, are going to ripple here. And it will be much worse. Except, global warming, will kill lots of people.

In police states, no laws apply to authority. They can light you on fire if they wish.

Every time I have Steam open in desktop mode, it will wake up by itself. Only happens when Steam is open.

Well, the games won’t be updated as often, as I don’t need it waking up constantly.

Good job Valve. If you leave it in game mode, well good luck doing anything about it. It’s a “feature” after all. I leave my Deck on dock.

It might be a simulation, but not made with a computer. You really think God would use a computer? No, it’s more advanced then that, much more.

There’s a horrible story in that as well.

It’s on Hulu, but I got a version with better audio quality. Or does Hulu only have bad audio quality if you download using AnyStream? No idea.

There’s different worlds as well. Humans may go extinct here, but not everywhere.

And they talk about reincarnation. I suppose that’s possible with computers.

God only evolved to computers? Doubtful. They don’t need a computer, they are like a super computer, but not made out of electronics.

But I think I need one of those tanks some guy went in, I forgot what it’s called, or don’t know how to spell it. But I might leave my body if I go in one. Just ask if you can leave your body. God might put me back in my body though. They don’t even have to chase me around.

Two animals may have been on my bed last night, and somebody may have pushed the blanket in, also making me think an animal was there.

You really think this wouldn’t be a simulation? God doesn’t want anybody they made, to get permanently damaged. Just because of reincarnation, it could be considered a simulation. Without reincarnation, you might as well have no heaven or anything either.

Might have been my glasses. But I don’t think the security camera is recording dust now.

I just thought my glasses was causing me to see whatever I was seeing in or on the monitor. Didn’t move though. Did eventually go away. Maybe on the monitor is correct, but that would imply it’s on it. Where is the image? In the monitor? That’s where I saw it.

Haven’t seen it since, can’t recall if I cleaned my glasses right after either, probably not.

Can’t verify if it’s my glasses or not, can’t see well enough without glasses. Now I’d have to wait for it to happen again. Maybe the light was hitting something from outside just right.

But if it’s caused by light from outside, how come the ones the camera records moves?

Only happening once, doesn’t tell you much.

Seeing orbs isn’t scary, they look like light. How is light scary?

Shows stuff before the current owners of the ranch bought it. And I think the guy said they know nothing about anything that happened before on Skinwalker Ranch, the new people.

Now I wonder if I already saw it, I sure don’t remember any of it.

I watched it on Hulu. Not that many commercials either, and I think it was two hours long.

Zero evidence for Aliens being responsible. More like zero evidence for anything being the case, as they don’t get the same event every time. They can’t do the same thing and cause the same event, they just get different events. It’s different, if every variable isn’t the same.

But it does prove, you exist forever, since somebody saw a Dire wolf. You can go extinct here, but not completely.

They could always ask God for what’s going on there, but they probably don’t believe in God. God will keep waiting for humans to ask them for stuff. The question is, do all humans have to believe and ask God as one? Or can every individual ask God for something? If so, I should ask how to get rid of depression. But sleeping is fun.

I’m using gPodder, but you can use Podfox too.

Podfox is probably better, there’s no GUI. openSUSE doesn’t have the latest gPodder, and the Flatpak gPodder has no gpo, the command line interface.


cat podcasts_download.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gpo update
/usr/bin/gpo download
/usr/bin/gpo resume


And if you want a notification:

cat podcasts.sh
#!/bin/bash

TARGET=/media/fast_stuff/Downloads
inotifywait -m -e create -e move --format "%w%f" -r $TARGET \
| while read FILENAME
do
D=$(date)
echo "New podcast $FILENAME $D" > /dev/pts/0
done


Using move_self, probably means the actual folder, not the files in it. So changed it to move, so maybe I’ll get notifications when it’s done downloading now. When it first tried downloading, it couldn’t. So you need to resume downloads too. You won’t get a notification about it finishing downloading if it failed, if you don’t have move in it.

And if you want a systemd service file:

cat .config/systemd/user/podcasts.service
[Unit]
Description=Podcasts notify
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/rectum/podcasts.sh
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target


Earthfiles Podcast downloaded at some point, just no notification.

Looks like a new broadcast on YouToot. Probably computer trouble or something.

If you don’t do anything on the computer, you have no trouble. You’ll have lots of trouble if you try making a static ffmpeg build, and all the dependencies. What happens if I use the system ones? Cause this is a real pain in the ass.

I can test the free noise suppressing plugin for audio unit or something, it works in Garage Band. I know sort of how to use Garage Band now. I had to look at the help though.

And I won’t be using it for much, other then testing. It crashed Audacity if I use it in Linux. The other program I found, I can’t tell you how to use. I’d rather pay $300 for a program, then try to figure that one out. But you don’t have to spend that much.

Update
It downloaded at 5:30 AM, or started downloading. There was a notification this morning about it, so it’s automatically downloading Podcasts now.

Update
Should have said I thought it downloaded. Failed because the XML has no download URL. Well I might get another notification once the URL is available. Should click the link on the site and see if that download URL works. If it does, no idea why it isn’t in the feed. The previous one has an URL.

And I think Podbean or whatever is having an issue, once it shows up on iTunes, I’ll probably be able to download it the way it’s supposed to download.

No idea why the delay in it being on the other services.

But it isn’t worth listening to or watching, if I can’t automate downloading it and getting a notification.

I kept forgetting to check YouTube last week. No notifications on YouToot, don’t want any anyways. I don’t really use YouToot for anything else.

I installed gPodder on my desktop, and setup a cronjob to download, assuming it works, the new Earthfiles is finally available according to their podcast subdomain. I changed my cronjob to every 30 minutes, instead of once an hour, so soon I’ll find out if everything works.

Also using inotifywait to notify me when there’s a new podcast, so I don’t forget to look.


#!/bin/bash

TARGET=/media/fast_stuff/Downloads
inotifywait -m -e create --format "%w%f" -r $TARGET \
| while read FILENAME
do
D=$(date)
echo "New podcast $FILENAME $D" > /dev/pts/0
done


If you use kdialog or the other notify thing, as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone for good, it won’t be under notifications. So if you are sleeping, you won’t know it downloaded anything.

/usr/bin/gpo download that should be all you need to download. But you can avoid inotifywait, if you make the script notify you instead, like after it downloads, instead of when it starts downloading.

I added “-e close_write”, so perhaps I’ll get two notifications now.

I have that script running from a service file, changing m to d does not work, it won’t notify you.

And you might need to run gpo update before download. Those notifications may make my music stutter a little. I blame KDE and Wayland. Does update download too?

Well, I can see how long it took to download the way it is. And a notification every time I go into the folder in Dolphin.

Changed “close_write” to “move_self”. Perhaps that will just tell me when it’s done, it has a .partial extension for the first notification.

Hopefully it works with cron too, probably won’t find out till next week.

There was just one in front of my computer.

And I look like I’m in fast motion. Either I need to change the Frame Interval or watch some other way. What is the default? 60? No idea.

Don’t follow Scrypted’s advice. I already don’t follow their codec advice.

Maybe it isn’t the Frame Interval, no idea. But never noticed until now. Maybe it’s missing frames, that means this 6 TB SMR I believe drive, is too slow.

The default might be 30, 120 too much.

Now I wonder what that video would have looked like, with the frame interval at 30.

And maybe that’s why screens getting turned on aren’t recorded anymore. It might take more work, to make it happen with 120 frame interval, which would suggest intelligence is behind it, like my dad.

Cameras set back to 30 frame interval. The internet said 30 is usually the default. Now to see if I messed up Scrypted. Probably. At least the streams that aren’t be transcoded.

Packet loss, but still works. Set max bitrate for stream 2 to 896 Kb/s. Seems to have fixed the packet loss.

It isn’t transcoding, so the bitrate is whatever the camera is set to for stream 2, even though in the console it says “Modified bitrate”, it doesn’t check if what it’s replacing is in the arguments. But if you compare it to the original, it should be the same.

If it’s transcoding, it changes the bitrate. You can add logic to the script, I’m too lazy.

Rebooted cameras, as it’s still too fast. Or was, waiting for video to finish recording. If that doesn’t fix it, then perhaps VLC is broken.

If you change the playback speed to slower, it might be more normal speed.

Maybe Wayland is broken, going to test SMPlayer. I had to kill mpv, as it made my computer lag. And my music. Uninstalled SMPlayer, you can use mpv without it, not sure it’s any better.

Oh it’s probably because I’m using Bluetooth headphones. But I think if I mute it, it’s still too fast. Changing the audio output in KDE doesn’t fix it. Would be out of sync maybe. Should see what YouToot looks like. It’s probably fine.

Not the frame interval or Wayland, most likely the exposure. Looked at videos from earlier, they are fine. Now to remove mpv as well, don’t need it.

So a shutter of 1/12 makes it brighter and faster.

How do you get it brighter without changing the shutter? Plenty bright at 1/30. Got to wait for a video. The camera feed on the camera looks fine though, even at 1/12 I think.

Appears to be fine now.

But I think that video was before I changed the exposure. And should have noticed sooner, as it recorded screens waking up, but one video I watched, was missing stuff. Either the shutter speed does something to video, or the camera can’t handle 1/12.

Well I can’t see a fly with the shutter set to 1/12 without IR. Not sure about 1/30, the fly went away.

And it should have motion blur, if you set it either too fast or too slow, I forgot what it said. Said to set it to double the FPS, which is probably why it’s too dark. If you want auto to work, you have to change it to 15 FPS I guess. Not sure any of that info applies to security cameras though.

Maybe replace it with a Hikvision camera. The auto exposure might work on it. This camera has a higher resolution then old camera, but exposes worse. Hikvision might get color night vision as well.