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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.

If what I vaguely remember happened. Right before I fell a sleep, I heard Tonka get on the bed, and I said “goodnight Tonka” and then “I love you Tonka”. Fell a sleep after that.

It wasn’t as automatic as some of the things I’ve said in bed. Still automatic, just not as automatic.

How did I know Tonka is who was getting on the bed? I think it was the beginning of the year, and all three dogs, and a cat visited me. I assume all three dogs were there. Probably obvious that Tonka is who was getting on the bed, it’s her bed, and her apartment, and we may have the strongest connection.

Oh and I also realized the other day, the reason deceased family interacts with me, is because I’d feel even worse if they didn’t. Somebody said they don’t usually interact with the living, as they don’t want to make grieving worse. Apparently, I feel worse with zero interaction. Since they can see the most likely outcome of what they want to do, they can see I’m probably going to feel worse, if they do nothing.

I think a psychic said that, probably the guy on Netflix. They should make more episodes of that show.

Still waiting for The Blackwell Ghost 8. When will it be released?

No idea why. The first time, was shortly after I went to bed. Or maybe right after I went to bed. I may not have been sleeping yet.

I did post something about I should ask my dad to wake something up. Perhaps that’s close enough to asking, to get somebody to do something.

In that case, I can confirm he’s waking it up.

Nothing wakes up for unknown reasons much anymore. I wasn’t expecting anything to be on the security camera. I did change the exposure, changing the brightness won’t completely fix it. I could probably keep the brightness at the default now. Apparently this camera, with a higher resolution, can’t auto expose as good as the other one. I just have it set to a day and night profile, turns to the night profile at 4:29 PM I think, until 10 AM.

But the exposure I changed it to, might be fine for all the time.

Good thing that worked, I don’t want to try finding IR lights to buy. I looked once, but the one I looked at, might be junk. Not even sure that would fix it anyways. If the exposure is wrong.

I might need a NVR, for some times, I have images, but no videos. Where’s the videos? Problem with NVR, is the one I want to use, probably requires the entire OS to be 64bit, and my Raspberry Pi only has a 64bit kernel, too lazy to reconfigure the entire thing. The Mac mini would be the best to use, but with FileVault on, nothing will auto load on rebooting. You have to manually login first, no auto logging in. Think that was on by default. I don’t intend on disabling it.

I finally asked Tonka, if she could go on the bed. Very quickly, after asking her, by speaking the words of course, I felt movement on the bed.

I figured out somehow, that all you have to do is ask, and she might go on the bed. Well, she probably told me. Or somebody else told me. That was a while ago, I just haven’t actually tried it yet. I think I automatically asked her to do it the first time, just like I automatically prayed to God asking to take good care of her. I can’t explain how that automatic stuff happens, at all. When I went to bed, I didn’t automatically do it. I think I may have woke up and automatically asked her to do it, when I figured out you just have to ask.

At some point, I need to ask my dad, to turn a screen on. If something turns on very quickly after asking, that basically confirms, he did it, and was the one most likely doing it in the past.

Good thing I’m already insane, so they won’t need to diagnose me with anything else, for believing what I believe.

I should also ask God, if they can do something about my depression. And if my depression is gone, or way less, the doctor won’t be able to explain it. Because doctors don’t believe in God apparently.

Republicans claim to believe in God though, so perhaps they will believe you?

She must be here a lot, well she also knows what I’m most likely going to do. So she may come here sometime before I do it. I think most spirits, are impatient.

Also, dogs love their person a ton, just like I love her a ton. I don’t think God or anybody else, intended for me to be destroyed when loved ones die though. That may be related to humans disconnect from their soul and God. Which also wasn’t intended to happen.

Luckily, the first episode recorded with The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

But watching it right after the original show, is too much all at once. You get tired, and wonder perhaps it’s all fake. Like the Arnold guy thinks of Heaven. He shouldn’t go to Skinwalker Ranch, or watch it. He may be upset.

I need Merging Dimensions: The Incredible Saga of the Bradshaw Ranch now, but I might have to buy it. Cheaper on Amazon for Kindle version, it’s $13 from Kobo. It’s three dollars cheaper on Amazon.

Perhaps you reincarnate to a different dimension, and come here every time you do bad. Don’t ask me how you get in heaven for eternity, perhaps by loving and believing in God.

Humans may not be individual consciousness, but they must be individuals, because we aren’t all moving the same, acting the same, or looking the same.

Or are we not supposed to be that way? In that case, which psychopath gets to be the one human? Well, that won’t go very well. They’ll decide by last man standing, but if none are standing, then no one human.

Now if you aren’t conscious, you won’t know you exist, or is that awareness? Can you be conscious without awareness?

Do one of their books explain what a shared consciousness is? Or did they not ask God that? I forgot who said that.

Well, I got some more books to put on my Kindle, thanks to the public domain download source. I probably won’t read them, I have too many books to read.