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Seems like this isn’t a bad Saturday to have a work thing in the afternoon. I’ll probably get to see most of Penn/tOSU before having to head out.

I was surprised to see a late window game in the must watch column. Anyone know why? Not familiar with those teams.

This episode gave me such joy. I feel like Lower Decks leans a lot into the outrageous stories, like last week’s Evil Computer and Peanut Hamper thing. Those episodes are fun, but they lean pretty hard into that Rick and Morty humor.

This episode felt like a Star Trek episode. Mocking the over reliance on cave sets was a great premise, but from there we had a good episode showcasing several minor characters interacting with our main cast. It was a great way to allow them to branch out while sticking to the core relationship between the characters.

On top of that, the jokes were funny. I almost didn’t stop laughing at the subtle and not-so-subtle jabs at cave episodes throughout the years.

Personally, I’d like more episodes like this. It really showcases what is great about this show.

Thank you, oh LWAdmin, for cleaning up the Lemmyverse.

Consolidating communities is an important part of being able to create critical mass for them to work. Appreciate this move.

Oh wow, I didn’t realize how transparent and well run they really are, I was just basing that on vibes. Cool!

Even Herbie taking shots at South Carolina in the ad at the end.

I’ll say I feel like this was the most imaganative SEC Shorts in awhile. The props were great and it flowed really well.

Poor South Carolina.

About ten years ago a dear friend and I started a community radio station. In order to make our FCC license more competitive, we started internet streaming pretty early on.

We had great community buy-in, but we needed to broadcast 24/7 and decided to record and rebroadcast live shows.

We had no money, just a MacMini. So we had to do everything with things that came with MacOS or were free or near free.

We ended up creating a pretty impressive interlinking set of AppleScripts, Automator apps, and iTunes Smart Playlists, all driven by Calendar alarms. Calendar alarms would start recordings, which would use the magic import to iTunes folder to get it into iTunes. This would then move into a smart playlist that was set to look for certain tags and only have the most recent audio file with those tags in it.

When a rebroadcast would come up, it was pretty simple. A calendar alarm would trigger an AppleScript that triggered one of these Smart Playlists.

It all worked well for a long time. Ultimately we got our FCC license, and donations allowed us to improve our IT. But this station ran on iTunes, AudioHijack, AppleScript, Automator, and Calendar alarms for years.

Thanks!

Random question that people may not know the answer to, but is calckey.world run by the same people that run Lemmy.world? I’ve been pleased with this Lemmy instance and the people who are running it seem to know what they’re doing, and if so I’d just sign up with that one.

My main takeaway is that /c/cfb really thinks Georgia is overrated.

I’m curious about your computer poll. How did you set it up?

I am very happy with every ASUS router I have ever had. I’m particularly happy with my current XT8/ZenWifi AX. I have a large, older house that requires two access points, and I found the advanced settings on the ASUS (particularly after installing the Merlin firmware) made balancing device transfers between the two access points very smooth.

Whatever your use case may be, I think you’ll be happy with the ASUS.

Notre at #2. Very spicy, I like it.

I think they’re a lot better than most people give them credit for. I also think Georgia is nowhere near as good as it ranks nationally—I think your #6 makes sense here.