Recent content by Arative

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    Wheel of Time

    I wanted to like this series. Had such high hopes but it sounds like they butchered the story just because. I mean I used to reread the entire series when a new book was coming out just to refresh myself. You think studios would see the success of game of thrones when they were following the...
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    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Medicaid has the 5 year claw back. It's basically use all of your assets and be broke in order for Medicaid to pay for everything. Medicare part C might do home health care but that depends on the policy you get. Parts A and B don't pay for home health care.
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    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    I'm not lawyer but since there is no will everything should just go the surviving spouse. No else would be entitled to anything. As far as taking care of her. That's a tough call. My mother in law had been taking care of her parents, about a year before her mother passed and then her father for...
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    Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet

    This has been cancelled but is getting a rewritten finale for closure https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/mythic-quest-canceled-apple-tv-plus-new-ending-1236366662/
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    NAS

    Not familiar with snyology but on my qnap Nash using containers I have to set up bind points for file system Like the config is /config on the container pointing to /Nas/folder/config
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    Home buying thread

    We have one house up the street from us that is over priced and has been on the market for a month. Another house that was way under priced one street over that sold it's first weekend on the market
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    Parent Thread

    I'm going to be 50 this year and my daughter turned 6 last march but she was planned.
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    Home buying thread

    I've been dealing with care for my dad. He had a stroke 30 years ago or so and was on social security disability. I helped him out when I could but we lived in different cities. He was generally fine, able to care for himself, get groceries, clean is apartment etc... fast-forward to about a...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Shallan is my least favorite character too. She is annoying as shit.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Did you finish book 4? Cause it finishes pretty strong.
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Not sure about case but if you are building your own Nas for Plex streaming this blog might interest you. Showed up on my feed...
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    Usenet, NZB Indexers, Sickbeard, etc

    I'm using sonarr and radarr to nzbhydra with 5 different indexers which then goes to nzbget. I use Newshosting and news direct for usenet All of those are running in containers on my qnap nas. Has worked flawlessly for years
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    What are they looking for, as far as usage? An Nvidia shield is probably the best on the market for streaming and live tv. A firestick or chromecast would be good too and cheap. Or they could just buy a TV with something built in
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    The addon the Crew for kodi is great for live sports. I use it to watch Cardinals and Blues games all the time with no issues.
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    I've seen those boxes before that come preloaded with Kodi and a bunch of addons. I'd be leery of them. The other issue that you might run into is that it is android 12.0, not android tv OS, so apps you download from the play store may not look correct on a TV and may not work correctly either.