Nope. Even if the government (Brazil) controlling my homeland is one of those shitting “think on the children! [because we don’t]” laws.

I don’t know if this is related to my browser reporting my geolocation as NZ, and the default page language being Italian, it’s possible bad design is helping me out.

I don’t bother with Calibre or anything similar; I simply use the directory structure. Easier to show it with examples than explaining it.

You get the idea, right? No additional software needed, any automation tool to move/rename files can be used to help you out, and since metadata isn’t used for the organisation you can take your sweet time checking and fixing it. And sharing it across my network means simply sharing a directory with everything in it.

Key points to use this approach effectively:

1. Keep it simple. If you need to think on where an item should go, you’re probably over-engineering your sorting.
2. Keep it objective. For example, genre is usually a bad sorting criterion, as the same piece of media can belong to 2+ genres. Author, franchise, set (season, album, etc.) are typically better.
3. Keep it flexible. It’s fine and good if each subdivision has its own sorting criteria. Just be consistent with it.
4. Keep it accurate. Names are part of the sorting structure, and should be descriptive.
5. Keep it clean. Don’t add unorganised items to the file structure; if you must, keep a separated “to sort” directory elsewhere.
6. Keep it broad. You’re probably already used to this due to the Johnny decimal system, but broader categories are usually better. Just don’t create artificial divisions to arbitrarily nest divisions, though; remember #2.
7. Keep changing it. Ultimately the goal of a sorting system is to find your stuff; it is neither to be a control freak, nor to follow the advice of some random internet person like me. So if something is not working well for you, change it.

Ah, on automation:

• GPRename and Bulky are useful to… well, bulk rename files.
• EasyTag can do it for audio files, based on the metadata and/or info retrieved from the internet.
• Wikipedia “$series_name list of episodes” for descriptive names for anime or live action seasons. Often you can copypaste the whole text bloc into a text editor, and use some find-and-replace to get rid of everything except episode number + episode name.
• Calc (yup, the spreadsheet program!) is a godsend. Specially with the above, plus a terminal; it means you can create on the spot a bunch of commands like

mv 01.mkv "01 - The Sphere.mkv"
mv 02.mkv "02 - The Inhabited.mkv"
[...]

Let me guess: you were trying to pirate Windows games and software. Right?

If yes, look at it this way. You’re pirating games for one system, and trying to run them in another system. Of course it’ll involve one or two additional loops to make it work. It’s like baking bread on your stove, you know? It can be done, but it isn’t as streamlined as using your oven.

That said it isn’t really difficult. I have a bunch of pirated Windows games installed in my Linux. Steam helps by a lot, because of Proton; add the game to Steam as a “non-Steam game”, then force it to use a specific Steam Play compatibility tool. You can do it without Steam but it streamlines everything.

You’re still better off looking for native software, though, made for Linux. A bunch of good games have Linux versions.

I always wrote the year with four digits, even back in the 90s. So even if I write the date as 2026-01-31 (I do it for files) or 31/01/2026 (everyday), it’s completely unambiguous.

The actual problem is the internet, because Americans use that weird MM/DD/YYYY convention. To avoid confusion for those I often abbreviate the month instead of numbering it; e.g. 01/Jan/2026.

I’m not sure if domestication is viable; if it was, the Amerindians would’ve done it already, odds are at least some tribes tried. I’m saying this because they’ve been hunting the capybaras since forever, a lot of them used to be nomads (livestock is great when you’re a nomad, it’s basically a mobile food reserve), and the ones in the Andes did domesticate a related species (guinea pigs).

(Plus they have a nasty habit of eating their own poop.)

I never ate capybara meat, but based on what people told me it’s like pork, except gamey and drier. It doesn’t sound too appetising IMO.

Reminder capybaras are wild animals and can carry diseases, such as the spotted fever. And they reproduce really fast: in nature they reach sexual maturity in a year and half, and have 4~5 pups per year. At least here (where I live they’re native) there is some predation, but unless you keep the population in check they’ll go from “aww” to “eww” really fast.

And no, hugging the capybara is not predation.

Just as a heads up, you accidentally posted the same question four times.

That said yes, it’s piracy.

Me: “I’m going into a diet.”

Also me: “I’m planning scrummies for this weekend! Deep-fried okra, rollmops, preserved eggs, cheese and fruits.”

I definitively have no temperance when it comes to tempura. But you know what, I’m treating myself and my family, we’re going to eat the scrummies while drinking wine, beer, soda.

Happy new year, good bois! And lion! And porcupine! And Butterfly!

HE COMES
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…no, wait, that’s Santa Klaus! Merry Christmas!

A month ago, I started preparing some anise liqueur. This weekend I’m going to filter it and mix it with syrup, then use the other half of the bottle of vodka for an Irish Cream-like thing. Neither is just for me (they’re Christmas drink for the family), but I guess it counts?

I’m also going to spend some time with epoxy clay modelling. Still thinking on what I’m going to do; probably a critter of sorts. Modelling was something I loved to do through my whole childhood, I’m trying to pick up the hobby again.

nyaa.si has a bunch. Just be careful to not download the manga instead. (Both are under the same section, “Literature”.)

Not in the picture: a cute cat headbutting your leg, as if saying “luv ya”.

No. But I had a dog that loved pepper sauce.

I was 14 or so. My dog Lana was begging for food. She always did it. It was frankly annoying, and I was eating some fish cake, with a buttload of pepper sauce.

I gave her one bit. I was expecting her to smell the pepper, think “eeew, is this what humans eat? This is inedible!” and bug off. Instead she ate the bit, and asked me for more, licking her lips.

Sis’ eye surgery went out great.

Kika loved her new cardboard house. Now hopefully she’ll stop taking dibs on Frieda’s tank, the later did her "she stole my toy ;_; " face every time it happened.

My mum is busy with her oil paintings, the good type of busy. Kind of funny when I call her for lunch and she pops up with some paint on her arm or face.

I’ve prepared some apple cinnamon rolls and they became an instant hit. I’ll try making some with pineapple and coconut next time.

You were upset because you were hangry. Eat another cookie, and you’ll find inner peace.

Red panda is being goofy and giving no fucks.
Be like red panda - allow yourself to be goofy sometimes.

I wonder why languages lost that form, because it seems really useful to have a single verb for those.

I am not sure, but I think it’s due to the changes in the passive. Latin had proper passive forms for plenty verbs, and a lot of those verbs handling states were either deponent (passive-looking with active meaning; like irascor) or relied on the passive for the state (like terreo “I terrify” → terreor “I’m terrified”). Somewhere down the road the Romance languages ditched it for the sake of the analytical passive, sum + participle.

I’m saying this because, while irascor died, the participle survived in e.g. Portuguese (Lat. iratum → Por. irado, “angered”). And it got even re-attached to a new verb (irar “to cause anger”).

It isn’t something you’d expect people to say; like, “hoy estoy miedoso, pero mañana estaré valiente” sounds weird as fuck. But it isn’t agrammatical, the oddity there is semantic.