For the past year or so, I have been fairly happy with the RD, Torrentio, and Stremio setup. I've enjoyed being able to have a mostly seamless streaming experience; just search, click, and watch with little load or wait. In the past, I've experimented with the -arr's and qTorrent setup on a local machine, but I switched to RD for the convenience of being able to spontaneously watch a show or movie (like on a date night).

With the possible (maybe likely) end of RD, I have wanted to look back again at having a personal setup, but I want to see if anyone has recommendations for a setup that is as close as possible to the current one. I know, of course, that a local setup will not have the same benefit as a massive service as RD with a huge cache of torrents ready to go, but is there a way to get close? Round off some of the sharp edges and pain points?

For most personal projects, hosting on the cloud may be overkill, but tempting with its supposed ease of use and benefits of scale. Self-hosting is often overlooked as a solution with the benefit of simplicity and cost.

Interesting discussion and demonstration of self hosting the kinds of apps most personal projects will end being.

I was working recently on making a fairly simple model in Blender that used a shader for a particular. The core magic of the shader was the Brick Texture node. I tried experimenting with different solutions personally in Godot to recreate it since the export to the engine from Blender looked awful. Unfortunately, I've hit the limits of my limited shader skills. Does anyone know how they would go about recreating the Blender node in shader lang?

Just wanted to write this quick guide (besides getting practice with my new Lily58) to ease the troubleshooting of at least one other soul who may find themselves where I was with building my board.

For those with blok microcontrollers, in case, like me, you do not see the microcontroller show up as a detected device in the qmk toolbox, fret not! It's a little buried in the docs, but this is the solution I found and tweaked to make things as painless as possible.

• Set your config in the online configuration tool and save the json format file
• Open QMK MSYS and cd to the directory with the json file
• Put the controller in boot mode now if you haven't already (hold the boot button while plugging it in or hit the reset button twice)
• Run this command

  qmk flash <my-map.json> -e CONVERT_TO=blok

And bam!

Just do this for both boards if it's a split board like the Lily58, and you're all set! Hope this helps.