I've been feeling bad about my nerd skill atrophy since getting married and having kids and losing the ability to spend a day dicking around on the computer. a couple months ago I noticed the OS on my home server was too old for security updates, so I upgraded to the newest version, which broke both Plex and Subsonic. this has been extra bad because I watch/listen to stuff I've watched/listened to a million times to keep myself on task while I'm doing chores, so with those out of commission I've been watching YouTube and taking an hour to load the dishwasher.
I felt a pang of aptitude last week, so I dug in and started troubleshooting Plex. I searched for error messages in a new way, I guess, because after about 10 minutes I found a suggestion to delete the server from my account, and delete the preferences file from the server. boom, now the kids can watch their shows, and I can watch Mr Show.
Subsonic is harder, because since I started using it, it has forked a few times, so there are way fewer people running it, let alone running it on Tomcat 8 on FreeBSD. so I stepped back and reconsidered: if something else will do the same thing and be easier to setup and maintain, it's better. so, I forgot everything I never really learned about Tomcat (complicated as fuck) and started downloading Python modules.
so now I learned the basics of setting up PostgreSQL, got Supysonic (a Python implementation of the quasi-standard created by the multitude of forks) working better than Subsonic did, and I have new motivation for starting my related personal projects. thank you estrogen!
