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YouTube? MeTube!

MeTube

For years I used yt-dlp which is a “feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader” and most importantly, can download YouTube videos. But yeah, it is a command line utility, easy to use for simple things but sometimes a GUI is nice too.

Enter MeTube, which is a self-hosted YouTube downloader. I’ve got it installed on one of the servers in my house and whatever computer I am using I can just load up the local instance of MeTube, drop in a video’s URL and download away!

It can even do full playlists, convert to other formats (like, audio for instance) and I just find it super handy. Especially since it’ll put all the downloads directly on my server so I can access them from any computer in the house. I can also move them into my Jellyfin server from there, so the videos are available on my TVs.

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This is the Pain (Post-Op Week 3)

Bike Ride Map

Bike Ride Map

It’s been a week since the last update and the good news is… I feel better! I’m still free of all nerve pain, so at this point I’m going to just assume we’re done with that. Done. No more nerve pain!

I’ve still got some back pain, but since it’s only been three weeks and I’m still recovering and I am trying to work my way up to “normal” activities but I still get exhausted some days.

I think the exhaustion is from a few things. First, still recovering; second, I haven’t exercised, and honestly I’ve been sedentary most of the year, so… I am out of shape. Finally, I say I am out of shape, but I’m more of a round shape (LOL) because my weight is up about 1 1/2 stones. Sigh. (Though this might have something to do with the back pain.)

I went from biking 5 to 15 miles most days last fall to barely moving the past six months. Blah. The good news is, I took a very short bike ride on Monday. It felt just fine, and yeah, I took it very easy. I rode 2.5 miles at around 8 miles per hour, which is a slow pace. I felt fine all day and evening, so I think I’m okay to start biking again, still taking it easy for a bit.

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TrueNAS Update

TrueNAS Dashboard

TrueNAS Dashboard

It’s been over a year since I first mentioned testing out TrueNAS and uh, over a year since the last update. Sometimes no news is good news, or no updates means things got boring because they just work.

I had one little issue with the TrueNAS server. One of the boot SSD drives died. Now, that was not a big deal, because I had two of them. I did worry about just running one of them though, so I got a spare and dropped it into place. I also added a bunch more drive months ago so there are now two separate pools. Overall as a file server it’s been great. I also use it for Time Machine backups for a few Macs in the house.

The OpenMediaVault server was working well until… the boot SSD started to fail. It limped along for a while, throwing a lot of errors, and my plan was to drop in a new SSD but then I had surgery and still haven’t had time to deal with it. I guess the lesson there is that having a backup boot SSD is definitely a good thing!

I did lose a few things I had set up for self-hosting on the OMV box that were not running on the TrueNAS box. Jellyfin was one, and FreshRSS was another. I had mentioned in a previous post how some container applications were a lot easier to setup on OMV over TrueNAS, and that bit me, because now I’ve needed to get them running on TrueNAS.

Almost all of my issues setting things up on TrueNAS have been permissions issues. I’ve fixed most of those issues. Jellyfin, FreshRSS, and File Browser are now all working fine on TruNAS. Along with a bunch of other applications I’ll cover in another post.

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Sleep Report (Pain Edition)

Sleep Report

Sleep Report

I am past the pain (mostly) so let’s look back on how I’ve been sleeping. It’s not great. (View it large if needed.)

Red is bad, and means fewer than four hours of sleep. There’s a lot of those. Of course it’s not “fewer than four hours” It’s “fewer than four hours of CPAP time” which would happen every time I would wake up after not even four hours of sleeping, typically in a lot of pain, and move to another room to as not disturb my partner.

There are some good chunks of blue though. I thin the first one (furthest left) is when the increased my medication. There’s also a good section in April, right after I got the injections in my spine. That actually did provide a little relief for about two weeks, but the pain came right back after that.

Overall this is the worst report in at least five years. There were some nights where I did get some sleep after the red < 4 records, but never more than an hour or two. I was often just exhausted, and sometimes I would take a nap later in the day.

I’m going to have to explain all of this to my sleep doctor in a few months.

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This is the Pain (Post-Op Week 2)

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MRI

When last we met…

Today has been two weeks since surgery. As I mentioned in the last post my nerve pain is gone. It’s been amazing. I have my life back. A little back pain, but it’s manageable. Ibuprofen is all I take now.

I saw the doctor yesterday (and thanked them profusely) and we discussed my progress (good!) and the surgery (eww?) and things are all positive. The cyst was removed along with about piece of my spine about 9mm wide. No worries, I still have plenty of spine left.

There is a chance the cyst could return, and if that happens a fusion may be needed, but we’ll deal with that if it happens. I’m not too worried right now, just focusing on healing.

I’m still somewhat restricted on activities, but I can drive now. I can’t lift heavy objects, and have some PT coming up along with another checkup in a month.

No bike riding yet, but can try in a week or two, taking it easy, seeing how it feels. I can’t pull my Trek off the hanging hook in the garage yet, as it’s too heavy for me to lift. My Aventon is on the floor, but if it were to fall over… it’s too heavy for me to lift. So I am taking it easy for now.

The good news is, by the end of July I should be okay to ride along in the Riverwest 24 a bit and then hopefully start biking to work again.