I use an audio interface with bookshelf speakers… mostly overkill for people who don’t make music because they have xlr and line level inputs for using a professional mic.
Do you have room in your computer setup for two bookshelf speakers at ear height? Because otherwise, I’d recommend a sound bar type of deal.
Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.
LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.
FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.
AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.
Transcribe! - Not open-source but it’s a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.
Yeah, it makes very little sense to “play the long game” on a private site to spread malware to a small user base when you could just go to any public tracker where it’s the Wild West. Could someone do it? Sure, but it’s really not realistic to expect that regularly.
Some of them have freeleech on some torrents. TorrentLeech has freeleech on every torrent over a certain size (I think 15 GB) + Box Sets of any size and then you just have to seed for 10 days total, then you can stop without penalty to your ratio. I have never paid money to TorrentLeech for access. I suppose this would change quickly if I was downloading individual episodes of a new show or 10 to 14.99 GB torrents, but that’s not my usual usage pattern.
I will say that some of your criticism is correct. I will often avoid using the private tracker to avoid having to seed for 10 days. I can’t get to a 1.0 ratio on private trackers, but I can on public ones, but freeleech seeding adds to my ratio with no penalty for downloading. The zero-sum vibe is both real and off-putting.
I currently have a ratio surplus of 34 GB, and it started me with 25 GB. The benefit is if I really want something, it’s easy to access
Every so often a book will list out/describe the characters in a little index and I love it when they do.
Typically you steam milk to create microbubbles for texture. Those bubbles usually collapse when made in water (they mention its an Americano-type drink) very quickly. So I’m not really sure what it would do.
Then again, plant milk is just “water with stuff dissolved in it” same as espresso or watered down espresso so maybe it keeps the texture for long enough to drink it.
What age range are your kids who love it? (Or just the lowest age would be enough info).
Have you actually tried using a cylinder type one like that? The absence of texture to grip or bumps make it unpleasant to grasp in my opinion.
It is in fact an algorithm because it’s choosing what posts to put in front of you based on multiple criteria (time since it was posted, votes/number of comments/time since last comment). They are relatively transparent and well documented criteria, though.
However, it’s not a personalized feed based on your interests and unsolicited data collection, which is what people sometimes mean when they say “the algorithm.”
He’s on strike with the WGA recently.
Don’t use regular Arch if you’re struggling. There are some arch-based distros that are more user friendly, though. Like EndeavourOS or ArchMan. Manjaro can be good too but there are legitimate problems with how the project is run.
I was having graphics driver problems in Ubuntu-based distros until I tried Linux Mint.
If you get crashes right before or after login, it’s often a (Nvidia) graphics issue. To get around this, you could use nomodeset in the Grub menu to get a successful first boot where you can then install the proprietary drivers.
Look at sections 4 and especially 5 on this page
Also, here is that info in a tutorial format
Also, you may want to set the Desktop Environment to Xorg or X11 (same thing) if Wayland is causing you problems. It’s older, but in some cases more efficient and less experimental. Check out the section: Switching desktop environments using a graphical user interface. It should look similar to the pictures. And notice that the “gear” icon may not appear until you select a user or start typing your password.
If your problem is different than this, open a support ticket in the discord or forums of the distro you’re using. Linux Mint has a great system for this on Discord.
S tier phone, my only complaint is that the bootloader is locked down and downward facing speaker. Next phone I buy will be able to be de-googled.
The battery life is head and shoulders above 99% of the market, oled is a killer feature, so is 120 hz.
Watching flash animations and playing flash games on Newgrounds.
This isn’t niche at all, but gbatemp is fantastic. Lots of emulation, modding, romhacking, general gaming discission, etc.
Well it’s all just shitty and confusing because each state has its own laws that are constantly being activated, passed by state congress, and temporarily or permanently being struck down by state or federal judges and maybe reinstated by other judges higher up. It’s quite hard to keep track of for the average person.
Many women are refusing to take jobs in anti-abortion states. It is generally recognized that states can’t prevent people from traveling to receive medical care, but that hasn’t stopped the craziest republicans from trying to pass unconstitutional laws.
Abortion by medication still hasn’t been successfully outlawed, so that is a possible option almost everywhere if you get telehealth services. However a judge in Florida tried to revoke a popular drug’s FDA (food & drug administration) approval unilaterally which was a blatant power grab.
There have been an increase of news stories about women forced to endure terrible denials of medical care. All national elections since the Roe V Wade overturning have seen republicans underperform. Especially if there is an abortion rights referendum (direct democracy) on the ballot. But not all states allow referendums, and even if they do, a petition is required first. Most states are relatively close to another state where abortion is allowed, but not everyone can afford to travel.
In some states, hospitals or women’s health centers close altogether because of the unclear regulatory environment makes it hard to know what will get them in trouble. I see a story like that every month or two.
I get results searching for peertube on DDG.
Have you ever tried SearxNG? It’s a foss meta-search engine that anyone can host an instance of, or you can use some one else’s instance.
r/books seems to have a anti-nonfiction bias that I could do without.
Klipsch has been a consistently good brand for a long time. I checked on ebay and there’s some great ones for $200 to $300. Only 2.0 setups for that price, though.
You will need an amp for those unless it’s got a built-in amp (some models have that).