Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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Both of my cats came from my in-laws farm and it's been funny with the older of the two as she needed to learn from another cat how being friendly gets you pets and scritches, meanwhile the younger one who basically came inside as soon as she was on hard food hasn't had that difficulty

I feel like the biggest mistake was moving most of the stores from smaller more manageable spaces in malls to their gigantic department store sized spaces. For brick and mortar smaller retail spaces seems to be the winning strategy these days, especially since it can be supplemented with an online ordering & send to store system for items not kept in stock at the store.

That's just the spam that gets through! On my ancient ISP-provided email it's primarily distributed via compromised accounts from the same provider. And what I see targeting the corporate world tends to come from newly setup email servers or newly setup accounts on paid email providers

Can't wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it's gone like Cortana or Paint3D

Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn't search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I'm not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I'll take the improvements I get

I think macs are more comparable when you compare OEM PC to OEM PC. I've specced out a few optiplexes for clients and all have been over a grand each. I wouldnt spend that much on my own computer but I know how to pick a good used computer or build my own if I so desire. The clients just want a computer they can forget about for a decade and yell at Dell when it breaks so Optiplex it is.

How much does a Mac Mini cost? $800 for a variant with 512GB of storage. Literally cheaper than a similar Dell Opitplex

I've noticed it definitely varies depending on how you access it. The web version is flawless as long as the software has the resources it needs to run (my server is slightly very over-provisioned and gets crazy IO delay pretty frequently from running too much on too little).

The official Android and IOS apps are pretty good but do glitch and hitch from time to time, but apps on other platforms are less perfect. Also the third party Streamyfin and Swiftfin apps both seem to work a bit better than the official one but have their own quirks to be aware of.

The Roku app only just got consistently usable around 3-6 months ago, and still prefers to crash without displaying an error when fed media it can't direct play, and for some reason some user profiles just don't work on it. I don't have anything else to try other apps on but that's my experience so far

I haven't really used Plex so I don't know how clean of an experience it provides, but Jellyfin is very usable and honestly at this point most of the problems I have are specific to my media or my setup and not so much problems with the software itself

I'm guessing my kids are younger than yours, but I've taken the approach of simply keeping a loose eye and ear on what they're watching to make sure they're not on too bad of content and of course limiting how much time they can spend on brainrot content. They spend most of their TV time watching PBS kids or some ripped DVDs on my Jellyfin

The family thing can be a pain, Microsoft has a lot of half baked ideas

I concur, Microsoft forced me to create a family to setup my daughter's Minecraft account and even then I had to configure it incorrectly to add the game because it's age rating was too high for a 5 year old and Microsoft's own parental approval feature doesn't override that. (I at least could change it back to being a 5 year old's account afterwards) I need to figure out what setting I have to enable to let her do multiplayer at some point but so far she doesn't have anyone to play with yet

Win+Shift+arrow to kick the active window to another monitor is handy when remoting into a PC with multiple monitors.

Also, when did windows get rid of the idea of a primary display? It seems to just open software on whatever screen it feels like now...

It would probably helpfully suggest LinkedIn after you so much as type the L

/dev/nvme1?

At least it wasn't decided by a strange woman lying in a pond distributing swords. That would be no basis for a system of governance!

I recently dined at a place in Belvedere called Taqueria El Molcajete that was really good and was to the best of my knowledge quite authentic. They specify iAmerican vs Mexican style tacos (lettuce cheese and tomato vs cilantro and onion) in the taco section, and brought out a variety of homemade salsas with the complimentary homemade chips

The city of Cohokia was unrivaled in population on the continent until post-colonial Philadelphia about 800 years later, and by some estimates may have even rivaled contemporary London at its peak

There's other native American cities being found hidden in the jungles of South America too.

The amount of history, stories and people that have been lost to the sands of time are incredible

Is that a compromise solution for the age old H0 vs HO debate?

(Potential sauce)

I mean, Excel's formulas are just scripting, so you are programming if you do any formulas.

Excel is pretty powerful if you have some data to manipulate or some math to math, but also it's generally the worst tool for the job, but it's at least a tool you can almost always assume will be available

I keep subscribing, listening regularly then stopping and unsubscribing from various NPR podcasts and honestly I can only conclude that they bake in ads based on the listener and will do less ads for new listeners because I swear it's always a very small amount of ads initially every time

Having started primarily listening to audio books and sneaking in some podcasts between books it's very night and day comparing the experience of listening to each, with shitloads of ads vs none (or just "this is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. To learn more or to volunteer visit LibriVox.org") so it's much more hands off with audio books at least

Antenna Pod is great! Lately I've been using Podcast Republic and I can't remember why I tried it specifically, but importantly it has very in-depth retention and download rules so I can exclude previews of the paid feed that are only 20 minutes long, sort podcasts by date or by title (handy if you pull in LibriVox books by RSS feed), create a podcast from a folder of files, and various other handy features.

Jon Stewart's podcast is also good if you want interviews with experts. He also gets far more nerdy and into the weeds in his podcast than he ever was allowed to on TV or streaming

someone rolling all 4 or 5 apps into a preconfigured single docker or app that can be a one click install

The reason each program does its own thing is for legal liability. One downloads what media you search for, it's up to the person operating the software to choose media for which they can legal download. The next manages the metadata and organization of media but is up to the user to supply media for which they hold appropriate licenses to. Etc. Etc.

By putting all of the pieces together into one package you lose that deniability of software which has legal usecases but happens to be able to be combined to do something illegal.

You know how normies pirate? They find free/cheap streaming sites and hop from one to the next as they get shut down