AI “demand”

And that’s really why they’re hoarding them.

My favorite ever was the Samsung Uproar. Also my first portable mp3 player and while it had shit storage, I had my favorite playlist always at the ready which was so novel at the time. The backlighted screen felt so premium then.

Love does not require vulnerability in any shared sense. It can absolutely exist without it. I would argue that a relationship isn’t very healthy without some concept of shared vulnerability but love isn’t a relationship and a relationship isn’t love.

Many relationships are purely based on a concept of “I know what my partner is thinking/feeling” when nothing is shared. There are many connections that just work, for various reasons.

I’m nearing 50 and didn’t even know what vulnerability actually was (I had a concept but not an experience. I didn’t know what I didn’t know) until my early 40’s. And I’m still shit at vulnerability and have roughly as much experience with using a Bat’leth in combat as I do being vulnerable. But believe me, I’ve been in love many times.

Healthy emotional response means you react to your environment in an appropriate way given the environment. Unhealthy emotional response means you pass out when you hear a helicopter or you can’t have healthy relationships or hold down jobs or feel good or feel anything. Emotions just are until they’re an impediment to living.

That is a solid enough reason and one I wasn’t aware of. Exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find out, thank you!

I’ve been eyeing Gitea. Do you have any reason for using Forgejo that I might overlook Gitea in favor of it?

Instead of digging a well, you might invest in AWG if you’re thinking of a prepper/solar punk kind of future.

Same boat, the exact same refurb 10tb drives I’ve got in my system are 2.5x my last purchase. But I did get a lot of fast RAM before the prices went nuts.

Don’t forget to check out Youtarr. I think it hits all the targets. You can do channels, playlists or individual videos. It has an option for a proxy URL to use to download which I believe can be set up with a self-hosted VPN. And it formats and sends things directly to Jellyfin.

I forgot about that. I subscribe to both so don’t notice day to day. Good catch, thank you.

I can appreciate that. It’s too easy to get burnt out on shitty news. Sometimes we just want to escape. I admit, sometimes I will let a new episode for several days until I feel I can handle it. But I eventually force myself to watch awful news like I’m in A Clockwork Orange

Most of my staples have been mentioned, but I want to give a shout out to Food Wishes, America’s Test Kitchen and That Dude Can Cook, Chef Jean-Pierre. Been cooking staples for years now. Also, Hey Grill Hey but it’s younger.

For drinks, How To Drink (though I feel they’ve been chasing algorithms and losing focus and soul), City-Steady Brewing, Cocktail Chemistry and Cocktail Time with Kevin Kos.

For politics, I go to Parkrose Permaculture and Farm to Taber. Both excellent and insightful even if I’m not always in full agreement.

For woodworking, it’s StumpyNubs, Blacktail Studio (highly recommend even if you’re not into woodworking), The Wood Whisperer. Lincoln Street Woodworking is newer but I still enjoy it.

I’m a car guy and honestly this space has become dismal. I watch Stay Tuned every Friday or weekend at least. I voted my conscience and unsubbed from Matt’s Offroading, Rat Rod Racing, Robby Layton and all of the Utahbers. While I can’t be certain I’m guessing they all voted for Trump and I just can’t support that shit. Oh and I really enjoy Regular Car Reviews

His rants exist because no one can afford the hardware anymore and he’s doing excellent journalism in explaining why we can’t (in a much more exacting and capable of bringing lawsuits way). Some of the best journalism I’ve seen in years, flat out.

Audiobookshelf for audiobooks and Navidrome for music.

We like to be busy, not exploited and not waste our lives doing meaningless drivel.

This is a total nitpick because the tool looks cool. Could we maybe just refer to it as solar power systems? We just had an article headline about hackers attacking thousands of solar systems. A solar system is already an established thing.

I think people are catching on to the tactics, but largely, number still go up for the most part. They may gamble and lose here and there but it’s still working for some. If they can lock people in, in some way, it’s a full win for them. In their mind, they just have to wait out this pesky freedom we all have to wear off and they’re set.

This is one of the reasons so many corporations are making so many anti-consumer shitheel moves right now. They can largely buy their way out of criticism by leveraging the same manipulation mechanism that has been coloring elections. It all boils down to the tools from Cambridge Analytica. The cost of constant spin and media fuckery is negligible as they create a digital serfdom.

This is some Men in Black shit I think