The name on the headstock doesn't mean anything. It's all about the setup, the feel of the neck in your hand, and your preferred electronics/aesthetics.

Just IMO, of course. There's definitely a contingent of the community that think brand names matter for the same reason as people who think fashion brands matter: status symbols. From my perspective it's all about playability, functionality, and sound, but I like to spend my time playing my guitars, not judging people for theirs.

If you can't hold a small plastic bottle by the neck, you've got bigger problems than tethered caps.

They are also remarkably light on littering, so it doesn't make sense for them to use cap tethers for litter prevention either.

Y'know how you hold the bottle with your hand to lift it? Believe it or not, you can hold it by the neck, and even slightly touching the little plastic ring the cap is tethered to will keep it from spinning.

Using numbered lists is a common tactic in debates and other public speaking when you have prepared talking points you want to hit.

Basically it's a mnemonic technique to help make sure you list all of your best points/pieces of evidence. You list them in the same order every time so that to recall the next point on the list you just need to remember the overall topic and the number that you're on. That way it's easier to contextualize the memory and retrieve it consistently.

This one's my favorite

I use unpackerr combined with sonarr/radarr and it definitely covers 1 and 2

The grand hilbert hotel is a metaphor about infinity. If a hotel has an infinite number of rooms, it will have enough room for him. If every room is full, they can all still move up by one room number. Infinity means you can always shift everyone up by 1 room number.

The ship of theseus is a philosophical question about whether it's still the same ship after having every board and nail in it replaced over centuries of repairs gradually replacing all of its parts.

Asking if Sisyphus is happy is a reference to a famous Albert Camus (French absurdist philosopher) quote "One must imagine Sisyphus happy"

Better to do it locally than not at all.

No, that's a queue. A coup is what detectives are always looking for when they're investigating crimes.

I had a SPECT scan done once at an Amen clinic.

Didn't really help anything besides give cool pictures of my brain. Turns out my brain is the only hyperactive part of me (SPECT shows bloodflow in the brain and mine was way more active than most). It was neat I guess, but I already had been diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type, so it ended up just being expensive and not really helpful. My mom was happy about it though, so there's that.

I wouldn't recommend it. They need to inject you with a radioactive isotope for your blood to show up in the scans. Supposedly it's not much worse than a couple of X-rays, but still.

Came here to post the exact same thing, happy to see you had it covered

Intel N100 Beelink box with 16GB of single channel RAM runs my Jellyfin server and Caddy. It's also hooked up to my home theater system directly so I can use Moonlight on it to stream my main gaming PC.

My storage is a 4-bay aluminum USB 3.0 external enclosure attached to an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux (Arch BTW). The Mac mini runs my Arr stack and mergerfs on the external drives so I can load balance across them and scale it up or down as needed. So basically the Mac Mini acts as a NAS.

Symphonium is also the best for listening to audiobooks in the car. It has a really comprehensive set of DSP options

Ehhh, kinda. Intel E-cores kinda throw off the balance a bit, but generally yeah.

Yeah, I mean I use them with Bazarr, so I don't deal with their UI, it's all automated. I'm not saying they're convenient, but it is public and widely used, so if your goal is your subtitles helping others, it's a good option.

I mean, opensubtitles still works fine

So first of all, you shouldn't involve yourself in your friend's business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.

But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don't think "more books" is gonna help.

I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don't need this crap marring your reputation.

Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.

It's also real scary to think since I'd assume most of us Gen Z-ers aren't properly able to object to privacy eroding tech bills because we're too tech illiterate to understand the impacts.

Millennial here, putting my tinfoil hat on for a minute:

This is exactly what the big tech corpos wanted all along. They've been curving the arc of history towards people at large being digitally dependent but incapable of self-service. They want addicts, not citizens. Serfs, not an educated populace.

In the 70s, 80s, 90s, and into the early 00s there was this "hacker culture" which was centered on the idea that as long as we keep our wits about us we could use computers as a great equalizer. The common person was empowered. Any and all software would be distributed for free so anyone who couldn't afford it could get it. Bill Gates was painted as a villain because he was overtly capitalistic. The corpos were kept in check by a diverse, rapidly evolving market and a ton of savvy users who knew what they wanted.

Giant corporations pretty much caught on that they needed there to be fewer tech savvy people who could get one over on them. When politicians needed to ask experts what to include in school curriculums, guess who had lobbyists ready to go? Microsoft and Apple. Eventually Google too.

And now that there are fewer tech savvy people? Everything got shittier. Shinier, faster, dumber, more locked down and shittier. And the enshittification is just going to accelerate until people straight up reject it, then it'll pause for 6 months to a year and start up again.

Just that they're no easier to use to fool an anti-AI system than using ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, or Claude. Those AI detectors also give false positives on works made by humans. They're unreliable in the first place.

Basically, they're "boring text detectors" more than anything else.