Alexander Daychilde

That’s just a plus^[1].

I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)

The way I read their comment was pointing out that the employer (the school district) should be providing sufficient printing. :shrug: But there’s many ways to interpret, I suppose

So letmme explain how this works: I expressed my opinion about not drinking calories. You’ve offered nothing but a shitty attitude back at me, while I was clarifying that you should, in fact, so what works for you.

So at this point, you can piss off for all I care.

Do what makes you happy and fuck off, kiddo.

That’s why I only buy Chinese.

dude, buying people is illegal!

;-)

It’s kinda hilarious that propaganda in the US talked about “EU is always watching you” as a part of the propaganda against government regulations. While some places over there are starting to see the rise of fascist parties, I think awareness of the US’s fall into fascism is hurting their cause as people are a little more aware than they might otherwise be.

And while I don’t generally like any government monitoring, if I had to choose, I’d choose EU monitoring over US monitoring any day, considering how our democracy has long been secondary to capitalism (with our own special twist of that old socialist phrase, for us “Taking the resources of the many to concentrate in the hands of the few ultra-wealthy”)

Our oligarchs have corrupted the entire system, and our government allows us just enough to survive while funelling all the resources up to the oligarchs. They have more than they could possibly spend, and they still demand more More MORE M O R E.

Back to cameras: In this case, more data, more control, more intimidation, more fear.

I know a lot of times replies are viewed as “You’re wrong!” but this, if anything, I think reinforces your comment:

I went looking for statistics and couldn’t find any, but did run across these assertions:

1. CCTVs of undefined/all types aupposedly increased crime clearance rates (“solved”) by around 20%. I suspect most of these are higher-quality ones in businesses or on public streets
2. Amazon claims 55% reduction in crime in pilot programs with doorbell cameras but a study by some org of that situation found no statistical difference

Certainly people are becoming more aware of those cameras and perhaps covering up to disguise their identity. So at most they might deter someone from going for your house, but as they become even more common, that effect will probably drop off.

But what if some stranger loses their dog? You could have helped, but NOoOOOOooooo you had to be selfish with your privacy you MONSTER.

Speaking in generalities unfortunately does not guarantee individual results. <3

Do what works for you.

Don’t put sugar in your tea - don’t drink calories.

If sweetening with artificial sweeteners tastes “bitter”, try a trick: Use packets of multiple types - one “equal”, one sucralose, one stevia, for example. You get the sweetness from each and not enough of the background bitterness (which is different).

That’s the main reason Coke Zero is pretty good as compared to Diet Coke - different formula, but they use two artificial sweeteners and get that affect - sweetness from two sources with half the bitterness (since each is different).

Yes, eliminating an excess of calories is a good way to lose weight. Don’t think this is sarcasm, this is AWESOME and I’m glad that’s all it took for you - or at least that was a good contributing factor.

The only thing I would say: Don’t drink calories. i.e. I assume you meant regular soda and juice you were drinking. Milk is in that category as well.

Coffee, tea, diet soda, crystal light or any packet you put in a bottle of water - look for the things with basically zero calories, and that should be what you drink most of the time.

For those that are worried about things like caffeine being diuretics and dehydrating you: Coffee and tea and diet soda are NEARLY as hydrating as plain water. It’s not a large difference.

If you can drink plain water, great! If you need a bit of flavour to help? That’s also fine - the important bit is not drinking calories.

While most probably would be okay with hydrating more, do be careful:

1. The “eight glasses per day” thing was made up whole cloth
2. The advice I’ve heard is that for MOST people, drink when you are thirsty.

But if you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong because you feel a little bad, or have a headache, or are sleepy, or feel like you might be hungry but think you shouldn’t be, or any number of other situations - drinking a glass of water usually doesn’t hurt, and does sometimes turn out to have been the issue. So it’s rarely terrible advice.

(Unless you’re on dialysis like me and have fluid restrictions) :)

And if you always seem to have music stuck in your head, go research ADHD symptoms, as that is one of many. And if you DO have ADHD, things like ritalin can silence the music. (One of several things I still remember from my first ritalin)

You can also (maybe not on a video call, I suppose) press the space between your top lip and nose and this will also usually quell the sneeze.

Something like 20 years ago now, my pack-a-day wife decided to try a vaper. Not clouds-of-vape, just a pedestrian vaper.

She never went back to cigarettes. She decreased the nicotine and nowadays vapes maybe 2-3 times per day, I think her current level is 6… whatever units of nicotine, it’s not a lot.

I don’t care that she still vapes at that level. If there is anything bad, it’s not much at that rate, so screw it.

Firefox on desktop worked no worries here, but see how this looks - I love archive.ph / archive.today: https://archive.ph/0A6tq

Hiccups? Try taking a moment to close your eyes, focus your attention to the sides of your neck, and remind yourself that you don’t have gills anymore. I read this a few years ago and it mostly works for me - about 80% of the time (not that I get hiccups often). I’ve spread it to others with about ⅔ success, ⅓ failiure.

I’ve read the theory that it’s our brain in a panic because our gills (that we haven’t had for millions of years) aren’t working, so reminding yourself they’re not there helps. At least sometimes, at least some poeple.

I love seeing this story… it reminds me of 30 years ago when I worked in the telephone industry. Heard about telephone copmanies rolling out service in very very rural areas - running signals over barbed-wire fences because it was too expensive to run dedicated cables. That did degrade the signal, but it worked.

I know it’s a completely different thing entirely, but it just gave me nostalgia remembering hearing about that.

The good folks in the USA have lost faith in the USA. Alas, the bad folks remain in power. heh