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  • Cast iron rule

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  • Cast iron dorks are just skill issue people that can’t handle using a $20-40 stainless pan from a restaurant supply store. It’s an objectively worse pan that holds onto heat forever. Pan got too hot? Too fucking bad, guess you’re waiting a bit. Need to toss something or slide it around? Good thing the pan weighs 800 pounds. They have a role and purpose but the cast iron cult will come out in any cooking thread and be like “you should only use cast iron or you’re a goddamn fool”.

  • Japan set to elect youngest prime minister in a century

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  • That debate with Hiroyuki was pretty wild. Like the shitposting troll vlogger and literal owner of 4chan running a debate between PM candidates of a world power.

    Like can you imagine asmongold running the 2028 presidential debates and feeding the candidates questions from the twitch chat

  • Is there anywhere to watch crappy hotel TV online?

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  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • It’s an inherent byproduct of capitalism.

    If you rise to Tim Cook’s level you must be someone that is either willing to put your personal values aside or you do not have them to begin with. The growth of the company matters more and if you prioritize your values you will be filtered the moment you misalign with whatever prevents maximal growth.

    Capitalism does not care about values, ethics, morals, social wellness, or anything besides growth. It is cancerous and leads to a toxic society that poisons itself and falls apart, which is literally happening

  • Why is singing so hard omg

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  • You can hear your own voice better this way

    The modern version is to use a microphone and headphones but who has that kind of money. Bucket on head

    It’s good you recognize that though. When I gave lessons (piano is more my thing tbf) it was amazing how many people relied on that cope of “well I guess I just wasn’t born with it”. Like ugh fuck you, I played piano an hour a day starting when I was like 4 years old.

    It does depend too on what your goals are though. Realistically if you want to be a conservatory singer you’re way behind since you’re here talking to me and not starting when you were 3-4. The unfortunate reality of music at that level is people get a bit nutty and start their children on a path that can be obsessive. It doesn’t mean you can’t be a classical singer but the challenge is much higher for that path, especially if you’re like 30. But if you just want to sing like pop songs? Then give it like 1-2 years of that karaoke game for ps4 and actual ear training (the above is just an old school example, there’s a ton of ways) and I bet you’ll make strides.

    You can sing like an angel, I believe in you, even though I have no idea who you are and no measure of your capacity to commit to things. As embarrassing as it may be try recording yourself once or twice a month and reviewing the collected recordings every quarter or six months or so. If you put in 15-30m per day of ear training and song practice and do this I guarantee you will notice growth over time, which will hopefully be motivating

    Alternatively stay bad at singing and own it: bob Dylan did it

  • Why is singing so hard omg

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  • put a bucket on your head while you practice matching pitches to a piano (or whatever clean reference, like an mp3 or youtube video of a chromatic scale played slowly is fine if you don’t have a piano). The clean reference part is important, start with that so you can get a better sense of what you’re trying to match. As your pitch improves then practice songs to keep yourself interested

    Rhythm is similar, practice with a metronome. Practice practice practice. No one is born with it no matter what you may believe, some people have an inclination so that it comes a bit easier and some don’t so it takes a lot more effort unfortunately, but either way you’re going to have to practice practice practice a good period of time daily (like at least 30 minutes, ideally more) consistently for many years. Your favorite singer did this, guaranteed

  • Well done, RFK Jr.

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  • Isn’t that message more about the shutdown? Rfk sucks for sure but the shutdown is not really his thing. Destruction of standards is his thing

  • Is there anywhere to watch crappy hotel TV online?

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  • If you’re really only interested in in like forensic files and shit yeah this is probably the way to go. If you want sports you’ll have to pony up the $20-40/yr or whatever for somewhat okay plan

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • Until users turn them back on

    AFAIK there’s no setting to outright disable subs. Maybe there is one somewhere, or you could strip them from media, but that’s terrible because subs in is always the correct choice. What can help is running the extract subtitles plugin though that won’t help for format.

  • Is there anywhere to watch crappy hotel TV online?

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  • None of them are shit (well Dubai is).

    Last time I was in Costa Rica I enjoyed myself quite a lot actually.

    Here is a picture of quepos

  • Is there anywhere to watch crappy hotel TV online?

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  • Get an iptv subscription and just watch cable. As a bonus you can watch tv in Costa Rica and Dubai and China and shit

  • Democrats Spooked by Trump’s Plan to Hand Over Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Private Firms

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  • “Such a move would risk putting weapons in the wrong hands and harming the nation’s defense, Democratic Senator Ed Markey explained in a letter to President Trump last week”

    lmao they literally wrote trump a letter. It’s like they read comments about people roasting dems for being completely ineffective and then go “hmm yeah okay let’s do that”.

    like do you think trump will read a letter. Do you think trump will read anything.

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • Subtitles force transcoding a lot of the time depending on playback situation and media. A lot of compatibility issues there - downloaded movies often will have the PGS subs from a bluray, anime can often have ass/ssa, ibx subs, etc plus they all tend to be embedded in the media (and in anime’s case often with extra fonts and attachments).

    all of these (basically anything but external srt) can interrupt direct playback depending on users Jellyfin client. Some have better sub support than others, android vs apple vs some esoteric client like webos all have their own niche weirdness. You need to search what the best option is for each users scenario. Like for my users that have apple devices checking this box in settings>playback allows direct streaming of a lot of content:

    But for “the problem show” what do logs say? How is it encoded? Quick sync can’t transcode everything. The older your processor the less it can do and niche formats it definitely can’t do at all. Like unless you have a real new cpu (13th or 14th gen) it’s not doing av1 or vp9 content and that’s still getting offloaded to cpu for transcoding. And if it’s some ogg vorbis thing or whatever it won’t work. And do logs verify igpu is being utilized for transcoding/mapped correctly? It can be a bit of a pain in the ass (unless they improved the process, it’s been a while since I’ve had to do it)

  • ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

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  • Scrolling through your comment history I see at a glance you’ve deleted several of your own comments so you have at least something to hide

  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • What is the client situation?

    The easiest fix is to find a client that can direct play all of your files and take transcoding out of the equation. Ugoos am6b+ as an example but if you don’t need Dolby vision there are cheaper options that are easier to configure with native jellyfin clients (instead of coreelec/kodi). Or if you need av1. But this needs to be done per user and costs money

    Alternatively what is your hardware? Do you have intel quick sync video? If so do you have hardware transcoding setup? Like if you have Jellyfin setup in a docker are you passing through the igpu to the container? And if you’ve done that have you set up the hardware transcoding in Jellyfin? What gen cpu and what kind of files?

    If you have the transcoding happening on the CPU and not the iGPU (assuming you don’t have a discrete gpu in a mini pc and frankly with quick sync you don’t need one unless your cpu is ancient, save the power usage) transcoding will crawl. But if you have quick sync video it should be fine with <4-5 users

  • whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?

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  • I think it was reddit? Searching for it is not helpful though as it appears it’s not all that rare of a deal, the coffee subreddit has like a dozen posts of people asking about “is a used bunn for $150-200 off marketplace a good deal”

    And man browsing this is why I fucking hate reddit. There’s always some pedantic asshole to be like welllllll maybe butttttttttttttt here’s the problem with that deal: it’s not a $6000 grinder that looks like a prop from a Wes Anderson movie. Like the answer to that question is “yes”, or maybe “yes but you’ll have to clean it real good because it was in a grocery store for 6 years and never got cleaned once”

  • whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?

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  • I meant brick and mortar, refine that list to “pick up in store today” and see what happens. Lots of people still impulse shop and want it right this second, even if that means driving to the store and having it put in their car. I mean obviously you can go on amazon and get a v60 or a moka pot for less than $40

  • whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?

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  • If you’re serious about coffee you know it’s best to grind as soon as possible to brewing, so you get a grinder. A really good burr hand grinder is like $100 and a good enough one is like $20, a solid burr electric grinder is like $150.

    If you don’t care so much you just buy preground. Keurig and nespresso “unrecyclable plastic waste generator for shit coffee” machines also needed far more shelf space. I cannot stress enough how the keurig is a blight on humanity. The coffee is objectively bad and that is whatever, it’s still drinkable, but it creates so much unnecessary plastic waste with every brew. This wouldn’t be so much of an issue if it didn’t become the de facto coffee method of every lazy shit who drinks coffee every morning (read: 60% of America). It is a scourge. It is pathetic that you go to a place like target and there are 18 different keurigs, 1 Mr. Coffee, and that’s it. At least the Mr coffee isn’t wasteful. But I digress. It wouldn’t kill them to stock a French press or something though.

    An anecdote: I saw someone online who was able to buy a grocery store coffee grinder (Bunn G3) for crazy cheap (like $150) at auction around Covid times because the store was selling it off. Maybe that’s when they were getting rid of them? Apparently it was filthy, which tracks, but performed well once disassembled and thoroughly cleaned. They’re like $1400 new. But coffee people are nuts and that’s nothing, there are grinders that are like 4000+

  • [CW: Misogyny, Eugenics] Thought a guy had good politics. He was anti-abortion and every justification he tried to give further revealed his right-wing views.

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  • Because so many of them subscribe to the fairy tale that the moment a child is born you instantly fall in love with it and your life is instantly change for the better and there’s cartoon birds and shit and postpartum depression doesn’t exist.

    I would say about 2-3x a year I get a new parent for counseling who is surprised because they had a kid and feel either nothing or feel bad about it. Like overwhelmed and a sense of regret. It’s not a lot but I’m a solo practitioner and my case volume isn’t like insanely high. Often this fades and they end up happy they have the kid (not always, unfortunately) but it’s probably because of the social pressure to feel this intense bond immediately. Babies are pretty boring at first. 0 personality. You’re not weird if it takes a little while to connect.

    Or of course they endorse adoption as a viable solution. I used to counsel foster children and let me tell you, they aren’t lining up to adopt those kids. It’s a solution, as long as someone else does it