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  • The only thing I'm looking/waiting for is a jellyfin audio player that automatically goes to full screen visualisation or lyrics after a determined amount of seconds of music playing + no user inputs... Wish I could do it myself and contribute to the project, but alas.

  • Electric scale because it's more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don't see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.

  • It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.

  • How cool would it be to out of nowhere see Valve come out with a SteamPhone based on Arch which does everything you ever hoped for and runs on high quality hardware including all the features that others took away (colour alert pixel, 3,5mm jack, replaceable battery), complete with dual boot or a containerised Android-mode for running apps that would never work like banking or eID. Would buy instantly.

  • Yeah sad they're stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home... Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud... All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don't think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was...

  • Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you... Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a 'real' thing

    https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1

    _Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.

    Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._

    And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music... In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs... it's still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.

  • To me that isn't neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me... Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.

    The actual "genre" that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.

  • Started playing Pikmin

  • +1 Dietpi on an old SFF office computer runs extremely smooth. Fiddled with Rpi too first... The few Watts lower energy use aren't worth the hassle, old SFF's offer so many (future) options while still getting really low idle power usage

  • Focus your resources to keep seeding near dead items, more local/regional/obscure things. 1 seed more or less on a 150 swarm of a very popular, new item doesn't matter as much as being (almost) the only one left.

  • Happens in multiple countries. Germany, Netherlands, Belgium I know for sure. Probably elsewhere too.

  • This machine is incredible, it easily plays the backlog of 5000+ games I haven't played before but of which a lot are way cooler than a lot of AAA being published today because it predates many current bad game development practices. DOS, NES, SNES, Wii, GB, GBA, GAMECUBE, PSP, PS1, PS2, SEGACD, ... The list goes on. Steamdeck with Emudeck is a truly amazing experience. I don't need a steamdeck 2 anytime soon.

  • If you hack it warranty becomes void and you're maybe in big insurance trouble if there's an accident or your battery catches fire in an underground parking garage. Basically similar to how banking apps etc keep people from trying to use alternatives to Android on their phone. The boundary isn't technical, it's legal.

  • If you count using shady free streaming websites, I think the number is waaaay bigger than 1%

  • Mario Kart Wii stood the test of time really really well

  • I wonder if now is a good time to download all Wikipedia and put it on a spare offline drive...

  • +1. Very easy, very stable.

  • Some of it is likely still quite findable and assuming quite a few titles are many seasons of 1 show: use your known channels and redownload in more recent repacks would be the easiest, least hassle least risk of quality loss. Use Sonarr and/or jellyfin exports to identify shows with high GB per minute of runtime...