“No” is a complete sentence, and colleagues aren’t necessarily friends. If it’s not paid, it’s your time to do with as you please.

Just say no thanks or say you’ve got other things you need to do.

Music is easily solved.

• Qobuz store
• Bandcamp
• 7Digital
• Tidal media downloader
• Deemix

Screw streaming. Local is always better. Purchase and/or download FLAC. I’ve got nearly 1 TB of music on my NAS and my collection is regularly growing. From Qobuz and Bandcamp, anything you purchase is owned, and DRM free.

Edit - though for me as a Linux user, Qobuz has actually turned this from something perfect into a service issue. Used to be able to just download a tar of your album from them after purchase. Now you have to use their (Windows only) application downloader, or individually download each track as a single download. It’s fucking irritating. I don’t buy from them now because of it. That said, they can’t edit or alter anything I’ve previously bought and stored locally.

Reported. This community is for shitposts, not real facts.

/s

This is freaking awesome. Only a few years ago it was exciting to see a fusion reaction last a fraction of a second.

I bought my deck predominantly to play PS2 games and it’s great at it. Unfortunately, my Steam backlog showed up and reminded me it has other uses so I haven’t spent that much time emulating on it.

So… we war with each other forever and that’s the end of the country? Just head straight for civil war? Your attitude does nothing to make things better. I understand the anger, it’s righteous indignation because this shit is just absolutely wrong and completely fucked up. But the problem is class warfare and kleptocracy, and you’re feeding right into it, picking the wrong enemy.

Powerless people in bad situations make bad choices. They’re idiots, sure, but many voted on kitchen table issues, which Trump addressed, while Harris did not. Granted, once elected Trump promptly fucked off on that because he’s a grifter and that’s what he does.

I can’t stand the Trump cult, and yeah people are idiots for falling for it again. As another idiot leader once said, “fool me once, sh…uh, c-can’t fool me again.” But as I noted previously, hungry, desperate people aren’t rational actors.

I don’t pick who my donations go to, I just make sure I donate so food is available to those who need it.

Shit’s pretty fucked right now, and yeah, it’s scary, distressing, and absolutely disturbing.

I live in a small, rural ex-urb. Plenty of people here definitely voted for this. I don’t interact with my neighbors and keep to myself. I live below my means and am financially sound, at least.

I can’t do much about any of this. I donate to my local food bank monthly because hungry people are angry people, and folks gotta eat, regardless is political leanings. And I donate to Wikipedia because I value information.

None of this helps with the insanity and the politics, but hopefully it helps somebody.

The Nova 3 released in late 2020, it hasn’t existed for 8 years.

I don’t actually feel too strongly about the social life. Wife and I are both introverts and enjoy our own and each other’s company fine. I had friends when I was younger (teens and 20s, I’m in my 40s now), but I would literally vanish for a month or three at a time until people would swing by just to make sure I was alive and drag me out of whatever I was doing. 😅

We’re happy as we are, and if I feel differently at some point, I’d probably be better off getting a dog than actually trying to make friends.

It’s absolutely a struggle (not the caffeine specifically, but… living in a dysfunctional world), my brain is a mess and my focus is terrible. A combination of caffeine, GABA, and 5-HTP keeps me functional. Without those and some sleep I can’t focus on anything.

I’m generally doing pretty well, though live with a constant low level of anxiety and constant level of some noise in my head (usually some random song stuck on repeat all the time, everytime I wake up, and all day if nothing else is happening). I’ve detoxed on caffeine in the past to confirm it wasn’t stimulant related, unfortunately it’s just my brain at work.

Granted, I’m lucky in some ways. My hobbies lean toward technical/nerdy stuff, I pretty much only read, play video games, work out physically, and tinker with random emulation and tech hobby projects. I work in IT and there’s nothing better than getting hyperfocused on an issue to solve, and I’m fixated on things like problem solving and power efficiency. It’s been pretty good for my career, though my social life is non-existent and I’m not good at maintaining connections with people. I’m lucky I met my wife and she likes me (she’s awesome).

Who says coffee is not good for you? There’s a lot of benefits including reduced cancer risk supposedly. Lots of studies on it.

As for it not getting me drunk… why would I want that? Alcoholism runs in my immediate family, and while I will drink a bourbon on rare occasions, I’m not really much for alcohol. Don’t like it generally, and don’t enjoy being drunk.

With regard to drinking and enjoying coffee, I don’t have blood pressure issues and my resting heart rate can get into the low 60s if I’m not doing much, even when caffeinated. Coffee keeps me going, tastes good, and nothing better than a hot drink. I don’t drink soda or anything really besides water, tea (black teas and herbal), and coffee.

Possibly. Never diagnosed officially but a doctor suspected ADHD when I was a kid. My mom never followed up since back in the 80s being weird or different wasn’t as acceptable as today.

As an adult my wife suspected autism as well and I pretty much hit all the buttons for it. Don’t really care to investigate further currently, as it’s not like I can stop being me and an official diagnosis could cost me thousands of dollars.

Alpha… as in, needed more time in development. They’re unfinished.

Married 18 years, no kids. I think I drink something like 36+ ounces of coffee a day. Myth disproven, I guess.

I keep all my important files on a NAS already, so my desktop is pretty much exchangeable, only takes maybe 20-30 mins at most to get up and running including the install time.

1. Sync my Calibre library to NAS before making the change (I have a rsync one-liner for this)
2. Boot to USB and install new OS
3. Log in and run system updates (pacman -Syu in this case)
4. Create my disk paths if needed (I make /home/$USER/Disks/ and in that path NVMe, sda, sdb, sdc, etc.)
5. Make network share folders on home directory (NAS folders for music and general NAS share)
6. Copy over my /etc/fstab modifications from my back up file on the NAS to automount disks and NAS shares on boot
7. Install Calibre
8. Pull down books from backup
9. Launch Firefox, install uBlock Origin and Dark Reader extensions

That’s pretty much it for desktop. If it’s my gaming PC, the “Calibre” portions there would be swapped with installing Steam and Heroic Launcher, but otherwise the same.

I’m not a fan. I used Cachy for several months but ran into a variety of issues. The repo tends to be a bit behind because it’s only a single maintainer handling it, but it also doesn’t seem to play nice with the standard arch repo and mixing.

It feels like the Manjaro thing all over again.

Despite its claims of speed I found it to perform no better than Endeavor OS, but it was a lot more unstable.

I’ve switched back to Endeavor with no complaints.

You and I read a very different comment, apparently. There was nothing there saying new is bad. Maybe read it again.

And mine are digital, DRM stripped, stored locally, backed up to my NAS, and cloud.

Don’t be a Luddite.

I rarely use my Paperwhite Signature since I like my Boox Nova 2 more. The Kindle is mostly just for the serial now to strip DRM via Calibre.

My wife recently joked that it’s my “Kindle Paperweight.” With this announcement it’s no longer a joke. I doubt I’ll buy anymore books from Amazon.

Don’t forget also that tire pressure increases with temperature. You’re pressure will be higher if the weather is warmer, and will actually increase as you drive. A 30 mile drive could see a 4-5 psi increase.