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Huh? Last release is from three days ago and the last commit to SmartTube’s GitHub repository is two hours old.

Where did you read that the developer left?

if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

That’s what Sponsorblock is for. :)

I can’t agree with you:

Saying she’s a lesbian because she enjoys sex with a man although not being attracted to the man or men altogether is similar to telling a trans woman she’s a man because she has a penis or an X and Y chromosome or whatever.

I think it’s wrong to use your criteria to determine if someone identified themselves “correctly” or not and we should be more supportive to the labels people feel fitting for themselves.

Your chicken sandwich example obviously is a hyperbole that doesn’t help this discussion. Practically nobody would honestly identify as a chicken sandwich but there’s a valid point in saying “I feel attracted to women and although I can get off by having sex with a man I identify as lesbian” as well as saying “I am a man feeling attracted to women, identifying as heterosexual and still I think a blowjob by a man would get me off”…

Yep, that’s exactly how it is for us. I really hope that our local district heating company get’s tfe shift to renewals done because CO2 prices are rising in the next years and district heating is expensive enough as it is…

“Like the steam era of old”? 🤣

What you’re describing is called district heating and is totally a thing in Europe. There actually are data centers in Europe that contribute to their local district heating grid.

Huh, I wouldn’t say, the article mentioned Codeberg as the developer of Librewolf.

It says:

An even more private (but still free and equally effective) version of Firefox is LibreWolf, which was developed on Codeberg, a German nonprofit.

To be honest this sentence doesn’t make any sense at all: Librewolf wasn’t developed, it is in active development. But it is true that it’s being developed on Codeberg, which still doesn’t convey a lot of information to the reader… I dont know if this article is very helpful at all…

Both WD Blues and Seagate Barracudas are (often) CMR.

I don’t know about WD Blue but modern Barracudas (not Pro!) use SMR.

But anyway, I wanted to add a thought regarding SMR vs. CMR: It’s true that SMR has inferior write speed compared to CMR and that you can experience the effect even after writing a few gigabytes. I don’t know if I would call it unbelievably slow though: When writing to SMR drives, I experienced write speeds around 30 MiB/sec which is slow but considering you may be writing to a NAS that is only connected to a 1 Gbps network it is only around 30 % of the write speed you may reach with proper drives. It’s slow but it gets the job done when you’re not in a hurry and have a tight budget.

Also there are other possible bottlenecks you may encounter: I for example built my homeserver with used enterprise drives in mind and therefore opted for software RAID 6 for double the fail-safety. Turns out that writing to that array is so heavy on my servers CPU that it throttles writing to almost the same point as SMR drives which defeats the whole point of using enterprise drives. 🤣 This may not be a problem for OP because they wrote about buying 2 or 3 drives but everyone should always consider the whole system and not single components.

You can’t solve this problem by restricting access for teenagers. They find a way to circumvent the restrictions as they always found a way to do the things they want, as harmful as they might be. Also toxic behaviour on social media is not a teenager issue but a men issue and should be treated as such.

I have two movie, one of them not exactly scary but it shook me up severely.

The second movie is more fitting, I think: The Colour out of Space with Nick Cage is a lovecraftian horror movie that, for me, was so scary I could only watch it in bright daylight because I wasn’t even remotely able to anticipate what would happen next. With most horror movies I kinda figure out the “rules” and the style of the movie so that I kinda have an idea what might happen next so I’m less likely to be scared. Not with TCooS: The movie is all over the place and drastically changes its style and tone during the story. It’s great though and Nick Cage is completely crazy and off the rails in his role.

Cultural Hegemony!!!

Wait what? Where? When? Which episode?

The prompt was bad: there was no option to vote for “a little bit of AI as a tool is not bad but don’t force feed it to me”.

I think there were many people who voted for “no AI” who would’ve voted for “a little bit of ai” if they had the option.

1. BEASTARS

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5. Dororo (2018)

Those two are soooo underrated. <3

Edit: Oops, I mixed up Dororo with DoroHeDoro. Whatever, now I have a new series to look into. :)

I am viewing the website on mobile. It’s not pretty but it works (for me). What’s wrong with it?

Although my little fun fact doesn’t apply to THIS flywheel generator, I recently learned, that flywheel generators are used all over Europe to stabilise the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: They are constantly kept spinning and because of their inertia they level any voltage drops and peaks they encounter. Learning this blew my mind because I never would’ve thought that such a simple technology was used to stabilise our electricity grid.

There was also log4j.