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What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be?
  • I've recently started putting together a home studio and made the mistake of asking online what I should consider before painting my monitors. Nearly half of the people who responded said, "Don't do it, it'll ruin the resale value." Like dude, I'm not here to be on a god damned gear treadmill. I'm here to make music. Gear is just a necessary evil to me and if I never have to buy monitors again I would be so happy. So, If I can get some extra joy out of them and make them mine, I'm gonna.

  • Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name.
  • I wholly agree with your initial sentiment, although I envision it being structured differently. I think it makes sense for a person to have a name when they are growing, especially one given to you by your parents since they are (typically) a huge part of who you are at that point in your life.

    But, no one stays who they are when they were 7, or 12, or 16. By the time they're not a minor I would argue that they're hardly the same person. Thus, I think it should be expected and tradition for people to change their name once they truly become individuals.

    And I think it doesn't even have to be a legal thing. Parents can just be like, "think about and pick your new name" and once the person decides, they (and everyone else they inform) just starts calling them that name.

  • What It’s Like to Staff the Home of a Billionaire
  • It's important to note that for this specific situation/question, percentages (i.e. "half of all wealth") aren't actually useful. Depending on what the actual flat numbers are, it would still be possible for "half of all wealth" evenly distributed to the entire population of the planet to not be a lot of money per person.

    That being said, I looked at your linked article which actually includes the flat numbers which means you can do the math and see what an even distribution of wealth amounts to for each and every person.

    That article claims that in 2022, total global wealth was 418.3 trillion. Looking elsewhere for total global population in 2022, I'm finding ~8 billion. Those numbers give us a per person wealth value of ~52K. It's important to note that this isn't a yearly salary - it represents the sum total of all assets each person would have. Also important to note that the population number includes children - something like global adult population would likely be more useful but I couldn't easily find that number.

    So 52K is our answer, but interpreting it is I think a very complex question all on it's own. I have no idea if this amounts to a "modest" living or even what "modest" really means (PCs? Air Conditioning? Year round access to global fruit supplies?). I thought for a long time that if we could evenly distribute wealth that everyone could live a "good" life - but the numbers might literally not shake out for that. I still hope they do. I want them to. But I've never seen a clear answer. Also, this isn't an argument against an even distribution of wealth. I think it's ethically correct to evenly distribute wealth basically no matter what. I just don't know if anyone knows what the lives of people would really look like in that scenario.

  • Offline Music Player App With Configurable Swipe Actions?

    I've been trying to find an offline music payer with a UI that I don't hate. Yesterday, I downloaded a dozen highly recommended apps and for every single one swiping left or right on a song caused either 1) nothing to happen or 2) tab navigation which is abbbsssoooolllluutteellly useless garbage.

    I want something where swiping one way queues the song and swiping the other way triggers "add to playlist". Something like that. Anyone know of a player that does that or has configurable Swipe actions?

    Edit: To be more clear, I'm talking about swiping in "listing" views, not in a "now playing" kind of view.

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    Jellyfin Volume Normalization

    I've poked around online and it seems like Jellyfin had (music) volume normalization added to it sometime recently. However, I'm struggling to verify that it's enabled/working. Is it something I have to enable or is it on by default? If it's on shouldn't I be able to see something like a LUFS or ReplyGain value in each song's metadata?

    UPDATE: I'm not familiar with Jellyfin's git strategy, but it seems like even though the audio normalization has made it into the master branch it has NOT made it into the 10.8.z release tag/branch. I determined this by looking for the changes in Emby.Server.Implementations/Data/SqliteItemRepository.cs from the normalization PR in the current version of the file in 10.8.z and they were not present.

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    Self Hostable Alternative to Galarm?

    I really like the functionality of the Galarm android app but I can't help but feel like it's something I should be able to self host instead or pay a monthly subscription for.

    To elaborate, Galarm is an alarm app with the key feature of being able to send alarms to other people you "connect" with. For me, this means my wife can send me an alarm to do something at a certain time instead of sending me a message about what I need to do and when and then I have to go and set up the alarm myself. Also, I want to emphasize alarm here. Something that just sends notifications is basically worthless to me.

    Anyone know of something I could host to get the same functionality?

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    Move Only Click?

    After a bunch of searching, it seems to me that there's no way to move without potentially accidentally attacking champions. It seems asinine to me that such basic functionality doesn't exist especially in a game where positioning is like the single most important aspect. What are the chances of Riot adding this? Is a place to petition for such a thing?

    Just for thoroughness:

    • "Target Champions Only" toggle
      • Obviously doesn't work if you're trying to walk around a champion
    • Disable "auto-attack" in game options
      • This only makes it so your champ won't automatically try to basic attack enemies you hit with an ability
    • Hold down right click
      • You'll still attack anyone your mouse hovers over before releasing the click
    • Aim "wide"
      • Not always an option, there can be walls, etc. that would make your character walk in a completely different direction than you want
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    Tekken 8 Character Reveal: Claudio
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    WEIRD MECHANICS: The Flower Arcana
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    Congraulations To The The Winner Of The Gamers8 Tekken 7 Invitational and 500K$!

    Pakistan takes it!

    Final Standings:

    1. Pakistan
    2. South Korea
    3. Japan
    4. USA
    5. France
    6. UK
    7. Philippines
    8. Australia

    More info (team composition, character choices, etc.) - https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2023/jul/05/gamers8-2023-tekken-7-results/

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