Because there was no /s - no they didn't, it's been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)

I highly recommend Good Eats with Alton Brown - it explains why you do each step in recipes, gives some options for variations, and there are some episodes dedicated primarily to basics (knife skills, keeping knives sharp, cooking with kids, safety, etc). You don't have to make every recipe, but it's interesting to watch even recipes you don't think you'll make. Keep watching until you find something good, then you have a video of doing it with explanations, plus his website and books have step by step instructions. Watching will show you how to do a lot of techniques for different things - doing them will help you remember them.

Some of my recommendations that I still make often:

Tomato sauce - easy to make (you prep your veggies, drain tomatoes, then basically just stir a pot occasionally and stir a pan in the oven, then combine and run it through your blender/food processor), it's good on basically everything (pasta, eggs, pizza, base for soups, etc), and keeps in the freezer for at least a year. I like to add a lot of fresh basil to mine when it's in season. https://altonbrown.com/recipes/pantry-friendly-tomato-sauce/

Baked Mac and cheese - tasty, creamy, flavorful, and easy. Cook your pasta, shred cheese, whisk a pot while adding stuff to it and letting it form your roux (sauce base), add all your cheese, add pasta, put in a dish, add a stirred together topping, and bake. The recipe itself tells you when to add stuff so it's not a guess or anything, the episode is good too. (If you prefer stovetop Mac and cheese, equally easy and the same episode does that too, easy to find the recipe on the website as well) https://altonbrown.com/recipes/baked-macaroni-and-cheese/

Scrambled eggs - the episode is well worth watching at least once, and the eggs turn out super fluffy and tasty. (The harissa and herbs are optional, but recommended if you already have them or want to jazz it up) https://altonbrown.com/recipes/20-second-scrambled-eggs/

Just remember, especially if you're new to cooking or trying to get better: it's okay to make mistakes! Don't get upset if you mess something up, figure out what you did wrong and try again later. If you mess up your meal for the night and can't recover it, fall back on leftovers or takeout or frozen food, but don't give up on cooking.

Also, if cooking for a special occasion - don't make it for the first time for the event, make it at least once beforehand as practice and to make sure the recipe itself makes sense and is good

Looks like it's Goodreads fault since it's their api (which they are also killing at some undetermined date), readarr is switching to openbooks which should solve a lot of the problems but it's slow going since readarr doesn't really have consistent contributors

The only issues I ever had were around authors having a bunch of books that weren't released or were in different languages, that was solved by narrowing the profiles for what readarr finds which was a 2 minute task

For finding guides and videos - just search for {thing you want to setup} setup guide, there are plenty of results for almost everything. Also, I then showed links to where to setup readarr and qbittorrent.

The only thing you need to get up and running is the OS specific guides (windows is download, run the installer, go to http://localhost:8787/ in your browser, and macos is similar. Linux is a bit of a mess, and I would recommend going the docker-compose route if you are on Linux instead) which are short and tell you every step. The reverse proxy is just a recommended guide for setting one up if you want to access it outside of your network - I don't recommend doing it, and it's not necessary at all (I don't have that setup, all of my stuff is only accessible on my local network)

For finding books, use the readarr quick start guide - it goes over how to use the app, how to add authors and books to grab, etc. I also found this guide that appears to show how to do all of this including the install guide, adding authors and books, connecting to your torrent client, adding indexers, etc: https://www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/guide-to-readarr#05

You basically need 3 things: readarr, a torrent client, and a VPN.

There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this. The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: https://wiki.servarr.com/readarr

Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: https://www.qbittorrent.org/ . You're also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.

Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions

Readarr + calibre makes it very convenient and easy (the rest of the arr suite is great for other forms of media too)

Women's rights in the US?

Just set up sonarr for TV shows (radarr for movies, or any or the other arr suite apps for their media). I usually watch last week tonight on Monday mornings, but the file is normally there before midnight. Sonarr automatically looks for it in multiple torrent indexers once it's been released, sends a torrent file to qbittorrent (matching my quality settings, seeder counts, etc), then copies and renames the downloaded file to my Plex TV folder so I have it available very soon after it's released

I will, because it's $10 a month for the privilege to watch their content with ads, and the price is going up again soon.

Not everyone has the technical ability or hardware to selfhost immich, even just for LAN access. If I tried to teach my wife enough about docker/docker-compose to get immich set up, running, kept updated, and troubleshooting when it has problems... I would probably be limping away with a fork stuck in my leg. Could it be a fun project for people that are interested in it? Definitely, but most people want an easy cloud service that works as easily as data-gathering alternatives over something they have to maintain themselves even in the form of occasional docker-compose pull

Matrimony sounds like macaroni - i.e. macaroni and cheese

That's just their news notification via matray, it automatically grabs anything from the Manjaro forum RSS feed or their twitter account. I don't think it's unreasonable for this to have been on twitter or their forum, and don't count it as an ad in your desktop. If you don't like it popping up (and don't care about not getting other updates in your tray from their RSS or twitter) just delete matray

Don't forget, they're also raising all of their subscription prices in like a month.

Highly recommend getting a pizza steel (a pizza stone works fine too, but a pizza steel is where it's at) and making pizza from scratch. Initial cost of the steel, then after that pizza just costs a few bucks in ingredients to make quite a few very tasty pizzas

They open sourced it, so it's just a matter of time now. Linux is still a relatively small amount of their business though so they probably aren't going to make it a priority in-house unfortunately. As a Linux user, I'm well aware that we're still a vocal minority of users

JD Vance (or at least his staff) called the mayor of Springfield before they said anything about it. The mayor told them there was zero proof that it was happening at all, then Vance went ahead and said it was happening anyway.

I would argue that the couch surfing/fucking was verified more than the immigrants eating pets story because no one officially said that it was false before it was spread.

John wick suit + badly photoshopped glasses

Man, I'm so glad I shelled out $300 for a 16tb HDD and taught my wife how to download movies and shows from a nice web interface (overseer) that I'm self hosting. By the end of the year it will have already paid for itself. No more ads, subscription fees, not being able to watch something because another service owns it, movies and shows moving to other services, shitty UI changes, password sharing crackdowns, or any of the other shitty things about streaming.

Remember kids, if buying it isn't owning it, it's not theft to get it without paying. (Moral advice only, not legal advice)

I wouldn't call the scope of the game very large, the name itself sums it up. There's a lot you can do, but it basically boils down to:

You mine, and you craft.
You mine to craft, and you craft to mine.
Food? Mine and craft to get stuff to farm.
Monsters? Mine and craft stuff to make weapons and armor.
Better weapons, armor, tools, etc? You betcha, keep mining and crafting.

If you try to go over every single thing they can do in the game, they will probably get overloaded. There is a lot of content, but part of the fun is discovering that stuff for the first time too.