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I think they want it automated so it would need to be integrated to Sonar/Radarr etc rather than the machine you watch the media on.

I used to be a sysadmin in a web hosting company so I know my way around CentOS systems which are basically the same as Fedora both being derived from Red Hat. I liked the system and their SELinux configuration was really good. Package updates were reliable and easy though sometimes a bit out of date.

I found Debian to be rock solid but quite out of date and back porting something was generally not a good idea, it generated too many errors and complex problems with dependencies etc.

Ubuntu, specifically Mint, is something I have installed on a few peoples machines and they found it fine, no complaints really, until they tried to do something more complex or advanced. They could usually get one complex thing done but without lots of experience they tended to have one thing interfere with another and just make things unstable. I got one person to use a VM for some stuff as a work around and it was much easier from there. That said the defaults are good if you have a modern machine and don't want to make massive complex changes.

As a server I really don't like Ubuntu. They did things their own way to avoid systemd and honestly it was a nightmare to administer. Much better for me to switch to Debian for stable stuff or to CentOS or Arch for complex stuff.

The biggest advantage for Ubuntu based distros is the user base. Lots of people in lots of forums documenting their problems and eventual solutions. That seems to be shifting with Bazzite and CachyOS getting massive install bases in fairly short times, especially around Steam Deck style machines. I expect we will have more more change in that direction over the next few years and honestly more users means more of a useful position in the market driving more support from developers so I am all for it.

But yeah, using the CLI is harder at first because you have all the keys as an option and no idea what the names of things are, but it can get really fun especially when you start chaining commands together. For example, you can find files name *.log, grep a specific line out of them, the sort by time and merge it all together. The output is all the logs from these different files that match your search but in appropriate time sequence and it makes troubleshooting way easier. Or you can search for all files in your whole filesystem which match a characteristic like who owns them, check their sizes, and present the largest 10. All with a few pipes and filters. It makes you feel like you need a hoodie, dark glasses, and a projector blasting green text over your face while playing trance in the background.

I have the exact opposite experience with Ubuntu based distros and Arch based distros. I've done Arch from the CLI installer enough times to be comfortable following the quick guide with the full beginners guide for a couple of places, and since running plain Arch I have aged around with EndeavourOS and ended up switching over for the good defaults and having Timeshift setup built right in with all the hooks like during updates etc.

When I tried an Ubuntu distro not too long ago I was lost. Their init system was different from what I was used to and it was really hard to figure out for me. I couldn't get logs and errors easily and my troubleshooting was really slow and laborious. I had trouble with graphics drivers and using pass through for a VM in KVM, so I never got that working. I switched back to my familiar Arch based stuff after realising it is all the same in the end with small differences of exactly how to do things but nothing really important being different.

I am more comfortable with Arch and that family but for someone more comfortable with Ubuntu or Fedora family distros I understand staying there, you should go with what will make computing fun and useful for you, not what someone else likes. If you like BSD you should use it and enjoy it, not use the distro I like because I say it is good.

Sort of correct, but modern drug tests can distinguish actual ADHD meds from methamphetamine reliably. When I got tested I let them know my dose and what medication and they didn't have to adjust anything at all.

This. I looked at a bunch of options and these are the best for OpenWrt and are very reasonably priced. Mine did torrenting, VPN, and a few other small services before I got my proper served up and running and now it is less loaded and more relaxed without that workload. Absolutely awesome, very high quality for low price, and it comes with a very slightly modified OpenWrt firmware which is unlocked by default.

You would meet the definition for bulimia most likely but also maybe other things like anxiety along with it.

Making yourself vomit is not effective at losing body fat. It is a bad technique with bad side effects and it is not sustainable. Even apart from the harm to your teeth, voice, nasal passages, throat, and so on, it is more likely to cause loss of muscle than loss of fat. This will make you weak and actually increase your body fat percentage.

Managing body fat is actually not that hard but does not match up with managing health. Fat is there for a reason. Dropping your fat too quickly or because of extreme deprivation is harmful and also makes your body look sick. Depending on what is important to you different methods of managing your body will be a better fit, but really nothing can help you lose body fat quickly without cost.

You need to question why you want to lose weight. Is it to be more attractive? To be healthier? To be happier? To get people to stop harassing you about your weight? To be less disgusted with yourself? There are lots of different reasons someone may end up bulimic but you need to find out what applies to you and the internet is full to bursting with bad advice and toxic communities which will not help you. Some communities actually make eating disorders far worse and drive people to death through either consequences of their eating or suicide.

To be clear, having an eating disorder is dangerous to the point of deadly if not managed. Just like cancer it can and will kill you if managed poorly, so you need an expert on your side. Depending on which country you are in your resources will be very different, but psychological help is highly recommended. It may be some talk therapy and some CBT with nothing ongoing. It may be much more. Either way starting earlier is best, so treat it with urgency and get help asap. If left to continue it will get harder to fix and more expensive in time, health, effort, and money than it is right now. This is the literal best time to do something about it and no later time will ever be as easy as now is.

On the game front I have to recommend Creeper World 3. I have over 50 days, yes days, of playing. It was absolutely worth the trivial cost and quite enjoyable.

Kind of yes, kind of no.

Short term there is not a huge difference between getting sugar from complex carbs or simple carbs and most vitamins and micro nutrients will be OK with a few weeks of worse absorption and slowly lowering levels.

Medium term this would be bad, but so is the standard western diet. Carbs are not a great source for energy for a number of reasons but one of the key ones can be seen with vitamin C. Why do we not have functional pathways for making vitamin C? Our closest relatives do, the other great apes, and almost all other mammals do too. In fact as far as I am aware one of the only other mammals missing the ability to make vitamin C is the guinea pig which is especially ironic considering it was the aminal selected to understand scurvy, an extreme form of vitamin C deficiency.

We don't need anywhere near the same level of vitamin C if we are not eating sugars, complex or simple. Eating a very very low carb diet, deep into the ketogenic end, reduces the need for vitamin C. Taking someone who has symptoms of scurvy and switching them to a carnivore diet seems to reverse the symptoms fairly promptly and plenty of people eat just meat for decades at a time without developing scurvy, so it seems safe enough.

So if you look at a diet made of highly processed high carb foods like the current standard American diet you would see a measurable but not extreme change in the short to medium term, but in the medium to long term it would get worse. If you compare to a more reasonable diet which doesn't have huge amounts of processed foods or carbs in it then it would be a bigger difference.

I have a Ticwatch S2 (tunny) which was not officially supported but I managed to get it running and it was cool but not well integrated. The maps didn't work, most apps were only a little functional, and syncing with a phone was not stable.

Those all sound like bad things and for a finished product they would be, but solving problems is fun if you have the right mindset. I love the idea of using a real qt based interface rather than running modified android or similar. It was very fun to play around with but ended up being less than perfectly suited for me. I want them to succeed though, so I hope they make more progress and get some better results.

If the transformation is because of the light from the moon there are a few changes we could expect. First, the cycle would still be matched to the lunar cycle of about 28 days just like on earth as that cycle is driven by the relative positions of the moon, sun, and earth. If the moon is further away from the sun than earth it is lit up more, most at opposition to the earth. In contrast the brightness would go down as it enters alignment between the sun and earth, peaking with a new moon.

Second, the near lack of atmosphere would likely increase the number of days which would be sufficient to trigger the transformation. Maybe it would be 5 nights instead of 3 nights, or maybe the transformation would be more intense leading to more extreme features or even new traits.

As for another planet and moon system, earth is unique here. No other moon is as close in size to the planet it orbits with the exclusion of dwarf planets Pluto and Charon. The bulk of moons are way smaller and also orbit around planets way further away from the sun and so would be far less bright. Perhaps not enough light would be reflected for there to be any transformation, while a confluence of moons may work together to have a higher impact on occasion.

In a more science fiction setting I would imagine having reflected light cause the transformation could make things like a ring world, a spinning ring with a central reflector, interesting. The starlight reflecting off the mirrors would theoretically make the whole ring be constantly lit for wearwolves and make night, changing the mirrors to reflect no light, the only time without wearwolves.

I read all the Murderbot books in a row a couple of times a year and they never get worse, they are fantastic.

And Project Hail Mary is so good, I love the relationship with Rocky, I really did feel horror and dread when he was in danger and that is very rare for me.

Azalea Ellis' A Practical Guide To Sorcery series starting with A Conjuring Of Ravens. Absolutely loved it and I have listened through 3 times since I got them in early December. The audio books are fantastic and really well read and the story is such a great power progression fantasy. It is not as serious and dark as much of modern fantasy with a lot of love for magic and some really great characters. The magic system is also awesome and not overpowered or silly, yet it has flexibility in terms of power level so you don't feel like the characters have massive plot armour or answers to problems that just fix plot holes. Very well constructed, a great piece of fiction.

Spirited Away or Run Lola Run

Spirited Away is so good in Japanese and does lose something being dubbed. Run Lola Run is so good in German, I don't know if there is a dub because there is no reason to seek it, the dialogue was perfect for subtitling and the story is based on slightly different loops in time so you pick up what is happening each loop through. Very cool.

Who would have thought that a fungus would be resistant to antibiotics? Almost like they are the absolute wrong tool for the job. It turns out antivirals don't kill weeds either, what a shame.

This annoys me. Many articles about ADHD refer only to children with ADHD, not adults. I'm nearly fourty and I still have ADHD now, if I make it to 80 I will still have ADHD, why is it always about kids? It is lifelong not just a childhood thing.

Absolutely. I had some TWS headphones that were really good and I actually ended up replacing the battery in the case when it couldn't hold a day of charge because it was worth it. I would much rather repair something than replace it and buy quality that will last as well, both of which are benefited by having the cash on hand. If you can't afford $200 headphones but you can get $20 ones today maybe buy the $20 ones and use them while saving for the better ones. It will take time but you may be able to make the crappy ones last long enough, even if you have to get two sets to make it through.

Yes, and items seem to be manufactured to exceed their warranty period by only a short time. I assume that an item will last for a year in most cases, or the warranty period if that is longer. For white goods like a fridge or a washing machine I look for statistics and use longevity as part of my purchasing process, so I aim to buy appliances which will last a fairly long time and then save based on that not being the most likely outcome. My fridge can be expected to last 5-7 years, so by year 3 I will have enough saved or room made in lines of credit to afford a replacement. Obviously it is best to have nothing accruing interest so I will tend to pay credit down first but some if the credit cards where I am actually have good terms such as a 36 month interest free period. The utility of money during that time is available for other things and I can reduce my costs in other ways.

For just a little over £50, £57 on Amazon, you could get these.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00050763/

I have a pair and they are absolutely fantastic. The reduction in noise means I can hear my podcasts, audio books, or music without having the volume up high. I find them to be light enough for long sessions and not too tight, but they also don't fall off the moment you look to the side. I use them for mowing the lawn and other heavy work but also around the house or while playing video games.

The battery lasts multiple days worth of usage, claiming and realistically reaching around 40 hours of use. I haven't yet actually run them dry because I charge them at night but I will frequently have them on from shortly after waking up til bed time with only an hour or two of them being off, so around 14-16 hours, and they are still comfortable after that.

The sound quality is perfectly good. I have some audiophile grade IEMs which do generate better sound quality but for normal headphones these do a great job. I bought them here in Australia and they were around $100 and honestly, worth every cent. Before these I had Tactix which were great but they eventually, after about 4 years, had a loose cable on the left ear and would crackle in and out of function. If I can get anything like the same out of these I will consider them a very good yearly cost, around $25 per year for my main headphones. I would budget for ~$75/year if I were thinking about what is reasonable, so a third of that for one pair of ear protecting headphones is pretty great.

What game is this? Dungeon crawl stone soup?

Also you will usually find 950 (aspartame) along with 951 (acesulfame K) because the two have slightly different profiles and work very well together. If we do a study on humans I would want it to include the common and also some uncommon combinations. A lot of people are switching over to erythritol and stevia but I don't know how safe they are. We make erythritol internally but the dose may be quite different, and coming in through the gut could be quite different to internal production, not to mention with the stevia as actually prepared not lab purified.