Zero sum game

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I spend a little less on average due to the slower flow of content.

But I spend more time writing somewhat in depth comments and actually interacting with lemmy, I’d wager. Reddit was high volume but outside of my niche mechanics subreddits I wouldn’t comment much more than memes and one liners.

Of course not. The bigger problem is that VHS, like most magnetic analog media, decays. Most of those tapes have likely lost a ton of fidelity compared to when they were new and they’ll only get worse.
I wouldn’t scrap them but I’d also consider archiving tapes without current digital copies to DVD’s or video files.

Who the fuck knows? It’s Hexbear, they did you a favor honestly. Don’t bother looking back, you’re missing nothing of value.

Not everywhere but I do have one thrown in my work backpack whenever I’m travelling to plants.

Oh god I already play both Space Engineers and Factorio, don’t give me another 500 hour logistics game time sink…

Both in their respective departments :)

Gee, what gave it away?

I popped an edible and watched his entire catalytic converter video last night. Shit’s great.

I touch r134a the most in my day to day life, cuz i fix a lot of people’s car AC… But I have a soft spot for propane (R290) or propane/butane blends. Yes it’s flammable to a degree but it’s naturally provided, cheap as hell, zero ozone depletion and very low GWP. It has usable pressure/temperature curves that are easy for compressors to handle and can produce temperatures as low as -30C.

I’ve refilled old farm trucks with propane from a BBQ can and gotten good AC out of them. It’s kind of cool.

Thermodynamics, specifically refrigeration cycles.

Its probably my autism showing but the fact that we can just move funny fluid around and make heat move is absolutely fascinating. I can spend a lot of time making theoretical refrigeration cycles with different fluids, thermoelectrics, heat capacities, repurposing car junkyard AC systems, etc.

Millions of people do it for work, sure. I doubt any of them are “into it”.

service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh in

Simple as

A. Run a batch transcode with Handbrake and make all your stored files compatible with your end players.
It sounds like the more recent things you are downloading are in a codec that is not compatible with your playback devices. E.g, older torrents are frequently an H.264 stream in an MP4 container, which practically every device can play now. Many modern releases are being distributed in H.265 or AV1, as they have significant size and quality benefits, but many older devices don’t support them natively. so it is forcing Jellyfin to live transcode to h.264. Find out what older titles play without any buffer or playback lag/high CPU usage and check what codec those files are in. That is what you’ll need to batch encode everything over to.

B. Sounds like you are still relying on CPU transcoding which is absolute dog. What mini pc specs do you have? If it’s an AMD or Intel CPU/APU then it should have hardware encode/decode included in it’s integrated GPU. When using hardware transcoding the CPU load is generally minimal for 1 to 2 streams. See the Jellyfin docs on hardware acceleration here.

Questionable implementation but sound logic. Part of the reason EV fires are so hard to fight is you can’t just dump water on them, they actually have to be buried and smothered in sand/dirt or something that will insulate it from air and control heat. And if the fire starts inside the vehicle, ejecting the battery away from the fire can keep the fire from getting 100x worse.

I don’t know why you’d fire it sideways, directly at a sidewalk, at a few meters a second though. And not like, down and out the back. Make the rear bumper a pop-free folds down ramp lol

Charging brick. Or, if an unmarked generic brand like the ones you’ve shown, Fire Hazard.

There’s an old adage that I’ve heard multiple civil engineers tell me.

There are only two kinds of concrete. Concrete that has cracked, and concrete that is about to crack.
Your slabs having zero cracks until now is more impressive than it getting cracked NGL.

As long as the slab does not begin to separate (different pieces sink and leave ledges) its probably not worth pursuing. I’d throw sealant over the top to keep it from flaking and call it.

All of a sudden gun control sounds good to the fascists. Very very weird.

Keep the eggs. They are fine. The bacon can realistically be swapped out for anything that keeps the savory flavor but is less processed. Lean ground beef or turkey is usually my go-to. Will cook about as fast as bacon.

Yup! Unicode doesn’t put any limits on them.

Basically it abuses the fact that Unicode allows combining of multiple characters in a single character space with offsets and rotations applied. Zalgo text basically takes a ton of random accent characters (E.g the squiggly above Spanish Ñ), which are considered their own marks, and combines them on one letter with lots of offset.