I’d start by deciding what your goals are, so you know what to work towards in terms of hardware, software, and processes. Once you’ve got some sort of an idea, explore ways to accomplish it and post your questions in this community. It can be super overwhelming to get started, but the research and problem-solving is half the fun.

Pros: price

Cons: the watch doesn’t work and now you have lead poisoning

I can smell this comment, and now I have even more microplastic in my blood.

Right? At this point I’m just sticking with WordPress because I can’t be bothered to migrate a bunch of sites off of it. Every year for the past decade it’s felt jankier. Tumblr’s backend has to be a dumpster fire for this to seem like a good idea.

My criticism aside, WP still has the convenience factor of being the open source web platform that has a plugin for just about any need. Whether those plugins are gonna break for site or introduce interesting new vulnerabilities is a different discussion.

It’s funny to see you comment here because I was literally coming to this thread to mention that I see you in seemingly every comment chain and thus consider you “Lemmy-famous.”

Avoid hoarding? Let’s just say I bring a real “gotta catch em all” energy to the trackers.

That Costco employee knew exactly what they were doing when they placed that sign there, and I commend them for it.

I respect your consideration of the wojaks involved.

Yeah, I grew up collecting vinyl so that’s probably what got me into the habit all those years ago.

Yes! When I discover a new band I always like to listen to their stuff chronologically, as you said. At times this can be rough. Some bands start off very strong, but often bands take a few albums before they get good and I have to slog through a few before I find one I like.

I’m having the opposite problem right now. Radiohead’s first two albums are some of my favorite ever, but I’ve never been able to get into their stuff after those two. Currently I’m making an effort to go through the rest of their discography in order to see if there’s anything else I like. I’m 5 albums in and there’s been a few specific tracks I like, but none of the albums thus far compare to those first two for me. As an album-based listener this is weirdly stressful to me.

It looks like eligibility is limited to permanent residents. I can’t imagine this would help that much in this case? Someone already living there already has a leg up on finding a job (especially, as the article states, the issue with enlistment is already-high employment).

I’d think they’d have better luck opening this up to non-residents in a French Foreign Legion sort of approach. It seems like a much better value-proposition to someone from an economically-disadvantaged country, especially if it opens the door to AUS citizenship. This veers pretty close to the Starship Troopers “service guarantees citizenship” and as such I’m not saying they should do this - just that I wonder if they considered it if they’re having that much trouble reaching enlistment targets.

I’m old and vastly prefer to listen to albums in their entirety rather than just specific songs. I’ll still sometimes listen to an album on repeat a bunch, but I think this effect is slightly dulled on me because I’m listening to 10ish tracks on repeat rather than just the one.

My wife though - she’ll play the same 3 albums on repeat for a goddamn year at a time. I still can’t stand The Hives because they’re all I heard in our car for far too long.

Yup! Where possible I try to get everything in x265 for this reason. It takes a little more processing power to transpose, but the difference in file size is worth it.

I’ve heard you’ll take a quality hit to re-encode something from x264 to x265, however. If you care about that, it’s better to just find a new source recorded with x265 or AV1 (if all your devices can run it).

I’m not very knowledgeable in that end of things, though, so I could be wrong.

Edit: Fixed AVC where I had meant AV1

Uh oh, don’t tell Kristi Noem…

Real “free speech absolutist” vibes, Muskrat.

A goddamn poet is what you are.

Maybe she’s really bad at flirting?

The communion wafer is the body of Christ, so the priest bit her before she could bite Jesus without the priest’s permission.

And are covered in dead bugs.

Finally, someone who thinks outside of the box!