The only thing to watch out for using a laptop that is plugged in 24x7 is the battery. Battery management systems are generally pretty good, but Li-ion batteries can fail catastrophically. As long as you make a point to check on it periodically it’s probably fine.

I’m using an old laptop as a local interface for my network setup, since its in my basement, and I actually pulled the battery out entirely since I have a beefy UPS powering everything. Paranoid, maybe, but a Li-ion battery sitting on top of my equipment rack could do a ton of damage if it were to fail someday.

Heh… he said boner

Had a similar thing happen to my then-early-20s girlfriend and I when we were out at a bar/bowling alley place for drinks with her coworkers. She was sitting at a high-top table and I was standing behind/next to her, and would occasionally grab the back of her chair and rock it a bit making her miss the straw when she went to sip her drink.

At some point a drunk-ish older lady got up in my face and said something like “Hey, leave that girl alone! Didn’t your mother teach you any manners??” obviously thinking I was some rando drunk kid harassing a stranger.

I’m pretty sure we had the exact reaction as the people in OP’s story! And to her credit, even being a bit drunk, she was sincerely apologetic, and made it clear she was just looking out for a sister. It did make me a little more self-conscious about teasing my GF in public, but I hope that lady wasn’t too embarrassed to call people out in the future.

I had to dig through my phone to find these photos when i got home from work, but they were taken literally seconds apart with my phone on full optical + digital zoom. The detail on the second is absolutely absurd, while the first is what I typically see on my screen when I’ve tried to replicate since.

Im familiar with post processing.

To be clear, the assumption is that the algorithms the phone is using to determine you were trying to take a photo of the moon are “smart” enough to identify it as a photo of a night sky focused on the moon, rather than a light bulb. I’m not sure how you’d set up a light of the correct brightness at infinite focal length to test this though.

ETA: I’ve never seen this post processing happen so starkly with anything other than a photo of the moon, so it sticks out pretty hard. And I take a lot of photos at work of things that are tough to capture clearly.

Samsung GS22+ owner here. I’ve watched in realtime as a blurry blob moon photo I just took was replaced with a clean recognizable “moon” in my gallery, a few seconds after taking it.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this has gotten more advanced in recent years. Identify a few key stars as reference, and then paint in a pretty Milky Way from pre-defined images, while pretending to collect a timelapse.

I think you need to look at the points above, where it lists the cases where VPN is recommended:

When VPNs are Needed Highly Restrictive Countries: China or Australia where internet access is heavily restricted ISP Throttling: If your ISP specifically throttles or blocks BitTorrent traffic Legal Requirements: If local laws require VPN use for P2P/BitTorrent activities

Not sure where you’re located, but in most of the USA, not using a VPN runs you the risk of at least getting a nastygram from your ISP. How much that means to you depends on how worried you are about getting your service disconnected or sued by the owner of whatever you’re seeding. For me personally, a VPN is a no-brainer.

ETA: I may have missed the subtler point of your post. I personally do not have my *arr apps behind a VPN, only my torrenting app. I think that is what the wiki is specifically addressing.

I played OG Doom for years with keyboard only. Up/Down arrow for forward/backwards, Left/Right to turn, and then holding Alt to strafe. RIght hand on the arrow keys and left hand controlling strafe/run/weapon selection.

I don’t honestly recall if mouselook was even an option back then, but I tried playing with those keyboard only controls recently and literally could not even. It’s kinda wild how hard it is to imagine anything other than WASD-mouse for a FPS these days.

Yeah, its their online-only bank.

I have no idea why some banks can offer those CD-like rates while others offer virtually zero. Capital One 360 Savings and Ally have similar rates as well.

One that earns you more than the default 0.15% or so that you earn on most savings accounts.

You have to do a bit of hunting, but for example, I have an account with Citizens Access that earns 3.50% last time I checked. It’s not much, but it’s better than earning nothing on the emergency fund that I want to keep liquid and accessible.

I didn’t know KenM was on the Fediverse!

I definitely parsed the headline wrong at first! But c’mon, even if you’ve never heard of the band, the second sentence of the article links to their webpage…

Easy peasy. Instead of making payments to your credit card, transfer the amount to a high yield savings account instead. Then use that savings account to pay your CC once per month. (Savings accounts typically have a limit on debits, but you can usually make as many deposits as you want.)

Enjoy the cashback AND a few bucks in interest AND having your checking account accurately reflect your “real” money at all times.

This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.

Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.

No, I wasn’t doing any pre-processing other than “properly” formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can’t really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I’ve just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.

I’m not the person you were replying to, but the only issue I ever had using Jellyfin for music was that it seemed.a little finicky about matching artist/album when pulling down metadata, and I had to do more manual intervention.

The actual streaming functionality seemed perfectly fine, but I personally settled on Navidrome for music.

Playing Devil’s Advocate - If the classification of “munitions” effectively provided all the legal protections and requirements that they wanted to apply to encryption software, it would have been a lot of wasted time and effort to create a new classification and then update all the other legal documents to include and refer to that new classification.

Like, I don’t even want to guess how many references to “munitions” exist in various laws and regulations that would have then needed to be reviewed, amended, debated in committees, and ultimately voted on.

Yep, you’re right. I have never been inside a mosque before, so the stairs looked very odd out of context.

Thank you! The uncropped version of that photo makes a whole lot more sense!

That background has to be AIgen, right? It’s a doorway in the middle of a an open area of a church, no walls around it, leading to super steep stairs that appear to go nowhere, and… carpeted floor?