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arcrust

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  • What are your niche hobbies you’d like to share with other people?

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  • It's not super niche, but I've never met anyone outside of the hobby that even knows it exists.

    Anyway, I enjoy car audio competitions a lot. One version is SPL (sound pressure level) where the goal is to build a system that can get as loud as possible. Then there's SQ (sound quality) that's more about making the best sounding system you can, which is also fairly artsy (make it look pretty).

    There's a lot of people who are assholes about it, they're the kid down the street blaring his music at 10 o clock at night. Every who does it for a hobby are very respectful of other people and recognize that the vast majority of people don't wanna hear your music.

    I enjoy it for a few reasons. Firstly, I just love music. Music is a while body experience. It's not just your ears, but your skin reacts to the vibrations as well, and you just aren't gonna get that experience with cheap speakers. The car is a great place to feel music because it's enclosed and you can generally go somewhere to not bother people.

    The other part, is that its very hands on and problem solving. You're doing woodworking, electrical design, maybe fiberglass. Lots of different engineering.

  • 200mb episodes are good enough!

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  • Your best bet would be to use handbrake and transcode them down yourself. I have a relatively. I've setup for my living room and thus want to get the best quality I can. Exact opposite reasons to you but, It's easy to downgrade, basically impossible to upgrade.

    But that's my two cents. Ideally, every file is uploaded with both of us in mind.

  • Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?

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  • Oh for sure. I understand the reasoning. But it's still a lack of options. While apple has a good track record, they're still asking me to blindly trust them, and them alone.

  • Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them

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  • Also on endeavor. I like arch, but it's too much work. Endeavor is good enough for me.

  • Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone?

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  • I agree except for third party apps. I used the iphone 12 for about a year before I switched back to android. Now I have an iPhone for my work phone and an android for my personal. Yes, some third party apps are better supported. But in my experience, it's only the big name ones. When you start getting into "indie" apps, I think android wins. The number of time I have tried to do something with my iPhone only to discover I can't is way too high.

    And it's usually small things that add up over time. For instance, I use Alarmy for my alarm. With android, you can have the app lock down the phone. You must turn off the alarm the designed way (photos, barcodes, math, etc. It's a really cool app and I highly recommend it). If you try to close it out, it'll start itself again and start alarming. But with iPhone, I can close the app and the alarm goes away and won't ring again. It made it pretty useless when I could still just dismiss the app anyway.

    Wanna torrent with your phone? Nope. Want a different keyboard? Sure, unless your typing in a password, then you must use IOS keyboard.

    Those are some notable examples I remember off the top of my head.

  • What's your "old person" trait?

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  • Check out the Sony phones. Still have headphone jacks

  • What are some of the best purchases of your life?

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  • I absolutely love my induction stove. I've been Wanting one forever, can't justify the price to run upgrade my electrical panel and run a 240v line (I have gas now). Finally decided to get a cheap countertop model (duxtop). It's night and day. Holy shit. It boils water faster than I could imagine. It's Hotspot is a little small for a cast iron pan, but works perfectly with steel pans. Gets hot very quick, cools off quick. Way easier to clean. I absolutely love it.

    Eventually I'll get a full sized one, but for now, 2 burners is enough.

  • The "just google it" mantra has probably held back quite a lot of interesting conversations and debate

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  • The worst is when you KNOW something is the best practice, but no one bothered to write it down

  • Is climate change sending us towards an apocalypse, or will it just make life shit/hard?

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  • “The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.” by Terence McKenna

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  • Florida Meteorologist: ‘I Have Never Observed So Many of Earth’s Vital Signs Blinking Red'

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  • Ha. That will be wiped off? We are actively watching a mass extinction occur. It's not going to happen. It already is

  • Tom Scott’s channel will stop six months from now

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  • I'd add Mark Rober, legal eagle, cinema therapy, half as interesting (also a Wendover productions), and Kyle hill

  • Asus has made a mid range GPU that includes an m.2 slot.

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  • I love the idea too. But I can't help but think k "what's next, put the cpu and ram too? Why not build it with it's own p/s and monitor. Oh wait.."

  • Silo Seasom 1 Finale Discussion

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  • Sort of.

    It's been a few years since I read the books. Juliets story stays in the current time. The second main character starts in the past and slowly moves forward with each chapter. So his first chapter is X year, then the next is 3 months later, then a year, etc.

    I don't actually remember exactly where the first book stopped, I thought it stopped with the reveal of the other silos. But I could certainly be wrong.

  • Silo Seasom 1 Finale Discussion

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  • There is a time jump, more of a "flashback"

  • Silo Seasom 1 Finale Discussion

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  • The books are absolutely worth the read. One of my favorite series ever. Also, the only series that I felt lied to as a reader. What I mean by that is that I was hinted towards certain theories, but got tricked by the author. Not that he did lie, but the twists and real truth were very unexpected. I absolutely loved it.

    This is spoiler-ish, but the sequel books follow another main character as well. Kinda switching between two viewpoints. So i assume the show will do the same. There are some changes from the books to TV but the author was very involved with the show and agreed with all the changes. He did an AMA on reddit before episode 1 aired. I'm very happy with this adaptation.

  • Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B

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  • Oh no. I wonder what happened /s

  • What's your solution to end all wars?

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  • I wish I had an answer to that. For me, it's knowledge and recognition. Having an open mind to hear both sides of an argument and trying to focus on facts, not "what ifs". Then paying attention to not just what's being said, but how it's being said. It's pretty easy to see when someone is trying to get you emotional rather than logical,but you have to be looking for it.

    When I hear a politician say "they're trying to take away...." or "they want you to...". That's them trying to make you fear the other side. I don't give a shit if you're left, right, capitalist, communist, or a dictator, if you're goal is to make me fear what the other side will do with power then you've already lost me. Because I know, that really you're afraid to lose power and so you make other people afraid too. Unfortunately, it works for way too many people.

  • What's your solution to end all wars?

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  • Eradicate fear.

    Fear of losing power. Fear of "them". Fear of going to hell because you didn't convert someone. Fear of lost resources.

    It all boils down to fear. The problem is that fear is contagious. It's easier to convince someone to back your side if you make them afraid vs hopeful.

  • Everyone Watches TV with Subtitles Now. How’d That Happen?

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  • Yeah. I understand the trend. It makes sense. It's not unreasonable.

    I still hate it. I have a nice home theater and my wife STILL trys to turn on subtitles. For me, I can't not read them. Even in English with a good sound system. My brain just focuses on subtitles anyway. Movies and TV are a visual medium. I want to watch the movie. I want to see the color choices, the framing of the characters, the cool CGI. With subtitles, I only SEE half the movie. I have less time to process each seen.

    So yeah, same. If I wanted to read, I'd read a book.