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When I was 13 I wrapped a fire cracker in tape apart from the end with the fuse (I thought it would be louder that way). It exploded in my hand as I lit it.

My hand was fine because of the tape but the full force of the blast came out the untaped end and shot fragments of paper and black powder right into my face and eyes.

Ended up having to get rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. They basically removed several layers of skin from my face and scraped the debris from my eyeballs. After surgery I couldn’t see further than like 10cm from my face and the doctors told me either it would be permanent or I’d be able to see again in a week or so. Luckily it was the latter.

I got extremely lucky and made a full recovery.

Alice In Chains: MTV Unplugged

In my honest opinion it’s not worth trying to get Jellyfin working if you plan to use an Apple TV as the client. The only client that is halfway decent for Apple TV is Swiftfin and it’s nowhere near as polished as Plex. The watched/unwatched indicators also don’t work currently (at least for me), which is a dealbreaker imo.

I’m running Plex and Jellyfin side by side. The only thing I’d use Jellyfin for is remote streaming. It’s a shame, because I really want to switch to Jellyfin, but it’s just not working for me because Apple TV support is so bad.

You clearly find it easy to stop doing things that are bad for you (drinking, drugs, eating meat), but you struggle to start doing things that are good for you (exercise, cooking, eating enough/well).

She was right. I still don’t do the bad stuff and started doing the good stuff and now my life is so much better. Ironically it was quitting the last bad thing (weed) which allowed me to start taking care of myself. It’s not enough to not hurt yourself, you have to be good to yourself too.

That’s not been my experience at all (also in Germany). Signal is super popular, especially with younger people (under 40). I don’t have a Whatsapp account and it’s super rare for it to be an issue.

tbf, if you’re not hostile to the US at this point, I’d seriously question your sanity. You don’t need to be a tankie for that.

If that’s how you feel, fair enough, but I honestly don’t see much value in letting AI generate suicide emojis.

It has constraints.

It’s an AI text to emoji feature. You describe what you want and it generates a custom emoji from the prompt. Not super necessary of course, but it’s actually one of the more fun “Apple Intelligence” features.

I sometimes get dreams where I drink alcohol. I haven’t had a drink in over 5 years. I don’t think it has anything to do with wanting to drink, and more a fear of somehow accidentally drinking and fucking up my streak (even though I’m like 99% sure that if that were to happen, I’d not start drinking again).

DB uses this novel trick to avoid delays: they simply don’t count trains that don’t run at all as delayed. And then they also sometimes cancel trains for being delayed. They simply turn the train around before reaching it’s final stop so at least it’s somewhat on time running the other way.

It’s funny (and accurate) that they keep getting fucked over by Deutsche Bahn.

The shit AfD voters come from the Oklahoma and Mississippi of Germany, Thuringia and Saxony.

That’s only kinda true. The east has way more Nazis, but just because the AfD is stronger there with 32% of the votes, doesn’t change the fact that 18% of West German voters voted for them too.

Yeah, but if you look at the whole picture and not just specs, the hardware isn’t priced that badly. Like you said, a similar screen would only be found on high end devices and I would argue you can’t even get a trackpad that is as good as the one on a MacBook from any other manufacturer. You also get a pretty decent webcam and speakers and the aluminium chassis is exceptionally good too. If you don’t care about those things then I understand looking mainly at specs, but if you do these things add up to a really good user experience.

Don’t get me wrong though. I don’t want to shill for Apple here. There are some things that are just obscenely expensive. The cost of RAM and storage upgrades is an insult. Or the Mac Pro wheels or basically anything “small” (adapters, the Apple cloth etc.).

I guess for desktops you have a point, especially if you build it yourself. I was thinking of laptops mostly and also considering the build quality and things like the keyboard/trackpad, screen and speaker quality. If you want something comparable running Windows the price difference isn’t going to be massive.

imo macOS is better value than Windows. A Windows PC of similar quality to what Apple offers (built quality and specs) is not that much cheaper and with a Mac you get a ton of actually usable software included.

Obviously FOSS still wins offering a ton of good software for free, lots of choice and the option to choose from hardware at any price point. But Windows is just bad unless you’re an enterprise user or gamer (and the latter is changing fast in Linux favour).

Nice, straight up antisemitism.

Fuck I am naively hoping elections in Germany […] go well…

They won’t. Source: am German

For shooters, especially competitive ones, as high as possible up to my monitor’s refresh rate (165Hz). Everything else 60 FPS is fine. Even 30 FPS can be fine, especially if I’m playing something on Switch.

I might be wrong, but I think you still can’t use a ‘:’ in a filename in macOS. If I recall correctly it will let you do it and show it in Finder, but actually replace it with a ‘-’.