For me it's an AuDHD thing that covers attention issues as well as sensory ones.

In my case, I don't listen to shows where I'd need this Jellyfin feature. It's usually videos of playthroughs or speedruns of old video games. It provides constant music while also having some progression to follow with the sound effects and changing tracks. So not unlike listening to a show in that sense.

Having something to pay attention to keeps my mind from racing and keeps me from worrying about whether I'm falling asleep fast enough.

And for whatever neurological reason, having constant sounds in my ears is soothing. In the same way quiet game sounds help me get to sleep, having some loud thrash metal in my ears helps me focus and get things done whether it's writing code or doing yard work.

My personal theory is that audio-based stimulus helps press the pause button on my non-stop internal dialogue.

If you look around you can find some reviewers who will get into the details on the spectrum coverage, CRI and similar indices, and flicker at different brightness levels.

I think this might be the site I spent the most time on when I was last shopping for bulbs. I got a bunch of bulbs from IKEA of all places that work via zigbee and have really good light quality.

https://optimizeyourbiology.com/light-bulb-database

Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it's huge?

It seems too obvious to be deliberate.

I'mma stop you right there.

Even just the information that the media gets to share with us illustrates pretty clearly that this administration and entire political movement behind it is a mix of violent idiots and slightly more self aware mustache-twirling villains who delight in taunting and torturing their victims once they are confident they've won.

And it's not just sadistic sickness, it's also a strategy. If the evening news shows government officials knowingly doing illegal and reprehensible things on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, while also reminding us that the police state is in full effect for everybody else, they think they are sending a message to regular folks that they cannot be touched and you'd best just keep your head down and not get any funny ideas. It's literally just the Death Star "fear will keep them in line" strategy.

But at least the retort about a tighter grip meaning more systems/groups slip through their fingers is also accurate.

Fascism is not a good long term plan because it is rooted in selfish, short term goals of the few.

I am literally in the middle of watching Starship Troopers right now. I have no idea how long it's been since I've seen it.

For me as an American, its incredible accuracy makes it entertaining AND horrifying!

I have just reached this point myself.

I have a short fun drive to work, enjoy it as a way to clear my head, and I even had a manual transmission WRX a long time ago. I have been checking up on the current models and there are some pretty good looking options whether manual + AWD or maybe a dual clutch setup, etc.

But right now I'm driving a basic car that we bought new like 14 years ago. It still looks good, it's fun to drive (the automatic is shiftable and has lockup clutches while in gear), and it seems mechanically sound with very low miles for the age.

Just the other day I made a conscious decision to stop reading and watching car reviews, and I have been getting back into working on my own car. I have some supplies on the way to change some fluids and shine up the exterior.

Yeah, and that is one of the big intangible benefits of my current job. I do a lot of work in-office even though I'm a software guy, and my "commute" is a 6 or 7 minute drive where the middle two miles is a twisty and hilly country road with very few houses on it. And, if the weather is really really bad, there is a slightly shorter alternate route through a much more populated area but it is perfectly flat roads the whole way.

A GTI would be an absolute blast. Does it have the DSG and if so, how do you like it?

My car is an old Mazda3 from when they first introduced their "Skyactiv" branded tech. The 6-speed auto transmission doesn't quickly snap through shifts like I imagine a dual clutch would, but since keeps the lockup clutch pack engaged as often as possible, when in gear it kind of feels like a manual. I can do the whole twisty road stretch of my commute in 3rd gear and have a pretty fun time hovering between 3k and 5k RPM.

The engine is a 2.0L 155hp, and every time I drive to or from work I think to myself that if I got a new "fun" car it would have roughly double the power and only be a few hundred pounds heavier (unless I went for an MX-5 or a BRZ/GR86 instead of a sedan). I would like it, sure, but the car I am currently sitting in is great fun and it is FREE versus $20K-$40K.

This seems like a good idea even from within the US, AND even if we imagine that this country was not giving the rest of the world reasons to keep their distance.

It seems to me it would make for a higher capacity, more resilient internet.

It's funny because while I didn't comment on the previous post about the superior burner location, I do happen to have an induction range that has the big coil in the front right. So I get to have a side in both conflicts!

Seriously though, induction is the undisputed winner. We've had this thing for years, and whatever price premium I paid to move up to a lower priced induction model was totally worth it.

That big "burner" plus my big nitrided carbon steel pan is my go-to now to start like 80% of things I cook on the stove. Not counting heating up water in the kettle daily, though. That uses the small burner behind the big one. Then there are two mediums on the left. Or maybe it's small, two large, and one XL.

Same here.

Plus I think it's important to point out for folks outside the US that even though this place looks like a spiraling shit hole from the outside (and rightly so) that for tons of people living here life is completely normal and pleasant. Living in such a fortunate/privileged position you have to put effort into paying attention and giving a shit in order to see that the emperor has no clothes.

The American Way is for most of us to have things pretty good at the price of a horrifyingly large minority of us suffering for it. Plus of course all the people in other countries that our government has fucked with or killed.

This place always has had the reputation of being the richest country in the world, yet unable or unwilling to guarantee healthcare or a thousand other things. Our outward appearance may be dumpster fire, but our bank account still has a lot of zeros. People are too comfortable to force change.

Now, if the midterm elections are a horror show that gets people killed and it kicks off the AI stock market meltdown, it could probably change quickly. I just don't expect it to change quickly.

My eyes almost rolled all the way out of my head reading this article. The dude is from IRAN, and this blindsided them.

To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community, and he did not deserve this. And even if he was a scumbag, we don't use secret police to deal with scumbags.

But sometimes it hurts to have the depth of some people's oblivious ignorance revealed so starkly. Some other comments have already pointed out the stupid "golly I think there might be bad people on the left AND the right!" conclusion at the end of the article. But here's another gem from in the middle:

“My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,” Gardner told Newsweek.

These people look at an elderly hateful narcissist of a grifter and parasite, and hear his messages of hate and division and exclusion, and apparently the image formed in their dusty brains is Captain Fucking Planet!

Premeditated whataboutism. Because that’s a great use of resources to benefit the country.

Hello, friends in civilized lands, especially those of you who work at financial institutions...

Some of us in the states are excited to watch you do some damage to the entrenched middlemen that have been skimming from all of us for so long. Please do consider letting us sign up for the new stuff. Our money is still worth something, for now!

Notice the implied and unquestioned assumption that “life goals” means accumulating resources and not building relationships or contributing to society. In fact, it’s expected that personal relationships and societal responsibilities shall be neglected in the quest for resources.

Too bad there had to be an argument or disagreement…

…about whether the victim(s) crying over their dead dog in front of their burned down house deserved to live?

I wonder what the chances are that the fire, the dog skull, and the murder were all the same shithead.

Wow, this is really impressive y'all!

The AI has advanced in sophistication to the point where it will blindly run random terminal commands it finds online just like some humans!

I wonder if it knows how to remove the french language package.

I am reminded of that quote along the lines of “it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” I did everything right, and had a more than adequate emergency fund.

But then my house vaporized that emergency fund… and only then did COVID happen and I lost my job twice. So that’s roughly three “holy shit thank god we saved for a rainy day” events in three years.

I’m sure I will be in “just save money” mode some day in the future. Lots of shit left to clean up right now though.

The fediverse isn't worth saving after all.

The fediverse shouldn't need A savior. It should be its own thing that no one person can control or stop.

Maybe this... Maybe this is the fediverse healing? 🥹

It amuses me to no end how here on Lemmy, with our concentration of computer nerd types, absolutely HATES touch screens in cars.

But to be fair, I think everybody who reviews cars says they hate them too.

you're not gonna believe this...