u/HashBrownsAreNice

I'm a youtube creator and five year partner who publishes all my content to YouTube (long form, no shorts).

As a minor part of my content, I also do a little podcast-format show that I post to a second channel as video AND post as an audio-only podcast through Libsyn.

The main youtube channel brings in the majority of my income - the second channel and it's podcast feed as a bonus.

Recently I've been looking at Spotify for Creators, with the option of posting all my content - main and second channel - to Spotify too. I'm not sure about a few things, so I'm interested to hear if anyone else has tried this.

- Has anyone found that posting all their content to both channels has had negative effects?

- Is there a monetary difference between doing ALL of this through Libsyn, and letting that publish to Spotify, or setting up a separate Spotify for Creators account and uploading direct?

Would love to hear from people thinking the same thing!

This is a sub dedicated to discussing the content of the Black Library.

That content is, primarily, the stories it releases, which most people consume as eBooks or audiobooks and some people prefer as physical books.

However, a LOT of posts nowadays are just people posting photos of physical books, showing off physical books like they're prizes, or showing off shelves of physical books.

I get that you could argue that the chunks of paper are themselves 'content' but really, the content is the words within them. Most readers do not care about owning the paperback.

I suggest that posting random photos of your 'score' without the post being a discussion of the content be banned.

The last few years I've found myself in a pretty good position, earning £150-200k a year. This looks likely to continue for a while. Just moved into a nicer house. Now wondering what I'm meant to do with the spare cash each year. I have no experience with investing, financial planning, ISAs, or anything like that.

If I wanna make this yearly windfall work best for me (i.e retire early with minimal overheads) what are the first things I should be doing?

- mid 40s. No kids and won't be having any.

- currently bringing in around 150-200k a year pre tax, all of which goes into a personal service company. I pay myself 50k salary/dividend, which is plenty. For a few years now the rest has built up to help with the house purchase/move. Now that's done.

- £250k left on mortgage

- no other loans. No fancy saving account. No ISA

- I have a SIPP pension with £30k in it.

Hiya - trying to wipe and reinstall windows.

I have an MSI prestige 14 with an upgraded Nvme drive. The Nvme works fine, boots into windows, etc. However, when I try and use a USB to reinstall, it cannot see my Nvme - the only drives that appear in the installer are the USB itself, and the mysterious 'Disk 1' with 0B of Unallocated Space.

I've tried the following:

- Entered BIOS to switch AHCI/RAID. There is no SATA Mode option in the BIOS, even with advanced settings. The Nvme drive info panel says non-RAID.
- Downloaded the MSI Intel RST drivers to the boot usb and load during the installer. These all lists as 'incompatible with this machines hardware' and if loaded anyway, do nothing.
- Opened DISKPART from installer to dry and online, clean or initialise Disk 1. None of these can be done to Disk 1.

To repeat, the disk is working fine on a normal boot. It works, runs windows, I just want to wipe and reinstall!