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I have a lifelong friend, we live on opposite sides of the country now, great friends and all that. But these days the majority of our texts are just him asking if I can add something on Plex. It's maybe like once every 2 weeks. No biggie. I mean, I rarely text with most of my good friends anyway. Everyone moved and got busy, classic stuff in your 30s.

Anyway, just kind of a bummer lmao. But we still catch up sometimes and see each other when we're in town.

Also, getting ahead of it, I don't want to set up Ombi or anything (tried it and I didn't like it). I really don't want to give people any freedom when HDDs are so expensive or deal with the security or explaining how it works etc.

Just curious if anyone can relate. I know the solution (if I even feel like saying anything), it's just nice to hear someone can relate.

Maybe a niche topic. But I'm a lifelong gamer, but it's one of many hobbies. Something changed though when I entered my 30s a few years ago, if there's a game I know I'll love, but love so much that it could negatively affect my life, I reluctantly avoid it. Games like Mewgenics, Pokemon Pokopia, Factorio. I always will remember over winter break in college, I got Stardew Valley and 2 weeks flew by in an instant. I truly did nothing but play that game, eat, shit, and shower, for 2 weeks.

It's probably my mild ADHD and struggles with self control. I'm definitely at a really good place health wise right now though. I really don't think I have any vices (except internet addiction).

Anyway, I just don't feel too good after long gaming sessions anymore. The few times I spend all day playing a game, I end up with weird dread and anxiety. It's a new feeling. I have so much I wanna do in life but so little time now. My creative hobbies are more fulfilling.

I still love gaming and play games regularly. But those types of games that are so good they hook you, I want to play them but I know my day job will suffer, my family will not see me, I'll get irritable. It's bittersweet to just accept that you probably shouldn't enjoy everything just because you can. I see my friends play and love these games and I feel like that Squidward looking out the window meme. Anyone else relate?

I have a bunch of instrumentals that I want help with vocal part ideas (melodies, lyrics). I usually then take those ideas, stem separate the vocals, and re-sing it all myself. Often changing most of the lyrics and some of the melodies. But I'm just less practiced on coming up with vocals versus everything else, so I figured it would be a helpful tool.

But damn this thing does not listen to me in the slightest. It constantly restructures my songs, adds instrumentation, and does unexpected things. Even if I tell it not to do that. I'll explicitly say "don't add instruments" or "keep the song structure the same" and it does nothing. It's a very cumbersome tool most of the time, but sometimes it does help, honestly. But I often have to slice up what it made and re-figure out the structure of it's vocals over my own instrumentation.

Any tips? I'd love to just have my exact instrumental, but with some vocals sung over it.

It's not too necessary, but I also can't seem to get it to make a vocal performance that doesn't sound super generic and over-produced. It feels like it has 2-3 "voices" in these genres that it can do. Even if I try to say like "amateur sounding vocals" or "dynamic and rough sounding".

Such a niche observation. Years ago if you posted a Google AMP link, you would get backlash and people would post the original link in the comments. Google AMP was a service where Google would cache and strip down an article to make it load faster. The problem was the original article wouldn't get the views and it was kind of stealing content.

Anyway, now just about every article on Reddit, the top comment is someone who copy/pasted the entire article, "saved you a click".

Crazy how different and siloed the internet has become. Can't risk leaving the site you're on for even a second.

Senior dev, ~7 years of experience. Been at my company for a few years, I'm one of the most tenured people here.

Our company, like most, has heavily been pushing Claude this year. It came from the board and it was a weird conversation because my team has already been using ChatGPT for years.

We're not a tech company, though, it's about 10 tech people out of the ~60 people total here. So I think the focus is on rolling it out to everyone to maximize productivity, not just tech.

Anyway, every week someone from a team is leading a casual 30 min meeting to the entire company as a learning experience. The first one, the guy explained how he uses Claude for his work and then opened it up to questions. It was casual and honestly he does something completely different than me so I didn't retain much lol.

I'm doing the second one and I've never lead a meeting to the entire company before. So I'm nervous. But I know how to speak well in meetings, have the most experience with AI, and have written the most code at this company. It's probably why I was asked to lead this.

I'm also somewhat skeptical of AI. I think it's extremely helpful but can be overblown. People overuse it or use it poorly and it's causing some frustrating problems. I don't think telling people to go wild is the correct way to roll it out. But the board/C-suite is pushing using it aggressively. They're tracking our token usage as a measure of productivity now.

So... I'm conflicted. I started writing a script (like a speech script, not a bash script lol) for this meeting because this would be a great opportunity. I'd love to come out looking really good. But I'm not loving what I'm writing. In an effort to sound experienced, what I have so far sounds preachy to me. I'm also unsure how technical I should get but I think a partial goal is to like "prove" we're using it.

I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice? Has anyone been in a similar position recently?

I got rear ended today at a red light, so I pulled off to the side and got out. I took photos of both bumpers, just some scratches. And I asked the driver for his license and insurance but he just refused to give me them. He said he wanted to call the police to file a report and I was confused, I was like that’s really not necessary, just let me take a photo of your insurance. After some arguing and learning that the car is under the woman’s name (in the passenger seat) and apparently she doesn’t want to give us the insurance, we frustratingly said okay call the police then. But then he said well I’d have to call because he hit me lmao. So I did.

Anyway, an officer came and was super nice. He talked to both parties and made a report. I asked the officer like why would he want to do a police report and I was a bit confused on the officers explanation, but he said like if it’s over $750 in damages you’re supposed to call and the cost of labor plus these newer cars have so many sensors that the damage is always technically over that much. He also said you wouldn’t be able to involve police after if there’s any other damages you want to claim or something, I didn’t completely understand.

I dunno, I’ve actually never been in an accident before despite driving for a decade, and I always heard for minor ones you just take photos, exchange insurance info, and file a report later.

Just curious why would the driver insist on police? And should you always call for accidents? Curious what the laws are around here.

Got rear ended today, everyone’s fine just some scratches on the bumper, but I can’t tell if the rear ultrasonic sensors are still working. They seemed to only activate and beep at me if a moving car was passing by while in reverse. Everything seems fine on the dashboard and I don’t know how to check outside of putting my car in reverse and just waiting for a car to pass by.

Honestly any advice on how I should check my car out after an accident would be helpful. I assume I should take it in to a dealership? I still have to file the report with my insurance. It’s a CX5 2024.

I have black hair and have started to go a bit gray but it's very uneven. I think it looks bad lol. So I've been using those ~$10 grocery store hair dye kits and my wife does it for me. The problem we have is it gets everywhere. It stains my neck, her arms, some got on the door somehow. The kits often come with plastic gloves but they're too big for my wife's hands and are hard to use.

All that to say, what type of products should we buy to be doing this regularly? I see a lot of kits on Amazon but they seem cheap. I think the problem is when brushing in, it'll flick dye?

Luckily my hair is very short and I have someone else who can do it, so I imagine this is one of the easiest hair dying at home situations lol.

Any advice?

We bought a condo a year ago and in our main bedroom we can hear the upstairs neighbors fire alarm chirping. What’s weird is it’ll chirp for months, go away for a week, come back, go away. It’s extremely random. We’ve complained about it to this neighbor twice and on the second time they actually fixed it. It went away for like 2 months, the longest stretch we didn’t hear it. But tonight the chirping is back somehow.

I’m just unbelievably baffled at how this happens. Fire alarm batteries should be lasting longer. Do they just keep putting in bad batteries? Like 10 times over? Why does it just go away sometimes?

Tomorrow we’re gonna complain to our HOA (again) who are honestly very nice but this neighbor has actually been a known problem maker in our building.

Honestly though, they’re very quiet upstairs neighbors otherwise. And footsteps and stuff don’t bother me at all. That’s just living. But a constant and easily fixed chirping while I’m trying to sleep that I’m never confident is ever truly gone has been truly maddening.

(Sorry if this doesn't fit here, I tried posting it on WeAreTheMusicMakers and my post was removed in minutes.)

I feel like a lot of channels I follow (without naming names) have turned into mostly sponsored videos of like $2000 gear. It's just really not relatable anymore. Like yeah that's cool and I'm happy for your success, but what's the point of watching this gear overview for something I'll never be able to afford or justify buying? It doesn't help me at all. Would love to watch some channels that would inspire me to make music with what I already have, or maybe some novel, cheap DIY gear at most. I just feel like I'm watching endless ads these days.

If I can recommend one that I love that does scratch that itch, David Hilowitz is great. His videos are often him going thrifting and then repairing an interesting instrument while telling you the history on it. Although he still does sometimes post a sponsored niche, expensive gear video. Like the BASTL Kalimba, why did everyone make a video on that one? Lol.

I also think the official Ableton YouTube channel has been great although I get that it's all Live-specific and in a way, boils down to just being good PR or an ad for Live.

Anyway, would love to find more content like this. I've always loved musician YouTube but I'm tired of how show-offy its started to feel.

I feel like a lot of channels I follow (without naming names) have turned into mostly sponsored videos of like $2000 gear. It's just really not relatable anymore. Would love to watch some channels that would inspire me to make music with what I already have, or maybe some novel, cheap DIY gear at most. I just feel like I'm watching endless ads these days.

If I can recommend one that I like that does scratch that itch, David Hilowitz is great. His videos are often him going thrifting and then repairing an interesting instrument while telling you the history on it. Although he still does sometimes post a sponsored niche, expensive gear video. Like the BASTL Kalimba, why did everyone make a video on that one? Lol.

I also think the official Ableton YouTube channel has been great although I get that it's all Live-specific and in a way, boils down to just being good PR or an ad for Live.

Anyway, would love to find more content like this. I've always loved musician YouTube but I'm tired of how show-offy its started to feel.

Anywhere, really. I'll make the trek. It's the only food I really miss from living in Southern California. I've tried a lot of Mexican spots here but they don't hit the same. They're like very upscale, weirdly expensive (I know food costs more these days but I mean like weirdly expensive), or are missing something. Like no complimentary chips and salsa for the table, tortillas aren't made in store, they serve items with a salad instead of refried beans.

I think the biggest one is most places clearly use store-bought tortillas and it brings the entire dish down imo. If I'm paying $15 for a burrito, I don't want a tortilla that tastes like it came from Stop & Shop.

A lot of what I see on Google seem to be companies where I imagine the prices are higher for all the overhead. I'm hoping to find a reputable like single person or small group who can help us clean our apartment (1300 sqft, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms). When we bought this place, we hired a highly rated local company for a deep clean before we moved in and I think it was like $600 and I didn't feel that impressed after. I also think they left early so the time was over-quoted. But I digress.

Any recommendations? Also what should I expect the cost to be and do you tip? It's mainly the kitchen and bathrooms that need deep cleaning. We're pretty tidy people, honestly.

Thanks!

I have a cache pool of 2 SSDs. Never had issues but my device 1 which is only a year old now says "Corruption Errors: 1" But no SMART errors as far as I can tell, health looks totally fine, what does this error mean? Is it a bug?

I think I only saw 1 or 2 other people with this issue. Wondering if it's more widespread.

If it's relevant, the SSDs I use in my cache pool are 1 TB Kingston A400 SSD.

Solved: https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1tdw22p/so_does_anyone_else_see_1_cache_pool_corruption/oly1kuc/

I don't use my iPad too much, it lives on a charger. I notice that if I don't use it for like maybe 2-3 days, when I pick it up after like 2 weeks of not using it, nothing has been updated.

• It complains that it hasn't been backed up despite being on the charger and connected to WiFi this entire time.
• Apps are all out of date and take a minute to update despite Background Refresh being toggled on.
• My texts are all old and slowly come in for the next 5 minutes, pinging me with notification banners for old texts. Sometimes I end up with a few old unread text messages that I have to go find to mark as red (despite all my messages being read on my phone).
• My weather widget will just stop working.
• Usually there's a software update that hasn't installed.

Does the iPad just like go into a deep sleep after a few days or something? I know I don't use my iPad much so it's not too big of a deal, but it's like a catch-22 where I almost want to use it less because when I do use it, everything is playing catch up.

If it's relevant, iPad Pro M4 11" with the latest OS (usually a x.x.1 version behind, but this has been an issue for as long as I've had this iPad). I also have plenty of storage space, like at least 100 GB free.

I'm sure googling this will tell me there are a dozen urgent medical conditions I have, but it doesn't feel that debilitating nor are there any other alarming symptoms. I think I'm a pretty healthy guy who eats well, is a normal weight, and regularly goes to the gym. My yearly checkups are always like yeah you're good.

But ever since my 30s (early 30s now), I get a subtle feeling that I need to pee even when I just went recently. And if I go to the bathroom, I might pee just a tiny bit. Super rarely it's a little bit worse where I feel like I have to pee a decent amount then don't pee at all, but usually it's just the feeling that I kind of have to pee and then I'll pee a little bit. It's not every day, it doesn't feel concerning, but damn it's just a little annoying.

Is this a common experience when aging?

EDIT: Gotta be honest, none of the enlarged prostate symptoms sound like me at all. Frequent or urgent need to pee? It's never urgent or that frequent. Peeing more often at night? Nope. Trouble starting to pee? No. Weak urine stream or a stream that stops and starts? No. Dribbling at the end? No. Not being able to fully empty the bladder? Maybe, hard to tell. But I'll look into it.

My theory if it isn't just aging, is not peeing after sex causing a small amount of bacteria to be leftover. I made this post because I was mildly feeling it and come to think of it, I don't remember peeing after last night.