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I’ve been happy with Strawberry so far. The default music player in Gnome is okay-ish but I wanted a music player that can be set up with multiple music folders and Strawberry can do that.

Yup same here, where I work it’s busy from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Pretty much anyone connected to online / mail order / holiday shopping/selling / shipping industries have no free time right now.

Okay, back to work :P

Just about everything is better than non-stick pans. Like others pointed out the non-stick chemicals will eventually flake off into your food so you’re eating that stuff. And non-stick pans sort of have an expiration date, they will eventually lose all their non-stick abilities at which point you’ll wonder what’s the point of using it anymore.

Beyond that the other stuff is maybe more personal preference. Stainless steel is great keeping in mind you’ll always have to oil it and always have to clean it well. On the other hand cast-iron is essentially always oiled and ready to go so you typically don’t worry about that part of the cooking.

re: your other question I was forced to use something electric at my current home and ended up getting an induction stove after a lifetime of using gas stoves. I love the induction stove so much I’m not sure I’d want to go back to something else. It heats up so fast that I had to re-learn some of my cooking since the pan always reaches the desired temperature in a few seconds. Induction stoves are also safer, there are no open flames and no gas fumes hanging around.

Not sure if it’s really what you’re asking about but the Aqua Teen Hunger Force series has a few fake video games during the series. The Video Ouija episode has two, “Video Ouija” (a game where you summon/talk to ghosts) and “Insult Master” (a game where you insult your opponent), I’d play either of those if they existed LOL. e.g.

Frylock: Okay, Meatwad. Time to put the game up. It’s gettin’ late.
Meatwad: Come on!! Just one more dead person, please? Just one more dead guy.
Frylock: All right, one more.

Meatwad: Spirits that haunt this house. Tell me…what was we talkin’ 'bout?
Game Ghost: My sister’s baby.

Meatwad: Oh yeah, one them other dead boys told me about that. How she doin?
Game Ghost: She’s dead. We’re all dead.

A game I’m not sure I’d play is the one featured in the Black Mirror episode Playtest. It’s basically an augmented reality game that auto-generates your personal fears that you get to experience in realtime. Maybe it’d be interesting to try once, safely, but I don’t know how often I’d want to test my sanity in that way.

Bandcamp and Qobuz both offer non DRM music purchases for download, I buy FLAC files from both.

There are probably a few others though my preference is lossless FLAC so that’s what I’ve settled on for the moment.

Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.

How long has it been since the upgrade? You only get 10 days to do it easily so if it’s been less than 10 days just go to Settings / System / Recovery / Go back

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2337049/downgrade-from-windows-11-to-windows-10-article

If it’s been more than 10 days then you’d need to do a fresh re-install of Windows 10 on that system, meaning losing the currently installed apps and data. Make sure to back up before doing that.

EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood your question - if the laptop never had Windows 10 to begin with then there’s nothing to rollback to. You’d have to do a brand new installation of Windows 10 on that system which may or may not work if the system never had the proper Window 10 drivers & whatnot.

Yeah that’s a tricky road to navigate. Hopefully in time you’ll get to see a good Rheumatologist or similar to figure out or at least rule out some real deal inflammatory disease that might be affecting you. I have a Rheumatologist specialist now due to my primary doctor thinking I had something like that going on… the one thing I’ve learned from all this is that so much of this stuff is tons of blood tests and guesswork that just takes a while. In the end she ruled out most of those diseases (& realistically I didn’t present a lot of symptoms) but in my case there’s a some sort of early onset bone density issue and arthritis so it’s just something to monitor and keep tabs on.

If you’re luck(ier) maybe there’s just foods you need to avoid due to reactions (allergy, inflammation, whatever). I know someone who has a very restricted diet, she was just constantly getting sick with random symptoms most of her life until she finally saw a specialist and got tested for different foods and ingredients that affect her.

The long COVID effects could actually be a ton of other things. Before COVID was a thing there wasn’t really a name for that but those same symptoms are often experienced by people who were infected/recovered from other viral infections. Like for example the type that get carried around by mosquitoes. A family member of mine was infected and recovered from West Nile Virus - I only say “recovered” being that the hospital discharged him once he was well enough so statistically he “survived” WNV. But he has random symptoms that stuck around afterwards. A few went away after a year or two, some stuck around for longer… it’s all the same long COVID stuff that doctors just sort of shrug and say that the tests look normal.

Over time if you manage to get through all the different specialists and tests some of those things will become clearer. And don’t be afraid to try seeing new doctors / specialists if the ones you’re seeing aren’t really doing much to help you.

A healthy non-inflammatory / anti-inflammatory diet should already do that I thought… At least that’s been my thinking. I’ve been practicing sticking to non-inflammatory foods most of the year and still eat all the normal immune system boosting veggies/fruits e.g. garlic/ginger/apples/oranges/blueberries/etc.

For me at least there aren’t specific inflammatory triggers so that’s more about a general diet. Unfortunately there are people that do get inflammation from specific sorts of foods & whatnot so some people end up on more restricted diets, but even then the usual veggies/fruits are usually okay.

Brent Spiner does often appear in random roles here and there though he’s slowed down more recently. He was the wacky scientist guy in the Independence Day movies for example, LOL. He was also great in the Outcast TV series but I get the feeling it wasn’t as well known.

Most/all the main web browsers in use support kiosk mode, you’ll just need to search around for how to do it. This should get you going for Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-kiosk-mode

Am not too sure how to get out of kiosk mode afterwards, maybe test it when you don’t have anything else running just in case.

EDIT: If you need to run kiosk mode for a specific amount of time as you say, you’ll probably need to also run a scheduled cronjob or similar to maybe kill the web browser at a specific time. I’ve seen kiosk mode for a few web browsers but they don’t usually have an option to set them for a specific amount of time.

Could try [email protected] too

For the most part .mp4 / .m4a are interchangeable, you can go lossless --> lossless by going FLAC to ALAC like the earlier comment mentioned e.g. using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -acodec alac yournewfile.mp4

In fact, now that [email protected] mentioned it, you can create a out-of-spec .mp4 with a flac codec inside it if you really wanted. again using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -c:a copy yournewfile.mp4

You’d have to test that whatever player you’re using can actually play them, I suspect a lot of players won’t know what to do with a .mp4 containing a FLAC codec unless the player already supports FLAC anyway.

PS - The files actually come out a tad bit bigger FYI, I guess there’s more padding and metadata in a .mp4 container.

You can’t go lossless (FLAC codec) to lossy (codec in M4A/MP4) without losing something.

Not sure which codec specifically you’re referring to in your M4A/MP4 but usually those containers are for lossy codecs and judging by the file size going down you definitely went lossless --> lossy. If the resulting file sounds okay to you then maybe you don’t need/want the lossless file anyway, that’s you’re choice.

Personally I keep everything in the original lossless FLAC, only generate lossy MP4 files when needed for a specific purpose. (but I’d still keep the original FLAC regardless)

Nope, I generally assume people I run into speak english even if it’s not fluent. That includes all the asians I interact with, there’s a lot by where I live.

Even newer immigrants speak at least some english.

Hans Gruber and the Die Hards

Got to see them when they did a tour playing with Escape From the Zoo, that show was wild!

Yup there’s already a pretty good list going in this post!

Not sure what to add, their sound is a bit different but I’ve been digging Playboy Manbaby and one of their newer songs Criminals definitely fits the post topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abj78ccwPbg they’re amazing live. Robbie also has a whole side project with Spaceman Bob, he’s going to be playing at the Leftover Crack show this weekend so that should be fun.

got into RATM around this time last year and nothing else has come close to scratching the itch of “maaaan fuck this shit.”

Coincidentally Tom Morello mentioned Kneecap earlier this year when talking about bands of the moment https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-morello-hails-kneecap-as-the-rage-against-the-machine-of-now-3877562 (around 20 mins in that interview).

Plenty of punk and punk adjacent music still around, lots of local shows still occur if you know where to look. I’m in the U.S. but can say for sure this stuff is still happening here and other countries too.

Bob Vylan and Kneecap were banned from the U.S. earlier this year and Zionists are still going around trying to get their shows cancelled just for speaking out on Palestine.

In general Zionists seem to be easily triggered, last year while on their tour playing a show in New Jersey Apes of the State had a big FREE PALESTINE banner at their shows and some guy at the venue flipped out and tried to take it down.

On tour last month in the U.S. Bad Cop/Bad Cop was selling FUCK ICE shirts while the other band on tour with them (The Iron Roses) were speaking out on LGBTQ issues and the general fucked state the U.S. is in right now.

Later this weekend Leftover Crack is playing a show in Brooklyn, I’m sure they’ll have plenty to say on the current state of things.

Best all around is to just remember to include fiber in all your meals. Veggies, nuts, seeds, whole grains, that sort of thing. You won’t have much trouble going when you’re ready to go. In the U.S. that also means not buying much take out / fast food junk, hardly any of those foods have fiber.

If you meant “quickest” then you might be thinking of foods with a laxative effect, a quick drink of black coffee cold brew concentrate works for me. Something I discovered by accident when in a rush to get my day going one morning LOL.

Did way more Halloween stuff in my 20’s-30’s, slowed down a bit in my 40’s but still go out to events in October.

I was a Chilean miner in 2010, that one was fun since the mining accident in Chile was all over the news at the time and people immediately recognized the hardhat and whatnot.

Another year I had dressed up as a sort of sleepwalker complete with bathrobe, slippers, etc. But it turned out that was way too vague and everyone called me Hugh Hefner that night.

But most years I was a bit lazier and just turned myself into a zombie with makeup, fake blood, ripped clothes, that sort of thing.