otacon239
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- Comment on is micromanaging in classical music much worse than in other jobs? 2 hours ago:
When I was in high school band, it didn’t feel like this. It felt like you were trying your best to become a part of the bigger sound. You really don’t want to stand out or “express yourself” as much because it was about the song, not the players at that point. Whenever I was corrected or told I needed to practice a section, it came across as duty more than personal reflection.
I also did marching band and the same rules apply. You want to blend in with the field. No one player really gets a spotlight of their own.
- Comment on October gaming 1 day ago:
And then my dad beat me with jumper cables
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 3 days ago:
Obligatory
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 3 days ago:
I’ll stick to my home server, thanks.
I’ve spent the last 2 years pulling all of my cloud data. I’ve read too many stories at this point about people losing access to their stuff and with the way administration is going, that’ll only get worse.
The cloud is just someone else’s computer, after all.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
Ah, I guess I was taking for graced that 4k was one of my requirements. Hadn’t even thought to mention it.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 6 days ago:
Or even worse, “if we don’t it, someone else will anyway”
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
The challenge is finding a model that lets you rip them. To my awareness, there isn’t any officially supported method to rip BluRays and you have to modify the firmware to let you backup your own media.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Back in 2015 or so, I noticed some of the movies on Netflix that I wanted to rewatch disappeared. I caught on pretty early that this was going to be the case where all the good stuff cycles out, so I took to building a Blu-Ray collection. Now all of my favorites are quick and easy to get to.
At some point I’m planning on digitizing the whole collection because I know discs degrade, but I’ve been hesitant because I don’t want to cook my drive’s laser in the process.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
That’s easy. You just ignore your conscience because money speaks louder to these people.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I’ve had plenty of success using it to build things like docker compose yamls and the like, but for anything functional, it does often take a few tries to get it right. I never use its raw for anything in production. Only as a leaping off point to structure things.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
All I want is more BT 😢
- Comment on Why does my brain think I still need counterpoints for arguments I had ten years ago? 1 week ago:
……No
- Comment on Why does my brain think I still need counterpoints for arguments I had ten years ago? 1 week ago:
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 week ago:
doot doot mr skeltal ☠️🎺
- Comment on Good one! 1 week ago:
Nope. Imhotep from The Mummy.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Burgerius sounds pretty believable
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 1 week ago:
Banksy’s Letter on Advertising presents it in better words than I ever could.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Teaser Trailer | Tokyo Game Show 2025 1 week ago:
Yeah, 5 was one of the go to demonstrations for the Steam Deck when it first came out.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Yeah, not to mention the actual advantages that come with the format, such as search, highlighting, multiple bookmarks, nets, etc. Yes, you can do most of these with a physical, but not without marking up your original copy or having extra materials on hand. Just way more convenient overall.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t had to do a full OS upgrade yet, but standard packages can be updated and installed right in the web UI as well.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 2 weeks ago:
Very happy with OMV. It’s not crazy customizable, so if you have something specialized, you might run into quirks trying to stick to the Web UI, but it’s just Debian under the hood, so it’s pretty manageable. 4x1TB drives RAID 5 for media/critical data, OS drive, and a Service data drive (databases, etc). Then an external 4TB for the incremental and another external 4TB for the disconnected backup.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 2 weeks ago:
After many failures, I eventually landed on OMV + Docker. It has a plugin that puts the Docker management into a web UI and for the few simple services I need, it’s very straightforward to maintain. I don’t cloud host because I want complete control of my data and I keep an automatic incremental backup alongside a physically disconnected one that I manually update.
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 2 weeks ago:
There certainly can’t be any data to back this up… Now way making access to mental healthcare reduces fringe groups and gives them more constructive ways to deal with their emotional state. /s
- Comment on ??? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are the visually-best anime you're seen? 2 weeks ago:
Came here to say the same. The introductory race is such a killer sequence. I need to rewatch it…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Simpler, you can just disconnect your phone from WiFi and test there. If you really need your laptop to test, use tethering.
- Comment on See their point 2 weeks ago:
Going from “I’m an adult” to “I’m an individual”. It’s often referred to as actualization.
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 2 weeks ago:
⚠️ Hollywood! ⚠️
Smell-O-Vision could be just around the corner!
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
I have only one computer left running Windows and it’s getting the axe this month. While I’ve used Linux for many years as my primary OS, there are unfortunately some things that just don’t work well under Linux still.
I’m a sucker for bleeding edge graphics and I have a feeling this is where it will affect me the most. I’ve not had luck in the past with the most fancy working, so it’ll probably be a bit of a learning curve to get used to no longer having that access.
All that being said, every other part of the experience will be an improvement, so I’m not that upset about it.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
You can still play. Just only a few notes.
