You might want to X-post to c/relationshipadvice as well. That being said, the only one responsible for kidnapping anyone is the kidnappers. And no one should expect their friends or lover to kill their kidnappers. It would likely get you killed in the attempt. On top of this, these are all hypotheticals.

Someone who is using hypotheticals that they made up in their head against you is more worried about themselves than you.

It is not my place, but this person sounds like someone I wouldn’t even want to be friends with, let alone date. Friends are there to build each other up, not tear them down and add anxiety.

Most older games will have 2-3 engine loops that they will blend between and pitch accordingly, however Forza 5 specifically was the first in the series to use granular synthesis which is a much more modern approach.

These will have a series of sound files including all the different parts of the engine, exhaust, turbo, etc. Then the software slices these files into tons of pieces in real-time and plays the slices based on the players inputs.

It’s tricky to explain without examples, so here’s a video that does a decent job of explaining how it works in music: https://youtu.be/ftDLRYnRYZQ?si=SEHOl55K7rimi4Eu

I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.

I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.

I’ll pitch in since no one’s mentioned Reelgood.com yet. Justwatch has been inconsistent for me in the past.

I can second the white noise. I fall asleep to a mix of rain, wind and rolling thunder pretty much every night. It probably takes about half the time it used to now that I do it as a habit.

Probably because this is just a poor implementation of one. Here’s an example from ChatGPT:

Sure! Here are some motivational four-word quotes:

1. “Believe in your dreams.”
2. “Never give up, ever.”
3. “Success is the journey.”
4. “Live life with passion.”
5. “Dream big, achieve bigger.”
6. “Push through the pain.”
7. “Stay positive, stay strong.”
8. “Embrace the unknown journey.”
9. “Hard work pays off.”
10. “Rise above the challenge.”

It seems like every time I see a bad example of an LLM failing, people seem to associate it with every LLM. Like most things, not all LLMs are the same quality.

For DVDs, I’ve never had an issue. They just amplified the BS on BluRays tenfold.

I went the route of a physical collection, but man do they make it difficult unless you get a commercial player that is likely to have ads and doesn’t integrate well into a home theater setup.

I’ve taken to doing everything I can to play things through my computer, but they do everything in their power to make them unplayable. This includes things like adding hundreds of bogus playlists so you don’t know which one to play, adding extra layers of encryption that cause image corruption a few chapters into the movies, and more.

If they just allowed you to easily watch and rip the movies that I pay actual money for, I think a lot more people would be open to a physical collections of their favorites. As it stands, I can’t really recommend it.

To add to this, the opposite of love is not hate, but ignore.

Giving your energy and attention to hating something typically means that they occupy enough mental real estate in your day to day life that you feel the need to broadcast it on a regular basis.

The liberals I know tend to spend the majority of their free time focusing on improving themselves and the world around them rather than simply target blame somewhere else.

This is why you should use a very unique typewriter model so the extra on Law & Order gets to play the local typewriter shop salesman that can instantly identify the typeface.

I’ve found it useful for getting approaches to programming projects. Rarely does it completely solve my problems, but it keeps me headed in the right direction.

I’m also partway through making my first ARG and it’s super useful for generating ideas, especially when I feed it my established lore because it can keep ideas within that universe.

I’ve found overall, it’s best to use it to fill in the gaps on ideas I have in general. I theoretically could make all of the content myself from scratch, but I’m honestly terrible at all the little details in many cases. It allows me to not dwell on the little stuff.

Bunny ears are for rookies. All my homies use the Ian Knot.

I have a fun time with the Rockstar Launcher for RDR2. It’s a 50/50 chance it will actually launch properly. The other half of the time, it tells me I don’t have access rights to the game.

Thanks, DRM!

I think a big part of the reason this doesn’t work ultimately comes down to safety. With a modular system, how do you crash-test your configuration? How do you know a certain combination of parts doesn’t have a fatal flaw? And I’m sure a lot of people would think “Well that’s my risk” but it’s not. That becomes the risk for everyone else on the road. And yes, I’m aware of all the risk giant trucks present, and these are issues present even with regulation. Imagine how much worse it would be if everyone could build their own from scratch. I’m not worried about myself or my own car on the road, but I’m absolutely worried about others. It would be so much worse if I had to vet the quality of everyone’s ‘unique’ builds on top of this. Safety should always be standardized.

Agreed. My last LCD has lasted me over 10 years (1080p ultra wide). I only upgraded because my roommate got a new display and didn’t need his old one.

This just sounds like it’ll generate e-waste.

This was done by hand on my end. If I had needed to do it procedurally, I’m not sure what my approach would have been, but the direction I’d probably head in would be to look into finding duplicate MD5 hashes.

I’ve always been one for moderation. Plus, the big issue was just being able to find all of it. Everything was so scattered and in some cases I had half my Steam library downloaded onto two or three of the hard drives, all outdated.

Now I know where it all is and can easily back it up, where before I only had one copy of a lot of my most important files.

I had a bad habit whenever I would go to reinstall an OS to just copy the entire user folder into one of many places on my largest hard drive. I had at least 4 or 5 of these. So tons of it was cache files.

There were some folders that were 50+GB that had like 3 txt files and a song worth saving in them. In some ways, I was impressed.

ChatGPT provided a pretty good response to this, so MS likely added some clauses to avoid anything negative regarding themselves.

https://chat.openai.com/share/67d28f94-7788-4044-ab40-73f8e46a32c7