Artwork

Yes they can, via images embedded in their ID3 tags. This is supported by a huge array of players in terms of both physical hardware and software.

Keep your place

Yes they can, via many players (including both VLC which is what I use, and also my car stereo).

Sync across devices

This much is true, at least in the players I use. There’s probably a solution with some specific player somewhere.

But specifically for audiobooks, I don’t… need… to play across multiple devices. I listen via only two methods: My headphones (which are driven by my phone) and in my car (which works with my phone). I only actually use one player. It goes with me everywhere. Ours go with most of us everywhere; we’re naked without 'em.

If your use case requires a networked solution, you do you. I’m just saying, don’t automatically get blinded by how the Streaming Era has kind of fucked up everyone’s brains.

Yes, I am aware of where this is posted and am prepared for my inevitable crucifixion as a result. But, like, is this really a problem that requires a self hosting solution? That seems like quite the overcomplication to me unless you absolutely require access to your entire selection on multiple devices that will have 24/7 network connections.

MP3’s take up negligible amounts of storage space on modern devices and can be played on anything, and can be easily taken with you anywhere including out of network range.

I guess teaching people how to drag-and-drop audio files onto their phone and open them with VLC would be a much shorter article.

Potato, or not potato.

There are two kinds of thing.

I think the whole point of this is that DOGE already has your home address. And probably a lot more besides, by now.

Best to tie them up responding to a mountain of forms, or if they refuse to get them in more legal trouble.

• Soapbox
• Ballot Box
• Mailbox <- You are Here
• Jury Box
• Ammo Box

It’s even more familiar than you’d think at first blush. The Nazis literally used preorders of the Beetle to fund their war effort, grifting their own citizens in the process.

https://www.krause-papierwerke.com/post/kdf-wagen-savings-booklet

Nobody from the thousands of subscribers ever received the car. In 1939 war started and VW production switched to Kubelwagen and other military vehicles. Many subscribers kept paying till 1945 believing in final victory and not wanting to lose the money they invested in the program so far. In 1950 group of subscribers sued Volkswagen demanding compensation. After 12 years of a trial, they received a credit towards a new VW that amounted to ~12% of a price of a base VW model, or 5-times less in cash.

The other thing I’m going to add on here is that I would have opened up the lens anyway, focus permitting, to get that exposure time down.

1/20 sec is definitely flirting with frustration if you are handholding your camera and not using a tripod, or if you don’t have some heavy duty optical image stabilization. I typically find that anything slower than 1/60 while handholding is going to induce some kind of blur from shake during the exposure.

Given that there isn’t much evidence of this I’m going to assume OP is either the Frisco Kid or they were using a tripod.

Assuming you used your 18-55mm lens for this one, the closest you can focus is about 10". If your subject is any closer than that you’ll never be able to get it in focus.

When you’re very close to the subject like this, your effective depth of field is going to be very shallow. In fact, it might not be possible to get all of your flower in sharp focus to begin with. So this is the kind of shot that would definitely benefit from focus stacking, which unfortunately is not a capability your particular camera has built in. You can do it manually, but either way you will definitely want to use a tripod to keep it still between each exposure.

My R10 has this capability built in but it’s finicky, so I avoid it. I do use its inbuilt focus bracketing feature, however, and do the stacking myself externally. I use Helicon Focus for this but it’s not free; those who are cheap and/or averse to pirating it may want to check out Petteri Aimonen’s focus-stack utility instead.

Or as counterintuitive as it sounds, you could back up away from your subject and use the zoom on your lens to zoom in. Being further away will also increase your effective depth of field.

Straight over it in a barrel. Sounds about right to me!

Yeah. Just prepare for dust. Wear a mask, open a window…

I don’t think anyone is suggesting you take a hose to your indoor units. How on Earth you would contain the splashback is anyone’s guess.

Use your hose on the outdoor unit. I use compressed air on the indoor ones, like OP. You can buy the cleaning foam stuff, too. Probably from whoever made your split system, in fact. I’ve never found it to be necessary, though.

For instance, just wait until you get a load of what astronomers consider to be metals.

You’re in the same boat as me, except swap 70’s for 1920’s. I have to tear down all the plaster – not drywall, actual literal plaster, on lath – to get at the ground floor wiring. I decided it’s fine where it is for now.

You used the magic word, “modern.”

Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn’t exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920’s or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn’t have all of our current appliances, TV’s, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn’t accomplish anything, especially in OP’s case.

My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.

I would not buy a Razer if they paid me $120. Do yourself a favor and don’t. I’ve owned a fair few Razer products in my life and they’ve all been overpriced flimsy pieces of shit, and when they break Razer will do anything and everything to weasel out of doing anything about it. As a matter of fact, the last Razer product I had break on me was a Blackwidow Chroma, and not coincidentally it was the last Razer product I will ever buy. I think it made it a whole nine months.

Anyway, I was in this very boat not too long ago and settled on the Glorious GMMK 3 100% for my wife, which is indeed available in white. It’s $140 USD list price, so I don’t know how that fits your budget. She got some nice cat themed keycaps for it and she’s having a ball. You can get it with various keyswitch options prepopulated, or even swap the switches around as you see fit. She got the “Fox” linear keyswitches which are not short throw but are definitely quiet.

I use a Logitech G512 Carbon at the moment, myself. It’s not white but it has otherwise been bomber for over a year.

This is a sterling endorsement for me. I don’t know if anyone’s noticed but I type a lot. Not just bickering in the comments, but for work as well. I am not rough on keyboards and mine never moves from this spot, but I will tickle the keyswitches on any 'board a couple of million times in short order and I probably find the service limit on all the keys that are not W, A, S, or D more quickly than the average penguin.

What part of what I wrote expressed that I was “proud” of it?

I’m just telling you how people behave. I don’t have any control over anybody but myself. For what it’s worth, I’m probably one of the six people in this damn country who doesn’t drive like a nut.

For what it’s worth, the I-95 corridor from about Richmond to Boston, particularly the DC-Balitmore-Philly-NYC part, is probably one of the worst stretches of highway in the country for generalized insanity and phenomenally poor driving skills on display from everyone involved. It is easily my most hated patch of asphalt in the universe.

A small but measurable improvement would be made to the world instantly if every person in DC and Baltimore had their licenses revoked. Although if experience is any judge, that still wouldn’t prevent any of them from still all being on 95, three inches from the car in front and raging over “only” being able to do 80 in a 55.

Practically no one actually drives at or below the speed limit in the US, especially on freeways. Whether or not you personally like this doesn’t matter – it’s just how it is.

You’re welcome to try it, but speeding is so pervasive in our culture that this will single you out and Ruggedly Individualistic Americans will get frothingly butthurt at you over it. Prepare to get tailgated, cut off, bullied out of your lane, stuff thrown at your car, etc.

Because it can be enforced selectively, and if everyone is guilty of something, anyone in particular can be harassed under the cover of a legal justification.

Your same source also includes charts of reports versus clearance rates (i.e. arrests and prosecution) of all types of crime categories.

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

Compare how high the grey line (prosecutions) is compared to the reports (blue line) for:

• Drugs
• Shoplifting
• Bribery
• Prostitution

Versus, say,

• Motor vehicle theft (just to name an example for no reason at all)
• Burglary
• Destruction of Property/Vandalism
• Credit Card Fraud
• Theft From Motor Vehicle
• Larceny
• Rape

The clearance rate for shoplifting is higher than rape.

More shoplifters. Get prosecuted. Than rapists. What does that tell you about priorities? Think about it.