I feel that. It may be hard to believe but the breakup was amicable. It’s just really hard to make a 7 time zone difference work, especially almost 20 years ago when video chat was not what it is today. The few times we had together I really do cherish, but it was not the right time or place. We’re now only 1 time zone apart and haven’t seen each other since her wedding, but we do still keep up with each other periodically.

It is possible to be happy for an ex and really wish them the best.

I’m an adult now if I want to eat raw cookie dough I will eat raw cookie dough. Just try to stop me.

The other one that people never understand is the hyper focus side of ADHD. If I get rolling on a task: 1, don’t stop me I will not get back on task. 2, I will forget that planet earth exists, food becomes an afterthought, and breaks, even restroom breaks simply don’t happen.

I used to live on the road, so excluding bathroom breaks and fuel stops. 4 days, with rotating drivers.

Several years ago my family and I went to an improve murder mystery dinner theater, and my family being the goofballs they are decided to cheer for the bumbling idiot character anytime he accomplished anything, regardless of how menial. So as the night went on the bumbling idiot character would start to cheer for himself followed by all of us, and eventually the whole crowd anytime he did anything.

So now if anyone in my family does something super menial but it was still a big task because circumstances, like mowing the lawn after a long hard day at work, we cheer “Yay, Eric!!!” After the name of the bumbling idiot, from an improve murder mystery dinner theater performance, from 12 years ago.

For a while we had the kitchen shovel.

It was a garden trowel that we had washed and used as a very large spoon when we first moved in, because we hadn’t found the silverware yet.

No, just lazy

We have a suite of kitchen tools because sometimes walking downstairs to the garage is to far when all you want to do is measure something real quick or quickly tighten or loosen a screw.

I am someone who likes to solve problems, so strategy / management games tend to be my preferred. For instance I recently did a run of Factorio with no belts.

I also like trying new things even if failure is an option, in fact failure should be expected if you’re trying hard enough. So KSP is another one of my favorites.

We currently are, but not really. A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, etc. However macOS and hardware manufacturers use 1000 instead of 1024 to calculate storage space. So you could say Apple uses the metric version of storage and Windows uses the imperial version.

1. You tap or click on don’t play this on either the the hamburger menu in the app or the right click menu on the computer.
2. Shuffle doesn’t actually shuffle. It prioritizes songs based on listening habits, and licensing fees. They did a major update in 2022 to address the issues of it playing the same artist back to back, and I noticed a stark improvement, I actually can use shuffle now.
3. The 320 kbps OGG, or AAC standards that Spotify supports are, outside of critical listening environments, indistinguishable from lossless audio. The only way you are going to hear a difference is with some very high end gear, and a very well trained ear. For reference Tidal themselves don’t stream with lossless audio. They stream with MQA, a very good, near lossless high quality compression algorithm, good enough to be called master quality authenticated, but still compressed, and the version Tidal uses is limited to the 16 bit version not the 24 bit version. Is Tidal Higher quality? Technically. Noticeable? Not without machines and measurement tools.

For reference I tune studios and PA systems for a living. I know how much peoples ears lie to them. Enjoy what you want to enjoy, because at the end of the day we listen to music for enjoyment. But the only technical win Tidal has is they pay artists more.

I personally prefer a hammock, gets the added benefit of being rocked to sleep.

I am very smart in a single field of study and very dumb in normal life. Yay neurodivergence…

Sound engineer here. Please protect your ears people, there’s no way to reverse hearing damage.

I had been stagnating and wasn’t really growing my skillset, I wanted a chance to experiment. The new job was supposed to be that.

New one got bought out 3 months in and they sacked my entire department. Old one had been struggling to replace me and offered me a 20% raise to come back.

Contract is up at the end of the year, and we’ll see how things pan out then.

I work in the industry, so I just look at our calendar and see who’s coming through.

This is skewed as I do video editing, but I have a casual 112TB external raid array in addition to the 56TB in my machine. That’s not including the NAS, backups, or the other machines. Between all of my machines plus on and off sight backups, I’m probably just shy of a PB.

Time zones… LDR suck.

Thank you for sharing that with me. Learning something new everyday.