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freebee

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  • Of course

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  • The thing not included in hotel room is usually a few very basic kitchen tools, like a water boiler.

    I prefer the hotel experience over the airbnb, but depending where you are and how long you're staying airbnb is way cheaper because you don't have to eat 3 meals a day out and you can make your own coffee... Some hotelrooms have water boiler / coffee machine, but it's quite rare for cheaper rooms. So often end up doing airbnb over hotel anyway

  • People who have permanently moved to another country, what gave you the opportunity and was it worth it?

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  • The melting pot of flavours is there in NL, just not so much in a place like Nijmegen. Go to Den Haag, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and you'll find whatever you want.

  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort?wprov=sfla1

    I'm unable to find micromort numbers for food-poisoning or food preservation techniques, but my wild guess is that leaving an average vegetarian leftover overnight at an average kitchen temperature on the averagely cleaned kitchen counter, unrefrigerated and even not covered at all, then eating it the next day (maybe reheated) is gonna be negligible amounts of risk compared to many many many other risks people take everyday without blinking their eye about it (such as walking, driving, climbing stairs, swimming, drinking alcohol, using cleaning products, inhaling/eating environmental pollution, not washing hands after toilet, ...)

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • The shittiest apps come pre-installed.

  • My first jellyfin setup

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  • Pi works fine for trying and if you only want to stream 1 thing at a time in 720p. Just try it.

    If it somewhat works but you find it slow, buy an old SFF office computer < 50 € and experiment further... Either pay close attention which integrated GPU it has or buy a cheap PCI videocard with it.

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  • There is "buy better", it is not but a fantasy.

    Buy more local / regional produced food and products, less km travelled and support local people. Buy products made from longer lasting materials if there are different versions. Buy fairtrade when it's available for coffee, cacao, bananas, pineapple, etc. Buy bio if available. None of it is perfect, but you are still voting with your wallet and not perfect is often still better than the cheapest there is.

    If you can afford it.

    Buying better definitely does exist and, for non-consumable goods, definitely can result in buying less. My washing machine is from the early nineties. I expect my steamdeck to last for 2 decades at least, because it seems repairable and software won't ever be the bottleneck. I have sweaters I wear that are over 25 years old. Endless noise just makes it hard to identify which product is the better one, you'll often only be sure long after the purchase... And the at first sight most frugal option will often not be the better buy.

  • How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity? - Terence Eden

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  • That's because they are big mechanical whirring machines. Solar panels are dead quiet and don't throw intermittent shade and have a very low risk of causing damage in the surrounding. There's good reasons they are forbidden for the average household to put on top of the chimney...

  • What are you guys using to sort and name music?

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  • Musicbrainz Picard, there is no better user friendly solution.

    Yes, it can seem like a lot of work, but you can also look at the flip side: you can learn a whole lot about the music you like in the process.

    If music metadata is missing for stuff you have and like, add it to musicbrainz yourself. No, it isn't particularly fun, but someone has to do it. I do it sometimes for more "local" albums of which I own the physical record or CD.

    If shit is really messed up and you have a historic collection of mp3s from back in the days when getting a full album took a long time: don't be scared to throw stuff out and source it again. It'll likely be much higher quality for same or smaller filesize and have better metadata from source already, which makes using musicbrainz a lot easier. And what took many hours back then takes seconds to minutes now.

  • Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly

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  • The only thing I'm looking/waiting for is a jellyfin audio player that automatically goes to full screen visualisation or lyrics after a determined amount of seconds of music playing + no user inputs... Wish I could do it myself and contribute to the project, but alas.

  • What's your 'old person' trait?

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  • Electric scale because it's more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don't see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.

  • What's your 'old person' trait?

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  • It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Those are heavy LED bulbs you got there at 12W or more. Typically LED bulb is only like 3 - 5 W??

  • Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet?

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  • Yeah sad they're stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home... Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud... All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don't think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was...

  • how to start with self-hosting?

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  • I don't know about yunohost, but dietpi doesn't feel restrictive. You can use the dietpi software manager, but you can also install whatever else you want next it using apt, docker, etc, adjust systemd, Cron, rsync etc outside of it. They just don't guarantee they might sometimes break a thing you run outside of what they offer when you run dietpi updates?

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    What are some good neutral albums?

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  • Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you... Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a 'real' thing

    https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1

    _Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.

    Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._

    And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music... In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs... it's still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.

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  • To me that isn't neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me... Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.

    The actual "genre" that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.

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  • Single board computer for selfhosting

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  • +1 Dietpi on an old SFF office computer runs extremely smooth. Fiddled with Rpi too first... The few Watts lower energy use aren't worth the hassle, old SFF's offer so many (future) options while still getting really low idle power usage

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Bicycle road rage does exist, between road bikers and regulars, between fast electric and regulars and in general because plenty assholes do also ride bicycles if the infrastructure is good enough.

    Other than that, all valid points!