Linux would make more sense but if you're dead-set on Windows then I guess you could try Win 11 Pro (or Enterprise) with whichever debloat tool you prefer. I've had good experience with Win11Debloat (https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat).
Don't expect too much with 8GB RAM but at least you can start out removing the AI stuff, Windows Store apps, etc. to trim down the bloat. Be prepared to have to re-run debloat scripts and/or re-install Windows, Microsoft likes to add new types of bloat post-install.
And keep an eye on any and all apps and services that are configuring themselves to auto-start on Windows boot, you don't need any optional stuff to auto-start and take up memory in the background if you're constrained to 8GB RAM.
That's weird, I wonder what Feishin is doing that the Android apps using the same subsonic/opensubsonic API aren't doing. I don't really need another Linux music app but may give it a test just to see search working at least.
Either way it's a step in the right direction, a lot of these alternative Android apps are way way nicer than the vanilla Bandcamp app. Like you say more people would stream from their Bandcamp accounts if they have a slick app they can use.
The Bandcamp support does feel very beta right now, best I can tell it doesn't support all subsonic API endpoints so apps can have unexpected behavior. Bandcamp seems to support Artists and Albums listings / browsing / playback well enough, but it doesn't support searches. Downloads sort of work too if the app supports it.
From light testing I found Resonus, Substreamer, Firmium seem to work okay for browsing/playing artists and albums. OTOH Tempo and Tempus crash out as soon as you add a Bandcamp server , and Airdrome errors when trying to log into a Bandcamp server. Substreamer and Resonus I like the best - but I'm mainly looking at Android apps that can do downloads and offline playback.
I usually download Bandcamp music and load it into my self hosted Jellyfin server but I recognize not everyone can do that. This Bandcamp stuff did make me realize there are subsonic plugins for Jellyfin to enable the same app support, apparently all those apps I mentioned work great with Jellyfin which was a nice surprise.
The Boys is about non-superhero characters in a superhero universe, pretty much matches your post question. The core group of people ("The Boys") start out as regular people living in a world being trashed by people with superpowers.
As the series progresses it does veer off from that but maybe the first season is closer to what you're looking for.
But if that’s the case, why did the wand kill Harry the first time in the woods? Why didn’t it just fly out, spin around, and hit Voldemort then?
At that specific point Harry Potter was still the second to last existing horcrux (leaving Nagini as the last one) so you could say the Elder Wand was actually aiming for the piece of Voldemort horcrux.
During the final duel Harry Potter is no longer a Voldemort horcrux, he's just himself at that point.
At least that's my take on how that worked out but it's been a bit since I've read the books, maybe there's a detail I'm forgetting.
Not a doctor and you may want a doctor's opinion on this stuff...
But I'll mention what you're describing is very much brain fog like symptoms. It's more well known as a long covid symptom nowadays however it did always appear as a symptom of other infections. I have an older family member that went through an intense encephalitis infection (for him it started out with a viral mosquito infection, west nile virus to be specific) and since encephalitis affects the brain he eventually recovered with brain fog symptoms among other things.
Thing is that healthier/younger people can be infected with viruses leading to encephalitis and be asymptomatic (no symptoms) during that time, but down the road long term symptoms can show up like brain fog. Yes, like long covid, but other infections can lead to the same result is what I'm getting at. Getting some blood work done with a doctor would narrow down or rule out stuff like this.
LOL reminds me about the bigot during the first Trump administration harassing Puerto Ricans because he claimed they are aren't American citizens. Get ready for even more of this nonsense in the next 4 years, ugh.
or that mainstream (S&P, Nasdaq) financial investments were no longer sound, what can one do to prepare for “the worst”?
Investors that factor in world markets would probably do okay as long as you're talking just U.S. economic troubles. e.g. right now VT (total world stock ETF) is weighted 64.70% U.S. market due to market strength. So in theory if the U.S. tanked and other countries have better markets for investing then the weights would shift to the other side and maybe being closer to 30% U.S. vs rest of the world's markets weighted towards 70%.
Thanks for this, I also have been using andOTP for years (and before that its earlier fork OTP Authenticator), didn't realize its development went dormant too.
Win at what? The Pied Piper team might win if they were competing with the Switch Pitch Ball (always blue! always blue!).
Though if you meant hacking or anything technical pretty good chance F-Society wins. Maybe Gilfoyle joins up with F-Society, he seems like he'd be into it.
I suspect it's partly a safety / comfort thing, female drivers don't necessarily want to be hit on or harassed by every other male passenger they pick up.
They do exist, I just assume they're armed in case they pick up some dude that starts acting up.. The one woman I personally knew that was an uber driver always had a weapon her on side of the car just in case.
To be fair your post title does not match their own text
To keep your account safe and secure, in February 2025, Bitwarden will require additional verification for users who do not use two-step login.
So it's not all accounts, just the ones that don't already have 2FA. Personally I wouldn't have noticed any changes since I already use 2FA enabled with an authenticator app. But I can see how this might bite you in the ass if you weren't already using 2FA.
Interestingly I used to run into a similar issue when using Lastpass. When logging in from other IP addresses they would often do mandatory email 2FA, and of course I couldn't get into the email account without Lastpass. But it sort of resolved itself since I also have email on my phone so I just had to make sure those Lastpass emails didn't end up in spam or wherever.
If you're not seeing anything of concern in the SMART info then there's little to worry about. You could install/run smartctl from the command line, or for something with a gui try gsmartcontrol / any other app that can interact with your hard drive diagnostics.
Hard drives can last a long time, as a general rule if your hard drive made it through its first 1-2 years without issue then there's a good chance it'll keep chugging along for years. I personally haven't found that hard drives consistently die in 5-7 years, not too sure where you got that info from.
In any case backups are your friend, not just in case the hard drive dies but there's always the possibility that your entire OS blows up somehow or you get a bad case of malware.
I have photic sneeze reflex aka sudden exposure to bright light tends to make me sneeze. Usually happens if I've been indoors for a while and then walk out into a bright sunny day.
For a long time never really thought about it, just figured it was a normal thing. Wasn't until adulthood that I started noticing most people don't do that and looked it up. If Wikipedia is correct 18% - 35% of the world's population has that condition.
Interesting, is there a reason/discussion thread about that? Looked around a bit in the instance and the community but didn't see anything. Are you talking about migrating the official community, or just splitting it into another instance?
That's not normal. Not trying to sound harsh but most likely your dad doesn't know what he's doing / has no money to properly maintain or fix/replace the heating system you're using now. Not sure what type of system you guys use but generally speaking well maintained heating systems do need some maintenance every year to keep them running efficiently. Usually the household does that sort of work in the fall/early winter.
Or maybe your dad is such a penny pincher that they think $2500 or the $ for proper yearly maintenance is more money vs using space heaters. That kind of thinking is a bit silly since usually the electric bills you accumulate year over year running space heaters in every room adds up to way more than just fixing the heating system properly.
The 'Shroom Burger at Shake Shack is still the best non-meat burger I've had by far.
Linux would make more sense but if you're dead-set on Windows then I guess you could try Win 11 Pro (or Enterprise) with whichever debloat tool you prefer. I've had good experience with Win11Debloat (https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat).
Don't expect too much with 8GB RAM but at least you can start out removing the AI stuff, Windows Store apps, etc. to trim down the bloat. Be prepared to have to re-run debloat scripts and/or re-install Windows, Microsoft likes to add new types of bloat post-install.
And keep an eye on any and all apps and services that are configuring themselves to auto-start on Windows boot, you don't need any optional stuff to auto-start and take up memory in the background if you're constrained to 8GB RAM.
That's weird, I wonder what Feishin is doing that the Android apps using the same subsonic/opensubsonic API aren't doing. I don't really need another Linux music app but may give it a test just to see search working at least.
Either way it's a step in the right direction, a lot of these alternative Android apps are way way nicer than the vanilla Bandcamp app. Like you say more people would stream from their Bandcamp accounts if they have a slick app they can use.
I've been curious about this too so I went and did some testing with subsonic/ opensubsonic compatible Android apps. Navidrome has a great list of those, great starting point! https://www.navidrome.org/apps/?platform=android&api=opensubsonic
The Bandcamp support does feel very beta right now, best I can tell it doesn't support all subsonic API endpoints so apps can have unexpected behavior. Bandcamp seems to support Artists and Albums listings / browsing / playback well enough, but it doesn't support searches. Downloads sort of work too if the app supports it.
From light testing I found Resonus, Substreamer, Firmium seem to work okay for browsing/playing artists and albums. OTOH Tempo and Tempus crash out as soon as you add a Bandcamp server , and Airdrome errors when trying to log into a Bandcamp server. Substreamer and Resonus I like the best - but I'm mainly looking at Android apps that can do downloads and offline playback.
I usually download Bandcamp music and load it into my self hosted Jellyfin server but I recognize not everyone can do that. This Bandcamp stuff did make me realize there are subsonic plugins for Jellyfin to enable the same app support, apparently all those apps I mentioned work great with Jellyfin which was a nice surprise.
The Boys is about non-superhero characters in a superhero universe, pretty much matches your post question. The core group of people ("The Boys") start out as regular people living in a world being trashed by people with superpowers.
As the series progresses it does veer off from that but maybe the first season is closer to what you're looking for.
At that specific point Harry Potter was still the second to last existing horcrux (leaving Nagini as the last one) so you could say the Elder Wand was actually aiming for the piece of Voldemort horcrux.
During the final duel Harry Potter is no longer a Voldemort horcrux, he's just himself at that point.
At least that's my take on how that worked out but it's been a bit since I've read the books, maybe there's a detail I'm forgetting.
Not a doctor and you may want a doctor's opinion on this stuff...
But I'll mention what you're describing is very much brain fog like symptoms. It's more well known as a long covid symptom nowadays however it did always appear as a symptom of other infections. I have an older family member that went through an intense encephalitis infection (for him it started out with a viral mosquito infection, west nile virus to be specific) and since encephalitis affects the brain he eventually recovered with brain fog symptoms among other things.
Thing is that healthier/younger people can be infected with viruses leading to encephalitis and be asymptomatic (no symptoms) during that time, but down the road long term symptoms can show up like brain fog. Yes, like long covid, but other infections can lead to the same result is what I'm getting at. Getting some blood work done with a doctor would narrow down or rule out stuff like this.
LOL reminds me about the bigot during the first Trump administration harassing Puerto Ricans because he claimed they are aren't American citizens. Get ready for even more of this nonsense in the next 4 years, ugh.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/us/illinois-puerto-rico-park-officer/index.html
Investors that factor in world markets would probably do okay as long as you're talking just U.S. economic troubles. e.g. right now VT (total world stock ETF) is weighted 64.70% U.S. market due to market strength. So in theory if the U.S. tanked and other countries have better markets for investing then the weights would shift to the other side and maybe being closer to 30% U.S. vs rest of the world's markets weighted towards 70%.
Thanks for this, I also have been using andOTP for years (and before that its earlier fork OTP Authenticator), didn't realize its development went dormant too.
Win at what? The Pied Piper team might win if they were competing with the Switch Pitch Ball (always blue! always blue!).
Though if you meant hacking or anything technical pretty good chance F-Society wins. Maybe Gilfoyle joins up with F-Society, he seems like he'd be into it.
I suspect it's partly a safety / comfort thing, female drivers don't necessarily want to be hit on or harassed by every other male passenger they pick up.
They do exist, I just assume they're armed in case they pick up some dude that starts acting up.. The one woman I personally knew that was an uber driver always had a weapon her on side of the car just in case.
To be fair your post title does not match their own text
So it's not all accounts, just the ones that don't already have 2FA. Personally I wouldn't have noticed any changes since I already use 2FA enabled with an authenticator app. But I can see how this might bite you in the ass if you weren't already using 2FA.
Interestingly I used to run into a similar issue when using Lastpass. When logging in from other IP addresses they would often do mandatory email 2FA, and of course I couldn't get into the email account without Lastpass. But it sort of resolved itself since I also have email on my phone so I just had to make sure those Lastpass emails didn't end up in spam or wherever.
If you're not seeing anything of concern in the SMART info then there's little to worry about. You could install/run smartctl from the command line, or for something with a gui try gsmartcontrol / any other app that can interact with your hard drive diagnostics.
Hard drives can last a long time, as a general rule if your hard drive made it through its first 1-2 years without issue then there's a good chance it'll keep chugging along for years. I personally haven't found that hard drives consistently die in 5-7 years, not too sure where you got that info from.
In any case backups are your friend, not just in case the hard drive dies but there's always the possibility that your entire OS blows up somehow or you get a bad case of malware.
I have photic sneeze reflex aka sudden exposure to bright light tends to make me sneeze. Usually happens if I've been indoors for a while and then walk out into a bright sunny day.
For a long time never really thought about it, just figured it was a normal thing. Wasn't until adulthood that I started noticing most people don't do that and looked it up. If Wikipedia is correct 18% - 35% of the world's population has that condition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
Stuff like that already exists, it just isn't overly popular or mainstream. You don't even need to build that on bittorrent.
Off the top of my head both https://getaether.net/ and https://retroshare.cc/ are p2p for social media/forums that sort of thing but I'm sure there are others.
Gotcha, thanks for the link!
Interesting, is there a reason/discussion thread about that? Looked around a bit in the instance and the community but didn't see anything. Are you talking about migrating the official community, or just splitting it into another instance?
Seems like a repost from the other LOTR memes community
https://midwest.social/post/21968411
That's not normal. Not trying to sound harsh but most likely your dad doesn't know what he's doing / has no money to properly maintain or fix/replace the heating system you're using now. Not sure what type of system you guys use but generally speaking well maintained heating systems do need some maintenance every year to keep them running efficiently. Usually the household does that sort of work in the fall/early winter.
Or maybe your dad is such a penny pincher that they think $2500 or the $ for proper yearly maintenance is more money vs using space heaters. That kind of thinking is a bit silly since usually the electric bills you accumulate year over year running space heaters in every room adds up to way more than just fixing the heating system properly.