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I don’t get this. I know the person on the left is the trans employee from Linus tech tips, and I saw in the comments who the person on the right is but I don’t get this meme at all

That being said, I have had very good luck with the Feit electric dimmers from Costco.

I have five or six of them installed in my house and I have no complaints about their functionality after over a year of continual use.

As somebody with both, there are pros and cons to each.

The pros of the pre-installed LED light fixtures is that you wire them in and they work. The cons are, all LEDs fail eventually, and when the ones that have the pre-installed LEDs fail, you have to replace the whole thing unless you are incredibly DIY competent.

A second con of the fixtures with pre-installed LEDs is that some of them, especially the cheaper ones, have issues with buzz. When they are turned on you can frequently hear the transformer humming and to some people that is an annoyance. I am one of those people and I have had to re-replace two entire fixtures because of this.

The pros of the replaceable bulb versions are that since all LED bulbs fail eventually, it is much easier to replace their LEDs. The cons are sometimes the appearance of them aren’t as interesting or fun as the ones with the pre-installed LEDs.

They also have issues with flicker, but that is more dependent upon the bulbs. It has become rather difficult to find a good quality replaceable e27 base bulb that does not flicker or buzz long before the bulb actually fails.

However, since you can replace the bulbs it is easier to make sure that the Kelvin rating of the bulbs matches the rest of the bulbs in the room, and for home use I typically recommend 2700k or 3000k.

Finally, in my personal opinion you should not get any light fixture that uses candelabra bulbs as they seem to have a higher failure rate than the e27s.

Price wise, the pre-installed LEDs can often be cheaper than the ones with the external LED bulbs when you factor in the cost of the LED bulbs.

They both typically have the same ease of installation, which is on par with if you can operate a screwdriver you can install them.

Ultimately it comes down to your competence and self confidence.

I’ve noticed that when I am specking out a new computer I typically fall into the trap of wanting the absolute best computer I can get for the money.

I’ve always been on the cheaper side, so I have found myself spending days or weeks researching various parts at various quality levels at various prices.

It becomes a huge drag.

Set the budget that you’re comfortable with, find the motherboard that has the features that you want, then get a CPU that fits in that price range, a case that fits your use cases, and then if you’re going to splurge on anything splurge on the power supply as a good power supply can last you through multiple computers.

If you have to save money somewhere, save money on RAM as you can always order more or upgrade the rim that you have relatively inexpensively. Maybe if you’re going intel, purchase an i5 CPU and then consider upgrading if you max out its abilities or you find yourself frequently running at 100% utilization.

And don’t overlook pre-builts. There are lots of refurbished computers that you can purchase for far less than the cost of the individual parts that have all of the minimum specs that you want in exchange for little things like only having a single stick of ram or having a low quality SSD.

There’s nothing that stops you from upgrading later should your use case change.

It crossed my mind earlier today that we live in a world that is optimized for the happiness of the rich. Everything else on the planet has been twisted towards that goal.

It’s also my grandma’s 94th birthday!

If this is how I find out I need to update my jellyfin I’m going to be sad

You got to give us some context my dude. Why is funk whale not recommended by you?

I tried navidrome but the issue I ran into is that it would not play individual songs or sort through them, it would just play my albums in alphabetical order.

And I don’t know as far as jelly fin goes, I like it as a video platform but for music I couldn’t get it to just randomly display the songs and let me shuffle through them.

I’m looking for a music server that can see all of my songs and music and shuffle them and play them. Does anything like that exist?

I agree. It’s not that I expect Linux to be like windows. It’s not and that’s a good thing. I’m just thinking for when I encounter people and they ask me, “Hey, I was thinking about trying a Linux. What should I do? Which one should I pick?”

I’m going to recommend Kubuntu.

Kubuntu.

The prevailing wisdom used to be that if somebody is tired of Windows and wants to switch you would send them to Ubuntu. Having used Ubuntu and Debian and Mint and Pop! OS and CentOS and Red Hat and Fedora and Kubuntu, Kubuntu with the new KDE plasma desktop seems to be the most Windows like while still retaining the Linux flavor OS that I have used so far.

Ubuntu by comparison is slow and convoluted and those are huge turn offs for neophyte Linux users who want to get away from Windows.

Exactly. Plus the common use of mastering at the time was to optimize the recorded audio for printing on a vinyl disc, and if the grooves were too deep or the transitions too sharp it could cause the needle to skip out of the track.

If your average listener is going to be listening on a mono device then a smart thing to do would be to pan one thing consistently to one side and the other to the other as the mono needle isn’t going to care where it’s getting its vibrations from. That would give you more resolution and more depth for the cut, as long as the final disc was only played in mono.

I’m not saying that’s the case for every recording but I’m pretty sure it has happened quite a few times back then while they were still figuring everything out.

I really enjoy fallout 4 also, especially with a handful of mods it takes it from an all right game to a very good game. I still count that as a failure on bethesda’s part for not fully realizing the games potential but thanks to the community fallout 4 is actually a really good game.

Holy shit

Startpage has been my go to for a while. Between it and ecosia I can usually find what I’m looking for

That’s because Red hat recently started doing some Microsoft and Google like shit.

If you don’t like what they are doing with Linux, because it is free and open source, participate in people that are using it in ways that you do like that they do it, or do it yourself.

There is nothing stopping you

A native American in the general is somebody that’s native to the Americas.

There are native Americans in Mexico and in all South American countries as well.

You are correct.

Everything about their argument is stupid and regressive and part of a shoddly orchestrated attempt to restore slavery to America and to take away the rights of anybody other than wealthy white men to vote or own property.

But if it were argued in good faith, this one point is a point that makes sense to me, that likely not every person who fought for the Confederacy was a racist, there were likely a few of them who fought to “protect their way of life” not knowing that they were fighting to keep slaves enslaved.

Even with saying that, the grand majority of them, I’m willing to wager 97% or more of them, were by all accounts racist and were fighting to maintain their claim to white superiority.

I will say that’s actually probably a fair point.

Maybe the only fair point in the entire argument. Most of the people who fought for the South were ignorant uneducated redneck hicks who were being told that the gub’ment was going to seize their means of production and leave them to suffer in poverty.

That vastly oversteps the fact that the means of production and question were other living human beings with fundamental value equal to theirs, but when you have the power of media and a society built on closed-mindedness, I can almost understand why they would choose to fight to protect their ignorance and their way of life rather than to adapt to a new world.

Doesn’t make it right, and it does not validate anything else about their movement. The Confederacy failed. Slavery is bad. Memorializing Confederate slavers is bad. No city has a statue of Pol Pot hanging out in its Town center.

Maybe we should have the same amount of self-respect that the survivors of the Khmer rouge do.