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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • Pan/pang- the g has a well established rule to change the pronunciation of the a? No it doesn't lol. Words are not comparable like that in english, this is another terrible argument.

    Examples: lead and lead, read and read, tear and tear, bass and bass, wind and wind. Spelled the exact same way and different pronunciations. Trying to prove how gif is pronounced based on the word gift just proves you haven't thought about this for more than 10 seconds.

    There is no grammatical argument for hard g. There is also no grammatical argument for soft g. Once again, g followed by i or e can be either in English. The only thing that should sway this is what the creator intended and straight up told everybody many times.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • the ellipses at the end of this is throwing me off lol, like there's something you're implying. so what? what on earth is your point lol - so that's the solution? every monitor and tv should have the ability to rotate 90° to accommodate for the masses' laziness/ignorance/whatever the reason is? and people should get off of their couch and walk up to their TV and manually rotate it depending on the media they are viewing?

    all of this that despite the fact that yes, the screen would now be the right orientation, but it still doesn't address the fact that portrait is just inherently the inferior choice for video (unless the video is of a single person standing upright and not moving i guess)

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • in terms of how people refer to it these days, you may be correct that slightly more are using the hard g. what drives me nuts about the argument though is that the 'hard g' crowd does not have a good argument for it. the "g stands for graphics so it should be a hard g" crowd are immediately proven wrong that that's not how any acronyms work. the "gift" crowd are immediately proven wrong as i just did above.

    just be honest with yourselves. the only argument you have is "we just like it better". if you were honest then i wouldn't be able to argue against it.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • pan / pang

    hat / hate

    clam / claim

    one letter can and often does completely change pronunciation. i'd give you a good ol' fashion makin fun of, but i actually think you could've gotten there if you would've thought about for a few more seconds. you seem pretty smart. shame you clicked reply too soon.

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  • Hell yea. Might be my first day of fall movie.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • this one also makes me irritated in general when I see it happen and sometimes angry when I find out a special moment was only captured via vertical video. Cell phones are amazing portable devices, not the end means of consuming media.

    I have an ultra wide monitor at work and giant TVs in half the rooms in my house. 92% of the media I watch is on a landscape screen and the other 8% I'm pooping

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • but g followed by i or e very regularly makes a soft g in English (and always makes a soft g in Italian, which is irrelevant I guess but I speak both). you may as well purposely mispronounce giraffe, gelatin, germ, Giorgio, giant, gentle, etc while you're at it since it they don't start with a j.

    by english rules it very often is a soft g, but could be hard as well, but the creator has clarified multiple times it is meant to be soft, so why are people fighting it?

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    The Best Horror Movies of 2024 (So Far)
  • Added a handful of these to the server, thanks for posting. Starting first day of fall until Halloween every year is horror TV & movies for me

  • Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'
  • AntennaPod is great, I used it for years. I eventually switched to self hosting AudioBookShelf which does audiobooks, ebooks, and podcasts. One main reason was because podcasts more and more yank the old episodes and put them behind a patreon. AudioBookShelf downloads the episodes to your server so you always have them. About 5 months after starting using it another one of my podcasts pulled that stunt and I was super happy to have all of the old episodes still.

  • What was a movie you didn't like that everyone else enjoyed?
  • I never understood the boring argument, and I've read it quite a bit online. Every scene has a ton going on.

    It starts with a banger wedding outside while the don hears about somebody's daughter being savagely raped. Theres also a short conversation about Fontaine and the movie exec being a dick. Bam, hagen is in Hollywood. You wonder what the family has up their sleeve, bam horse decapitated head in the bed.

    Business meeting about drugs, sonny goofs, wonder how that will go - assassination attempt. Hagen held captive. Luca sleeps with the fishes. Don in hospital, another assassination attempt thwarted, scene full of tension the entire time.

    Michael decides he's in the business now, they plan the attack, then bam middle of the movie you have an incredibly long tense scene of a drive and dinner that you know is going to end in violence.

    I mean all of that is just in the first half of the movie. It's buildup action buildup action repeat. This is not some slow character study alone... It's a master class of character study with plot plot plot.

    It's almost ridiculous how much plot there is to be honest. After all of the above there's Carlo abusing Connie and sonny beating the shit out of him. There's Carlo doing it a second time as a trap and sonny getting fucking annihilated by gunfire. Michael escapes to Sicily, gets married, and his wife is murdered in a car bomb meant for him.

    The cherry on top is Michael murdering the heads of the other families in one of the best climaxes of all time

    Sorry for the rant. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I just don't understand the boring argument, this is not a slow movie lol

  • A platform with no issues
  • Matrix. Spin up a conduit server, doesn't tale very long and it works great. Clients arent perfect but the next gen clients are available in beta (element x) and will fix a lot of the issues current gen clients have

  • Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg?
  • Screen sharing is still a pain in my experience. I'm a tiling window manager guy. I used i3 for years. Switched to sway, but have issues because xdg-desktop-portal-wlr can't do application sharing, only entire screen sharing. Well I have a ultra ultra wide screen, so people can't see shit on normal monitors when I try to share my screen. So at work, where I regularly have video conferences, I'm constantly changing my screen resolution so that I can screen share something that looks OK to others, but 1980x1024 looks ridiculous on my end on my ultrawide.

    Hyperland can share applications and even regions, which is awesome, and I tested it successfully on my home gentoo system, but it only worked on Firefox. Didn't work for my jitsi electron app and didn't work in qutebrowser. And hyperland isn't easily installable on Ubuntu which is what I run for work because my work computer needs to just werk (gentoo is probably even more stable but I can't mess with long complie upgrades at work and some corporate software is only available as .debs)

    So yea my life would honestly be easier if I just stuck with i3 everywhere but I'm stubbornly trying to use Wayland because I know it's the future but don't kid yourselves, it is a pain in the ass

  • My lazy ass, nowadays.
  • While docker is open source I have no idea why systemd nspawn containers aren't more popular. Most systems have this built in without needing to install 3rd party software. And I find using it so much easier. I assign each container an IP address and manage them all with ansible. It provides isolation and convenience while not trying to reinvent the wheel.

  • My lazy ass, nowadays.
  • I'm having a hard time getting into software that doesn't use traditional folder structures. I wish I could point immich to my NAS Pictures folder and have multiple places to seen the same exact files, immich when I want, nextcloud maybe, or just a file browser pointed to my NAS.

    I'm having the same issue with paperless-ngx. I set it up and it's cool, but why can't I just point it to my Documents folder? I'm getting all of my 2023 taxes ready and now I have to upload them into two places, paperless-ngx for my records and Nextcloud so I can ultimately share a link with my accountant.

    Am I old man yelling at cloud-ing right now? Why get rid of basic folder structures I just don't get it

  • My lazy ass, nowadays.
  • I'm having a hard time getting into software that doesn't use traditional folder structures. I wish I could point immich to my NAS Pictures folder and have multiple places to seen the same exact files, immich when I want, nextcloud maybe, or just a file browser pointed to my NAS.

    I'm having the same issue with paperless-ngx. I set it up and it's cool, but why can't I just point it to my Documents folder? I'm getting all of my 2023 taxes ready and now I have to upload them into two places, paperless-ngx for my records and Nextcloud so I can ultimately share a link with my accountant.

    Am I old man yelling at cloud-ing right now? Why get rid of basic folder structures I just don't get it

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  • I just spun up a server, looks very nice, reallllly wish they didn't lock down SSO and whitelabeling behind a paywall for self hosters. I'd much rather donate and keep everything open source for self hosters. Self hosting loses a lot of luster when you're stuck behind a closed-source paywall.

  • 4kiptv.tv seems to be dead -- good alternative?
  • I have kodi boxes on all of my TVs and play local 4k content 95% of the time, but yea I need sports and live tv occasionally. Websites work pretty well on computers but the streams on kodi addons are very bad, constant interruptions. So I can either hook up raspberry pis runnung raspbian on each my Tvs and have wireless keyboards so I can go to the streaming websites, or I try to get a paid IPTV service on kodi, which I'm trying to do right now.

  • Looking for an electric water kettle
  • I didn't get the one with Bluetooth or WiFi or whatever. Just turn it on and set temp. But yea it isn't the cheapest.

  • Kodi streaming vs website streaming

    I do 90% of my TV watching with local content on kodi, the other 10% is live sports. I know the websites and they work very well (as long as you have an adblocker). My issue is - why is it so much worse on kodi using The Crew or Mad Titan Sports? The streams on those addons are nowhere near as reliable as the streams on the popular websites.

    Half of the links on those addons do not work at all, 25% will load and constantly buffer to the point where it is unusable, and the final 25% are OK but will still buffer much more than the websites and occasionally just stop completely and you have to click on it to start it again.

    Why are the websites so much better? I want to watch these games on my big TV with my home theater speakers, not on my laptop. And I don't want to fuss with plugging my laptop in for every game. Has anybody found a way to cast a Linux computer to kodi? Or are there better addons that I just haven't found?

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    Editor's note: This is the second in a series of stories on the 2023 inductees into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies are July 29 in Natchitoches.

    Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame 2023: Matt Forte proved doubters wrong at every level
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    Bears offseason winners and losers heading into training camp
    www.nbcsportschicago.com Bears offseason winners and losers heading into training camp

    The Bears report to training camp in under 10 days, and once they get back to work they’ll begin the grind to prepare for the regular season. This is where the “reps chart” we’ve heard about from coaches will turn into a “depth chart.” It’s where some players will make an early name for themselves, ...

    Bears offseason winners and losers heading into training camp

    tl;dr: Winners: Braxton Jones, Darnell Mooney, Justin Fields Losers: Lucas Patrick, Jack Sanborn, Jaylon Johnson

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    How Bears GM Ryan Poles was influenced by the Chiefs' rebuild
    www.espn.com 'Is this what I want to get into?': Inside the doubt and growth of Bears GM Ryan Poles

    He had been cut from the Bears and nearly took a marketing job, but a trip to Alaska helped Poles clear his mind and pursue his dream.

    'Is this what I want to get into?': Inside the doubt and growth of Bears GM Ryan Poles
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    Chicago Bears players read nice tweets
    www.tiktok.com Chicago Bears on TikTok

    Nice tweets got us in our feels 🥹 #chicagobears #nicetweets #sportstiktok

    Chicago Bears on TikTok
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    Steelers sign former Bears LB Nick Kwiatkoski, release WR Anthony Miller
    sports.yahoo.com Steelers sign former Bears LB Nick Kwiatkoski, release WR Anthony Miller

    The Pittsburgh Steelers signed linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski to a one-year deal on Tuesday following a tryout with his hometown team.

    Steelers sign former Bears LB Nick Kwiatkoski, release WR Anthony Miller
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    2023 NFL linebacker unit rankings: San Francisco 49ers claim the top spot for second consecutive year | NFL News, Rankings and Statistics | PFF
    www.pff.com 2023 NFL linebacker unit rankings: San Francisco 49ers claim the top spot for second consecutive year | NFL News, Rankings and Statistics | PFF

    The San Francisco 49ers' linebacker unit, led by Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw, comes in at No. 1 ahead of the 2023 NFL season.

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    #2 - Your Chicago Bears

    Chicago’s front seven underperformed in 2022, so the team used free agency to acquire two of the highest-graded players at the position. Tremaine Edmunds arrives from Buffalo after a long-awaited breakout that saw massive increases in his overall (81.9) and coverage (90.0) grades. The latter mark, along with his 10 pass breakups, led all qualified linebackers.

    T.J. Edwards comes with less fanfare but was the unsung hero of the Eagles’ elite defense. He played nearly 1,200 snaps and graded above 78.0 against the run, in coverage and as a pass-rusher, which added up to the sixth-best overall grade (81.6) at the position.

    Second-year man Jack Sanborn provides a good complement as a rugged, SAM-type linebacker in Matt Eberflus’ 4-3 defense. He showed flashes of talent last year, posting 80.0-plus grades in his last two games.

    This group hasn’t played together yet, but the Bears are banking on talent and couldn’t have much more at their disposal.

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    Report: Bears unlikely to be on HBO’s Hard Knocks
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    This was a polarizing topic all offseason among Bears fans, but now it's off the table.

    Report: Bears unlikely to be on HBO’s Hard Knocks

    Damn. I would've loved to see it.

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