I started paying for Google music when it started because I didn't like Spotify. Now I've been paying for so long it doesn't make sense to move away. When they implementet YT premium, I was hooked. I haven't seen an ad in years.

Also, streaming music and video is also way more data intensive, I wouldn't expect the random good Samaritan to pay the server costs for me. Yeah ads suck, but I don't see it as such a crazy thing to pay for not to have. Two decades ago you'd pay for cable and still get ads.

I don't approve of Google blocking adblockers because I'm sure it doesn't hurt their bottom line that much, but I also don't blame them.

We have a lobby for visitors. Naturally, it has the nicest bathrooms. I work night, when we never have visitors. It is definitely the ideal place to take a poop.

Oh that's super interesting. I wonder if there's an easy way for me to test it out. I'm definitely of European decent, so it sounds unlikely that I wouldn't have the gene. Smells are very interesting, I wonder if the study is looking at a complete lack of scent, or just a significantly reduced scent. I'd imagine sweat still has an odor even without the bacteria.

Yeah this is what I imagine is going on with my body and hence the post. Never heard anyone else talk about it or seen a real source.

For me, I feel like sweating from my pits localizes the smell and thus no one really smells it. Again, I barely sweat anyway. But when I do use antiperspirant (deodorant does the same but to a lesser extent), then I sweat everywhere and find it easier for people to smell and I just feel more gross.

The best beginner guide I've found is bcae1. It's just some dudes blog, but he made it up as a basic electronics lesson plan with a focus on car audio. It'll help you to get a really good idea of how everything works together. I still regularly use the site as reference.

On YouTube, there's a channel called Car Audio Fabrication . He explains alot of stuff very well and will give suggestions on what equipment to buy. He puts a lot of focus on making a build look clean and professional.

For home stuff, parts express is the defacto DIY audio store. They have a lot of resources on their site from blog posts, how to guides, and even customer projects.

Crutchfield is easily one of the best sources for both home and car. Excellent customer support, virtually unbeatable. Lots of resources like parts express (maybe more). They do tend to carry more mainstream products. Which is fine. It's all quality products, but I do find that you're often paying more for Crutchfield. Both because a lot of their products carry name weight and are more expensive because of that, and because their customer support is good enough to warrant a little extra.

For car stuff, since I do competition grade builds, I like sounds solutions audio and Down 4 Sound. D4S' owner is very active on YouTube and Instagram.

Well, that's a lot of good places to start. Electricity is magic. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's not. Even after you "understand" it, it's still magic. The last link up give you is for Sparkfun. They're a retailer like parts express and Crutchfield with excellent guides/resources and community showcases. They're focus is on low voltage electronics like arduino and raspberry pi.

Anyway, have fun learning. If you have questions, feel free to DM me. I love talking about this stuff.

Nights absolutely. With 2 weeks off, I easily stay up till 5 in the morning without even realizing it's that late. I've always found it hard to sleep at 10pm like other people, and I won't start get tired until 3am.

Unfortunately the shift I'm on right now is 12 hour shifts, which means I'm up till 8-10am. Which is a little later than I like, but I still feel better than waking up at 6am. Working 6am-6pm is way rougher on me than 6pm-6am

I don't know if I have the same disorder, but I definitely feel this. It's so much nicer at night. A lot of people fuck up their sleep schedule on the weekends. I keep the weekends the same as my work week and have no problems being sleepy.

But I'm considering applying for a new position at my organization which will mean I have to shift back to days. I'm not sure if the promotion is worth the headache of early mornings and the commute.

For sure. You aren't supposed to "worship" buddha in the same way as gods from other religions. Rather he is seen as a role model.

It's not an ios clone. But I really like Niagara. It's quick and pretty customizable while being very clean/minimal

Yeah. Lots of people give it shit, but it does really "just work". I'm using endeavor right now and considering swapping back to Manjaro, mostly because I cannot for the life of me figure out why SMB won't work. Manjaro is the only distro I've had it work properly with little to no effort.

Unless you're in Idaho or Georgia. And technically in California you have to register as a "researcher". Many sites won't ship to CA, other sites basically just say "it's your responsibility to follow applicable laws".

Either way, ideally you wouldn't have to rely on loopholes to seek care.

Nicely put. I recently bought a new house and was thinking about this same concept. I moved to a area with a high COL, but the markup on houses was much higher than other goods (still high, but not as big).

So when applying for my loan, they use debt to income ratios to determine if you're eligible. So let's say you bought a house and the price (yearly) was 50% of your income. If one house was at 500k and the other at 200k, your 50% for other goods is vastly different. My mortgage came out to 3600/month, right about 50%. But that still leaves another 3600 for other goods. If my mortgage was 50% at 1200, then I would have 1200 leftover for other goods, which just doesn't go nearly as far. But the bank sees these two scenarios as exactly the same.