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Horror fishing game Dredge being adapted for live-action movie
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What are some of your daily use/most important apps?
I just got a new phone, and I opted to download all the apps I usually use manually, rather than having them transfer over automatically. It's like a nice cleanup thing that I get to do every...
I just got a new phone, and I opted to download all the apps I usually use manually, rather than having them transfer over automatically. It's like a nice cleanup thing that I get to do every couple of years. I feel like I partially should just have a list somewhere of the apps I usually use and was wondering what people would download first (plus if I forgot anything)
For me, this was my process yesterday:
Password manager - Bitwarden - mostly so I can copy/paste my logins for everything
Authentication - Not listing these but ya know
VPN - MozillaVPN - just something for hostels and travelling
Browser - Firefox Beta or Nightly - for downloading my new wallpaper and general use (including Tildes!)
Sleep + Alarm - Sleep as Android
Car things - My car app, EVGo/Electrify America - getting around and things
Rideshare - Uber and Lyft - When I'm in a new city!
Food - Doordash, Grubhub, asian specific food apps - to eat when I'm lazy!
News - Boston Globe, AP News, BBC - Kinda obvious what they're here for
Todo - TickTick - Checklists and all that
Fitness - Fitbit, my smart scale app, and my gym app - general fitness stuff
Language Learning - Duolingo and Lingodeer!
Banking + Investment + Payments + Insurance - not listing these but yeah!
Music + Podcasts - Spotify
Streaming - D+, Netflix, Vudu, Peacock, Max, Movies Anywhere, Dropout, Hulu, Prime Video, Twitch - General Streaming
Books - Kindle and Audible
Messaging and Social Media - Signal, Beeper, Messenger, Discord, Slack, Instagram, etc. - just daily entertainment and connections
Games - Slay the Spire, Dead Cells, Nonograms, Don't Starve, Cards of Terra, Bloons, etc.Bonus Q: I've been thinking of trying to add Obsidian to my general day to day, how? Might ask a question about this later though!
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Need help planning a pseudo-upgrade for my computer tower
Pseudo because upgrading some of the parts might have a knock-on effect for other parts. Might end up leading to an upgrade of the whole system, idk. So here's a list of parts that I've already...
Pseudo because upgrading some of the parts might have a knock-on effect for other parts. Might end up leading to an upgrade of the whole system, idk. So here's a list of parts that I've already acquired. I was originally going to use some of them to fill out the Framework laptop that I pre-ordered... but I had an expensive couple of months earlier this year and figured I could wait on it. :(
Part AMD Ryzen 7 7700x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD (2) 16GB GSkill Flare X5 DDR5 6000 RAM $50 Microcenter gift card Now here's what I have in my tower currently.
Part Rosewill Thor V2 ATX Full tower case Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU (2) 8GB GSkill DDR3 RAM Rosewill 650W 80 Plus Gold PSU MSI Z97-GD65 MOBO Gigabyte Nvidia 970x Windforce GPU 1 SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD 250GB 1 Seagate HDD 1TB I'm looking to keep the tower at the very least and reuse it for new components. Right now, I know that the mobo will absolutely need to be replaced IF I'm throwing the ryzen chip in. And with knock-on effect, probably the psu as well since these components are drawing more power. The goal is to get a solid 60 fps on Helldivers (which I can't do at the moment, even on the lowest graphical settings) since it's the most intensive game that I play. With this goal in mind, does it make sense to start using the components I have from the first list, or might it be cheaper to keep them for the framework and get older (still compatible) parts that would fit right in to the system as it stands?
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Flourishing romances are more the result of proactive behaviors than soulmate spark, study finds
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A brief rundown of some of the flaws of the Cass review
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A pat on the back statistically improves free throw numbers in basketball
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An honest assessment of American rural white resentment is long overdue
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US Senate Republicans furious over Donald Trump derailing FISA bill
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Norway's health minister resigned Friday, the second Norwegian government member to step down this year amid allegations they plagiarized academic works
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like libreoffice, engagement and rube goldberg machine. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if...
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like libreoffice, engagement and rube goldberg machine. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was keeping tabs.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeat
stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!11 votes -
Panama Papers: trial begins of twenty-seven Mossack Fonseca employees
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The Yorkshire Pudding recipe battle royale
I don't think this one is uniquely British, but Yorkshire Puddings are one of my favourite Sunday Roast parts. There are probably 200 different ways to make them. I thought it would be a fun...
I don't think this one is uniquely British, but Yorkshire Puddings are one of my favourite Sunday Roast parts. There are probably 200 different ways to make them. I thought it would be a fun thread to post for the best recipes, if you're so inclined.
If you've never cooked or eaten one, do so, you're in for a treat. They go perfectly with veg and gravy.
My very basic recipe:
*200g plain flour
*3 eggs
*300ml whole milkPlace all in a mixer, whisk it for a solid 3 minutes. Chuck it in the fridge for 15 minutes in an easy pour jug.
Fire up the oven to 200C. Grab a 12 space muffin tin. I know, crazy me, eh!? A muffin tin for Yorkshire's!
Put 1/2 of a tea spoon of vegetable oil into each muffin section (spot the non-chef, not sure what they're called). Put it in the oven to get hot.
Once the oven is at temperature and the oil is bubbling, take out the muffin tin and put the mixture evenly into each section. Put it straight back into the oven and do NOT open the door again for 25 mins. At that point, they will be done. If you do open the door, they will fall flat.
That's it, perfect basic Yorkshires. Put them on your roast dinner and fill it with gravy.
Over to you good folk!
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This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more
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Pompeii: new paintings found
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US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
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Riot’s Vanguard comes to League
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Navajo Quilt Project co-founder wins national arts fellowship
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Any RSS feed recommendations that aren't news?
Just recently started getting into rss feeds. Have set up a feed reader and some feeds for my favorite sports team and some news sites and blogs that interest me. But whenever I look up some...
Just recently started getting into rss feeds. Have set up a feed reader and some feeds for my favorite sports team and some news sites and blogs that interest me. But whenever I look up some recommendations for new feeds to follow, I'd say 90%+ of the recommendations are news sites like the BBC or NYT as well as tech news sites.
Does anyone have any feed recommendations that aren't just news websites? Maybe an interesting blog or something entirely different? Thanks.
I'll drop an interesting one that I found right here on tildes a few days ago, about life in Antarctica: https://brr.fyi/
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How to succeed in a cramming-based academic system?
I'm an intuitive learner. I learn by constantly asking questions, the answers to which i can then effortlessly remember. By messing around and seeing what happens, and then asking why. Lecturers...
I'm an intuitive learner. I learn by constantly asking questions, the answers to which i can then effortlessly remember. By messing around and seeing what happens, and then asking why. Lecturers have been enthusiastic about my approach but said I'm going to struggle because the school system in my country wasn't designed for people who learn like this. I want to kill myself.
The way I see myself learning stuff:
- Here's a fresh store-bought kombucha scoby
- Here's a scoby from the same store that I've been growing for 6 weeks
- If I sequenced the DNA from equivalent cells in each of these scobys, would I find any differences? Why?
Same with my latest interest: Law. I've watched a few (mock) court cases and researched whatever questions I came up with, to get an understanding of how courts worked, and had a look at the cited laws.In physics tests I end up running out of time because whenever I forget an equation I need, I try to intuit/derive it, which I would manage given enough time.
The way we are actually expected to learn stuff:
- Listening to a lecturer talk for 12×2 hours, and/or reading the referenced literature. Anything mentioned could be on the test.
I have been trying to do it the mainstream way anyway, but I am getting such bad grades that I've had to re-take a year. Even if I found strategies to help me focus I'd still clearly have a competitive disadvantage to people to whom this approach comes naturally. This feels unfair since I know there is a way that I could learn about my field as effortlessly as other people do listening to these lectures.
How does someone like me succeed in academia instead of just scraping through?
I understand that my prefered methpd which I outlined is what you do at PhD level. I'm afraid that by force-feeding my brain all this information that it currently sees as irrelevant, I will kill my curiousity, which I don't want to do because it's the thing that's allowed me to get this far with practically no effort (I went through the archetypal Smart Kid thing in middle school).
For context, I'm in 1st year bachelor's biochemistry (repeating the year). Although I think that at least in my country, all university courses have the format I described.
Since I am also struggling with ADHD I honestly feel like giving up on Uni and going for some sort of apprentiship-style thing. I would like to have a degree though because it's sort of a requirement nowadays and I am genuinely interested in my subject area. Alternatively, what kind of professions seek my method of inquisitively deep-diving into stuff, as I described?
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I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95
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Scientists discover hundreds of unique species in Africa’s newest ecoregion
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Cow magnets
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Fortress Europe isn’t working – Europe needs a workable migration strategy. Instead it’s attacking asylum seekers to placate the right.
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Cosmo Sheldrake - Stop The Music (2024)
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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
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Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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Kansas Legislature brings gavel down on civil asset seizure powers of law enforcement
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Home insurance rates to rise 6% in 2024 after 20% increase in last two years
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I’ve been at NPR for twenty-five years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust.
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Star Wars Outlaws | Official story trailer
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Showtime app shutting down at the end of April
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Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
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OpenTofu denies Hashicorp's code-stealing accusations
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Chinese woman in Beijing goes on one hundred blind dates per year
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Front-of-package protein labels on cereal create health halos
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Hawaii-born sumo champion Akebono Taro dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Japan
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ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying
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Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
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Twitter replaces twitter.com with x.com without user consent. Bad implementation invites an influx of Phishing attacks. (german source)
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With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
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How do I sell a car?
Found a few threads on buying cars and I'm reading though them. Looking for advice on how to sell one. Should I? I've got a GM vehicle that's just under 10 years ago, but I don't like it. It's got...
Found a few threads on buying cars and I'm reading though them. Looking for advice on how to sell one.
- Should I?
I've got a GM vehicle that's just under 10 years ago, but I don't like it. It's got so many more tiny things wrong with it than my previous cars (20 year old corolla, driven into the ground; 15 year old caravan, totalled; 30 years old Buick that gave up the ghost).....I feel like I already got the "best" years out of this GM vehicle and it's all going to be downhills from here. Am I being irrational and should I just keep driving it until it's irreparable, even if the repairs feel more and more frequent and surprising? Essentially I don't have any confidence in this vehicle and I would like to get rid of it and try again with a Honda or Toyota.
- How?
If I'm selling it, how do I lose less money doing so? Dealerships feel like snake pits to me. Craigslist/Kijiji/Facebook? Do locations matter? Can I sell a car to a dealership in a different province?
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Applejuicification: why the fruit is found in so many mixed juices
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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O.J. Simpson dies at age 76 after battle with cancer
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The Triple-i Initiative 2024: A new gaming showcase
15 votes