Seconding Plex / Plexamp if the use case involves streaming remotely. Probably the easiest to get up and running for remote access.

I’m not sure about the capabilities of hosting on a Pi, but it should be straightforward to run a couple different apps in parallel to test and compare features (I’m currently doing exactly that with Plex and Jellyfin)

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No problem! If it’s any consolation, once you’re past the initial investment of a second set of tires, the costs average out over time to be about the same as using all seasons.

Just don’t drive on the winter tires too far into the spring because once it gets above 40F or so, they wear pretty quickly.

That’s a great call, regardless of climate!

I lived in the Minneapolis area for many years, so I can provide a little insight. First off, you will be fine through September. Early November is when snow that lasts for more than a day or two starts to become a real possibility.

-Tires: Your best bet, even with 4WD/AWD is to have a second set of snow tires mounted on cheap steel wheels. (4WD/AWD doesn’t do a damn thing for steering or stopping distance!!!) Swap those over around early November and back to your “regular” tires around late April. If you live in a suburban area, roads will get plowed and sanded quickly, so you are probably fine with GOOD all season tires. But if you’re considering an exurban/rural area I would certainly recommend snow tires. Studded tires and chains are not allowed on highways in MN as far as I remember, but the laws in rural areas could be different.

-Oil: Check your owners manual. At worst you may be recommended to swap from 10W-30 to 5W-30 or something, but it doesn’t get cold enough for long enough to be a strict need.

-Block heaters: With modern vehicles, it’s more of a luxury than a requirement unless you are living in the northern part of the state. If you have an attached garage, it should be a non-issue.

-Other: Always keep a bit of warm weather gear in your car. This goes triply if you live in a rural area. Imagine what you’d want if you were stranded for 4 hours at -20F. Gloves, a hat, some handwarmers, a small blanket at minimum. A small shovel and a bag of sand or kitty litter can help you out if you are mildly stuck in snow. Get the good windshield washer fluid, the stuff that’s rated to -40F. You’ll go through a ton driving on the freeway after salt has been laid down, and it is MISERABLE if it starts to freeze up on your windshield.

They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.

That may be true, but I’d say in the neighborhood of 1/3 - 1/2 of my searches are answered by auto-compiled info cards or similar artifacts.

Just by way of example, my wife and I were casually researching cars lately, and one of the criteria is “does the damn thing fit in our garage??” Typing “Mazda CX-9 length” and having that specific info presented immediately is immensely preferable to clicking into edmonds.com and scrolling through an entire table of specifications.

The photo of the terraced farming actually brings up an interesting point–in order to render those slopes usable for farming, terracing approximates the “flat” projection of the terrain anyways, so you end up with the same result. Buildings and any other usable structures follow the same rule: you can only build vertically, so the effective surface area is the same as the flat projection.

I like so many things about Costco, but they absolutely go batshit insane with the timing on their holiday items.

Gotta get every last molecule of sugar out of that stick!

Snow is a great example. As a kid, snow was freedom from school, a sculpting medium, a sledding surface, a new landscape to explore…

As an adult, it mostly means tangled commutes and manual labor.

Granted, a gentle snowstorm can be pretty nice when you don’t have work the next day, but it doesn’t have the same magic it did.

For a quick and dirty clean room run the shower really hot for a few minutes to make a bunch of steam and then wait for the humidity to naturally equalize, boom you got a few minutes to do your swap job.

I’ve never heard of this… what’s the idea behind it? That you get the RH near 100%, and any dust particles will be a nucleation point for water to condense on, causing them to literally rain out of the air?

I don’t remember if I saw this one in person or not, but the Morton rotates through large, nature-inspired sculptures like this every few years. And you’re right, a lot of them will include natural materials but they are generally metal or concrete shells over a metal frame.

Here’s their current installation: https://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/exhibitions/of-the-earth/

Europeans literally see no irony in throwing shade at Americans for hanging onto their traditional measurement system, while also speaking 27 different languages in the span of a few hundred miles.

Maybe come down off your high horse until you get that situation sorted, eh? >.>

Edit: Oops, I thought it would be safe to make a joke a in a meme thread.

Thanks for posting that. I find social interactions pretty draining as well, and default to email or chat whenever possible, but your post made it click in my head that even a quick video call with a new (or old!) colleague makes later communications feel so much easier.

They may not care, but reading people and meeting expectations of your colleagues is pretty much a bare minimum level of functioning for most professional positions.

I’m a massive introvert and would love to not have to rely on those social aspects of work, but they undeniably make me more effective at my job and make life easier in the long run. It’s no different than physical exercise or any of the million other things in life that might be a bit unpleasant but are ultimately good for you.

Something hot in an open bowl sounds like the worst food to eat in a shower TBH.

I’d go with something cold in a tube, like an ice pop. Or maybe a beer in one of those fancy insulated tumblers with a closeable lid.

In fairness, you did pick one of about 4 topics that seems to really get Lemmitors (or whatever word we’re using) riled up.

It’s just too bad people forget that’s literally the entire point if the sub and downvote anything that’s not an ironic or memey “unpopular” opinion, because they are often interesting or overlooked POVs, even if I don’t agree with the conclusion.

LMAO people are downvoting an unpopular opinion in c/unpopularopinion

OP, have you tried having a REAL unpopular opinion like “Media piracy is morally justified” or “Billionaires don’t really deserve all that money”?

Here’s your small engine that’s taller than the car lol

Not sure if it’s totally your vibe, but Machinae Supremacy is more on the rock/metal side of gaming themed music with a lot of C64 chiptune layers.

“Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive” is one of my faves from them.

https://youtu.be/uQJXLqqKB1w?si=Q0fXnbhauZE_i8Qu