Fox “news” themselves claim to be an entertainment program, not a legitimate source of news

I’ve never tried it, but my father tells me that if you use ABS and include the ASIN in the metadata there’s a tool (possibly built in?) that can fetch chapter timestamps

I use StoryGraph for my personal library management, but Goodreads simply has better coverage of both total books and specific metadata. But Audible is the best source anyway, as it has data specific to the audiobook other sources rarely do. I’ve included Goodreads mostly as a fallback for books Audible doesn’t have listed. One of the roadmap items is to add other sources, like Google books. At that time I would consider a source separate from Amazon/Google if a quality one can be found and conveniently called/scraped.

Metadata is written to the file at the time of operation, so Goodreads failing would not affect any existing metadata sourced from it. But Audible is the preferred source anyway, as it has metadata specific to the audiobook typically not available in Goodreads. I’ve included it as a backup for books (mostly older ones) that are not available on Audible. Goodreads allows user submissions and thus has just about every book available in its library.

It can do some metadata matching, but to my knowledge it doesn’t do any of the big ticket items like combining chapter files

Good old fashioned RPGs and tower defense reign supreme on long hauls. Not sure if they’re on steam, but for TD the kingdom rush games are excellent. For RPG, bravely default 2 is a personal favorite. If you don’t mind a game leaning difficult.

Edit: oh, and Balatro! Balatro and kingdom rush 5 got me through two 11 hour flights when I traveled overseas.

This just in: studies show heavy correlation between money laundering and shrinkflation

Especially Raads-R, the statistical accuracy is insane. Meaning it has an unusually low rate of false positives, so a high score is a fairly reliable indicator. Especially considering it’s a self report.

Edit: newer studies have found that while RAADS-R can be a useful tool to indicate need for further diagnosis, it is not as reliable as the original study indicated. Most notably, the test does an excellent job of screening for neurodivergence but fails to consider which traits are necessarily autistic and which traits are related to other conditions, such as ADHD.

Shame this is Lemmy high quality memes and not Lemmy shitpost, quality shitpost.

I tried kde neon on my gaming PC and had endless issues. They don’t test their releases well and Nvidia drivers had a lot of problems. I’m using garuda dragonized right now (arch based) and really enjoying it. It’s highly optimized for gaming, to the point of having its own fork of proton. It also uses KDE plasma desktop, so a very similar user experience.

Nathan fillion! His brand of humor and delivery consistently hits just right for me.

Getting this specific ad one too many times is actually what finally motivated my lazy ass to switch from sync to eternity

When I graduated college my (country, but well spoken) parents wrote me a card in the most backwoods hick spelling and grammar they could come up with. Fun memory.

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Is the car market in Canada that bad right now? In 2021 I got my 2011 Nissan versa with around 60k miles for about 4k (USD). You just have to be willing to pass up some luxury features and find the right deal instead of buying from a dealership.

Calling people who are trying to protect children pure evil is unhelpful rhetoric. Disagreeing with their opinion is helpful. Sharing an anecdote against their proposals is helpful. Personal attacks are unhelpful and do more harm than good for the conversation. I will admit that they set the stage in bad faith by calling their stance ‘inarguable’.

Everything starts as a luxury until the working class bands together and demands it. 40 hour workweeks, overtime, sick days. These are workplace examples, but the concept holds true everywhere. In a capitalist society things like privacy aren’t considered until someone starts exploiting them for profit, at which point people start to get serious about protecting it. And this rule applies 5x in any tech realm, as governments are notoriously slow to build legal protections in new and fast moving sectors.

All that was to address your title, which is only tangentially connected to the rest of your post. Regarding the body, companies have absolutely started to equate VPN with bad actors. Still worth having. I just whitelist the services I have to.

I use one because it lowers my screen time. I can walk away from my phone and still be aware of texts and calls from family.

I use the tiller extension in Google sheets. With the community savings budget template to allow for 0 based or “envelope” budgeting. One of the few things in my life so far ahead of every other option I couldn’t bring myself to ditch it and selfhost.

IP and port are what I put in my browser