Oh my gosh I am so excited the dashboard naming choices are finally here, I’ve been watching that issue for a couple months. Hopefully no more naming an ESPHome node Living Room TV Node and the dashboard instead showing nonsense like Living Room Living Room TV Living Room Node. Though, not sure if the actual entity ids will follow, that is the bigger issue. 🤔

Yuuup. Burnout does not mess around. I’m thankful my wife makes enough for us to be stable. Can’t save for anything, but hey.

The background doesn’t really bother me, but where on earth did the axis labels go?

I made a pair of panel speakers (a.k.a. distributed mode loudspeakers) recently—they sound fantastic, take up almost no space being only slightly away from the wall, look like sleek fabric acoustic panels rather than bookshelf speakers on the wall, and were pretty darn cheap (~$65 for the pair with dual exciters on each). I’m still in the process of hanging them properly as my rear LR, as they’re only 2 ft squares. I want to create a pair of 2 ft × 4.5 ft panels for my front LR which should sound even bigger and fuller, especially after a little EQ magic. Even just a single panel in a room though would be pretty good.

I also got a baby bass shaker to put under the couch for movie oomph; you could go for a normal sub too if you feel the low end needs more, but try just the panels first.

I really want to do a writeup of the discoveries I’ve made once I’m done; my background and degree are in audio engineering so I’ve done a lot of research and testing. To start, I recommend using Dayton’s “high roll” exciters, I like their sound better. My panels each have one of these and one of these.

References:

• Video: Introduction
• Video: How To Build
• Video: Testing Further Improvements
• Article: Exciters Guide

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TBF, Trump would be the one to spell it like that.

You’ll still max out the carrying capacity of the bottom centaur after stacking only 3, maybe 4 with max STR or a Belt of Giant Strength. Now if you throw some castings of Levitate into the mix…

“You are extremely confident that there is, in fact, nothing of note within your perception.”

I saved a comment a while ago that put it perfectly. The switch from “climate change is a hoax” to “climate change is real but we’ve created the perfect solution” will happen so fast your head will spin.

This is why I have tunnel endpoints installed in several of my out-of-state relatives’ houses. 😄 Not for porn, just general “why is the entire /12 block containing my public IP marked as a spam risk everywhere? STOP GIVING ME CAPTCHAS ARGGG!”

20/20 is average, should have named it 20/10. Also in conversation people would assume Vision 20/20 was something to do with learning from COVID.

I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)

This week on the No Duh podcast… 😅

For me it’s usually a case of “That would require explaining so much context that by the time I’m done I will have forgotten the original thought.”

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The cat’s name is Hes.

All dice are quantum dice!

If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.

Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.

125% times

…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

…your former ethnic group? How does that work, exactly? 🤔😄