cobysev

Aww damn, I use my own music library all the time! I much prefer streaming my own music over any other streaming service out there (Pandora, Spotify, etc) that interrupts my jams with ads. As long as it's not going away though, I'll be good.

I always hoped they'd expand the pictures libraries to become a sort of online e-reader. I have tons of digital comics and books in the form of .cbz and .cbr files that I need a comic book reader app to read. But then I can't just read from my home storage. I need to manually copy files to my tablet while at home or download them from a cloud storage service while away from home. It would be convenient if I could dump them in Plex and have access to them on the go.

There's a program called Kavita that's trying to be Plex but for books. But it's still in development, so it's not very stable yet. I've had fun tinkering with it, but it's not super convenient to use at this current stage.

Yeah, like I said, it needs more content creators to dump their libraries there. It could be a fantastic competitor to YouTube if only more people knew about it and used it.

Same here. I was diagnosed at 38 and it was a relief. My whole life, I just thought I was quirky or something. I couldn't understand why no one else thought the same way I do, bouncing between 5-6 independent discussions constantly rattling around in my brain at any given moment. Or why people didn't have to mentally prepare and practice for routines in advance before everything they did. Or why they couldn't focus solely on a task until it was 100% complete. (I have the hyperfocus type of ADHD, where nothing else appears to exist around me until my main task is completed)

Being able to put a definitive label to my "personality" helped me to understand my quirks and odd behaviors, and adjust to make myself more productive in my life and better at communicating with others. It was a relief to be able to finally know what's going on with me and have options to improve myself.

In the end, I chose not to be medicated because my type of ADHD makes me highly productive. I'm afraid medication will just cloud my mind and make me only focus on one thing at a time instead of mentally multitasking. But knowing that I have ADHD makes me hypervigilant to my quirks and helps to ground me and pull me back when I notice I'm starting to lose myself in a project or discussion.

I got into Pokémon when the card game and anime first came to America. I was in jr high school at the time and collected so many of the original cards. Never finished my collection, though.

I got into the Pokémon craze at first, but stopped following it in my later years of high school. I was too busy preparing to be an adult, so I set it aside and forgot about it for years. I didn't even know there were more than 151 Pokémon until over a decade later.

I learned some of the newer generations with Pokémon Go, but I still remember all of the original 151 Pokémon. The newer stuff is just weird to me.

EDIT: I never got into the games, even though they started releasing when I was a teenager. Pokémon Go was actually my first game in the franchise; although I watched my friends play the classic Red and Blue games back in the day.

Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn't require self hosting and I'll happily move my content there.

Nebula is the next best thing to YouTube, but not enough content creators have moved their stuff there, so it's easy to run out of interesting videos to watch after a while. Some of the bigger folks I follow share their content on both platforms, and the incentive to watch on Nebula instead of YouTube is that content creators have more freedom with their videos on Nebula. They can post bonus/extra footage that would be automatically flagged and blocked by YouTube normally. Don't need to dance around the censors on Nebula.

Nebula is subscription-based, so they don't show ads anywhere on their site. But if you don't want to pay for another subscription service, you can also do a one-time payment to have lifetime access to their site. It's $300, which is the cost of just over 4 years of their subscription service ($6/mo). Considering I've had an account for over 3 years now, it's almost paid for itself.

TikTok's moderation is why people regularly say "un-alive" nowadays instead of "suicide."

I worked at an Arby's back in high school (over 20 years ago). They told me free refills were a thing because most customers don't refill more than once, if at all. Also, the soda water costs pennies and the bags of concentrated soda syrup were only like $10 (at the time). A single bag of syrup, mixed with soda water, could fill customer's soda cups for maybe 2-3 days before it needed to be replaced. Fast food restaurants make insane profits on soda, so they don't care if customers refilled multiple times during their visit.

A friend mentioned to me that Japanese children have to take a school test at a certain age to prove their kanji proficiency.

I lived in Japan for a few years in the early 2000s. According to my Japanese coworkers, school children are given 100-200 Kanji to memorize by the end of the school year, where they'll be tested on them. This goes on every year, from their equivalent of K-12th grades. By the time they're ready for college, they should know enough Kanji to be proficient in reading/writing.

Supposedly, the average Japanese person knows between 2,000 and 5,000 Kanji off the top of their head, so either my coworkers low-balled the number, or Japanese people continue learning Kanji through college and into adulthood.

Back when my wife and I were still dating, she found a cheap ring she loved. It was just a normal jewelry ring with her favorite stones in it, not a fancy engagement ring or anything. But she loved it so much, she told me that if I ever proposed to her, she gave me permission to steal it from her and re-present it as an engagement ring. Which I did.

I felt bad about it though. I took the ring to propose, but my plans fell through and it took me a few more days to arrange a new proposal plan. She had forgotten all about our conversation, so the whole time she was tearing the house apart, looking for her favorite ring. She loved that I "found" it and gave it back to her with a proposal.

Otherwise known as shrinkflation. Selling a product for the same (or higher) price, but adding less of the product. By cutting small, barely noticeable portions out a little at a time, the company saves money in materials, but continues charging the same price. Basically, min-maxing profits.

Easy?! I'm familiar with this meme, but I have no idea where it came from.

My birth year is the same as the title of a dystopian future novel by George Orwell.