Oh I totally believe you. It's mind numbing... Half the time I feel more like a kindergarten teacher then a manager of anything.
You can save a profile as default and click the lock-icon next to the audio and video source, that should prevent changes. (And yeah I still do a test recording either way...)
OBS Studio for sure. It's awesome. You can configure a bunch of different video input sources, even capture simultaneously from more than one.
Just make sure the camera has a decent resolution. A webcam from a couple years back often got 3.1 MP and a native resolution of 480p and less.
Best video format for recording is mkv (easy on the CPU), then you can cut it with DaVinci Resolve (free!) and export to mp4. Youtube will do the rest during upload.
What's your current field, if you don't mind me asking? Changed my career from finance to project management some years back. Ready for another change. Thinking of carpentry...
Sounds amazing, have fun!!!
Don't jinx it!
What if you could go to an agency of some kind get rated through a thorough evaluation process?
Those agencies exist, but they all use some algorithms as well, nobody is doing matchmaking by hand. Usually they charge quite a fee to throw your name into the ring, so there's a bit of a (positive) selection bias in the sense that you don't have too many bottom feeders in the pool, but that doesn't make the dating experience any less exhausting.
I'm still thinking that interest-based hobby groups are the best way to find someone like-minded. At least you know from the onset that the person has one thing in common with you...
Hab mein voraussichtlich letztes Paper für die Uni am Sonntag eingereicht, jetzt kann ich mich 2 Jahre lang "nur noch" auf die Thesis konzentrieren. Zur Feier des Tages geht's morgen früh erstmal für 10 Tage nach Thailand.
Nobody in my wife's family has a laptop. Not a single person. They are tech illiterate to the point where I'm not sure they know how to use a keyboard.
That's probably not the average user either, but they certainly help to set the average as low as it truly is...
Tara? It had a bunch of alternative names, among them "Hood Rat". Was with the actual Ice-T.
Makes you wonder if they store the password in plain text, or convert to lower key during your first input so it's at least hashed. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not.
Really depends on the city, but also quite a bit on yourself and how easy you connect with others, there's no one-fits-all here.
City life can be vibrant, especially in university towns with a generally younger population. Tons of events, outings, pub crawls, the likes.
Question is, would you still fit in with the demographic? I'm ~40 now and live in a city with decent nightlife and fairly young population.
Do I go out a lot? Maybe once every 2-3 months. I'll have a coffee outside every couple days, and I like to chat with the barrista, she's a gem. Other than that? Most people my age have kids and money is tight, schedules full, energy levels low.
Scheduling board games takes weeks of effort to coordinate, and you better believe someone will cancel last minute. So unless I hang out with people 10+ years younger, I'm still fairly isolated in the sense that everybody else got their own lives to sort out.
It's nice to have concerts in town, and great getting to the gym in 5 min, granted. But generally speaking, I don't think it's worth living in the city for the sake of being in the city. People don't flock together to bars and cafes from all over town, they are the same folks who live on the block.
So if you got a pub or something in your little town, I'm sure the experience won't be all that different...