If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.

Of course they did.

Well, I own, but what I would do is go ahead and rent the new place and then give notice on the old place. You’ll wind up paying rent on two places for that month, but on the upside your move won’t need to be a chaotic rush.

Very much depends. I host the digital music collection for my entire family (6 people) all with very different tastes in music and very large music collections. According to Jellystat, I’m hosting roughly 52,000 tracks taking up just shy of 2 TB. I used to keep track of how many albums I had but I’ve long since lost track.

On average, a CD ripped to FLAC seems to run around 300MB. MP3 or OGG would generally be smaller (but with quality loss), dependent on the bitrate, call it 50MB - 200MB.

In short, a person hosting a normal sized personal music collection is unlikely to run into space issues.

You can. I started my Jellyfin server on a RPi3. Not great hardware for video streaming, but it will work fine for music. Could also use Navidrome. For local network only, that would be all you need.

To stream your media collection outside your home network, you’ll want to set up either a reverse proxy and set your ISP’s modem to forward the traffic to the reverse proxy, or set up a VPN like Tailscale. Tailscale would be the simpler option most of the time and is more secure for the average self-hoster.

Only if you only get your news from social media. There has been other stuff going on. US economy is weakening, there has been a Nissan recall, some tech news, apparently another bank either has or will soon fail. Same old, same old.

My social media feed though are nothing but protests, ICE misbehavior, and propaganda from all sides.

Might want to pick an actual news organization to follow to see what else is going on in the world. Lately, for me it has been apnews.

I don’t disagree that we need people like the Colonel to stay in, but the man has served faithfully for 24 years. More than long enough to reach retirement. We have to trust in the training that he has given the men and women that have served under him, and hope that it will prove to be enough.

Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it’s either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.

2,500 to 3000 miles per month. Mostly commuting to and from work.

Well, there are 2 problems with banning weapons that I see

One. Weapons are dead simple to make. I can go to the hardware store and buy everything I need to make short range, single shot firearms, and this doesn’t even take into consideration how dangerous slings and sling shots can be when used as a weapon. Additionally, more than a few full auto sub-guns have been made by folks in their basements or sheds, with admittedly mixed results. Turns out that the magazine is actually the hardest part of a repeating firearm.

Functionally, it’s an impossible task. Weapons are generally the simplest of physics problems to solve. Just ignore safety and you’ve got t weapon.

Two. Lets say you succeed. Short term, what changes? A few less deaths, but overall crime goes up because the risks go down and you haven’t done anything to address the true causes of the crime in the first place.

Long term, you have even bigger problems if people from outside the community that has banned weapons, suddenly view you as weak and helpless. And this also discounts the possibility of your own community leaders suddenly deciding to attack in order to seize more power for themselves.

Tidal uses a higher quality codec than Youtube. Personally, I can’t hear the difference, but I also have nearly half a century of accumulated hearing damage. YMMV.

I grew up listening to Art Bell and still have my tinfoil hat. I believe that there are things in this universe that we don’t remotely even begin to understand. All manner of things and legends could be true at least in part.

But I’ve also grown up enough and seen enough to realize that 99% of so called supernatural or otherworldly things are either jokes, pranks, or misunderstandings of known natural phenomena. I’d hazard a guess that at least 2/3rds of the rest also have quite mundane explanations.

As for the rest, I am grateful that there are still things in this world that we still don’t understand. It makes things interesting.

Middle aged me calls it a science trick and understands at a basic level how it works. 8 year old me would have said “Hey man! Hey man! Hey man! Check this out!” not having a clue how it worked, but it’s cool because it involves fire and magic. And promptly proceeding to set the town on fire.

Ditto potato guns, soda bottle launchers (top half a soda bottle, a coffee cup, a little water and a firecracker), Mentos granades (coke and mentos), flamethrowers (just hairspray and a lighter), vacuum cannons and other things that burned, went boom or did something else exciting.

Give the kids a break, they may not be able to communicate their understanding in standard language, but they understand far more than they, and their test scores, realize.

I think you may be thinking a little too large a hot air balloon. Think grocery bag sized. As for not taking the risk, have you ever met a kid, or more likely in this case, teen, that thinks through the consequences of their actions.

And it is a very cool science trick. I could see a kid doing something like that, pretty easily.

This was the first result in YouTube when I looked it up. https://youtu.be/mfOm6IOA9Og

There is another high probability possibility. It could be a tea light powered hot air balloon. You suspend a tea light under a lightweight plastic bag. The candle heats the air in the bag and it floats off across the sky. They look pretty freaky if you haven’t run across them before Especially at night. If the bag got hit by a sudden gust, it might twist into that shape and start to fall. Don’t see them very often due to the fire hazard.

Another possibility might be a custom hobby r/c craft of some sort. That’s all the reasonable ideas I’ve got.

It’s an ambiguous photo. Probably faked.

If the object isn’t an optical aberration or a faked photo and is in fact an actual object in the sky it could be a deflated weather balloon falling.They can get pretty funky looking. To me though it looks more like a wind turbine.

My money is on it being a faked photo.

True, but I’d rather not wash with water from a diesel island faucet.

As a truck driver in the US, depends on the restroom.

More than a few of the restrooms I’ve visited over the years had no soap or nonfunctional faucets, usually at the smaller truck stops. I started keeping handwashing supplies (separate from my daily hygiene bag) in the driver side cargo hatch of my truck. Access to potable water being often times limited, it would often be hand sanitizer, if I could get it, or windshield washer fluid, sometimes both. Not a great solution, but you work with what you have.

As for the folks that just don’t wash, ya, I’ve no clue.

I hated math until about a year after I got into the trucking industry and realized I could use the math I had learned in school to make my job easier. Over time, I stopped needing the math and was able to just eyeball it, but it really helped for the first few years.

First you need to define what you mean by classical music. Depending on who you’re talking to that could be anything from Mozart or Bach in a group orchestral setting to something instrumental written in the last 5 years played solo, or any combination in-between.

I’m not an orchestral player, more a bluegrass and old-time musician, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

When you are playing in a group orchestra, you are not a musician. You are an instrument. The conductor is the musician. You’re there to play the notes on the page. The conductor may give you some leeway, may not.

In smaller groups, you may or may not have more freedom depending on the musical style and the group dynamics.

Solo, do as you please so long as it sounds good. You are both the instrument and the musician here.

As always, there is only one hard rule in music, If it sounds good, it is good. Everything else is just guidelines.