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Just a spreadsheet, nothing fancy. Right now using Google Docs but it could easily be some other spreadsheet app (LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, etc.).

These sort of things just need to be something you understand and follow for your own use. Way back I started out trying to track finances with Quicken but in the end I found it way too complicated for what I needed and hated the idea of my data being locked in their specific format. And I didn’t even need any of the fancy stuff like syncing with bank accounts/credit cards.

Mine is pretty simple, the main columns represent each month of the year, top group of rows represent different income sources, followed by a group of rows representing non-discretionary expenses, followed by a group of rows representing discretionary expenses. Then totals at the bottom. Works for me.

Could try !AskUSA@discuss.online too

For the most part .mp4 / .m4a are interchangeable, you can go lossless --> lossless by going FLAC to ALAC like the earlier comment mentioned e.g. using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -acodec alac yournewfile.mp4

In fact, now that umt@lemmynsfw.com mentioned it, you can create a out-of-spec .mp4 with a flac codec inside it if you really wanted. again using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -c:a copy yournewfile.mp4

You’d have to test that whatever player you’re using can actually play them, I suspect a lot of players won’t know what to do with a .mp4 containing a FLAC codec unless the player already supports FLAC anyway.

PS - The files actually come out a tad bit bigger FYI, I guess there’s more padding and metadata in a .mp4 container.

You can’t go lossless (FLAC codec) to lossy (codec in M4A/MP4) without losing something.

Not sure which codec specifically you’re referring to in your M4A/MP4 but usually those containers are for lossy codecs and judging by the file size going down you definitely went lossless --> lossy. If the resulting file sounds okay to you then maybe you don’t need/want the lossless file anyway, that’s you’re choice.

Personally I keep everything in the original lossless FLAC, only generate lossy MP4 files when needed for a specific purpose. (but I’d still keep the original FLAC regardless)

Same as the other commenter, Pixel 7 + default Android OS. I appreciate the third party ROMs existing but haven’t really bothered going through all that in a few years. Way back I did used to install CyanogenMod but it always felt like a bit of a hassle with random bugs, phone restarts… at some point I bought one of the early Pixels and felt the stock Android worked well enough. My own motivation early on was to avoid the phone bloat/random apps that were pre-installed on non-Google Android phones.

That aside I may take another look at this stuff if it becomes impossible to sideload apps on stock Android OS with Google forcing app developers to verify themselves. And/or check out Linux-based phones.

Typing this out just realized LineageOS started out as a fork of CyanogenMod so I guess that code still exists in some capacity even today.

I think it’s okay, the Impossible stuff gets pretty close to what they’re imitating.

But I also think I’m not really their target audience… like I’m okay with a veggie burger tasting like veggie. I’m not really looking for something that tastes like beef or whatever. These products like the Impossible burger aren’t targeting vegetarian/vegan shoppers, maybe their niche are the meat eaters curious about trying to cut down on meat consumption which is okay.

There’s definitely an opportunity to lower or even eliminate all the factory farming and animal abuse if some sort of meat replacement manages to catch on in a big way. We’re not quite there yet but you never know how things will work out in the future.

In the tutorial I read that sometimes it helps to enable secure boot

Just as an FYI, normally you would enable or disable secure boot before installing an OS, not after the fact. Otherwise you usually end up breaking the boot process.

Normally you should be able to hit Enter and then follow prompts to get into the BIOS. Maybe hit ENTER then just keep hitting whatever key you were using to get into the BIOS prior (F2, DEL, etc.).

If none of that works try powering off, removing the hard drive, then power back on & see if that lets you get back into the BIOS.

If that still doesn’t work I suspect the laptop is still stuck in power on mode, maybe the internal battery is keeping it on. Try to see if you can actually power it off for real e.g. hold the power button down for x seconds until you see lights go out. Try to keep an eye on how the laptop behaves when powered on vs lower power mode vs full power off.

Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

Curious, how were The Codefendants? I had wanted to see them when they were opening for NOFX during that run of shows last year but arrived late to the venue and missed their set.

Eh, to be fair appletinis are pretty good. Orc dude likes his drinks on the sweeter side.

The sole does end up slightly more worn than the right.

You should check this out with a doctor, you could be developing leg length discrepancy. It might be very slight right now if you haven’t already noticed any obvious limp but if it’s developing you may be able to catch the source of the issue early on. Could be a hip issue, scoliosis, something else. I don’t want to make you worry about stuff, just something to check out.

I’m going through something similar right now, sort of started years ago with one of my shoes always wearing out before the other. And I always wore a backpack that would rub against the back of my shirts/jackets walking around. Never put two and two together, figured I just had a crappy backpack and crappy shoes but over time this morphed into a slight barely noticeable limp that turned into a more noticeable limp. Eventually that turned into a little bit of hip pain that kept getting worse. When I finally did see a doctor it turned out I developed leg length discrepancy due to osteoarthritis in my hip, apparently this hit me early on in life most people get something like that in their 60s-70s so I’m 20 years early. Going to get hip replacement surgery soon and get it fixed.

Hopefully you’ve got nothing like that but it’s good to check.

Years back when I checked it out it was full of people into conspiracy theories and general bigotry. Interestingly they weren’t specifically right-wing at the time and in fact when the site was originally started it was named something like antiextremes as a reference to not wanting to be left or right leaning.

But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit. You’ll get an idea of how people in general are there by reading through the posts and comments there.

If I’m US based

Assuming you are then you should be looking for a USD ETF. The ETF itself doesn’t have to be investing in U.S. based companies (and in fact there are many, many USD ETFs focused outside the US).

ETFs I’m considering are MSCI World SRI Index (USD) https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/641712d5-6435-4b2d-9abb-84a53f6c00e4 MSCI World Climate Change ESG Select Index (EUR) https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/84e37acb-a91e-8ff3-a909-6f8c7c6306dd

Keep in mind those are indexes, not ETFs. You are going to want to look for an ETF that is following the particular index(s) you are looking at. So for example the second index you mentioned does list one ETF that is following that index, see the main page for that index and click “Index-Linked ETPs”

https://www.msci.com/indexes/index/728912

The only ETF listed there is a EUR ETF, there may be no USD ETFs following that index. Your next step is trying to find a brokerage in the U.S. that allows you to invest in that ETF… Thing is, those brokerages will sell you access to invest in USD ETFs, not EUR. A ETF for EUR markets is primarily going to be offered in countries that trade in EUR.

Main point: Tons of indexes exist for different purposes but that doesn’t mean that ETFs exist that follow those indexes, let alone USD ETFs. For your purposes sure you can look at any indexes you are interested in just remember you’d still need to find a corresponding USD ETF that is following the index.

SRI ETF = social responsible index exchange trade fund

You may already know this, just keep in mind these indexes that measure “SRI”, or climate change, or concepts like that will measure this stuff in different ways that people don’t always agree with. For example the MSCI World SRI Index you linked has TESLA as one of its top investments, many would argue that Tesla/Elon Musk are not compatible with the idea of SRI.

That’s a good tip, it’s a good idea to subscribe to a Lemmy instance that participates in Fediseer (IMO). It helps to keep spammy instances off your own instance hence lower spam posts overall.

A lot of spammers tend to spin up their own Lemmy instances just to spam the rest of the Fediverse, or they’ll create a ton of new accounts on an instance with lax admin/moderation to use for spam later.

You don’t even need to browse the Fediseer website directly, pretty much all Lemmy instances participating in Fediseer will have the “Guarantor” and “Endorsements” links in the sidebar of their homepage.

Later on when you successfully sign up on a different Lemmy instance just go into your new user’s profile settings again (exactly how you just did for https://lemm.ee/settings but it’ll be [YOUR-NEW-LEMMY-INSTANCE]/settings, in there under “Import/Export Settings” look for the Import section and there you can import the file you just exported.

PS - For a quick overview of Lemmy instances you can check out https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active&open=true and/or https://join-lemmy.org/instances

A few times a year, probably around 5-6 I’d guess. Some months I end up going to more than one and other months it’s quiet.

Almost always buy merch… I have a lot of t-shirts haha.

Great band! Been listening to them for years, first heard them live when they toured opening for MSI years ago. They’re doing a headline tour right now in the U.S. for those looking to see them live. For this tour I managed to see their NYC show on their first night of the tour and they sounded great!

Still need to listen to the new record (had just listened to the 1-2 songs they put out before the release), thanks for the reminder :)

So much so that I once wore a Birthday Massacre shirt not even thinking about it to one of my niece’s birthday parties lol.

Happy birthday indeed, LOL.

I really hate the idea of people not liking something and it being scrubbed from the internet.

It’s not, the devs themselves took it off Steam (and honestly I would have thought Valve might have removed it eventually). But it’s not like the devs disappeared from the internet, searching around I saw they still sell the game on at least one game platform outside of Steam. And those same devs could choose to sell it directly themselves if they wanted, to say they’ve been scrubbed from the internet is a bit of a stretch.

More Tor friendly instances would be nice. Most Lemmy instances use things like Cloudflare that freak out over Tor connections so just registering/logging into the instance is a PITA, let alone browsing. Extra bonus if the instance actually hosts the Lemmy instance in Tor itself (though realistically the rest of the Lemmy instance would still run on the clearnet since it still needs to communicate with the rest of the Fediverse).

Probably just need an executive order from the current U.S. president to rename the country “United States of Trump”. Going forward citizens would be called Trumpians.

Google will happily go ahead and update Google Maps with the new name.