That's good. My first instinct would've been that what's in toothpaste is plenty.

Expectations.

People don't expect a country that's supposed to be a close ally to do actual pure evil.

Russia has always been in a different category. It's oscillated between being an outright enemy and being a distant, somewhat-ally the West is suspicious of. Either way, Putin was never someone you trust.

When someone betrays your expectations, you have a stronger emotional response.

When you feel like your country is actually helping with evil acts, that's another layer of emotional response.

But if someone you feel like you can't do anything about and has always been bad anyway is being evil, again... Well it's a bit of a "no shit, Sherlock" moment. Doesn't spark anger in quite the same way.

Hmm, it is similar to a J, and may become the same depending on the speaker, but not necessarily exactly the same

I preferred metaverse talk. All of it was obviously useless nonsense that would never go anywhere. It could be safely ignored and laughed at. Simple times.

In contrast, not ALL of AI is useless nonsense. It takes more brain power to think about.

Windows. Can't be arsed to deal with Linux.

Yeah I wish they were still adding new features and stuff. But I haven't found a better alternative yet, so I guess that's what we have.

Shoko sounds like something you'd like. It tracks that you watch and auto-sorts your downloads into folders that your library can easily work with. Works well with Jellyfin and Plex.

They're still not done pushing their new, actually good, version to stable, though, and the same applies to the docs related to it. So I'd recommend going with the Daily version and joining the Discord for help with getting it to work.

Janky to install every time, but it's a godsend when it works.

My TV is the LG CX. It's cool in some ways, but overall I'm not too impressed. Some days I think maybe I should've splurged and gotten a Sony.

Hmm, then the issue I could see if going by EQ is if there are several voices at the same time (say, background characters taking indistinctly behind a conversation), depending on how crap the mix is, trying to enhance voices might enhance the background ones as well.

That's an edge case, but a more common one is when there's music with sounds in the same frequency range as human voices over a scene and the music competes with the voices. Then playing with the EQ might distort the music in such a way that it still kills the voices while making the music inaccurate.

That's why I really wish we had several channels whose volumes can be individually changed like in video games. That would be the ultimate tool to adjust things. Even if you don't know anything about what the hell "hertz" means and equalizers confuse you, you could do a lot without distorting anything. And if you do understand how equalizers work, you could combine both to get a really fine-tuned experience.

The music tip isn't bad, but on my TV the answer is "you can't really do that" lol. There are various ways to distort a piece with sound profiles, but none that I know of to keep it accurate.

What I usually do is always use subtitles, and switch between "OLED Surround Pro", "Standard" and "Game" to see which sounds the best. Then if a movie/show stands out as having incredibly bad sound (ahem Christopher Nolan ahem) I either bust out the French dub or "enjoy" the tinny sounds of "Clear Voice IV".

How should I go about that exactly?

For glassware, try buying tempered glass. It's more resistant, but most importantly, when it breaks, it tends to break into cubes rather than into a million little sharp knives.

What do you mean everywhere? I've never seen that in Canada.

Damaged because of too much mag? Uh. Mag...?