More like pleb-speed haha. Trying to work this combo up to God speed.

Just started and learning some nice tricks

I don’t know if it’s the difference in sound, host’s tending to oversell themselves or the difference in format but I almost always hate live episodes of podcasts that usually take place in a studio. Anyone else?

Curse of America’s next top model, a new podcast series which is Fascinating listen. Personally, I love the REALITY of reality tv, I love to hear background stories and I’m happy that many of the models are getting so many voices now.

I loved the show as a kid, but I have such a core memory of the conflict in each season, it’s so interesting to hear the intentional poking that happened before the scenes.

Think the host is really good story teller, I love that she’s clear with her own thoughts/bias but still explored topics outside her own views. Feels truly like she’s learned and made informed ideas as she’s moved along the series.

¹⁰⁄₁₀ highly recommend!

It can be raunchy/talk about politics. But it should not fully focus on that.

I listen to this while walking my dogs in the morning and I can feel my ear to ear grin. So funny and witty. The perfect 30-40 minute listen.

I want to listen to podcasts, not watch podcast videos. If I wanted to watch, I’d have gone to YouTube. For podcasts, I don’t need large cards or thumbnails. Compact headings and length information would be good enough.

Why is Spotify making things complex and aesthetically unpleasant? Am I the only one experiencing this?

Hey all, if anyone knows what this podcast might be please let me know! I remember specific points about sermon writing competitions and pastors getting paid to preach certain things, there was a lot.

Trying to share this with a friend but cannot find it anywhere - the tone I remember being similar to This American Life and those types of shows.

Basically books to let everyone else on the beach know I’m better than them. Thank you.

My teen boys have to read 3-4 books for school this year… I figure they should be ones that will teach them something. Help me finds the best books to combat this misogyny epidemic thriving on all these social platforms.

Edit: there are so many great suggestions! Thanks! Any other recommendations that offer healthy male or masculine protagonists?

Looking for fictional books with middle-aged women as the main characters and are NOT centered around romance, being a mother, or losing a parent. Need this suggestion for a wonderful role model in my life who’s tired of reading self-help books and bad romance. Thanks in advance!

Update: Wow you all really came through, thank you!! I can’t reply to every comment but I really appreciate all the recommendations :)

The kind of story that deals with growing up and handles it really well.

Since my post was removed from r/books (some silly rule about not asking for recommendations), asking here.

If a person were to read one book by an author from a country you grew up in or live in, which one would you recommend? Ideally to get a feel for what the culture / mentality / people‘s lives are like. Or maybe you think a specific book from your country should be required reading for everyone in general.

EDIT: please mention which country your answer is for.

Looking for the strangest, ‘wait, they wrote a memoir??’ books for a gift. The more obscure, the better.

Basically title

While the topic is something that shows up on this subreddit very often, I feel like It’s still not this. In the comments there are the same AAA games that technicaly are supposed to be immersive, but they dont feel like you really are a part of this world. I’m searching for a game that will give me the vibe I felt when playing for example skyrim. You could almost feel the cold snow on your face and the warmness of taverns in a obscure town.

Games that I already played and propably woud get suggested: Witcher 3 It was for sure a big world, with lot of sidequests, beautiful locations and so on, yet it felt so distant. It felt more like a long tv series. Red Dead Redemption 2 I could definetly feel the immersion, all the small things that I can do like making a camp, hunting for food or even making a damn coffee. Somehow it still didn’t clicked, and I’m not sure why.. Cyberpunk 2077 This was also a frequent answer, and while sure, the city is really open and nice …

No LA Noire >:/

I cant really think of much games that are like this, but I guess if I had to say one, detroit become human with Connor? He goes from Hunting deviants to being one.

I want a game where I cant possibly stimulate imaginate grasp and comprehend the abilities of the combat where it pushes the metaphysics of its existence of the combat to it highest possibility where I cant imagine like dude WTF am even I playing like is this reality something that pushes the science of the game to it zenith and hold that in my hand and say OH BOY!!! what do you guys think what game has the absolute most metaphysical combat

I’m getting a little tired of games where your character mows down hundreds of enemies and is back before dinner, or where a nameless grunt tanks a slash to the throat or a shotgun to the face, spurts a little blood, and keeps firing back. I’m looking for some games where combat is rare, and when it does come up, it’s quick, dirty, adrenaline-driven, and ideally can have real consequences. No damage sponges, no single protagonists wiping out hordes of enemies, no “leg broken? use a bandage, good as new!”
Bushido Blade covers the “quick and dirty” aspect with almost any weapon hit being an instant kill, and Disco Elysium (spoilers!) >!covers the adrenaline and consequences with its one (1) combat encounter that’s over in a couple of inputs and the shot of a gun.!<

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/273e353150b348d5b847cd8adb5d2f08

I received one of the “whoops, wrong number… but let’s be besties so I can part you from your money” scam texts, and initially decided to make a persona so I could mess with them (Joe, 67, retired, lots of money but can’t remember where it is, milks cats).

Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to keep playing so I decided to waste my time more productively by building a simple text bomb shortcut instead.

The file used is a text file of the KJV Bible with one verse per line.

Once you select a target to be enlightened, the shortcut splits the file by line, then sends 1 verse per second - all 31,102 of them (or until you get blocked).

Enjoy!

Edit: https://openbible.com/textfiles/kjv.txt

I have started building out my Shortcuts library and it has turned into a full obsession. Every time I think I am finished I find another tiny problem in my day that I can automate.

What you see here is only the manual stuff. It does not even include the ones that run automatically in the background. At this point things just happen without me thinking about them. I honestly cannot remember the last time I had to turn a light on or off myself.

I now have shortcuts for maps, clearing history, clipboard wipes, orientation lock control, light settings, TV power, radiator control, random idea capture, shopping list entries, VPN on and off, petrol price checks and a lot more. Most of them sit on my widgets screen so everything I use most is one tap away.

It is strangely satisfying seeing the whole grid grow and become more streamlined. I never realised how much you can automate on iOS until I started going deep into this.

On macOS, ~/Library/Shortcuts/ToolKit/Tools-active links to an adjacent SQLite file containing the complete live metadata for every^(1) single action, action parameter, type, type property, and automation trigger currently indexed by the system.

Notably, among these actions are quite a few unsurfaced actions, which you can see here curtsy of Owen Pawling in the discord.

This data can help with documentation–specifically the input and output types and type coercions–and possibly programatic generation either by a DSL or even AI, though I wouldn’t hold your breath. There is evidence from the SQLite (see ToolLocalizations.localizationUsage’s languageModel case) Apple themselves tried this and presumably failed.

For actions (in no particular order) this data includes the persistent ID, input type, output type, action description, output description, default output name, localized requirements, description attribution, custom icon, required authentication, “ …

First time trying shortcuts out yesterday

Made a thing to use gpt to auto respond to messages :) cuz reactions are funny

Coulda just used ask gpt option, but that defaults to gpt5, and im on the free plan So I set up api key and stuff to use 4.1mini It’s lowk faster than using gpt5 tho

Apple Shortcuts, which lets users write custom automations, recently earned some new capabilities thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here’s how to make the most of this upgrade.

Shortcut to generate a +24 hour hourly weather chart showing temperature, freezing point, UV, precipitation amount, and wind speed. It will also show if any day has a precipitation chance above 0%, represented by a blue dot along the x axis (each vertical represents a day of the week, 0 being today.)

I have it set as a widget, and the shortcut itself to run on an hourly automation.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6729afc11f2f49d585f39048ee2b19bb