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Hidden Brain for sure, Freakonomics is definitely getting there. Work Life with Adam Grant. The TED one is getting there (still not sure why I listen to that one).

They stopped exploring, and just do author interviews. Which would be fine I guess, but they’re no Fresh Air or On the Media.

There are a whole bunch of b tier podcasts, like The Happiness Lab, that started strong, but quickly fizzled out into the “We’ll just interview guests.” format where it’s all just about promotion for people’s projects.

Once I started seeing that pattern and dropping feeds like that, FOMO disappeared, and it all felt so much less of a slog trying to listen to gigs of backlogs.

Side related, also dropped “Two people retelling in an hour, what could have been summarized in 5 minutes.” podcasts. AKA ‘hanging out’ podcasts. This cuts out a lot of sports and politics (which is good). I don’t need two people repeating the opinions for …

Update: Thank you everyone for the recommendations. So much to explore.

Having trouble finding other great long format podcasts like Serial, Bear Brook or Your Own Backyard. Any recommendations?

I am interested in podcasts that do not have embedded commercials. I have a spotify subscription, so some podcasts are commercial free, but most have extremely loud interruptions every 15-20 minutes, inserted by the podcaster, that make the podcast completely unsuitable for nighttime listening.

Commercial free podcasts are usually patreon supported, a labor of love, or have podcaster read commercials… I miss the era of Caspar beds and Harry’s razors read by the individual podcaster that are not blaringly loud.

I will collect any answers I get to this post and add the ones I like too if this post gets any traction.

I really want to listen to something new.

I like comedy podcasts. History. True crime. Podcast mini series.

And I don’t mean some light hearted one like I want a podcast that’s gonna tell me about truly disturbing crimes, whether it’s a stalker case which some creepy criminal

Some super investigated murder case.

Or something that’s just creepy and disturbing

SYSK has a huge archive, they cover some topics that you would never think would be interesting but turn out to be very fun to listen to whether due to their chemistry or even the topic itself. Some of my favs are ballpoint pens, biophillic design, public relations.

Personally. I get suggestions from people who never read it and they have just heard it’s good. Give me the sauce

EDIT: My favorite of all time, solely based on nostalgia, is “The house of the scorpion” by Nancy Farmer

I have a younger cousin who likes reading but his mother is quite controlling with what media she lets him see. I’m looking for a book that I can give him that he’ll enjoy reading and will be allowed past his mother.

Giving him something behind her back wouldn’t work because he can’t really keep a secret, and I don’t want to cause trouble.

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My cousin likes books with bigger adventures, lots of friendship & excitement. in his own words he like ‘characters that go to new places and explore new places’

He really loved reading the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton and Katherine Rundell’s books (both of which were banned afterwards because his parents were scared they would give him ideas about transgender people and violence)

His mother allows him to read the Harry Potter books, the Little House on the Prairie series, and most classics published before 1950.

I really want to get him exposed to some new stories and ideas …

I asked my friend what she’s currently reading so I could fined a book for her for Christmas. Except she told me she needs to get back into reading and proceed to list shows she likes 😅 so is there a good book out there with black mirror vibes?

Any genre or time period. Protagonists, antagonists, major characters, minor characters. Would love examples from classic literature, if you have them. Would also love to hear any thoughts on what makes the characters realistic.

Honestly, feminist isn’t quite the right word…

My husband and I have had the usual ups and downs, possibly more downs. The most frustrating part is the issues we are having are embarrassingly cliche. It’s gotten to the point that I’d rather leave than become a nag. But in an attempt to do neither, I’m looking for a good book to ask him to read, which I’m pretty sure he happily would.

Any good books that explain to men some of the most common frustrations of wives? Especially one straightforward and respectful. A bit of humor would be great, too, as long as it’s not along the lines of men are bad and stupid, or women are sensitive and emotional.

2025 has been brutal - I lost my job, a couple friendships, my apartment caught on fire, I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life, and books have been the one source of constant comfort and companionship throughout it all.

I’m looking for anything cozy - found family, strong growth arcs, loveable characters, healing and restarting life, literally any fiction with that “warm hug” feel-good feeling. Also open to nonfiction, especially memoirs!

A few recent(ish) favorites that have evoked that mood: House in the Cerulean Sea, My friends by Fredrick backman, a man called Otto, Eleanor oliphant is completely fine.

Other favorite books/authors include Taylor Jenkins Reid (esp Evelyn Hugo and atmosphere), Abby Jimenez, tiny beautiful things by Cheryl strayed, in the dream house, finding me, educated, love and saffron, remarkably bright creatures, mad honey, red white and royal blue.

I’ve been on a reading binge but can’t quite figure out what’s going to strike the right …

No Expedition 33. No Kingdom Come. No Silksong.

I already know how great they are. I don’t need to hear big names. Tell me about those gems you have played but went unnoticed.

Preferably story driven games.

Games of considerable quality and content that its frankly insane they are free
Best example is Moonring, 30 hours of old school rpg content for free.

Early access/alpha is ok if the game already has a considerable amount of quality content, Such as Scav Prototype, or Voices of the void

Demos if they have many hours of content (Deltarune Demo nearly 10 hours of content)

game sized mods, like Enderal, Chronicles of Myrtana, fallout london, cry of fear are also approved

Preffered lesser known games, not large free games with microtransactions. Cosmetics are a bit more ok.

Niche platforms like Gamejolt or Itch.io are very welcome (heck even fangames)

Please don’t mention RDR2 or TLOU (most common answers). Any other games, go ahead and let me know!

A game where they throw you into a world and you basically have to decide where to go or what to do. I played Elden Ring and I’d like more games like it. I tried Ghost of Tsushima, but it disappointed me because the whole thing is basically a well-disguised linear path.”

Now just to clarify, i dont want overlord where you play a “villain” but really just fight even worse people, i dont want red dead where you play as a moral grey, i don’t want a game where you can kind of sorta choose to be a bad guy as like a side thing. i am talking raiders forsaken earth type game where you are just the bad guy raider killing robbing extorting and just general bad guy stuff and nothing else. preferably a game where you manage shtuff but i will honestly take anything to satisfy my villain kick i am on

Hello friends,

I just bought a pack of 50 nfc tags, I invite you to share your uses in this post as well as their related shortcuts!

Thank you all 👍🏼

Just in case you haven’t seen it here before, this is your reminder to back up your shortcuts locally. I know it’s mentioned in here fairly often but I honestly didn’t notice those comments until I lost all my shortcuts and I started doing some research.

I recently got a new phone and none of my shortcuts transitioned over. I didn’t notice until like the 4th/5th day (ADHD brain) that they hadn’t synced over, so all my devices had done their daily backups to iCloud multiple times before I realized that they were missing. I tried anything and everything I could find to restore them and nothing has worked. I even went so far as to set up my brand new phone from my old phone’s backup and I still couldn’t find them.

So anyways, my hours upon hours of creating shortcuts and automations have now been wasted because I didn’t do my due diligence and notice the other posters mentioning that shortcuts iCloud backup is not reliable. Don’t be like me.

On 15th August 2022, I released the very first version of AMD as a side project. Honestly, I never expected it to grow this big.

Back then, I just wanted a simple tool to download and cross-post content easily. Most downloaders were full of ads or way too expensive, so I built one for myself… and shared it with the community.

Fast forward to today.

AMD now handles millions of download requests every month and runs on real infrastructure: servers, bandwidth, proxies (which cost the most), paid APIs, maintenance, and constant development.

So far, I’ve kept AMD alive using:

• support from Pro users • previous memberships • and my own pocket

Because I genuinely love this project.

But at this scale, running AMD as a 100% free platform is no longer sustainable. If I keep it that way, it will constantly break and I refuse to let that happen.

So AMD is now officially transitioning into a paid product.

Pricing will be fair and super affordable. Premium will actually feel premium.

And …

Hey yall! Over the past year or so i’ve been compiling a list of youtube uri schemes and I thought i’d share them with you! I’ve been doing this with a lot of apps so stay tuned!

Use youtube:// in front of every shortcut

Play Video

• play a video

  • watch?v=[video]
  • [video]
  • v/[video]
  • embed/[video]
  • e/[video]

• play video at a specific time

  • watch?v=[video]&t=[time]
  • [video]?t=[time]
  • v/[video]?t=[time]

Search

• open search bar

  • results

• search for a specific value

  • results?q=[value]
  • results?search_query=[value]

Watch History (they all take you to the same tab)

• feed/history
• feed/history
• feed/history/ community_history
• feed/history/comment_history
• feed/history/search_history

Subscriptions

• subscriptions tab: feed/subscriptions
• all subscriptions: feed/channels & feed/channels/live

Your Channel

• ‘you’ tab: feed/library
• your clips: feed/clips
• your saved podcasts: feed/podcasts
• your videos: my_videos
• your handle: handle

Categories

• movies & tv: feed/storefront …