I’ve played and given up the mandolin several times over tge past several years. Longest continuous before now was maybe three months. What I’ve learned through my own learning process is:

1. Practice in time. Even if it’s slow.
2. Playing with backing tracks helps a ton
3. Posture is key. On my current streak of playing I was able to go from playing the melody of kids songs to the rhythm of some grateful dead songs (at 80 bpm instead of 140 bpm) after spending time watching videos of how to hold and sit. I then had to relearn all my fingerings but it didn’t take nearly as long this time.
4. Sucking is just part of learning anything new. I guess one either enjoys the act of improving independent of the current result or one doesn’t.

Post script: The reason I quit when I do is because I become frustrated with plateaus. I now believe a lot of these plateaus came from bad mechanics. My pinky could not reach the 7th fret no matter how much I practiced. I could not switch chords without destroying my rhythm or muting extra strings etc.

Cool thanks!

What bands do you recommend that are of the newer style?

I keep my dropouts free ebooks in Dropbox and use moonreader + to read them and sync across devices. Until I lost my library in a hdd failure I had 10k books self hosted with calibre and that was straight forward and worked well. I do also use Google Books for things I buy and like it although it lacks some QoL features of moonreader

Lots of people stepping out of the shower to downvote

I use libby and have three cards. My county library, my city and a city I used to live in. Between those three I almost constantly have new books to read. I’ve read 19 book so far this year. All of them new release literary fiction and 16 of them through libby. With the right card it is really good. I went from dling 10 books a month to 1 a month so far this year.

The oddest thing about this to me is how multiple people have said they take longer than 6 minute showers. That’s crazy to me.

Probably like linen yellow/brown but uneven

The dad jeans the young women are wearing have wider legs to hide all the extra water

I watched some of this as it was coming out. At one point the main character’s girlfriend had to strip herself into a gang in front of her boyfriend’s dad to save the bf. There was also a family who just murdered people kind of casually to protect their maple syrup business. This was all in like 1.5 seasons before I feel off the show. It was wild.

Electric kettle. Boiling water. Infuser basket in tea pot for 3 - 5 minutes depending on the type of tea. Drink pot and repeat around 1400

Thanks for the update. I am looking forward to instance blocking!

If I break it, I buy a better tool. If I lose it, buy a cheap one.

Yes, I’ve never heard a real person use it but I’ve heard it on TV enough to know what it means. I think it’s a boomer expression.

I don’t know why but I’ve been an ER nurse for ten years and the closest I’ve figured is they want help but then get resentful of being told what to do. A lot of mean patients know they aren’t doing the right stuff at home but due to factors they feel ( rightly or wrongly) out of their control they end up with us and are now being told how to act by someone a third of their age! It’s what I tell myself anyway. Remember, we usually just see people on their worst days. The next patient might be nice. If not, the one after that.

Every man has a Molly

That’s an apple and oranges comparison. I don’t think Taylor swift is aspiring to be bjorkin any way

I use Fen with no problems as my backup when stremio isn’t working or if I want to watch a legit HD 30gb movie

This is the best 4chan content I’ve read since I left the boards in 2010ish

Thanks, I ended up doing a version of this. Nextpvr when set up correctly handled everything well. The end result to the original query is there is no free epgs out there that work, Xmltv is the best to generate epgs, and that I lose sight of problems and get obsessed with solutions.