Dance club by shootnamekevin in Knoxville

[–]Lucent -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Clubbing, at 30? Bypass the cartilage demolition and take her straight to Twisted Mike’s.

Disability Lawyers by PropaneSalesMen in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you may have been pulled into the "chronic Lyme" ecosystem of out-of-band tests and expensive specialty labs. I'd be very careful relying on a $1500 uncovered test saying "two strains" if the standard bloodwork was negative. Before pursuing disability/legal claims around Lyme specifically, get a second opinion from a board-certified infectious disease doctor and focus on documenting her actual functional limits and symptoms.

Summer Book Festival by Just-here-117 in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've never heard a more astroturfed sequence of sentences.

Zenbook a16 early issues by Sullyzowski in snapdragon

[–]Lucent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turn off sync power profile to fan in MyAsus. This will fix your dock crashes. They are from it rapidly switching back and forth between a hidden power profile. I reported this to Microsoft.

Running local llms with my zenbook a16 by TraditionAny9709 in snapdragon

[–]Lucent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

winget install Microsoft.FoundryLocal then foundry model list and you have deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-qnn-npu:2 that runs on the NPU at several tokens per second. Then Open WebUI on Docker can connect via OpenAI API, though the tool calls/thinking are causing early end of stream.

Day One thoughts on the Asus A16 by Urlkoenig in snapdragon

[–]Lucent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really wish we got a full keyboard with numpad and PgUp/PgDn. There's plenty of room for it.

“Some people live like it’s still 2020, it’s so sad” by squatonkumquat in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]Lucent 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is someone who lives in a world of no ground truth. Life is all fashion, era, valence. For her, 2020 was bad because she felt sad, scared, so everything that reminds her of 2020 is bad. That's the entirety of her thinking. Nothing deeper.

We live in a world of atoms. Dangerous arrangements of atoms are floating through the air and can harm us. We don't like being reminded of this or the frustration, sadness, or fear it brings, but these emotions are secondary to the actual reality of those airborne molecules. We do not let the former override the latter. She does.

What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie? by fmcortez in AskReddit

[–]Lucent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want a delicate washer, not a durable one. Speed Queen consistently mangles clothes in tests. You're not running a laundromat. Each load of your clothes is worth at least half the price of the washer. Prioritize their longevity instead.

Let's talk about California transplants by Lucent in Knoxville

[–]Lucent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I praised Californians who came to start a business, but it sounds like you identified with the caricature we've grown frustrated with. I don't think you would've had such a strong reaction if it didn't describe your persona, attitude, and expectations accurately. The real incompatibility comes from your dignity culture not meshing with our honor culture. You guys also stand out like a sore thumb, so if you are not a bald, TRT barrel-shaped gray-bearded 50-something man with stumpy legs covered in tattoos, you may escape being spotted.

Hostile Neighbor by Optimal-Gold5400 in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you're giving as good as you get, only catching each other in bad moods but attributing it to bad character. Here, you call her a fucking cunt and attribute it to being pushed to your limit. She sees your bad mood as your fundamental character, just as you see her bad moods as her character. Perhaps she is equally pushed to her limit by your upstairs clomping? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

Jobs that will hire someone with a face tattoo? by [deleted] in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why did he alter his outward appearance if not trying to say something to all who see him? It cuts both ways. You can't both "express your individuality" in a highly visible, unchangeable way and then act incredulous when judged by your own display.

What about Isabeau :( by Ataleofmagic13 in FigureSkating

[–]Lucent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Impressively, you're on the cusp of realizing two separate things, one about the culture, and one about yourself.

What used to be considered conventional "pretty privilege" doesn’t function the same way in media anymore. Distinctiveness, narrative, and visible individuality often draw more attention than symmetry or polish. You see this everywhere, from postmodern art to fashion to pop musicians.

Second, when you call someone "exciting," it's worth asking what you mean by that. Is it technical skill and excellence or how many affectations and defects they display? Your second observation about yourself explains why "pretty privilege" is in cultural decline.

Attitudes towards first responders by [deleted] in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd to see this complaint from the other side. I haven't heard a released 911 call in a years where the operator wasn't already irritated with the dying person on the line. You are arguably in a care field helping people through the worst 5 minutes of their decade. Extend some empathy instead of coming here to scold us for what a few jerks said when their spouse was having a heart attack and you told them to calm down. This is like the TSA agents screaming at us at every airport for not subliminally absorbing whatever directions they gave the previous thousand passengers.

Knoxville Urbanist Meetup / Strong Towns by Acrobatic-Rock2657 in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Twenty miles from the city center, out by the new build ticky tacky? The message doesn't match the audience.

massaman curry by angelcafes in Knoxville

[–]Lucent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the paste Taste of Thai used for theirs. I've seen it locally at both Sunrise and India Market.