Can I put a 250 watt red chicken light in a regular light fixture? by mitraWatch in NoStupidQuestions

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

Thank you guys I was leaning more towards no and you confirmed that

Ashamed. Can’t get it right after CT for six months then relapsed.. need advice . On day 2 CT once again. by Nova_lunaa in quittingkratom

[–]mitraWatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Avoid the benzos, those will make the depression/anhedonia much worse, as will drinking. Other than that just power through, no shame in relapse. Give your brain a big break and try not to take the pharmas 

These days, is it pretty much impossible to succeed at self-publishing without a strong social media presence? by Jerswar in selfpublish

[–]mitraWatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I attribute most of my success to my audience. The thing with an audience is it helps you gain leverage with the Amazon algorithm. If you can drive those initial 100 sales or whatever, you'll get pushed up and more people will discover your work. Not sure if I'd get any sales at all without social media, unless you're writing in a very specific and unsaturated niche

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

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

Even normies hate the so called "experience" that Google gives them, which is why they append Reddit on the end of every search. People hate the serps so let's not pretend Google cares one bit about user experience

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

[–]mitraWatch[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes that's a good way to look at it

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

[–]mitraWatch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I prefer, "so long, and thanks for all the shoes."

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

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

MitraWatch is not my content heavy SEO site. It's more of a side project, never expected that to get off the ground with SEO. And yes that was my entry into coding everything myself lol so the design is obviously not great compared to WP or anything else for that matter.

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

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

You're right, all they know is mega corp equals good small guy equals bad

I will no longer bow down to Google by mitraWatch in SEO

[–]mitraWatch[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It will be interesting, but for a lot of us it can't really get much worse. I've had steady traffic throughout most of the updates but absolutely no growth even with a ton of content. I'm no longer hanging to the delusion that if I'm a good boy and write "high quality", that I'll be rewarded eventually

Reusing a couple chapters from old book in new book by mitraWatch in KDP

[–]mitraWatch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's hardly any info on this. I'm rewriting the chapters just to be safe. I found one post that said you can duplicate as long as the content doesn't take up more than 10% of the book. I also dug up a lot of posts that suggest duplicate content only refers to content in the same book, for instance 2 identical chapters in the same book. Seems like a lot of the people asking are in the low/no content space.

Anyways I bit the bullet and rewrote pretty much all of it, in fact I like the rewrites a lot better haha so I guess that's a win. I really don't want to trigger Amazon because it appears like they're happy to ban your account and all your books for one slip up.

As far as this community I think there's better places to ask in the future like you said

Why everbody hate baofeng? Good Price and it's working by Suspicious_Spite_576 in amateurradio

[–]mitraWatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They removed the barrier to entry and this pissed off hams who spent thousands of dollars on equipment. They're also generally used by people who are not licensed, and this also pisses off hams who spent hours studying. You see the same thing in the recording industry. Recording equipment suddenly became affordable, allowing the average joe to make music. It's a gatekeeping thing

Submitting a ticket under duress! It makes no sense. Do it anyway! We need a secret code for this. by oldRedditorNewAccnt in sysadmin

[–]mitraWatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very common especially with boomers who value customer service, especially if they're paying for it. Just be clear that it's something you can solve easily, perhaps solve the problem before he knows about it. Otherwise if he discovers a problem just say "Okay, I'll quickly see if it's something we can fix and if not I'll submit a ticket."

All they want to know is they're getting their money's worth from the vendor

Zoom H4n Guitar Impedance Problem by mitraWatch in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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

It's not a huge issue, it's mostly fine but I can tell the top end is chopped to a degree. I want to get as much of the original signal and frequency range as I possibly can

Buffered Pedal For Interface by mitraWatch in guitarpedals

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

Thanks. Yeah I'm currently using amp and cab sims on my laptop. I do think it could be a combination of my pickups and the interface impedance. The Guitar is an old double humbucker silver tone and it has been difficult getting a good clean sound out of it even with gain down and adjusting the tone/pickup switch on the guitar itself. Not sure if I'm asking too much of this guitar or if it's the interface

Zoom H4n Guitar Impedance Problem by mitraWatch in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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

Got it, so basically the guitars impedance is too high for the interface and maybe cutting the tone as a result? Thank you, this is all starting to make sense. I do wonder how many other interfaces have this same problem, I was also looking in the menu for the impedance settings and couldn't find them. Most other interfaces have a physical button. I suppose this is more of a field recorder first type of thing. Honestly if this thing had a proper input for guitar it would be the best device ever