Bought the same one last year. Cracked at the bottom seam within a month. Switched to a galvanized steel bucket from Tractor Supply with a submersible heater dropped inside. Cost me about $35 total and it's been through two Ohio winters no problem. Just drill a hole in the lid for the cord and keep the water level above the heater element.

Honestly I feel you on this one. When people call old shows "slow" I think they're just used to everything happening at 100 miles per hour now with no room to breathe. The thing is shows like The Wire or The Sopranos weren't slow for no reason, they were letting you sit with the characters and the world so the payoff actually meant something. I remember trying to get a friend into Better Call Saul and he said the first season was boring, but that's the whole point. You gotta earn those big moments by taking your time getting there. Not everything needs to be a YouTube Shorts compilation.

Gotta disagree hard on this one. Those yoga ball chairs are a gimmick tbh. They actually caused me more lower back pain after a week of using one at a shared office in Austin. Ended up swapping back to a regular office chair with a lumbar cushion and my back felt way better. Stability matters way more than bouncing around all day.

The filtering part is the whole game honestly, if you just feed raw garbage in you get garbage out but a good pipeline with some validation steps makes synthetic data super solid for fine tuning on niche tasks.

Are we sure that's all it was though? I've had the dongle thing happen too but more often it's the actual cable or the port on the device itself being finicky. Seems like a loose plug is just the easy answer when really something else might be going on.