chasing ghosts" sounds like my wifi troubleshooting skills, lol.

Tried tilting the screen back a bit and turning the brightness up a notch... that helped me some on my 87. Also @evanb87, I swapped out the stock display for an LED backlight kit off eBay and it made a huge difference. Took about an hour to install but now I can actually see what I'm doing without squinting. The green pixels really pop with that mod. Might be worth looking into if you're struggling that bad with the stock screen.

Used to think old houses were built tougher and could handle anything, but seeing three layers of shingles just sitting up there above your living room changes that real quick lol. That's basically a hundred year old fire hazard plus a ton of extra weight the rafters were never meant to hold. I get why people did it back then to save time and money, but man that's scary to think about in a fire or even a bad storm.

Three years ago I finally gave up on "Ulysses" after trying to get through it for like six months lol. @alice445 you hit the nail on the head, life really is too short for that guilt trip. I remember sitting there forcing myself through pages and hating every second just because some professor told me it was the greatest novel ever written. Now I give any book about 50 pages and if it's not clicking I just toss it and grab something else. There's way too many good books out there to waste time on ones that feel like homework.

Three days of tuning hyperparameters down the drain because I had the learning rate cranked to the same number for image data and time series data. The data scientist who pointed it out compared it to trying to parallel park a truck on a dirt road with the same pedal pressure you'd use on the highway. I felt pretty dumb, but then my validation loss dropped from 0.45 to 0.31 in about half the training time after switching to a cyclical schedule. Sometimes the simplest advice is the most humbling.