I have a nice setup at home for listening to music but nowadays I'm lazy and use my bluetooth headphones 99% of the time since it's so convenient. For me at least, I maybe notice a small difference between 128 kbps mp3 and something like FLAC but it's so small that I don't mind.

You know you but I'd ask if you really need high quality streaming - I'm not sure if there are too many options aside from maybe Tidal, which I don't use. I personally use youtube music since it's the only service I know of that allows me to upload my own music and it's bare-minimum acceptable.

I'm the same way and the best solution I've found (aside from getting a vibrating alarm clock) is to put my phone across the room with the volume cranked way up. If you can make yourself stand there for 30 seconds, you'll feel much more awake; drinking water helps a lot too with waking up.

Probably Doom (2005) and The Day After Tomorrow

To my understanding, hallucinations are an inevitable result based on how these models operate. The reward models for LLMs like ChatGPT effectively maximize user satisfaction so the LLM is trying to produce output that is what the user is asking for, even if it's something that doesn't exist.