Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

So AI of the future will be more useful in more cases and use less energy and other resources. Based on... nothing within the AI technology, but on a very loose analogy.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 3 hours ago

Everyone forgets the cleric. Until they need healing.

I always preferred the support roles. Both healing and buffing as well as backing up the tanks with a backstab or two.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

Yes, screw the working part, but anything else they get from it that they want to pursue I'm all for it. And sure, if they want to do some sort of work, that's fine, but they shouldn't have to.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The signing was not a single event, as depicted in some artwork. There's a wiki about the question of when all that occurred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_of_the_United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

July 4th is when it was first approved by vote.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 11 hours ago

I think it's a Gahan Wilson comic that I remember with the same idea, only it was a lake shore and the artist had started what looked like an eye on the lake surface, and there was a trail back into the water. Could have been Far Side too, but that darker stuff was Wilson's style.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

Procrastination: Yeah, but not today. Maybe tomorrow.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Without a banana I have no idea of what might be true here.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

As presented it is the more cheery side of cyberpunk. The others tend to creep in older tech tells (steam or other), and the ship doesn't look very shiny and new, so there's a taste of used there, even if it's not very old, like Star Wars tech always feels, even in the brighter parts (like on Coruscant). Definitely AI source, a human artist would have put details like wear marks, debris on the ground, little things to give an age feel.

I'm actually working on figuring out my own scifi tech as background material for a novel, and AI is not create at coming up with things visually. I've hammered out the ideas in text, but now I'm trying to find ways like Blender to bring them to life to better see it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My first glance was at the bottom right, and literally said, "you son of a bitch."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the 70s it was D&D that was bringing about the end of civilization. It's always projection. Those kind of things are actually good outlets for stress, not causing mental illness.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io -1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Unsold food that is given away creates a liability if it causes problems. Food banks are the middle man in that respect, where they can toss things that aren't going to stay good and provide for people with the rest. So here's where government, regulation, and socialism comes into play. Companies should be encouraged with money to do something other than toss that food. Better systems should be in place to move that food to the food bank. Better regulation there to make sure that the food is being examined well enough. More places for all this to happen.

This ignores fixing the real problem, profit driven consumption, societies where people aren't able to provide for themselves, etc.

So by itself you aren't going to get unsold food to the needy, the risk and cost is too great for companies.

 

Made something a few months ago and put it on Amazon. Have different variations of covers and two sizes (50 and 100 pages, for 25 and 50 observation nights). Looking for options on the concept, contents (you can view the interior pages for their layout on the Amazon page).

Wondering if it's too flashy and a simple cover might work better, or if it's just because it's Amazon and there's too much competition. Or of course if it's just not what's being looked for.

 

Running Ubuntu 22.04:

I've tried searching for a solution to this, but there's way too many false positives. I know you can enable/disable using a single instance in two places, but that's not my issue. If I open a video the first time, VLC works fine. If I have both the "only use one instance" off, I can click on other videos and they run too. But if I have any combination of those boxes checked I can only play the first video, and to play a new video I have to manually close the VLC player.

What I want to happen is to have one player spawn, but any new video will run in that player, overriding the existing video. Is that just not possible? I don't want to have to close the window every time I run something new, and I don't want to have to go back and lose a whole bunch of separate VLC instances when I'm done.

Update: I found the solution, and I should have tried it first before posting. Oh well, at least I didn't leave anyone who might find this hanging like a DenverCoder9.

Being Ubuntu, VLC was installed via Snap (I can't recall if I did it or it's default). I suppose I should look into the de-Snap process I've seen mentioned before, as I've also had a few non-crash errors since running Ubuntu where snap was the source.

So the solution was to install the Debian version in terminal, not Snap. It works like I expect and wanted, and I can run video after video and it uses the same window.

 

I have an older robot vacuum that has finally shown some age in its battery. The charger will charge for about 15 mins and then gets an error, but it's enough to do a decent vacuuming of the room if I charge then vacuum, then repeat once more. I can't leave it on the charger now due to the error repeating, so basically I run it dead until the next time.

So my question is, can I continue doing this since it works well enough, or is there potential problems/danger with the battery being at less capacity? I could buy a new battery, they aren't terrible in price, but if it works and is safe, why not continue what I'm doing until it completely gives out?

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