Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

You're not wrong. We need to get together as a united front and... well, there's the problem. Look at any protest or effort, big or small, and you'll see how it's snuffed out in various ways because the system is designed to prevent that, and to keep people from being focused on a single cause together. It's our fault. No doubt there. But it's also a situation that prevents anything from changing without full solidarity.

Note: this is not an excuse. It's a reason.

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

Absolutely hold him accountable for such things, but let's not forget the chain of yes-men that enabled it to become an actual disaster. There is room on the wall for more than one person.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 2 hours ago

As typical with social media comments, half of them aren't even concerned about the driver blatantly stealing food. It's about attacking the person using the service without knowing the details. And I don't think anyone brought up how shitty the drivers gets paid (the ones who actually do the job right).

I know the response - then get another job. That's silently approving the company's methodology, nice.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

It's a big chunk. I haven't followed this news though, how much did it go up before?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If the amount isn't in percentages, the title is probably clickbait. Especially if it's in a dollar figure and "stock market plunges". Sure it did.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was with Netscape 1.0. Never left.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago

And time to both think about that fact, and to do something.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Alan Dean Foster wrote a scif novel called Nor Crystal Tears that was mainly from the pov of an alien insect species. The differences were explored in body structure and culture and the confusion when they run across these weird humans with their bones on the inside... and they made obscene noises with their flapping flesh things on their head.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 42 points 3 days ago

Which falls into the "it shouldn't matter" category, but yeah, it was all about nothing.

Diapers are like food. You didn't see them take it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

He has so many footnotes by his name now, we may have run out of conventional symbols to use, and now have emojis for some of his exceptions to a typical President.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 points 3 days ago

Also makes the actual pickpockets wonder if someone is working the area and better than them, since they didn't see it happen.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

The universe aligns sometimes.

 

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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