Rhaedas

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

I think that was the History Channel.

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

It'd be an interesting environment. What if the atmosphere was thin so the winds were fast, but not strong? Lots of variables to consider, and I'm sure if life could start, it'd find a niche to live in.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I had my run back in the original. Lots of fun times but the grind for the rogue was too much and it was such a broken and forgotten class.

Was disappointed in EQ 2 and how it removed a lot of the danger factors that made EQ a legend, even if they were unfair. And the rogues were worse.

Had a brief reliving of the nostalgia with the free servers, but because everyone was a twink and anything could be gained with money, it lost any joy I had from trying it again.

This sounds worse. It's the original game, but made easy to play, and I guarantee none of the flaws are addressed. It's just trying to recapture memories while making it not group centered, which always discouraged casual players.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 8 hours ago

I wonder if some of the major news organizations purposefully send a woman reporter to these, knowing it really upsets him.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 23 hours ago

I think before all browsers ended up filling it in, it was standard practice to set up the server to intercept anything missing that part before the domain name and stick a "www" in front so it wouldn't just dead end. Basically a redirect.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

What aggravates me is how fragile the cabin filter holders can be. I guess this can go for a lot of the things that should be regularly checked and changed, but are both made very inaccessible and easy to break. By design, probably.

It's not like I haven't seen PIA stuff in the past. Anyone else done the very regularly needed (and messy) oil change, air cleaner oil change, regapping of points, plugs, and valves on an old VW Beetle? But once you learned how, it was just part of having one and most of it wasn't plastic (none?) that would break off by looking at it.

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

What can be also hard is to admit that you don't know, but that can be turned into a good thing by admitting your ignorance and either listening to someone's reasoning, or together try to find an answer. Especially with kids, part of being a parent was learning with them as you seeked out answers to a simple question that you weren't sure about. A subset of the XKCD Ten Thousand. Being right or appearing to know something isn't always as good as the journey to get to the actual facts.

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

You could also prefix something you're not fully sure about with "From what I understand". That lets you pivot to being wrong if the other person presents better facts, but also is a more positive if your position remains solid.

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

It's like them championing state's rights. Or free market. They're all about the slogans if they get the votes, until they aren't.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

That actually makes sense. At least to explain the picture. If you're going to concrete over the whole bay, an underground rail system is easy.

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

I'm all for learning new things. I don't think the usage here of BOE is correct. Number one, how does one measure extent on the Antarctica ice coverage? I realize they do measure the ice amount and it's low, but because it's not in an enclosed area it's a bit different, as is the water heating as the ice disappears. More important in that case is how the ice in the sea prevents ice loss from the land (as in with Thwaites) and how that will impact sea level rise, much like Greenland's losses.

Also, none of the charts show an extent area coverage of the Antarctic, so I don't think it's a thing except in trying to tie in with the Arctic BOE and how they are both intertwined and going to affect the overall global condition.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

For a second, Number One, I believed I saw bicycles.

 

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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