Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 1 hour 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 2 points 1 hour ago

The universe aligns sometimes.

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

Your effort is appreciated. Just to add in a few things from my experience - in dabbling with LLMs I needed to use WSL in Windows (wonder what OS that is). I found it too slow because it's a virtual machine, so that was the final push towards putting Linux on and just running things direct. Not my first time with Linux, but this time ti stuck because Linux is that good now for new users. A few months ago I finally reclaimed the space Windows had been using, as I don't need it anymore. Another point in this journey, my Nvidia gpu worked the first boot up, no issues at all. In fact I can't say I've had any hardware issues with any computers that I've put Linux on. Windows, on the other hand... well, there was a time when Windows would work on just about anything, but the days of sticking in a 98SE CD to pull a driver that works is long gone.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Their situations were a bit different. Had Anakin stayed stuck on that planet would he have gone very far? And though he was "too old", he got his first training long before Luke, so at 22 he ought to be pretty powerful.

As for who is the strongest, I think it would be close to even as compared to other Jedi. Luke as his prime (post-RotJ) looks damn powerful, harnessing even questionable things like the Force crush, but with a better temperament than Anakin. If you had an Anakin who saved his mother and was recognized by the Council, then maybe he'd be stronger, as he wouldn't have his flaws. Hard to say.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 18 hours 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 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 20 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days ago

Procrastination: Yeah, but not today. Maybe tomorrow.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

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

 

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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