Rhaedas

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Planted clover, got this magnificent bugger in c/gardening@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 9 hours ago

Lol, thought from the thumbnail it was a clover leaf that color.

I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks. in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 9 hours ago

What a dumpster fire. That series is like the last two (okay, maybe just the last one) Star Wars movies.

I take that back. The intro scene (I think intro?) of Pike was good.

I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks. in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago

Those nacelle struts are pretty large, that's not an issue. I have always wondered what the point of the design was, but getting to the secondary isn't a problem. They aren't going through the nacelle.

Wowee in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 32 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

But 17, probably not.

When you have wiped once already and your butt has a change of heart in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago

I get why it's better in so many ways. But for the topic of this particular post, it could have made things worse. As in a return trip soon after once you get moving. Whereas physically disturbing things sometimes encourages completion.

Different strokes in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

The north polar area is where Arrakeen and other settlements are. They are the more pleasant areas, they only have to close up during the hotter parts of the day.

The equator is where the constant sand storms occur that are "impassable". One thing I didn't realize, Arrakis isn't large, it's about the size of the Moon, but more dense, so the gravity is about 0.9 of Earth.

My favorite people in this world are people who dont give me a hard time and leave me alone. So in a way, I really like most people. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's just a matter of circumstance. How many of them would stay that way if you knew them?

I usually don't have a problem with persons individually. But as a herd animal, people suck.

Different strokes in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Where does this scene rank on the list of most paused moments in the series?

Why are some things heavier than others? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The why of mass is "just" more material within the same unit area.

What always gets me is how adding one more of the pieces of matter, specifically another proton, changes the very properties of that atom, sometimes dramatically.

Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores in c/technology@lemmy.world
history repeats itself once again in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Clicking on newer revision lets you walk through time.

Scientists Debate Humanity’s Response to Possible Intelligent Life Beyond Earth in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

It's not about finding habitat, but a large scale version of kill or be killed, or stay quiet and hope they don't see you.

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Made a thing - an astronomy journal/notebook for observations (www.amazon.com)
 

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.

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Need help with VLC and using one instance (fedia.io)
 

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.

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How usable is an old lithium battery with less capacity? (fedia.io)
 

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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