Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 16 hours ago

I had to look twice.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

A rocket might be better than a private jet overall. May depend on the payload and its purpose.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any of his roles are awesome, but I'd hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He's got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.

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

Planes are a good analogy. Pull up any flight tracker map, and zoomed out it's like the sky is full of planes. How can they miss each other? But then you zoom into a scale that makes more sense, and realize that usually there's lots of room in three dimensions between them all, with ones going different directions being at different altitudes to be able to cross paths when they do.

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

The extra protection on things like the ISS is for more than just man made debris. The Earth is a big gravity well, constantly pulling in and running into things in space. That's what meteors are, usually small specks of rocks, and the Earth's atmosphere is like a windshield being driven in rain or snow (or bugs, but that doesn't happen as much anymore :( ).

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

Did the same with a previous washer. The advantage was I only needed the bolt to pull it out to turn the washer on, and could still turn the larger part underneath with two thumbs pressure to select the wash. Never bothered with a replacement, worked fine, even for my wife. If it ain't completely broke, don't fix it.

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

Be sure to get the correct one!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Two thousand years is just the most recent stuff. I agree that ancient history in general is fascinating, when the realization hits that during things you learn about in a sentence or two, whole generations lived and died. And many more generations don't even have anything about them.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could have learned to play poker better, but instead I chose to learn how to use a hex editor to figure out how to see the full pictures.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"funny tweet"

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It depends. If it looks for odd purchases and notifies your phone, that's useful. Maybe even having an authentication in such cases, although I'd rather just get the info instead of having to give permission for everything.

 

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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