Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 4 hours ago

You know that scene in Iron Man where Tony leaves the one terrorist to the families? "He's all yours."

Just saying, that's a great scene.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 5 hours ago

Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn't have time to wait on your slow ass; it's repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 5 hours ago

Yes. But then a period.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 7 hours ago

With a pilot, apparently.

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

I barely remember WinMe...

As I installed over it with 98SE on a laptop. Didn't even hear the screaming.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"But they don't make it here, everything is offshored."

"Oh, well, should have thought of that first."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago

It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 9 hours ago

Asking the real questions.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Projection. Republicans ought to run a movie theater.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 9 hours ago

Except that such idiots often hurt other people in their blundering. If they just gave themselves a Darwin Award, that would be optimal.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 11 hours ago

"I've seen things."

"I have no mouth and I must scream."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.

The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.

 

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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