Rhaedas

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

Not quite that old, more in the 2000 range based on when I had my PC that I used it on. This was a GUI app for Windows. Wish I had an idea, that was like... too long ago.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 3 hours ago

They can, they only know two words though, both offensive.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

No, I don't see mention of it being an application but like Dogpile is a web-based collector.

I did a search myself, but (given how searching sucks now) couldn't find anything. Lots of hits for search engines themselves, but getting past that to other methods back then is difficult.

It was much like an FTP or torrent program but you'd load up what search engines to use and your search words, and it would actively pull the info then provide a single page with all results.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. This side of it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Actually comparable for a lot of specialty dice. Which do tend to be a lot.

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

I know the name, but no, it was an actual program on the computer.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 26 points 12 hours ago

Depends on if it breaks the form and they get called. Actually if it gets through they might rightfully question their sanitation coding.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

Make the missing pieces. Various ways to do that, from hand drawing it in if you're good or the picture there is simple. Do a reverse search to find the puzzle box photo or the original image it came from and use that. AI, if you're not against that, could probably fill in that pretty well. Or just leave it, chances are depending where the pieces are most people may not even notice.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 23 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

I can't remember the name, but when the internet was just starting and there were a lot of search engines with no dominate ones, there was an aggregator program that you could input many search engines into, then use it as the searching tool. It would query all the engines and combine, sort, rank, and remove duplicate finds.

Edit: more specific - It was much like an FTP or torrent program but you'd load up what search engines to use and your search words, and it would actively pull the info then provide a single page with all results.

The reason I mention it is because we're sort of back at that point. Google is failing, Bing never was great, and all the alternatives have their issues, usually with not having the same database to work with. So if you gathered all the best ones, the ones without ties to corporate or AI, then put their results together, maybe you'd have something like what Google was at its peak before "do no evil" got painted over.

Incidentally, Google became what it was/is because it gobbled up a lot of those early search engines' databases. I miss you, Hotbot. You were a good one.

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

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

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day 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.

 

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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