Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 7 hours ago

I don't think Youtube's history on false positives for things is all that stellar. Maybe if they get AI to help it will... oh, no, it will make it far worse than even Youtube can do alone.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

I jumped on the bandwagon when it first came out, found some stuff interesting, but yeah, the ground aspect didn't work for me. Probably didn't help that everyone was doing the same stuff, so there were lines to scan and collect and whatever. Didn't feel like a real away mission. Might be better with age, since much fewer would be in one place.

I think for the ships I was expecting more like Starfleet Command, which was not realistic for an online version.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

No, it looks like it's moving.

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

If you have a few things that work better without or don't need the VPN, like some games, a good VPN will have a tunneling feature to let that one thing through while staying on for everything else.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Reread through Flood by Stephen Baxter. Now a third or so through the sequel Ark. Read them years ago, remembering stuff a bit as I go back through it, but seeing it anew as an starting author, and comparing writing and such with what I have. Did that earlier with Artemis. Made me feel a bit better for my writing, even though I do have a ways to go editing.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was my first Pern book. Loved it. Found Ruth a fascinating outlier especially after reading more books and seeing what a "normal" dragon is like. It's possible a reread would be less because of your point, it's a teen perspective, and I was a teen.

Favorite Pern might be Dragonsdawn, simply because it's harder scifi to explain why it's all there.

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

It can mean that If it's used singularly.

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

Damn right. I want something solid, not juice.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm betting meat means protein carrier in this case.

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

Yes, but there can be debates on which version of Reese's is the best. I've become accustomed to the ratio in the miniatures, and while I would never turn down a regular one, it now tastes a bit off. I once got a giant Reese's for Christmas and discovered you can't eat that right, it's going to be too much of one or the other usually.

But that does bring a memory back. I remember seeing the first commercials for Reese's as a kid, and it was around Easter. You better believe I grabbed the chocolate bunny I got and a jar of peanut butter to test the theory!

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

If it happens, they were already closely related on the species branch, and usually there are issues with their DNA and ability to reproduce themselves because of the slight differences.

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

The best part was the theme that the walking dead aren't the zombies. Then it makes it seem all too real. We just don't have zombies in reality.

 

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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