Rhaedas

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

In that context you'd probably laugh if they used man too.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 2 hours ago

What's New Pussycat 7 times, followed by It's Not Unusual, then more of the first.

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

It's not a both sides but more a larger scale comment on society as a whole. But fit it however you want to fit it. I could have gone into detail on how not everyone can control the damage they do. Some can absolutely make a large difference by their actions. But as for generations, which is what this thread is mostly about, we all have been a problem during the times when we could have done better. The ones with real power want the infighting among us because it's a distraction, and again, it is our fault if we fall for that again and again.

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

That seems to be a male problem, and doesn't even touch on all the other reasons those who would have voted for Harris (or any other blue) didn't. But sure, let's use a gender chart to make a generation point. Everything is correlated if you squint enough.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

We're all the problem, which is why generational blaming is just pointing fingers to make oneself feel less accountable.

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

That's a pretty steep fine. Considering the captain will be the one to pay it, since the responsibility will shift to him. It certainly isn't coming out of Zuckerberg's pocket.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, it was a GUI designed on top of MS-DOS specifically to import Minesweeper from IBM OS/2.

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

An LLM used for language purposes is the best application. It's using that hammer to drive a nail. When they deviate from that role to other things, that's when the effectiveness drops. When Co-pilot was pushed into our enterprise system incorporated into Outlook we played around with seeing what it could do with summarizing emails we would routinely send and get. It made them pretty, I give it that. But it didn't handle the information well and was very inaccurate at time when it was missing data. The whole hallucination thing. So just verify what it produces for you before you hit send.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"We're out of paperclips again. Co-pilot, please order more paperclips and make sure we don't run out of them again."

Co-pilot goes brrrrr...

Just kidding. Co-pilot is terrible.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think there was enough to do a LotR treatment. Not while keeping interest from the first part to get people back for the second. I don't think the pacing was rushed as much as disjointed with flashbacks by necessity to explain why things had happened. Adaptations to visual media is difficult. We see it in every book brought to the screen. Maybe if we hadn't lost all the other stories in between.

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

That's an improvement.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

97.6% of statistics are made up.

 

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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