Rhaedas

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

It had to be. Were there people on either side, Wile E. would be posed with a situational dilemma to solve. But since the Roadrunner is on the track where the lever needs to be pulled, there is no question of that. Only the question of how physics is going to fail Wile E. once again.

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

I'd agree if it was under unpopular opinion, but a shitpost can be something everyone agrees with. It's just low effort, both the post and usually the replies.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

And get mental health aid, right? Right? No, guess not, based on the decades of lackluster aid from other veterans needing it.

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

For one, there's more than hamburger demand which is what this import is about. Higher grade cuts which from what I understand is what a large part of US beef is used for. But really second is the safety nets for all agriculture from the government. They can fail totally (which again, they won't) and they'll get welfare help. Like the rest of the public should be getting, but apparently ~~would take away from the wealthy and the warhawks~~ is too costly.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

It's okay, the FDA will protect us from... no? They won't? Well great.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

Was my first thought too, the final panel pull back to show the name.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The best part is that it's not going to hurt those farmers at all. What it will affect is the quality of beef for the average consumer, since they're probably getting much lower grade or even rejected meat other countries don't want. So still getting faces eaten, but it's not the farmers. If you want an example of very thorough welfare, look at agriculture. Yet they're the loudest shouting.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I would agree with the several comments on the engineering and design of the higher speed roads being able to handle increased limits, but I don't think the road or even most of the cars' ability to go that fast are the problem. It's the drivers. Raising the limits means people will go that much faster (the ones who are even bothering to stay close to it), and the risks will be higher and more deadly.

There is also the issue of fuel efficiency vs. speed and how little time is gained for a lot more gas used. Even with modern cars there's a limit of aerodynamics and how much more it takes to push air out of the way faster as you get higher in speed. Of course this pales compared to how many people I see idling in parking lots on their phone, and then complain about gas prices. There's a disconnect somewhere.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this was a serious list, Johnson should be on the failure section, having ruined any chance of a Reconstruction effort after the war. A successful effort was probably too big of a thing to last through several Presidents, but he fumbled and lost the ball. We're still paying for it. That and Reagan with his economic disaster, funny that he's not even mentioned. Probably too liberal, as was Nixon with his EPA and such.

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

My wife moved from WordPerfect (pre-Corel) years ago to Word strictly because all her clients were using Word and she got tired of converting things to work on their machine, especially when printing it out. Not because it was a better choice. This is Microsoft's only power, dominating the market. Brilliant business strategy, I'll give them that. Why they don't use it to be better at the same time baffles me.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is Super Grover, he's just in disguise.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Who have you used for self publishing, and would you have gone with a publisher if you could do it again? Also, what type of genre in scifi, or are they different?

 

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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