Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is good parenting. You can't always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.

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

My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A smart man once said, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Got me. Only because that's sort of what they've been saying all along, moving that goalpost. It's not a stretch.

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

I guess when enough things are broken you do whatever it takes.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe not. It takes a lot longer and greater resources to build something than to destroy it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's his secret. He's always angry.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago

You forgot consumerism and corporatism. It's a bunch of things. Point is, there are ideologies everywhere and if it's not religion-based, somehow atheism gets blamed. It was never the lack of a belief in a god that was the problem.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The State was the religion in the USSR. It didn't like the competition from the Church.

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

I think that may be a shared thing among the different software, Mbin seems to give you a few minutes without labeling it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 35 points 2 days ago

Yes, since apparently you can turn to not hit them and still get shot. No win, might as well stack the odds in your favor.

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

I find myself often going back and ninja editing a post I just made. Even though I read over it before I submitted. Used to not be this bad; my thoughts and grammar, even in a gaming chat, were coherent. Oh well.

 

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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