Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 10 hours ago

Don't treat a gun like Tony Stark treats particle beams from an accelerator.

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

Riker: "Eject the warp core!"

La Forge: "I just did."

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

Maybe they can hold their ground for long enough to get something accomplished. Like last time, remembe... oh, right. Shit.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

This is why there is a meme about "won't someone think of the children," which is most often aimed at right-wing actions. They use the idea of helping to further causes that do the opposite.

It's not just the right. Look way back to the Tipper Gore push for censorship of rock music. The advocates of free speech came out then to show why blocking speech doesn't work and ends up hurting more than it could ever help. For those too young to remember or who haven't heard about it, you ought to look into the Congressional hearings videos. Especially where they asked John Denver to speak on behalf of the censorship move, and were shocked when he was fully against it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Urine is already diluted by water, so you're most of the way there.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago

Minor adjustment. Not enough.

What spoke the loudest was her silence after some of the questions. Wheels spinning. Knowing there's no good answers.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

If not illegal, probably should be. But without enforcement, legality is just a concept.

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

Words are fun. A related word would be lieutenant. There was some scifi detective series about a time traveler who came from the Revolutionary period into modern times and helped a woman cop. Mid 2000s? Anyway, they tried to be somewhat accurate and used the word as it's pronounced for centuries before being Americanized, "leftenent". And in looking it up, the history and arguments over when and why are themselves interesting.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Realistic C-64 users: "It's a misspelling in an early Commodore document that just carried over."

Rabid C-64 users: "It's not a word, it's an ACRONYM!"

Me: I didn't even realize it was wrong or knew it was a thing, then or now. TIL I think I saw "kernel" in my mind.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So this should be posted on a subLemmy? Reddit has a large history of terminology. People have adjusted to saying communities fine.

I was using the "room" concept on Q-Link (Quantum Link) 40 years ago. You know, when we had to connect on slow lines. Uphill, both ways.

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

"Nobody knew!" - some U.S. President

 

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.

 

Made a thing: a couple of Bad Apple puzzle books.

Turned it into a maze book and a word search book because... well, it's Bad Apple, and that's what we do with Bad Apple, right? Find a new medium for it. Available on Amazon for anyone who thinks "I need a physical puzzle book based on a 2007 fan video" is a reasonable thought to have.

Genuinely curious about opinions.

My biggest worry throughout (especially for the word search) was to get the lore as close to accurate as possible. I feel I did my best given the many hours of research, comparing conflicting information out there, and being generally overwhelmed.

Bad Apple: A Shadow Art Maze Challenge

Bad Apple: A Shadow Art Word Search Collection

 

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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