themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think it's directly related to ABV/proof, but it can definitely taste that way. "Drier" drinks tend to not mask the alcohol as much, IMO. For example, the main difference between sweet and dry vermouth is how much sugar is in them, but they tend to be basically the same ABV.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 58 points 2 days ago (23 children)

For booze, dry is the opposite of sweet.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, I'm with you but the show is fiction, it's okay for the writers to have the main character come down on the right side of history and not be a union busting shitbag. If anything I'm just happy the laborers were highlighted as having real grievances and solidarity actually worked...

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago

I'm hyped for this. Love Coogler's work and X-Files is a great show with an evergreen premise but could also use a bit of an update.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No more algorithms! Quicksort? Banned. Sieve of Eratosthenes? Banned. Djikstra's? Super banned!

If you even mention a red black tree, you're the one that's gonna be red and black, son.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DS9 is the GOAT.

I actually think SNW does an okay job developing characters (we've learned a lot about individuals), but it has some great episodes, some terrible ones and a lot of very mid ones.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh shit the third Semiosis came out? Loved the first couple, how did I miss that?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago

I work close to firmware and this is how we all say it, and we say it often. When speaking to execs it's always said by pronouncing each letter. You can watch us code shift (lingually) in meetings depending on who is asking the question.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I agree, I'm just a little triggered. The issue I have is less that it wouldn't make sense and more that the entirety of the Discovery era shows are laced with cameos and the novelty isn't there like it was for those TNG cameos.

... Really I just have ENT PTSD.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 22 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

What they should do is have the entire series be a holodeck program Riker is running during the events of a TNG episode. That'll definitely be a satisfying finale, right?

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

TIL Ivan Dixon, who I know mostly as Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes, was radical as fuck. I have to check this movie out.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I agree. The musical was great in part because it stood out from the rest of the season. I do think there's some good Trek in the genre episodes and it's actually not too far off from the other series doing their holodeck/time travel/western etc. episodes but with half as many episodes I wish it was more consistent in tone.

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I'm doing two simultaneous runs, a good Sorcadin run on Tactician and a dark urge, evil Berserker run in Honor Mode that follows along. The good party is basically acting as an advance team to remind me of the scary encounters, ambushes etc. but I've also never done an evil durge run so it's not exactly a 1:1 comparison.

The evil party is just shy of Act 2, but I'm playing with the only companions I have access to (because of my evil actions) and I'm roughly trying to play them on type. Astarion is a Gloomstalker Assassin, Lae'zel is an Eldritch Knight and Shadowheart is a Light Domain Cleric. We are cake walking at the moment, didn't really break a sweat through the Underdark and Monastery. I'm concerned at not having a true caster... But I'm also sort of intrigued at the viability of this party.

Counterspell is the big thing I'm worried about. The advance team is proccing it constantly. Also replacing Haste with potions would suck and I can't get the Haste bow (I assume, Dammon is dead). So far relying on cleric skills for AoE has been working okay.

Can I get away with using speed potions and maybe something clever like going full anti-magic and using Sussur blooms with some party tweaks?(edit: apparently that's not possible anymore, but still Silencing weapons etc.)

Or, should I bite the bullet and spec Minthara as something castery when I get her? If so, who do I replace?

Any suggestions welcome.

 

I have my Linux box running my TV and it works great, but I'd like the ability to treat my Chromecast as a desktop window for streaming without switching inputs, multitasking etc. I have an HDMI capture card that works great with a Switch, but the Chromecast detects it's not HDCP (DRM) compliant so it won't work. Is there a way to outsmart that detection with software or hardware?

I've heard some knock off hardware confuses it enough to work but it seems like the info is old and I'd rather not roll the dice on hardware that's otherwise garbage...

 

Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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