Remember folks, always carry your epibeanis pen.
Hey gang! Pro-tip: Gamble with money on credit. You never have to pay... eventually you'll just die and there will be nobody to bill.
D61
joined 4 years ago
"...professional gambling..."
and
"...deductions from gambling losses..."
You know.. there's somebody out in the world right now who's name is something like, Eugene Icks, and just hating their parents every day...
If only the USA would use the same "can do" attitute that it did during the Korean, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine wars to battling Climate Change things might not be so bleak
Yeah. It did. Turns out, the're being trying to do this since 1948.
"There is no Nakba in Ba Sing Se."
"in bad country..."
Orcas: "Once these people take the bait, human is back on the menu comrades!"
gah... its so hot and there's so much to do and I'm naturally a lazy person...
There's tons of black berries to be picked and the while cherries need to get in the freezer before the July heat/lack of rain makes them unusable.
Pear trees are loaded as fuck. If the crows aren't too greedy we're gonna be hard pressed to find freezer space for storage. I worry that the ancient dehydrator will give out, the fan motor makes some pretty angry noises these days.
If you've got a body shop in mind, they should be able to give you an itemized quote.
Paint Match $$$ This Part $$$ That Part $$$ Some other Parts $$$
You can either take that quote to other shops and see what they say or do some general googl'in to see what the parts cost on the internet to get an okay ballpark range of acceptible prices.
My promotional plan NordVPN service is about due for renewal.
I was wondering if any tech support hexbears had any suggestions. The basic plan for Nord is going to run about 150$ US at its full price.
So far I've stumbled across some favorable mentions of Mullvad and the price seems better at about 60$ a year. I'm going to assume that all VPN services are going to make it difficult to seed anything, but if there still some around that dont block all the porta I would like to know more.
Mostly i just fart around on the hexbear at home or with my cell phone. I'm not serious about torrenting but there are things I'm interested in and I've notived are hard to find and don't have many seeds, wouldn't mind helping out without having to figure out how to set up a whole other server to do the thing.
Edit:
Survey says!
-AirVPN
So far its been okay. Bit of a slog getting it on my phone but seems to work okay.
Also a bit of a slog getting things set up to actually seed the occassional thing but that's just because I know about 25% of what I think I know.
Actually got one of those online coupon things to knock a few bucks off as well.
Thanks everbody, you're all swell. 
So, in my recent transition from an ancient Windows OS to a Linux distribution I installed Transmission for torrenting. I had a decent experience as a user who isn't super nerdy about this stuff with the Windows version I was using.
Using it with Linux has been similarly easy but for one thing. When trying to seed torrents, after about 10ish minutes, the torrents in the list will turn red and with the word "Stalled". I can pause and restart the seeding and it clears the "Stalled" from the item on the list but it will come back after a short while.
This never happened when I was using the Windows version and I haven't been able to find an answer about what this is supposed to mean in this context online.
Anybody have any ideas what this means and what I should do to fix this if its a problem on my end?
Edit: NordVPN is blocking the ports. Weird thing is, earlier this year before switching this PC to Linux, my ancient Windows OS was running Transmission and leeching/seeding just fine through NordVPN. 
For whatever reason my brain has decided to think about this.
VLC will record the Desktop and Space Rangers but not Transformers: Devastation Though the game screen it captures for is a different size than what is captured with the Desktop while either game is running. Seeing what happens when Transformers runs results in a white screen being recorded while the game window is in focus.
My ancient Radeon graphics card and Windows 7 operating system (don't at me Linux folks, I know I know) has some screen recording stuff build into it. Will record the Desktop just fine, records only a black screen while the game is running and its window is focused for one game but records the other game just fine and at an appropriate size.
For curiosity's sake what would I be looking for as reasons or solutions to this?
Edit:
Running everything as Administrator seems to help in OBS. Who knew? 
OBS seems to play nice with Transformers: Devastation now, lets me draw the bounding box in the Game Source instead of trying to use the Display source.
Still haven't figured out why OBS is being wonky with Space Rangers not recording in "Game Source" but did get a lead on why the size is wonky in the recording of "Display Source". The max resolution for the CD version (the one I've got) is 1024x768 and my monitor is 1920x1080. (Unsure why there's a difference between what I see playing the game and what the software is recording.) And the only resolution patch I've found doesn't work on the CD version... :whomp-whomp:
... but I finally did it.
For whatever silly reason, I decided to play the 2005 version of Space Rangers ( a kinda difficult game on its easy mode) on its hardest difficulty setting and after a handful of bad starts and one very loooonnnng good run I managed to finish.
To celebrate I will use this emoji
spoiler
And as penance I will start reading Capital Volume 1 as linked by comrade Vampire in their "get in nerds we're reading all volumes of Capital" reading group.
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"Hey, ChatGPT, what is my ex-boss's schedule look like for the next six months?"