Rhaedas

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 hour ago

Joining the conservative Republican party that has been there for a while.

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

It's not directly a con. It's actual returns, and god damn they get a lot. Whether it's worth it to try and get a net profit of anything is another thing. It can happen, but it's probably low.

Also, a great Climate Town on the very subject.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 18 hours ago

"Table salt?"

"No." Drops dead of poisoning.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 26 points 19 hours ago

The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 19 hours ago

Look, it's the job of these talking heads to push the headline, not to get deep in the details. Go too far in, and you get beaten by the competition with the next hot sound bite.

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

Nobody knew war was so complicated. Nobody!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 20 hours ago

Is this one of those things Lucas had put in the script but someone wiser changed and didn't tell him?

One of my favorite Red Letter Media quotes referring to the opening of Star Wars:

"We know everything we need to know just by the visuals. Rebels. Empire. We got a sense of how small and ill-equipped the rebels are and how large and powerful the Empire is. The low angle implies dominance, and the length of the Star Destroyer implies the Long Reach of the Empire. This shot says everything we need to know without saying one word. In fact, this is so genius, I have a feeling that George Lucas had nothing to do with it and probably fought against putting it in the movie."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 20 hours ago

Fired because of stuff she's been doing, or stuff she hasn't been doing?

Noem repeatedly suggested the president was aware of the campaign and signed off on it.

Oh, that makes sense. Fired for a petty reason by the hurt snowflake in charge.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I love how people fight over what's the better editor. I just use whatever makes sense for the time, and it's not always the same one. But if you're happy with just one of them and can make it work for you in any situation, then you do you. That's the point of Linux, or so I thought.

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

"Hundreds will die!"

"Thousands."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

I don't see how it implies that, as that empire or any others never stopped and said, "yep, that's good enough".

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

He personally actually wants the old Russian Empire back.

 

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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