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I've enjoyed the books, but they really seem that they need an aggressive editor. Being long for the sake of being long just doesn't work.
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I really enjoyed Name of the Wind until about 3/4 of the way through and I sat back and though: Orphan kid, goes to magic school, has male and female friend classmates, one professor seems to not like him....holy shit, I'm reading a reimagining of fucking Harry Potter.
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The sun is the same in a relative way
but you're older <- Time, Pink Floyd
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> It’s such an uncomfortable truth!
Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!
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Two I have to mention
The first book of Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow trilogy, Blood Song, is one of my favorite fantasy books. I just really liked it. The second book was OK, the third was an absolute train wreck. I would have preferred it to be unfinished. Huge disappointment for me.
The Lightbringer series by Brent weeks started off strong. The Black Prism was great in the magic system seemed unique. Second book was OK, good enough I was looking forward just enough to finish the trilogy. Then the third book didn't finish, so I figured he just stretched out the series to milk a few more dollars from the idea. Then the fourth was similar. I couldn't bring myself to care about the next book. Big disappointment.
HONORABLE MENTION: WoT. Made it to book 6 or 7 both times I've tried to read through them. Then the characters, the writing, everything, just starts to piss me off.
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It's a weird rule, but of course this is the internet. Nobody said you had to tell the truth. Take it from me, living in Chagos.
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People decry most "both sides" arguments for legitimate reasons. But this geriatric pandering takes place on both sides. It is absolutely disgusting to witness.
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A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he'd been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.
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Then came Ronald Reagan and the dark times.
That about sums up the situation.
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I configured the newsboat
rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @cow@lemmy.world's javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for "rssurl". That will give you the rss feed for the channel.
A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv
to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.
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If only all the moron maga types realized when they were being fed bullshit.
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The Republican party has led the initial charge, with a series of claims about extraterrestrial life that, until recently, would have been seen as career-ending.
LOL, more distraction from one party's inability to do their freaking job. It's funny that 1) alien visitors cross unfathomable distances using what must be technology far, far, in advance of anything we have, yet "crash" and 2) These "crashes" only happen in the US, or the US quickly swoops in to take all evidence of this from foreign countries.
tl;dr Americans are so self-centered and narcissistic it's painful at times.
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Bisping is such a homer. Put any UK fighter in the discussion and he just starts gushing.
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The Constitution says that a person can't be under 30 to serve in the Senate. Is that saying that there aren't any sub-30 year olds who would be great Senators? Why is one arbitrary limit OK, but one on the other end of the range suddenly undemocratic? That just makes no sense to me.
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pdfimages
is what you want, I believe. It's in the poppler-utils
package in Debian.
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That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn't let you export the current config back then.
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I've got over a decade on you, and if anything I'm further left and more pro age-limits than I've ever been in my life.
We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?
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"World" news?
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It would be better if he introduced some legislation that said if you partake in child abuse, through interstate underage sex trafficking, or don't report or do anything about sexual abuse taking place in sports that you oversee, that you can't be a Congressman. Wish in one hand, and shit in the other.
It would be crazy if they actually get the votes to change The Constitution for this. I can't see it happening. But I've said that too many times and been wrong over the past almost decade or so.
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If a website doesn't want me to see their shit, then I guess i won't see their shit. I already have some sites that don't work because of my aggressive use of lists on my pihole, in addition to the usual browser plugins. If a site doesn't work now, I just move on. I don't give a shit about any site enough to put up with this type of bullshit.
This is probably not the right place, but I figured I'd give it a try. I've been trying to copy [this website](https://sailchannelislands.com/channel-islands-cruising-guide/) so I could have offline access when tooling around the Channel Islands. I could (and probably will), just copy/paste whatever info I need for my little trips, but the fact that I can't copy it ass over is annoying the hell out of me. I've tried variations of `wget -r ...` as well as `httrack` with no success. Anyone have any idea how I can get this?
My Grey has taken to "falling" into tight places and it's kind of freaking me out. Clothes hamper, newly emptied trash can, behind the couch, etc. I've had the thing for 25+ years and this is new behavior. Although to be honest, like most of what he does, it's kind of funny.
Any idea for what to use as a media manager? I'm getting ready to go on a small trip and I would like to be able to import all my videos/pictures from an SD card and have them filed based on the meta data. At least by date. I've always done this manually and it's not awful, but there has to be a better way.
A lot of people haven't heard of the `at` command, and I just figured I'd post up a little bit about it. I use it as a semi-alarm clock type reminder. Structure of command the way I use it: ` echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 'YOUR URGENT MESSAGE'" | at "2pm Jun 18"` I actually wrote a tiny function so that I don't have to remember the `-u critical -t 0` part. That is to keep the notification box from timing out. Now tomorrow (June 18th) at 2pm, a message box will pop up with the text "YOUR URGENT MESSAGE". There are options for running commands (like cron, but you don't have to edit, then delete your edit after running). It is great if you don't want to mess with cron, or another utility for a quick reminder. My quick little function looks like this: ``` notify_me () { if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then echo 'Usage: notify_me "message" time/date' 1>&2; echo ' make sure to enclose message in quotes' 1>&2; echo " also enclose date if it's more than just a time" 1>&2; return; fi; echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 '$1'" | at "$2" } ``` So say I have to remind myself to call the wife when the work day is over. I'll do something like: `notify_me "Check with the ol' ball and chain" "4:45pm"` I'm sure if you wanted to, you could make a very quick `zenity` (or whatever you like) gui for it, if that's the way you roll. Now I'll get a nice little pop-up 15 minutes before I check out. Tiny little things like this are why I enjoy the command line so much. For more uses, check out the man page, or the tldr. It's not complicated and I find it useful.