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And it’s not a dementia thing, it’s an adhd+generalized anxiety thing. Piece of mind is pretty valuable to me and mine.
That's a fair take. I dunno, the potential security vulnerabilities outweigh any possible gains for me with most IOT devices, and I feel smart appliances are just more complicated to fix and more easily break down. Plus, the last thing I need is my washer to brick or my fridge to stop working from a botched firmware update.
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With a wifi fridge for example I can know if it stops working and the temp starts rising before I have a fridge full of spoiled food.
You don't need a wifi fridge for this. My wife and I manage this via Home Assistant and cheap Switchbot sensors. Fully self contained on my network, nothing to phone home anywhere.
The rest of the things you listed are kind of silly. If you left the oven on, that sucks, but you're already gone. Also, who sets the oven on before leaving the house? That's just an odd... like, really odd thing to do. Like, senility/dementia level odd, at which point what difference is a notification? And the dryer thing... well, that's nothing a 15 minute wrinkle cycle doesn't already solve on a dumb dryer.
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It depends. I’m not saying I never pirate books. I’m not going to just support a publisher milking a book that should belong to the commons.
Also, some publishers have taken to raising ebook prices to as high or higher than hardback costs. For those I might buy one book by an author and pirate another. I won’t justify it other than to say I only ever bought paperbacks anyway and still remember those being like $3.99 to $6.99, so I’m not paying $18+ for an ebook novel because of publisher greed.
But if it’s an author I like, I buy their books, and support them in other ways (like with Sanderson’s Kickstarter for example).
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Nah, no need to be a shitheel. I'm cool with paying for books, authors gotta eat. I wouldn't refund a book I've read.
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MOBI has been deprecated for a long time. Standard formats now are AZW3 (KF8) and KFX. They're a bit more advanced than MOBI, and thank goodness, since it was a terrible format. AZW3 is essentially a MOBI/EPUB container, and I believe KFX is equivalent to EPUB2, possibly with some EPUB3 features.
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Takes a small effort to set up (install Calibre, install NoDRM plugin, apply Kindle serial to plugin), but once it's done, the rest is literally drag and drop, it removes DRM from your books automagically.
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My senior class in high school, the French and History teachers got together to plan a senior trip to Canada post-graduation, with stops in Montreal and Quebec. They let us have beers (on our own dime) if we wanted since the drinking age up there was 18, and one of my history teachers even offered a few of us Cuban cigars the last night of the trip since there was no embargo in Canada but we couldn't cross back into the US with them. Was a pretty good time.
We were warned the Quebecois could be kinda douchey to non-native speakers, but I found the whole trip was pretty chill, and as long as you were at least trying to speak French to them, they were more than accommodating for directions and help. Was a really memorable trip, 20+ years later still a very fond memory. Good teachers are great.
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Okay. I live in a town with a population barely over 2000 people, the paved road ends at my house and continues on as dirt roads, I'm surrounded by miles of empty lots of wild growth with a few houses interspersed here and there, and I have one direct neighbor across the street with the next two closest neighbors being a quarter mile up the road.
I guess I don't understand your definition of rural then. Or you don't understand just how far wifi signals can travel when there are no obstructions, or that people can have multiple network SSIDs in their home (hell, I have three, one for 2.4 GHz, one for 5 GHz, and then a separate 5 GHz for a work network). Rural doesn't mean tech illiterate.
Edit - and to be clear, most of the signals I see are probably too weak to be usable due to attenuation, but I can pick them up all the same via Wifi Analyzer. How many networks I see is dependent on the device used. Currently my mini-PC only sees my networks, then a Roku somewhere (probably neighbors across the street) and another single network at low strength, but it varies.
I used to easily see dozens or more networks in the city if sniffing for them. Your PC's wifi won't list all of them, just the strongest signals and there will still be many because city life is saturated that way.
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It’s a monument to human achievement that they work
as well as they doat all.
FTFY.
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Yeah. I’m in the rurals and at any given time can see between 5 and a dozen networks. Years back when I was apartment living, there was a ridiculous number of networks in range, couldn’t even give you a count.
If you’re curious and have an android phone or tablet, check out WifiAnalyzer. It gives a graphical view of nearby Wi-Fi networks, channels they’re on, signal strength, and so on.
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You’d be surprised. I have one neighbor across the street and my next closest is a quarter mile up the road. I still see multiple Wi-Fi signals to connect to, 2.4GHz wifi can travel way farther than you might think.
Best to let it have an IP but block WAN access so it can’t leave the home network. This also keeps the TV from complaining about not being connected.
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Guess what’s in many of the disposable bottles…
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I don’t use pi-hole currently, but have managed access via my router. My LG C1 has been locked down to LAN access only for a long time.
It’s kinds great this way. Since it has an IP it doesn’t give me any bullshit about network, but no traffic escapes the home network.
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I’m in my forties and what you’re describing doesn’t sound normal at all. I beat myself up good in my younger years with sports and still do somewhat regular cardio and weightlifting. I have a bum knee and hip problem, shoulder issues from weightlifting injuries, and my back gets stiff and sore on a good day.
None of that stops me from functionally living, and none of its anything the occasional ibuprofen or toke won’t fix in the short term. I can still exercise, do physical labor, open all the jars, and be generally active, and without pain the majority of the time.
What you’re describing sounds more like an inflammatory disease or auto-immune disorder. 110% get a second opinion from a different doc, or a third if needed.
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Ah thanks. I didn't follow to the release page and just skimmed the article, should have read closer.
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I could easily see a family that shoots together gifting their child an AR pattern rifle after they got used to shooting mom’s or dad’s firearm. It gives them their own platform to customize and practice on, akin to a musical instrument.
It's literally your comment.
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Maybe a stupid question but.... what exactly was illegal about this? I'm sure there were ToS or EULAs violated, but what law is he being charged on?
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I spend a bunch of time in log reviews in my current role. “Googling the error message” image is literally hanging on my office wall.
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One Punch Man looking daring this week.
New house, was built/finished just under two years ago. I live in a dry climate, have been in my house for two years and only now discovered this. After some recent storms led to water in my window track I found my rear sliding windows have weep holes in the bottom, but they weren't draining. After a lot of testing (filling the track with water, shop vac'ing it out, blower testing with air gun, suction with vacuum, etc.) I realized the weep holes in the interior of the window track and the weep holes on the exterior have no connection whatsoever. No water goes from inside to outside, and air blowing through exterior hole is felt through other exterior, and likewise with the interior, but nothing is going from interior to exterior. Water in the inside track will drain until the portion underneath fills and then pools up, and likewise, if I spray water in the exterior weep holes, nothing gets to the inside track, but it eventually comes out the exterior weep hole on the other side. After some research, I found it's not uncommon for this to happen, it's a common defect with these sort of windows and I just drilled into the exterior weep hole with a 1/8 bit until it met the interior channel and sure enough, the water drains out as expected now. Put the window track back in, window back on, and tested pouring water in the track, it's draining perfectly now. ----- My only questions are, do I have anything to be concerned about with this DIY fix? Since the climate here is normally very dry (high desert, Colorado) and moisture evaporates quickly, I'm not worried about mold, but is there anything to keep bugs from getting in through the weep holes? They're not covered in any way. Also, will there be any winter concerns with the cold in sub-zero temperatures or snow/ice build up? Apologies if these are dumb questions, but I'd literally never heard of weep holes until this week, with discovering the issue. So not sure what potential issues they might have, and honestly no way to know if I fixed this as intended.
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Really interesting sh'mup and great soundtrack. I especially like the stage 1 and stage 6 themes. It's amazing what the PC-Engine was capable of with the CD add-on. Sadly, I'm terrible at it, and have never actually been able to play past stage 3, so good thing the first stage is such a banger. 😅
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Fantastic game. I love the high energy beat here.
The current build of Jelos updated the libSDL from v2600.5 to 2800.1 and it broke a few ports. In particular the ones I know of are Panzer Paladin and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. Both are fixed with the instructions below. I saw in some threads people asking about it so here's the fix: ----- You'll need a copy of the 7/26 JELOS build or before from the github releases page and copy out the libSDL files from `/usr/lib`. To do this, you'll need to download the tar archive, then use something like 7zip to extract the `SYSTEM` file to a folder. Copy off all the the `libSDL2` related files that have a file size (ignore the ones that list as 0kb in size, those are symlinks). All told there are something like six files you need, the 2.0.so.02600.5 file, the ttf file, the image file, gfx file, and mixer. You need to rename the filesaccording to the SDL2-CD.dll.config set in the game folder at `/storage/roms/ports//dlls/` **If you prefer, I already have all the correct files and renamed as needed. You can download them in zipped format [here](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1075906301705601044/1134752874111455312/libs.zip).** ------ Once you have the correct files, correctly named, copy them into /storage/roms/ports//libs/ **Lastly, edit the game's .sh file in /storage/roms/ports/ to add the following lines:** # # # export path for local libSDL export LD_PRELOAD=$gamedir/libs/libSDL2.so.0 Add that to the script on its own line. I put it at line 29, after the `"Loading... Please Wait."` echo output line. Anywhere after the `get_controls` line should be fine. If you mess up the file, or run into problems, the full file should look like [this one](https://pastebin.com/VYYnGs60). From there, save it and run the game. And that should be it. If you gather the files yourself instead of using the ones from the ZIP I linked and the game loads sideways (in portrait), get the libSDL2-2.0.so.0.2600.5 from the SYSTEM folder in the `/usr/lib/SDL2-rotated` path instead of `/usr/lib`, and copy it to your game's lib directory on the handheld, and rename it to libSDL2-2.0.so.0 to fix.
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This is the Japanese version of *Simple & Clean*, the opening song for Kingdom Hearts. Great song, been a fan of Hikki's music for over two decades now.
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Sorry for double post the same song technically, but I love this version and Tiffany Mann's vocals are great.
I noticed that darker games on my x55 didn’t look good, like dark tones and blacks were almost inverted looking at stock settings. After a bit of tweaking, setting gamma from default (50%) to 67% got everything looking good. After checking out a few YouTube videos it seems the gamma level on the display varies between units. I’ve seen it look good on default in some and even up to 100% on one video. Play with the setting and dial it in to what looks best for you. If it helps I’m currently using: * brightness 68% * gamma 67% * contrast 52% * saturation 60%
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Great soundtrack. This one's the battle theme from Ikenfell. Also great game. The artwork is gorgeous (it was styled to look like a scaled up GBA game) and the combat system kind of feels like a mashup of Super Mario RPG and Mega Man Battle Network what with the tile system and timed attack bonuses.
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Technically not game music, but nerdcore based on a game. Does this count? 😅 Terrible game from what I've heard (I haven't played it), but inspired a great song IMO. Mods, feel free to remove if this doesn't fit the theme of the community.
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This is one of my favorite games of all time, and this song in particular always leaves me feeling interesting emotions. I love how it starts out sounding tense with the drums and staccato strings before bursting into the main melody, feels so uplifting. Soaring indeed.
e.g. - I tried to pull up https://lemmy.world/c/news, assuming searching communities for "news" would bring it up, but it doesn't show in the community list, even though other local communities like "sportsnews" do. Does the search not work as expected currently?
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This whole soundtrack is a banger, but I especially love this one. Those strings around the 1:20 mark.. just... 🤌 so good. Seriously too, if you haven't played this game, do it. It's basically Ace Combat but with much of the Ace Combat jank and anime removed.
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Probably not a popular game being a licensed title, but I've always enjoyed it, and the first stage track is a jam. This one's by Iku Mizutani; absolute legend who also composed for incredible NES titles like Shatterhand and Shadow of the Ninja (they're also ridiculously good).
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This whole OST is outstanding. Dale North is just fantastic. Shuu's Spire in particular is great, it's my favorite track on the album.
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On the Gweeen!!!
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One of the only tracks on this OST that I like much more than the Japanese version. The VRC6 chip was pretty cool, but this track was a bit overdone in the original game.