OneCardboardBox 2d ago • 100%
Maybe just say "Hey, X isn't running this game. I am". If you're open to their participation, you could add "But if you'd like to join us, would you mind introducing yourself?". If you don't want them to join, you could say "Sorry, but I already have enough players for this campaign"
OneCardboardBox 2d ago • 96%
Maybe not for the plot (since it's never referenced or brought up ever again in the film) but I think it does work thematically:
This would be the one real miraculous event in Brian's life. If anything, you would expect that a man who fell from a tower, got picked up by a flaming ball, and returned safely to the ground would be hailed as a holy person by all witnesses.
Instead, nobody gives a fuck and in the next couple of scenes Brian becomes a holy figure through entirely unrelated and mundane means.
OneCardboardBox 3d ago • 100%
Especially gardening tools.
Why does every fucking house in our neighborhood need its own lawnmower, weedwacker, and hedge trimmer? You only need it for an hour or two every month.
OneCardboardBox 5d ago • 100%
Maybe they're not mammal nipples, but happen to look like it.
OneCardboardBox 1w ago • 100%
My indie theater has a bright blue pixel in their main screening room.
I complained about it when I first noticed, which was more than a year ago. It was still there the last time I went.
OneCardboardBox 1w ago • 100%
What's the CRT for?
Edit: Ah, NVM. I see the game consoles on the shelf above
Anyone know of any realtime menu mods for OpenMW? Specifically, I'd like to have dialog take place in real time. It always feels strange that I can have a whole conversation with someone, but never recuperate my fatigue level.
Not even sure if my posts will be federated with this community. Once I get some furniture back from the repair shop (fuck you, shipping company), I'll have something to share.
I recently got a nice deal on a stereo microscope, and leapt at the chance. I've had a few projects in mind that would entail SMD soldering, and now all I need is a proper soldering station. My current iron is pretty basic, but gets the job done for splicing wires and DIP work. Now I want something with temp control and a good supply of tips. It seems like hobbyists are all talking about affordable Chinese T12 stations from brands like KSGER and Quecoo. There are just so many different models, it's hard to understand the features and differences. It also seems like there's a lot of "Reddit folk knowledge" where people just keep repeating what others have said. Eg: People say that some KSGER stations have no case grounding, but nobody says which models do or don't have the issue. All of them? Then people talk about the microcontrollers STM vs STC, but nobody says why it matters.
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
The Grand Nagus has come to earth in search of profit
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
I think a simple approach would be:
reada chunk of the response into a char array of known size- iterate through the buffer, looking for the CRLF characters that signify the end of the header section
- copy the header into a dynamically-allocated char array
- if you didn't get to the CRLF characters that signify the end of the header section,
readmore data from the socket into the known-size char array - if it takes multiple
readoperations to get through the header section, then eachreadyou can allocate a longer header string, copy your old data to it, and then append the next chunk - when you hit the CRLF, or if
readindicates no more data is waiting in the socket (eg connection terminated early) then you can throw a null character at the end of your string and that's the headers
This is a somewhat naive implementation. Instead of reallocating and copying the header string array for each read, a linked-list data structure could hold the chunks of buffered data. Then at the end you combine them into a string that's exactly the right size.
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 66%
Proliant G9 is an EoL server that hasn't been sold since 2018. Meanwhile, Debian bookworm released last year. I'd be surprised if the problem were that your installer gave you a kernel that's too old.
What is the output of ip addr show?
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
It might also be worth ruling out low-level issues:
- Check for anything strange in the BIOS related to disks (fwupdmgr can automatically install BIOS updates from a live Linux session. I don't know if Bazzite does this)
- Try using a different SATA port
- Run some SMART tests on your drives
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
Have you used BRTFS with your rEFInd install before? I recall needing a few manual configurations before it detected my Arch install.
I'd recommend mounting your EFI partition from a live ISO and trying some of the configuration steps at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd#Btrfs_subvolume_support
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
Nodding at men you pass is a culturally-specific action, and not universal to the male experience. I only encountered it while living in the Midwest.
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
To be pedantic, Ford's threat is to "rearrange [the computer's] memory banks with an axe"
The countdown is until he starts doing it.
OneCardboardBox 2w ago • 100%
How to make a suckless.org contributor cry
OneCardboardBox 3w ago • 100%
Anime Sci-Fi classics that you might already have seen:
Akira (1988)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
If you're ok with abstract cinema:
Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989)
Visual appeal:
Metropolis (2001)
Not Sci-Fi, but one of my favorite films of all time:
Cure (1997)
In our house, we generally go for variety in our coffee beans. That means when we are finishing one bag, we're going to open a different bag with totally different beans inside. What do you do if there aren't enough old beans to make a full serving of coffee? It may be heresey, but I mix the final old beans with a few beans from the new bag and call it my "bonus blend".
OneCardboardBox 3w ago • 100%
I'm very lucky to have an independent radio station in my area. It's run by a nearby college, but they let anyone take training to become a host.
They don't always play music I like (hell, they don't always even play music) but I'll deal with 30 minutes of buddhist chanting because the variety can't be beaten. Also, they have no ad breaks.
OneCardboardBox 4w ago • 100%
You didn't even ask ChatGPT. How am I supposed to trust your math?
OneCardboardBox 4w ago • 100%
What is your use case? Do you need a gooseneck spout for controlled pour speed, or do you want to boil more than a liter of water and pour it out quickly?
OneCardboardBox 1mo ago • 100%
You can thank the US Army for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-300
OneCardboardBox 1mo ago • 100%
A much better idea than when I tried to organize my restaurant with hashtables.
It was too much for the waitstaff, who had to reindex the floor plan every time they added or removed a plate.
On the plus side, delivering the right food was always O(1).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977 > What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there. > > - New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware > > - Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop. > > - AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS. > > > Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20077977 > What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there. > > - New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware > > - Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop. > > - AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS. > > > Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
What cool stuff is going on with IP over ham radio? I want to build simple services accessible to other hams in my area, and would love to learn about what's out there. - New Packet Radio: This looks pretty cool, although until the FCC makes a decision on updated VHF/UHF bandwidth and symbol rate restrictions, I'll hold off on buying any dedicated hardware - Broadband HamNet: I'm not sure if there's any existing network in my area. Since it's 802.11 with yagis and amplifiers, I feel like you'd need a good density of local users for anything cool to develop. - AX.25 with TCP/IP: I might play around with this. It doesn't require equipment except a UHF/VHF radio, antenna, and a computer, so it might be easier to convince others to try it too. Obviously you're very limited in bitrate, but it would be fun to set up a gohper hole or a BBS. Are there other technologies or projects worth looking into? Even though I'm not personally interested in buying new equipment for it, I'd still like to hear what's out there.
I work in a basement office. There is a below-grade egress window, with a 3-4ft ladder and a large plexiglass dome that you can push out of the way. I noticed a terrible smell when I opened my window the other day, and it was because of a dead mouse that presumably couldn't get out of the recess. On inspection, I found the remains of several more dead rodents there, so this has been a problem in the past too. Any ideas on how to prevent this? I both feel bad for the dead animals and am disgusted by the smell when they decay. The plexiglass dome has chicken wire for airflow, so I can't necessarily block those off. Maybe there's some method to repell them, or help them escape?
gitlab.com
The latest dev builds of OpenMW now support music playlists run from Lua. Mods could now create custom music playlists based on location, weather, combat status, or anything else that can be measured with Lua. The pull request includes a sample mod to play certain music when fighting muscrabs. I look forward to all the new ambience mods that this will make possible!
Sounds a bit trite, but Morrowind represents a kind of comfy stability for me. I can always go to Vvardenfel any time, and it's always the same place. Yesterday, I moved houses. The neighborhood is different, there are boxes everywhere, I can't find anything, and there's no internet. On top of that, I get very stressed out whenever even a small thing in my life changes. I try to focus on one task at a time, and that's all I can do. However, all I need for Morrowind is to unpack my PC, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Tonight, when the takeout food is gone, but I'm not ready to sleep (in a new room that smells weird), there will be Morrowind.
www.nexusmods.com
Figured I'd share some of my favorite OpenMW mods. Today is AttendMe, a cool UI for monitoring your companions. It tracks health, stamina, magicka, as well as whatever spells/weapons they have equipped. I find it very useful for all the slave rescue quests, so I know who to heal.
Played DX a few times, but the only part of the plot that never fully makes sense to me is Maggie Chow: - She is an MJ12 plant who knows JC is Paul's brother, but doesn't know he's a fugitive? Or she does know he's a fugitive but doesn't call her MJ12 guards to take him out? - She sends JC to the police station on a mission to steal information, but then the information incriminates her. Why? JC even asks her what she expected to happen. Not so much a plot thing, but I also find it strange that she runs up to fight JC in Versalife with just a sword and no armor. It's the least threatening fight in the game. I know the people in Hong Kong say she used to do Kung Fu movies, it would have been cool if there was some allusion to that during the fight.
Robo Wind Construct (RWC) is a standalone game demo for OpenMW that doesn't use any proprietary assets. It truly shows what can be possible with the OpenMW engine aside from reimplementing Gamebryo games. https://modding-openmw.com/mods/rwc-robowind/ Following the RWC project in OpenMW discord has been interesting. There's symbiosis between development, where RWC might need a feature that ends up ported to OpenMW and becomes available to everyone! I hope they're able to eventually complete the game.
Just moving in to our first home, and I'm very excited to have the freedom to set up a permanent HF antenna. I'll probably build a sort of fan dipole and run it along the side of our property. That's the only place long enough to fit. However, the power lines for the neighborhood run over part of our backyard. I'm not worried about my dipole being too close to high voltage power (it won't be) but I wonder if the AC frequency can cause interference on certain bands?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/9321551 > I'm really intrigued by digital modes. Stuff like JS8Call seems really cool, and I want to get into it. > > I don't have any HF equipment. SSB isn't very interesting to me, so I was thinking of getting a digital-only transceiver and saving some money. I think it would be cool to take a small QRP box with a laptop or raspi, and do digital mode Pota with it. > > I've seen the [QDX](http://qrp-labs.com/qdx) which looks exactly like what I want and seems to get good reviews. Any others that I should be aware of?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/9321551 > I'm really intrigued by digital modes. Stuff like JS8Call seems really cool, and I want to get into it. > > I don't have any HF equipment. SSB isn't very interesting to me, so I was thinking of getting a digital-only transceiver and saving some money. I think it would be cool to take a small QRP box with a laptop or raspi, and do digital mode Pota with it. > > I've seen the [QDX](http://qrp-labs.com/qdx) which looks exactly like what I want and seems to get good reviews. Any others that I should be aware of?