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Going well so far. Still waiting on the third book to become available but I’m really enjoying it 🙂

I used Thunderbird! The interface for the news reader was pretty basic as I recall but that’s okay! Looks like there are some BBSs still around. As for the state of the content, couldn’t say. Just did a brief search and saw a few online but didn’t…[Read more]

How did Wayward Pines go?
Don’t recall the original BBS client used in the early nineties – might have been MajorBBS. Navigation, economy, and ease of use got so much with Blue Wave in the way it processed the quk and rep files. Hyperterminal also had its uses. 🙂
Over here, they are also referred to as SLOs, (Subaru Legacy Outback), perhaps for…[Read more]

Looks like City Car Driving is getting an updated version in May so I may start with Beam.NG drive when it goes on sale and go from there. Or Euro Truck Simulator. Need to look into the latter more but it I think I read that it has good hardware support. Would also be nice to have something to mess around with outside of learning so I’ll take that…[Read more]

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189426/ufo-uap-hearing-congress-2024

Sigh. These publicity stunts are only damaging the legitimate search. This is Roswell all over again. The difference is, in this case we don’t even have photos. Just some people making extraordinary claims. It’s all based on hearsay. I could say I’m from the Andromeda…[Read more]

So I recently came across a couple of places that do restorations of vintage turntables:

• https://www.vinylog.com/
• https://vinylnirvana.com/
• https://www.artisanfidelity.com/

No complaints here but I still may reach out to them at some point to see what they offer. No harm in that, at least!

Console input is pretty straightforward, you just need to include the input/output library. Here’s an example:
#include <iostream>
int main() {
int x;
std::cout << "Enter a number: ";
std::cin >> x;
std::cout << std::endl << "You entered: " << x;
return 0;
}

Command-line arguments would also be handy but the language only has rudimentary…[Read more]

Which one made it to pole position?
Can stock folded, sad as was a subscriber. The Splashy image was purchased for a couple of bucks, presumably the rights to the image don’t change.

After several years, my mom finally decided on a Subaru Outback. She refuses to own a station wagon for whatever reason so, even though it’s classed as one, just don’t call it a station wagon or she gets mad. 😛

That aside, she’s quickly falling in love with it 🙂

And No Man’s Sky got cross-save support last week, which is nice. 🙂

A C++ job to emulate a cmd console when prompting for input might be fun as well with the additional “Proper” case task for an extra sugar hit? It’s possible an old Dossite can be convinced after all! 🙂
It’ll want testing, thus the next step is to cautiously broach the bounds of temerity of any willing tester over at AFKMods. 🙂

New cookbook! Going to need to break out the recipes! 🙂

So the new deck I built that relies on more passive gameplay is okay. A bit early to tell how it’ll hold up in serious play as I just finished it on Friday but it did hold up well in yesterday’s tournament before everyone figured out what I was doing and got ganged up on. So I came in fourth place out of five players 😛

It did well before,…[Read more]

The IMDB seems to be more “popularity” based, how would your average Joe react as opposed to yer regular discerning critic. The RT score for Extreme Measures is slightly below the IMDB score, as some parts of the film atake on a rather shaky direction. Hugh Grant vs. Gene Hackmann went the way of chalk vs. cheese and the interplay of the goons in…[Read more]

What I do is long press and then drag the two cursors around the text I want to copy. Doing select all usually selects everything, including stuff outside the articles. Do you get the cursors to drag around?

Okay, so found this:

Selecting text on Android and iOS
When it comes to text selection, you’ll notice some variation on smartphones, because different operating systems may not allow app developers to enable text selection features in the same way. But these techniques should work smoothly in the most common apps, like web browsers, document e…

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Not sure how many do but it’s possible using digital circuitry elements. Would be careful, though. I do know my old phone heats up a lot when using the charger it came with and it does support fast charging. Granted, it’s ancient at this point so that may have something to do with it. 🙂

Weird. Have no issues over here. Which browser are you…[Read more]

Was digging through the horror section on PlutoTV the other day and this one near the bottom caught my eye. No idea how they sort the categories but it was pretty good! Interestingly, the RT score is 90% but the IMDB score is close to 50-60%. Granted, they use different metrics but still interesting 🙂

Got a WHEA uncorrectable bugcheck – looks like it points to the Standard NVM Express Controller of the newish (PCI connected) SSD. After booting the event log showed this:

A fatal hardware error has occurred.

Component: PCI Express Endpoint
Error Source: Advanced Error Reporting (PCI Express)

Primary Bus:Device:Function: 0x1:0x0:0x0
Secondary…

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I kind of miss the simplicity of Usenet and the BBS boards. Had access to some of them twenty years ago when Bellsouth was hosting them. Hard to beat a simple mailing list like browsing but with better organization.

Other than a few books on the wait list, I’ve pretty much run out of science fiction from the library. At least, space opera. So I’m moving to horror books now. Wish me luck!

From the way it was woeded one can imagine the new chargers magically detect whether the device is “compat8ble” and charge accoringly. No? Oh well, just another one for the d8sappointments rack.