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  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Films & TV Shows in the forum Discussion 1 month ago

    Granted, most of the stuff I watch has terrible scores on both IMDB and RT…. 😛

    Bad movies are fun!

    Haven’t gotten much chance to watch anything really noticeable lately as they were roofing next door. May switch over to holiday mode soon, though. In which case, I absolutely have to watch classics like The Star Wars Holiday Special and Santa…[Read more]

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion 1 month, 1 week ago

    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]

  • 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]

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic SETI in the forum Discussion 1 month, 1 week ago

    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:

    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]

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion 1 month, 1 week ago

    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. 🙂

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Cooking in the forum Discussion 1 month, 1 week ago

    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]

  • 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?

  • 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 🙂

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    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.

  • Spastic Hamburger replied to the topic Random in the forum Discussion 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    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!

  • And another one came in: City Car Driving. It has VR support, which the other two do not, but its wheel support isn’t as extensive according to the reviews but it definitely warrants some additional research to see which one of the three programs is best suited to me 🙂

  • More than likely. A higher power input means more heat if the battery can’t absorb it all so you want a charger with a lower power for those devices. Don’t remember seeing power tolerances on spec-sheets like we have for humidity and temperature, which seems like an oversight since we have chargers of several power ratings. There are some that…[Read more]

  • Put out a holler on Reddit and the peeps over there also suggested taking a look at Euro Truck Simulator 2 so I’ll add it to the list. May have me on the wrong side of the road, though 😛

  • Sorry! I mean CPU controlled cars other than mine. The patterns don’t need to be realistic, just need some moving obstacles to practice on. 🙂

    Thanks! Will give that a go 🙂

  • BeamNG Drive looks like it may be a better sim than Rigs of Rods and shares many of the same devs. I think it has ambient cars but need to make sure. Tried Rigs and, while okay, it is missing some features I need for a good practice sim

  • The stuck entry doesn’t appear in the registry at that location. Wish we had a proper search function for the registry. The find option just isn’t cutting it!

    That’s a lot of whitespace! Better view would have the search bar next to the menu options like that. Assuming it’s using some sort of XML based layout (among others), they could do that…[Read more]

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