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Yeah, their forum seems to be hit or miss. I like the answer in the printer thread: “Try turning it off and on again.” 😛

Honestly, that does fix most printer problems. Sometimes you do need to go into settings though and reset something. For whatever reason, my printer sometimes decides to use the wrong paper size and won’t work unless I switch…[Read more]

Trying to rebuild my list of resources but DigiKey and Mouser seem to be good resources for components. Could be handy for general repairs or even other projects.

The Ig Nobels are out!

Always fun to go through them 🙂

Hopefully the driverless cars will have a manual override. The cabs don’t and the manufacturers are shifting to removing steering controls from them, which could be potentially problematic in the event of an emergency.

I think it’s important to note that at the quantum level, general…[Read more]

While you can still purchase reasonably priced vacuum tubes, vacuum tube testers themselves are expensive!

Yep, it has an English dub! It’s also available in Japanese with English subtitles if you’d rather (or without subtitles if you’re so inclined 😛 ) and possibly other languages. I only watch the dubbed versions of anime. I have a hard time reading the subtitles and following what’s going on at the same time 😛

Yeah, a lot of stuff these days is…[Read more]

From what I understand, on-device accounts don’t link to the web version so that could explain why

Generally, kids don’t understand things as well. I can definitely understand where folks are coming from with that. Now, if they had added educational resources to the ride to sort of turn it into an “exhibit”, I think that would have gone a long ways to alleviating a lot of the controversy

On a different note, DC is crossing over with Weird Al:…[Read more]

Most of them are offline games but the wiki is a wonderful community resource that isn’t necessarily restricted to Arch (or even Linux to some extent). 🙂

Yuck. They also added .7z archive support a few years back. Personally, I’d still use 7-Zip for that since it provides more options for handling the files. Granted, .tar archives are pretty…[Read more]

No AMD? 🙁

And don’t forget to turn on the virtualization support if you’ll be running VMs or DOSBox! 🙂

Sounds good. 🙂

Pretty much! I don’t even use vanilla extract, except for when I’m baking for others 😛

Can’t taste it in the baked goods, anyways 🙂

A lot of the issues are due to human error and how the humans interact with the robots. As the humans are removed from the equation, the issues will become fewer. There’s also the fact that the software is still…[Read more]

I do wish it came with images as it’s not always clear about what’s being described. Will need to review it in depth. 🙂

Yeah, Reddit results on Google seem to include posts pulled from other threads sometimes. Something with Google’s crawler, I’m sure.

There are some odd ones on that page. The chicken one describes the chicken running off the…[Read more]

ifixit is a good resource for tools, parts, and repair guides. However, they do focus mostly on more modern stuff. I do wonder if there’s a site that focuses on vintage tech. Definitely trying to find out!

And Heinz is on the list as well so they probably have ketchup somewhere on the grounds.

Never got into hot sauce myself, even though I like spicy food. The sauce always tasted off to me compared to simply cooking the dish with hot peppers. My jambalaya recipe calls for jalapeno peppers but I may opt for something a little stronger as they’re a…[Read more]

Started watching anime again the other week as I was getting tired of other stuff 😛

Been enjoying it. Don’t know why but it’s hard for me to connect emotionally with other stuff. Can’t even connect to old stuff even if I do enjoy watching it.

Going to plan to watch Code Geass again soon. It’s always a good one, essentially a social commentary…[Read more]

Currently on PopOS but I’ll probably switch to openSUSE if things get too annoying. Fixed most of the annoyances by switching to Cinnamon, though. 🙂

I’d recommend Leap for the VM. While I love Tumbleweed, it is a rolling release so it tends to change more often. That can be a bit of a drawback if you’re not using it regularly as you may need to…[Read more]

Doing some exploring and came across this nifty directory: https://www.royalwarrant.org/directory

Yep, it’s all very confusing but gvsbuild looks like it should take care of most things. The key is to tell it to build gtkmm as it’s supposed to take care of the process of building the dependencies. Let me know if I need to clarify anything, much of this is from what I gleaned while reading the source code for gvsbuild. 🙂

This process won’t…[Read more]

I think my notes are ready for a test run if anyone is up to it.

Have a similar issue with purging elephant ears. I’ve tried just about everything short of herbicide, which I’m not a fan of. I don’t want to poison the ground.

A few years back, I dug out about a hundred pounds of ginger roots as they reproduce like crazy and they’re already coming back! Clearly I missed some roots. 😛

Our heat and drought are…[Read more]

Yeah, I’m not exactly sure how practical musical encryption would be but could be a fun research project. 🙂

They’re actually making some progress on turning thoughts into images and text in the lab. Currently, the image generation is very fuzzy and lacks resolution but should improve as the lookup tables get fleshed out based on brain…[Read more]