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Going to get a break from babysitting in a couple of days so I’ll try to make some progress on things 🙂

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Switchblade Sisters was pretty fun. Good bits of humor scattered throughout to lighten up the tone but the fight scenes weren’t well choreographed. Lots of unskilled flailing of fists 😛

Didn’t realize Jeffery Dean Morgan did a whole lot outside of TV shows.

Got Sleeper on the list. Pretty sure I’ve seen bits and pieces of it but that’s okay! Need to see the whole thing at some point 🙂

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I’ve never had much luck with QR codes myself. Often, the autofocus craps out right as the camera is trying to snap the code. Haven’t tried with other applications, though. And these devices are supposed to make our lives a little less frustrating! 😛

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Poking around the settings and it looks like the template pack has been set to BuddyPress Legacy when it was BuddyPress Nouveu before (could be a result of the legacy support plugin). That may be part of why transitioning the styles has been weird. It is cleaner now and I don’t have a backup of the pre-transition changes, sadly. At some point, I probably should set it up under version control….

Everything works so I see why we need to change it, just something to keep noted.

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Great! Hopefully the testing notes mean you won’t need to return it any time soon 🙂

At some point, I’ll probably wind up with an NAS. Still need to do a lot of tidying up before one can go on the wish-list. Also need to find a place to stash the Thelio box until the warranty is up. The box is huge! 😛

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Rigs of Rods looks like an interesting driving simulator. Depending on how accurate its physics are, it could be a useful training tool. Will need to download it at some point to find out.

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Added the main sites for some of the games to the first post. Tried to get the global URLs but the one for the Pokemon card game is region based. Will need to do some digging to see if I can track down the global URL.

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Started adding Lorcana to the first post. 🙂

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Back on my old Mac from the 90’s, we had to perform a system restore at least once a year or it’d crap out. Never did figure out why 😛

Use Bash myself though I know a lot of people these days love C Shell or even Zsh. Probably need to give C shell a whirl one day. 🙂

I remember years ago when I was first learning about how computers work I was having trouble on Windows 95 getting the disc drive to work properly with some games. Support had me use XCOPY to copy the disc to the local drive to help diagnose the issue. Can’t remember any details other than that 😛

And Google is moving Chrome to Manifest V3 so uBlock Origin will no longer function properly. They have a pared down Lite version that will work but it leaves big open spaces in the content where the main version didn’t 🙁

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LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9’er, you are cleared for take-off.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
LA Control Tower: L.A. departure frequency: 1-2-3 point 9’er.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
Basta: Request vector, over.
Oveur: What?
LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9’er, clear for vector 2-3-4.
Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Oveur: Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?

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Yeah, tracking down manuals for older products can be hard! It’d be nice if the manufacturers kept an archive for them but not all of them do, sadly. For my turntable, I had to grab it from a third-party site even though Thorens is still going strong.

Looks pretty straightforward: just a matter of popping open the compartment and slotting it in. 🙂 Sometimes, things can get a bit more complicated than that 😛

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Sad news: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232171/anandtech-tech-journalism-hardware

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Fortunately, we still have Ars Technica. Hopefully, for a while more.

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Been a while so I had to reacquaint myself with how Windows works…

Looks like that’s a limitation in Windows. The Windows tools only have the ability to create a 32 GB volume but the OS has no problem recognizing and working with it up to its maximum size of 16 TB. In order to go above 32 GB, you’ll need to use a different tool or file system. Why these inconsistencies exist is beyond me but they’re very annoying! Part of why I prefer *nix. 😛

Another item to add to our potential knowledge base. 🙂

Just make sure your life jacket is handy and you’re sitting next to the lifeboats!

Great! Have you installed them yet?

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Awesome! On farms, they’re using flying bots equipped with lasers to blast weeds. Or at least they’re in development.

Here are the old ones if you want to catch up! Lots of interesting stuff on Textfiles!

The Register is fun. They put a slightly humorous spin on their stories. It definitely keeps things interesting 😛

Did some poking around and here are their newsletters and feeds:

https://account.theregister.com/edit/newsletter/
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/feeds.html

Haven’t read the recent articles yet on dark matter but they’re starting to believe that it doesn’t exist and something else is afoot with dark energy instead.

Looks fun! Will give it a whirl sometime 🙂

Still haven’t played through any of the DnD games, even though I have them all on the wishlist and picked up the Neverwinter collection in a giveaway. Really need to change that at some point 🙁

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While Lorcana doesn’t have an official database, there’s a pretty good fan site that helps to fill in the blanks: https://dreamborn.ink/

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Finally got around to watching the Lawnmower Man (director’s cut) yesterday. Highly recommended even if the reviews have it at 37%. 🙂

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Sorry, she was in her car waiting at the light. The car in front of her got T-boned when another car ran the light, causing that car to swing back into her car. Sadly, the driver that ran the light didn’t make it. 🙁

Yeah, the insurance companies are working on the compensation. Takes a while though.

Yep! Regular updates every few months. We’re getting at least one more update since the last one was Worlds Pt 1. Hope that’s not the last! 😛

I’d really like them to flush out the space side of things more, kind of like the X-series (which I still need to play). Hopefully they’ll get on it! Freighters have greatly improved since I first got the game four years back, which is nice. They’re now more useful than just warping and planning expeditions. I’ve grown fond of just hanging out on the outside of them 🙂

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As I mentioned in the other thread, I’m still pooped. She’s doing much better so hopefully it’ll be just another couple of days before I can rest up. Been so worn out that I’ve simply been reading books when I’m not exploring the galaxy in NMS. Exploring is going well, by the way. My starting sector has quite a few interesting systems, which is nice. 🙂

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So the General private forum’s heading reads “Private Private”. Reminds me of the Battle Droids, “Roger Roger”. 😛

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Saw this one yesterday. It was fun but the plot made zero sense. They kept forgetting various things that made it nonsensical, such as when the heroines top got cut by a scythe at a warehouse leaving her topless. They just left it at that without a change of clothes and a few dead bodies. We’re supposed to assume she made it back in that state without trouble in a clearly dangerous town where everyone knows how to kick everyone and wants to kick everyone. Yeah, the film was pretty silly when you get down to it 😛

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