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I’ve always wondered why hardware manufacturers stylize components that you’re never going to see. Motherboards have color designs, video cards have similar, and some processors even have art etched on them. This was also before transparent cases became more common.

In other news: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/24/marge-simpson-seen-on-3500-year-old-egyptian-coffin.html/amp

And in other other news: wine, anyone?

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Does a new post exhibit the same behavior with the recent bbPress updates?

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Did a bit of additional checking and for MtG and Pokemon, those look like the only options. Everything else is at least eight years past its expiration date. I’ll take a closer look at MtG Tooltips when I get the opportunity

For Pokemon, everything looks out of date and only a few even came up in the search results.

Haven’t looked into YGO yet but I fear we may come across the same thing

So, yeah, same results as your trawling back in April 🙁

I suspect this is all related to the younger generation (well, younger than myself at least and even my generation is guilty) preferring Discord for instant gratification. Not a fan of the platform myself as it’s really a chat room at its core and not great for articles and discussion when you’re not actively looking at it. That and you need an account to view anything.

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Looks like bbPress got some updates recently but I’m not seeing any information on them. The GitHub repository hasn’t been updated in years and the the homepage is still inactive, save for the support forum. It probably happened on the WordPress repository, which I’m not entirely sure how to find. Will keep looking, though.

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After doing some investigation into the wonkiness of some of the styles, I think I’m going to need to look into CSS conditionals at some point. We have different box layouts that we want to have a similar look and feel but some of the sub-classes have the same class, giving us a weird look when we try to combine things. One example is the post box on the home page. Due to how the HTML is structured, I can’t easily increase the size of the inner box to fill the container so I’m thinking I’ll need to tell it that if the post box is adjacent to the article element, then the background of the combined box is the background of the inner box. Not ideal but we definitely don’t want to change the core HTML as that’d cause update conflicts.

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Thanks! Will start getting the layout fixed up. There’s probably going to be some back and forth as we progress but we’ll get there! 🙂

Still get confused about how there are several places to edit the layout, including the theme file editor. Not exactly the most intuitive 😛

…And it looks like we have a section for Blog Home and one for Front Page. What’s the difference, I wonder?

Ah, finally found the home page setting I was looking for: https://stearnvault.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

Honestly, I was expecting to find that under General Settings instead of Reading.

Other than deleting the Subscriber block and cleaning up the sidebar, any other layout requests? Can probably do pretty much anything now that we’ve found the right area.

Sure, they can be cleaned out. Would like to keep one of them handy, though, at least until I get them properly styled. That way, we won’t need to go back and do it later on since the CSS will already exist 🙂

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Recalled this gem the other day: https://www.armadillorun.com/

Have fond memories of playing it years ago. I wonder how it’s held up over the decades?

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So I went to play around with the homepage and it looks like it was already fixed? Looks like I missed that. No idea where we go to change the layout of the homepage. It doesn’t look like there’s an associated page for it.

Also, where do we change which page is used for the homepage? Not seeing it in the settings. I thought it was there at one point but I may be misremembering.

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May get myself a so-called desk mat for the odd cases where I run out of mouse pad room 😛

Ten years is the estimate before it hits 80% capacity so, in theory, it should stay alive for a total of fifteen to twenty at reduced capacity. But time will tell! Definitely relic worthy!

Let’s hope it works!

In my experience, off-brand batteries don’t tend to last as long so hopefully the official battery works 🙂

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My favorite part is where he was supposedly drunk and on crack the whole time. He even got barred from entering the studio as the guard thought he was a random nutcase. Sounds about right 😛

Really need to watch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels at some point. Its Talk page is a pretty fun read, too! 🙂

The Rift was pretty enjoyable, even if it was a pretty typical underwater adventure film. The acting helped it stand out even though the plot wasn’t anything to write home about. 🙂

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Almost stayed for yesterday’s tournament since it was starting earlier than usual but decided I wasn’t yet ready. One day! 🙂

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Meant to toss this in here earlier but we need a miniature golf course. Why? Why not!

I’m thinking sci-fi themed. Giant robot blocking the green, rocket falling over, planetary rings as the track, etcetera.

Golf with Friends has a level editor that could be handy for such a thing.

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Getting my mom set up with an Ecoflow Delta 2 Max. She lives in an area with a sensitive grid so she’d like to be able to get some power when they get clobbered by a hurricane. 🙂

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“I’ll explode when I want to explode! Oh look, a space probe! Target practice!” 😀

It’s a standard Dish Network dish. It’s pretty banged up and looks like a tree had fallen on it so it may not be usable (the shape is all out of whack). Won’t know until I fix a wire to it and plug it into a radio, though. Will probably also want to give it a good scrubbing. It’s pretty dirty. For cooler weather!

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Lorcana seems to be pretty popular. Perhaps it’s worth including it into the first post?

Thinking about buying a couple of Pokemon starter decks. Never did play the game, just liked the artwork. Would be a slight change but I’m kind of in the mood to try a game that’s a little less intense than Yu-Gi-Oh. Not that I plan to quit playing, just want a great of fresh air is all. 🙂

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Trying to do some research on plasma confinement for some ideas bouncing around the dusty processor and Wikipedia’s article leaves a little to be desired: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_confinement

It just links to the different types instead of providing a general overview. The overview would be really helpful so I had a better handle on what I’m reading in the linked articles

The DoE does a slightly better job: https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsplasma-confinement

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Sorry! Looks like that image was removed for whatever reason. Here’s a new one!

Yeah, the A/C is set to turn on at 80F. The humidity is so bad, though, that it’s still very high outside even at 72F. It’s horrible!

Great! Yeah, I need to do that with my lamps. As I use them, the screws holding the shafts together and the one holding the shade down come loose so I periodically need to tighten them up. Had one time when the whole thing came apart on me, it was so loose 😛

Will definitely add it to the reading list! 🙂

Over here, we also have instances where prisoners are sometimes exploited to run scams using their phone time. Always disheartens me 🙁

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Found these yesterday: https://www.boxlunch.com/product/disney-the-nightmare-before-christmas-sallys-storage-jars—boxlunch-exclusive/13341930.html

Would look quite nice in the kitchen! 🙂

The jars came! They’re much bigger than expected!

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I have the entire series of Flying Circus on DVD! 😀

Could also use it to mail a letter! 😛

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The sleeves came in and they work like a charm! They’re a much better fit than the basic standard sized sleeves over a regular Japanese sized sleeve with much less movement. 🙂

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Let’s hope not! Not a fan of politics in my science news. They should probably have a separate publication dealing with politics and science so that those of us who don’t want to deal with it can just get our science fix. Or the other way around. Will probably still resubscribe as it’s the best way to get science news with the downfall of RSS. It’s a real pain to manually check each site and see what you missed, especially when some of them put the articles in popularity order instead of by date. The future of news consumption is pretty bleak if the community doesn’t add older features back in. 🙁

User feedback is now about ten to fifteen pages in and they cut the cartoons while adding a section where people can describe their own professions at the end, sort of a slice of life section. The political editorials are usually in the first few pages but they have published research articles with a political slant a few times. I generally skip those as they’re pretty biased and the end results are largely based on the data set.

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