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Sorry, missed this the other month. Yep, the specs are good to know. Interestingly, the RAM is actually twice what the basic Linode plan offers. 🙂

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Yep, she’s great! 😀

May have mentioned this before but I’ve always found that I focus better with symphonic metal playing in the background. Back in school, I’d toss my CDs in the computer to help during programming class. Always worked like a charm 🙂

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Sounds good. Will start playing with the blog design again and hopefully we don’t run into an issue like we did when the preview broke. 🙂

Got the footer purged. We can always bring it back later if we want to. Once we have the layout prepped and I know what we’re working with, the styles can be adjusted 🙂

May be a good idea to try to get everything set back up and working before we start tweaking the comments again but definitely worth considering afterwards, if that makes sense 🙂

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Ooh, neat little board. Definitely worth perusing!

Interesting, sounds like TCGPlayer is discontinuing their API for whatever reason. That would explain why some of the pages were broken and their scripts not working. Think the affiliate program is still up, though.

I’m pretty sure the official YGO database doesn’t provide an API and it’s a bit cumbersome to work with it in general. It does some weirdness where it accesses the information without changing the URL but I’ll see what I can dig up.

MtG has an API (can’t tell if it’s official or a community one) and the Pokemon TCG has an unofficial one so finding a plugin for it should be much easier. Will need to dig deeper for YGO. There are other smaller card games, too, but starting with the big three is probably a good idea

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Looks like YGO has an unofficial API here: https://ygoprodeck.com/api-guide/

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Sorry, for some reason I thought you were trying to work with VGA – digital. Not sure how I got that out of there….

Yeah, used to happen with our cassette player and, less frequently, with the VCR. Had to take a knife and pry them open. Was never a good thing when that happened :/

Just found out that this is a thing. Not exactly a silver bullet for using a wireless mouse but could still be handy in general for the range of devices. What would really be helpful, though, is a desk with built-in wireless charging. Until they resolve the battery and latency issues, hopefully wired mice will still exist 🙂

Speaking of mousepads, I’m probably overdue for a replacement. My twenty year old mousepads are looking kind of rough these days 😛

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Stumbled across this today while looking into possible APIs for TCG sites: https://docs.tcgplayer.com/docs/tcgplayer-affiliate-program

Could be useful if TCG discussion ever takes off

They do have an API but some of their docs were broken. Haven’t looked more into the card database plug-ins we were discussing earlier just yet but I’ll get there. 🙂

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Could set it up as a post and then post the link in the navigation bar. That way, it functions as both a page and a post for all intents and purposes.

Looking at the links you posted in the thread, some of the main post list pages work properly even though the test one I threw up the other day did not. Weird. We could perhaps see about setting that one as the home page if we want a traditional blog view available.

That brings up another question: what do we want to use the main pages for? Assuming we don’t hit an issue with the broken preview again (still not sure why it’s broken in the test page), we should be able to do pretty much anything with it (within reason). Of course, it’ll definitely evolve over time but what do we want to start with?

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Yep. We were unable to determine what was wrong with Linux so I had to reinstall it. Spent much of yesterday setting things back up (always been a bit slow with configuring software) so we should be able to rock and roll again in a few days 🙂

Is HDMI 2.1 not backwards compatible with 2.0? You should be able to use an older screen with it and work fine. That should be the maximum supported version. Likewise, you should be able to use it with screens that exceed the version but you wouldn’t get all of the features available.

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Watched Maximum Overdrive and it was so bad that it was hilarious. Too many things to list about it but it opens to people sliding off a bridge (Wheeeee!) and slipping on watermelons like banana peels. Definitely worth watching! 😀

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Finished up with support a few weeks ago. The only thing left was to restore the Windows bootloader, which went without a hitch. Just didn’t have time to do it before yesterday morning. Now I can go back and finish configuring everything again. 🙂

No surprise that the motherboard is proprietary. Do wish they’d use more standard parts, though, for better software support.

SK Hynix is a good brand and known for stability. Their parts are mostly sold to integrators and the embedded market but they’ve recently started selling their SSDs to the general consumer so you may not have a problem finding identical RAM if you want to upgrade to another stick. 🙂

Sounds good on the monitor issues. I think DP is video only but I’ve only ever used it with external speakers so don’t quote me on that.

Year, everyone’s hearing is different. For instance, I had some EMF interference on the unused RCA jacks on the amp that only I could hear on account of the frequency. Had to cap them to get rid of it 🙂

Yeah, we get the driver loading errors on Linux, too. On Linux, it tries each module so the errors aren’t true errors but information messages saying the associated hardware for the module wasn’t found so the module failed to take effect. Can get a tad confusing when there is an actual error

Yep, that external looks pretty slick. 🙂

May need an external at some point myself

*looks at RCT disc*

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That was…surprisingly painless. I booted the installation USB, which sent me to the Install Windows area. At first, I was a bit confused as I thought it would give me a menu to select Install, Repair, etc. Next, I hit Shift + F10 as instructed and that brought up a system command prompt. One there, I tracked down the system drive letter with

diskpart
list volume
exit

The system volume is generally the largest partition formatted as NTFS. After that, I typed:
Bcdboot <volume>:\Windows
I exited the command prompt and then exited the Install window with the big X (why it still uses the W7 theme to install W11 is beyond me (I’m a bit of a stickler for visual consistency 😛 )) to reboot.
Boom. Windows was back. Took me all of two minutes.

Next step is to reconfigure systemd-boot. Hopefully that’s just a simple matter of adjusting the timeout but we’ll find out. The PopOS drive still shows as bootable in the UEFI menu, at least. 🙂

Honestly, I was expecting more trouble than that.

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Boom. systemd-boot is updated. Just had to add timeout 5 to loader.conf in the ESP. 🙂

Final analysis: Windows didn’t mess with the ESP at all when updating it. Why it can’t do that during the Windows installation process is beyond me. It would make a lot more sense to just run the command than to reset the entire ESP when detected. Same with Linux installers.

Now the question becomes, what next?

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Since the banning of Baronne a couple of months ago, I’ve been attempting to determine how else to protect me against the effects of Nibiru (will add in links later) as Blackwings are especially vulnerable to its effects, save for Full Armor Master.

Sales Ban is a good option and cheap. As discussed above, if I open with it I can stop the card in its tracks.

Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon may work, as well, but its effect needs some analyzing. It doesn’t say it negates on the field, just negates an effect, so it should work. It’s also cheap now after getting reprinted last week

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Looks like Microsoft is beginning to deprecate VBScript. Out of curiosity, is there another language that can be used for “extensions” on Windows?

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Does the UPS include a voltage regulator? Some of them do and that may help to some degree.

One of these may be helpful. Oftentimes, there are fewer issues when using analog – analog and digital – digital. Granted, I never had an issue with VGA – DVI in the past but that was ~2005 or so.

I do like that TV’s built-in DVD drive. Looks quite handy! Sony tried such a thing with their PlayStation TV where you could slot in a game disc but it didn’t do well, sadly.

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And got Seed of Chucky lined up for this weekend. 🙂

Going to plan to watch The Brain that wouldn’t Die again soon, too. That should be fun!

Turns out that Tubi has Classic Who in their library. Could be fun to watch the old ones! I do miss British comedies. PBS used to show them on weekend nights but stopped doing that about ten years ago. They were a lot of fun!

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For the first iteration, I’m thinking of it having the typical rover-like design for simplicity’s sake. One or two arms, four or six wheels, a couple of headlights, and the necessary camera for navigation. The proximity sensors can always be added on later but would probably be important to provide an alert about what’s around the unit. Ideally, they’d have an alert on the headset itself but I’m not sure how much is possible yet. Haven’t yet gotten to that stage in my research.

For the future, a self-balancing unit around a single, large ball could be interesting for the added maneuverability if the coding isn’t too bad.

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman has been watched again. Just as much fun as last time! 😀

And Bride of Chucky has been watched. Absolutely hilarious. 😛

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Yeah, just a basic syrup. The recipe said to stack the layers and then pour. It may work better to do the first layer, stack, then pour again.

Cool! Wasn’t aware she had a site. Good to know! And an updated version of the book is on the way. Awesome 🙂

Made a basic goat curry out of it with carrots, green peppers, and rice. Nothing fancy but it was delicious 🙂

I cooked the goat in the clay pot with the vegetables, the rice in the pressure cooker. One thing I wish they’d do is provide boneless goat but it seems traditional to sell the meat with bone for some reason. /shrug

Wouldn’t hurt to grease the foil, too. It’d also lend a good flavor to the underside of the meat. Love lamb over here. Another one I love to use the clay pot for. 🙂

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Sounds good. Once we figure out how to fix the disconnect, we can move to the next task. Presumably, all of this will help make the site more enticing to passers-by 🙂

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They do more or less govern. 😛

Last time I was there, I picked up American Idiot and Ride the Lightning. They don’t carry much classical (they only had two piano recordings and that was the extent of their classical selection, no symphonies or anything), though. I’ll need to look at the Jazz selection and they may also carry something in the vein of Sinatra but I’m not sure as I wasn’t looking at the time. It’s an excuse to go back, at least!

There may be some other stuff in the area that’s not on the map, as well.

I think I may need to stop reading the news again. For a while, I had stopped receiving articles about politics and the like but they’ve returned. Whenever I see the media harping on how we’re all doomed, it makes it hard for me to focus on what I can do to help. I get that there are problems but their hunt for ratings makes things sound like they’re worse than they are. They could be a little bit more constructive!

Speaking of, I still need to post what I have in mind for the robot project. Been meaning to but, with one thing and another starting with my thumb, it keeps slipping my mind. The basic design concept won’t take but a few minutes to write up. Will try to do that soon

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