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Lasers! The base stations emit a laser beam on a motor and the headset uses it for positioning. A lot of other headsets use cameras, which are cheaper but don’t have the same kind of accuracy (and can’t be used in the dark). 🙂 The accuracy is much better since I elevated them by mounting them on the wall, which is nice 🙂

Yuck! You’re not using a CRT screen by any chance, are you? Could also be a bad video cable. My HDMI cable on the TV went out a few years back at the same time as the receiver died (was a pain to diagnose as I wasn’t expecting both to die at once) and it caused a green screen as a result (when it’d even show anything thanks to the kaput receiver).

I need to check the wiring on my computer speakers. They started popping a week or so ago only when I turn them on and are now barely emitting any sound. Hopefully it’s just the wiring but I haven’t gotten around to troubleshooting yet.

Mine are usually retail versions as I like to order from Microsoft directly just to make sure I’m getting a legitimate copy. That and I like installing the OS myself to make sure everything is set up the way I like it since I like running several operating systems. 🙂

Yeah, it’s been very wet this week and is supposed to drop to 37F next week. Fortunately, I like the cold weather 😛

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Finally got around to watching Snow White even though it’s almost 100 years old. I’m late! 😛

Anyways! It was rather odd. They made the faces of the two main characters a lot less detailed than any of the secondary ones. Wasn’t much my cup of tea but I also watched the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland again, which is right up my alley. 🙂

She broke so many property laws! Destruction of property, breaking and entering (and exiting), trespassing, and theft (why she’d steal and eat/drink stuff without thinking is beyond me).

The Mad Tea Party was the best part 😀

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Since the (successful) move (I’m assuming we’ve developed sudden affinities for toupees), email seems to be working somewhat better in that encryption is now being applied correctly. Only time will tell if all of the notifications are coming through, though.

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‘Twas the night before Outage, when all thro’ the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a ping;

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Good to be back!

We should keep an Elmer Fudd on staff to handle the wabbits!

Going to take a bit to get back into the swing of things but we shall get there! Also need to figure out where we left off on some of our discussions, which is probably the hardest part 😛

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Just generally upgrading my surge protection around the home and adding in extra outlets for the VR base stations. I had quite a few outlets that I use frequently that not only didn’t have surge protection but didn’t have enough places to plug things in so I was constantly juggling plugs as I needed them 🙂

I usually get the model that handles up to 4000 J while the one they sent me is the 4150 J model (difference is only a couple of USD). Minor upgrade but nice all the same 🙂

Yeah, I am very sensitive to noise so I can’t run the fans as often as they need to be run here. Fortunately, we just had some cold weather move in so that’s helping some!

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Yay! We’re back! Just wanted to get a post in! 😛

Ordered another surge protector the other day and they sent me the upgraded model instead of the one I had ordered but I’m not complaining!

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Lovely! Been wondering where that music was from!

Here’s an old classic:

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Bookcase doors/sliding bookcases are what you’re looking for 🙂

Yep, they could be added in, as well! I’ve often thought about getting one for my home to save on space but they can be pricey 😛

In that case, let’s see what we can come up with for a waterpark 🙂

Had another recall! We had discussed having exhibits around the park, sort of like miniature museums, regarding some of the various items related to the sector.

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More outages. Something really broke over there. 🙁

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Recalled another item! For the accommodations, we were thinking about setting things up as reconfigurable. For instance, you’d have a washing machine and a dishwasher on different faces of a turnstile

I think, for the first one, they removed the images to save space. Makes sense but sad to see.

Were you thinking of making Atlantis part of the waterpark instead of the land of myths? We had mentioned the possibility of a waterpark but didn’t get much further than that.

Another idea: make the lift pitch black so that when the car arrives (with you in it), the landing zone is majestically dowsed in light! 😀

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Been reading up online about cleaning up electrical contacts for my workshop’s toolkit and it sounds like DeOxIt is a well regarded go-to for reviving old electricals.

Still need to order some more tools and tool storage but I’ll get there!

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Yep, I get it all the time! Mostly happens when I’m doing some shopping and open up a lot of products in new tabs very quickly to compare items. Really annoying! 😛

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Demonic Toys was fun if you like them silly and bad. 😛

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Ah, okay. I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky the past couple of weeks. Been working on building out the power grid for my starter base. Once I get everything unlocked, I’ll make one on a nice lush planet I have access to. Of course, it’ll take a lot of asteroid mining to get the gold I need for the solar arrays 😛

Sounds good 🙂

It’d be nice to get some images together for our playthroughs but those would take up a lot of space!

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Ugh! Have you tried lossless compression? Not sure which formats YouTube takes, though. I know little about video files. :/

Yeah, upload speeds are historically pretty low. I think the logic is that home users shouldn’t need to upload a lot of large files unless they’re working. In which case, the providers would rather you get on a more expensive business plan. At least, I think that’s why it’s like that. Just making assumptions, though 😛

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Anymore updates? 🙂

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Sorry, all of these outages have really thrown me off!

I did try zooming in but I still had a bit of a hard time figuring out some bits. Will take another look! 🙂

Yikes! Hopefully it’s an easy fix! Always liked the design of their appliances. Really like the retro look 🙂

Cool!

Yeah, ADHD can be tough on you!

Got all the surge protectors mounted on the wall now! Much tidier! 😀

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Cool! Good thing the Spongebob universe avoided them. Who knows how that would have worked out otherwise 😛

I think part of it is that it needs to start all the drivers and things. All my systems have started off at 100% fan speed until everything is fully loaded, for example. I know there’s a bug in Windows that’s existed forever where it sometimes doesn’t initialize the Internet connection and requires a reboot. Large hosts files can definitely slow things down.

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Yeah, it’s all very confusing. We’ll probably want to take a full backup before the update just in case the house of cards falls down. We also need to paint the flowers the right color otherwise it’s off with our heads!

Never seen the widget dialogue before, I wonder where it is?

I’m sure that our CSS will need to be redone for BuddyPress when the new theme hits but hopefully that’ll simply be a matter of changing some selectors.

They also have a new attachment plugin that lets you apply ACLs to uploaded files. Could be useful for us to share project files and the like. Probably worth looking into!

I do wish bbPress would get some love in the updates department. 2.7 has some bug fixes that would be nice to have but it seems to be in limbo 🙁

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The turntable hunt is over. I’m now the proud owner of a Thorens 165 🙂

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