Fuuuuu!
I woke up, got up, turned on computer, read today's El Goonish Shiv, clicked on the daily gifts in Gems Of War, and then the computer suddenly turned off. No warning, no recoverable crash, no artifacts on screen. It simply turned off and now doesn't react to attempts to turn it on again.
I can't afford anything remotely comparable to it now, and for foreseeable future.
Returning to old slow laptop with much smaller screen will be painful.
Yes, I am naked, I just got up, ok?
I'll try to find a place where I could test the charger. If it is anything worse than that, I am screwed.
Oh, and the most important thing, my loging to work, apparently did not synchronize on Firefox...
Just met him this morning. Hate him.
kill! Kill! KILL! KILL!!
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Hi, I know I don't belong here at the cool kids table
No such thing. I know there are people who don't like my tirades and don't appreciate many of my posts, but we're all polite adults and get along. All are welcome. Period. Full stop. PLEASE feel welcome here!
but I needed to show up and offer solidarity in sending waves of rage toward self-entitled bicyclists who literally break the f$!~ing law all the time but insist other people "share the road" with them (by which, in my experience, means "let bicyclists nearly kill you, a pedestrian standing where you belong and minding their own business, and then get mad at you for being in their way").
What I didn't add to the previous post was that Impus Major is trying to teach Talky McTalkTalk to bike (he never learned as a kid) and they're having major issues with cars precisely because drivers have been so abused by bicyclists over the years that they don't know how to react.
They stop at the dedicated bicycle Stop signs and cars stop anyway and refuse to move until they go, going so far as to honk at them if they don't run the Stop sign. If they do run the Stop sign they get honked at.
I fundamentally agree with the statement: "If bicyclists want to share the road, they need to obey the rules of the road."
I've had to slam on the brakes in my car far too many times, or been honked at or run off the road as a cyclist because I dared to obey traffic control devices when cars weren't expecting it to feel any other way.
I commuted by bicycle for 28 years. I won't any more because the cars around here expect me to run Stop signs so that they can honk at me or swerve at me when I do. Too dangerous. Not worth it.
EDIT: When I was teaching the kids to bike and to drive, my instruction was simple and straightforward: "If you force the person with the right of way to react in any way, then you screwed up." I wish bicyclists would live by this.
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And yes, I find this a wee bit personal because I miss biking but I find it too dangerous to do so any more... because of the bicyclists' behaviors, not the drivers'.
The Ohlone Greenway is my favorite example. It's a beautiful bike path stretching for miles through Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, and Berkeley. At every street crossing there's at least a dedicated 4-way Stop sign, if not a light. The cities have worked hard to make it clear that the Stop sign on the bike path is for bicyclists: The Stop sign has an image of a bicycle on it. They've stenciled, "Bicycles must stop" onto the path.
Yet 90% of bicyclists don't even slow down. Sit at any of the intersections for an hour and you'll see at least one instance of a bicyclist forcing a car to hit the brakes because the car's stopped, started up again, and the cyclist runs the Stop sign at 15 mph. The more terrifying thing is that maybe once a week you'll see a cyclist go against a red light at one of the intersections with lights, forcing drivers with a green light to stop. What really kills me is watching parents teaching their kids to bike this way; you'll be stopped at one of the intersections, start going, and a Dad (it's always a dad) will run his stop sign at a whopping 8 mph, forcing you to stop, then 2-3 kids will follow along in his wake.
I loved a young girl who stopped at the Stop sign and refused to go. "Daddy! There's a Stop sign! We have to stop!"
I could have hugged her. But I'm sure I would have gotten in trouble.
Ugh, I am tired because of a run between multiple shop in search of charger, bringing one back only to discover it isn't merely the broken charger, and going back and returning it.
I am pretty sure I need to finally get the kobolds to bring me one of the Impish computers...
Oh, for f**ks sake, Steam no longer works correctly on Windows 8.1?!
Verifying 1.8 GB installation takes forever...
Is this my life now?
In lighter news, first Elon Musk changed Twitter's name to X, forced everyone to use x.com, and now officially relaxed their policy to allow porn on the platform.
X.com is now for porn, and all is right in the world.
Everything works so slow it is painful...
And I only need to stop eating for about half a year to get somehow decent computer.
Yaaay?! :/
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This day has been incredibly odd.
This day has been incredibly odd.
That explains the lack of a vehement bicycle defense, so I'll play Devil's Advocate for 30 seconds:
(1) It's not the car that's in danger of getting killed in a collision, so cars should necessarily be more aware of/careful around bicycles.
(2) Of the 3 times a car has caused me to crash, 2 of the 3 were a clueless driver hitting me (got doored once, got the classic "run over by a car turning right without looking" the other time).
So yes, drivers are awful.
But I compare it to camping and bears. Bears are dangerous, and will occasionally maul you. But when some jackass throws rocks at the bear and the bear, being a bear, cluelessly comes over and mauls you instead of the jackass, you don't blame the bear.
I'd love drivers to be more bicycle-aware and to be far more careful in sharing the road. But when almost every driver's entire remembered* experience with bicyclists is, "That jerk ran a Stop sign and cut me off," they have little inclination to do so.
Bicyclists need to improve their own behavior before they can expect others to do so as well.
*You tend to remember the negative, so a driver could encounter 30 bicyclists in a day, and they would only remember the one who cut them off and forget the rest.
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This day has been incredibly odd.
You have a weird way of pronouncing "poop".
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Incredibly.
Odd.
Has anyone had any experience with something like that Blackview MP80 Mini PC (Amazon.com link)?
Is that a decent-ish computer?
I am asking mostly because of the price I seen of this thing here in Poland.
EDIT: The one I had seen on a local computer shop webpage for 1100 złoty had 1 TB SSD instead of 512 so it would be slightly better than the linked one. Also, Windows 11 Home, which is a mixed bag, but it would mean I could use it immediately after bringing home and connecting everything.
Has anyone had any experience with something like that Blackview MP80 Mini PC (Amazon)?
Is that a decent-ish computer?
I am asking mostly because of the price I seen of this thing here in Poland.
EDIT: The one I had seen on a local computer shop webpage for 1100 złoty had 1 TB SSD instead of 512 so it would be slightly better than the linked one. Also, Windows 11 Home, which is a mixed bag, but it would mean I could use it immediately after bringing home and connecting everything.
Asking Shiro.
At least it happened after I finished Nioh 2.
NobodysHome: So I'm off to lunch and I don't know whether you're around, but our Polish friend from FaWtL wonders whether this would be capable of playing Steam games: .
Shiro: Not really, it will play some simple games but nothing really "new"... Wildermyth might run ok, but honestly nothing first person, or graphics heavy. It's a single channel memory architecture... and not very fast. That's meant more as a simple work computer, or maybe a game server for less than 4 clients. I'd avoid if I was thinking of playing any old steam game...
Awww.
I might still pick it because, well, budget limits, if I find nothing else within that price range that would be better.
Of course I did play graphic heavy games in absolutely lowest settings even on the computer that died.
Huh. A separate Windows purchase would cost me half the price of that set...
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How bad is my non-clinical OCD?
I made Impus Major soooooooo happy this afternoon.
Impus Major : Dad, this is the first time in my life I'm going to ask you this.
NobodysHome: What is it?
IM:
NH: Well?
IM: Dad, can you please put your clothes away?
(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)
Eh, will see how quickly I will get bonkers on the laptop.
NobodysHome: So I'm off to lunch and I don't know whether you're around, but our Polish friend from FaWtL wonders whether this would be capable of playing Steam games: .
Shiro: Not really, it will play some simple games but nothing really "new"... Wildermyth might run ok, but honestly nothing first person, or graphics heavy. It's a single channel memory architecture... and not very fast. That's meant more as a simple work computer, or maybe a game server for less than 4 clients. I'd avoid if I was thinking of playing any old steam game...
Does Shiro have an opinion about Intel Core i5-12450H or Intel Core i9-11900H? (both noted as having "memory acrhitecture: dual-channel").
And even those sets with better processors are clearly in the "I might save for one of those in two-three months from now at the very best". But at least they have slots for extra memory and possibility of adding another HD.
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How bad is my non-clinical OCD?
I made Impus Major soooooooo happy this afternoon.
Impus Major : Dad, this is the first time in my life I'm going to ask you this.
NobodysHome: What is it?
IM:
NH: Well?
IM: Dad, can you please put your clothes away?(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)
I have a simple solution to leaving clothing on kitchen table - I don't have free space on kitchen table (electric oven and electric stand on it, though I might move oven back to its resting place nearby, not today because I am going to use it in a moment, when I take a break for making a dinner).
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(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)I have a simple solution to leaving clothing on kitchen table - I don't have free space on kitchen table (electric oven and electric stand on it, though I might move oven back to its resting place nearby, not today because I am going to use it in a moment, when I take a break for making a dinner).
I've got an even simpler solution: I don't have a kitchen table.
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My table is one of the nicest things in my apartment (it's polished stone) so if something goes on there it doesn't stay for long. That said I never cut anything directly on the table.
And if you do a lot (or any) pastry rolling or any kind of baking then you should absolutely get a stone table.
I love my table.
So at the spring meeting they emphasized that we're going for over engineering everything this year, so whenever I have a project where I have downspouts to account for I automatically default to putting in pvc pipe instead of drain tile (black pipe that's flexible and ribbed but often collapses after about 5-7 years) so I've been plugging along.
Former coworker is going with drain tile first and then getting pissed off when he has to replace it with pvc pipe.
So even though they have an extra person we're pulling ahead.
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How bad is my non-clinical OCD?
I made Impus Major soooooooo happy this afternoon.
Impus Major : Dad, this is the first time in my life I'm going to ask you this.
NobodysHome: What is it?
IM:
NH: Well?
IM: Dad, can you please put your clothes away?(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)
INCREDIBLY!
ODD!
Incredibly.
Odd.
Well it was the 3rd.
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There's been a HUGE amount of ink spent writing about generational differences in job seeking/satisfaction/retention, but watching it firsthand is pretty amazing:
GenX friend has put in 2000 job applications over the last month, which is apparently the modern standard. (Way back when I got my Ph.D. in 1996 the paradigm was 200 applications = 1 job.) He'll take anything that pays the bills, figuring any kind of work is better than no work.
GenZ friend quit a job he liked for a better-paying job, but better-paying-job had long hours and an unpleasant work environment so he quit. He's now been unemployed for a couple of months to soul-search and decide what he could do that he would enjoy, figured something out, and has put in 1 (one) job application for the job he wants.
It'll be interesting to see where the two of them stand 6 months from now.
We will see. I cannot say either is right or wrong.
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Yes please. Thank you.A Saturday treat for Vanykrye.
Herbie Hancock & Jaco Pastorius - Live in 'The Chicago', 1977
I was -1 years old.
As long as I'm around, captain yesterday, are you playing Starfield? I poked around looking for some of your Fallout 4-esque posts and didn't see anything...
I have not yet, which is hilarious because the whole reason I got an Xbox was to play Starfield.
I tried for a bit after it came out but I was injured right afterwards and then I started a 2nd playthrough of Elden Ring (yes I already ordered Shadows of the Erdtree). I was actually just thinking I should give Starfield another try though.
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As long as I'm around, captain yesterday, are you playing Starfield? I poked around looking for some of your Fallout 4-esque posts and didn't see anything...I have not yet, which is hilarious because the whole reason I got an Xbox was to play Starfield.
I tried for a bit after it came out but I was injured right afterwards and then I started a 2nd playthrough of Elden Ring (yes I already ordered Shadows of the Erdtree). I was actually just thinking I should give Starfield another try though.
That's hilarious (I mean the buying and not playing, not the fact that you were injured - sorry to hear that!). I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, and I'm constantly doing random things because it fits the story in my head.
How bad are ticket sales here in the U.S.?
I just got a notification that as a Global Megacorporation employee I get discounted tickets through TicketsAtWork.
Curious, I looked up Babymetal. They're playing at the House of Blues in Anaheim on December 3. TicketsAtWork had General Admission tickets ranging from $179-$275, way more than we paid for our show in S.F.
So I went to the House of Blues web site and looked up tickets. $86 apiece for GA tickets.
In other words, my corporation pointed me to a "discount" ticket site that charges me more than double retail price for tickets. And the saddest part of that entire story is that it doesn't surprise me in the least; it's what ticket sales have become ever since TicketMaster became a monopoly.
At least I know I don't need to bookmark that site.
I was -1 years old.Yes please. Thank you.A Saturday treat for Vanykrye.
Herbie Hancock & Jaco Pastorius - Live in 'The Chicago', 1977
I was -2, but still present in my previous incarnation as a script logo MXR Phase 90.
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In other news, I got a letter from the doctor today (following last week's Decaying Man checkup) informing me that I have 'normal blood'. I'm relieved, but also slightly disappointed.
I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, and
Eek... is it as tied into the story as it is in Fallout 4? That was pretty much my least-favorite part of the game, alongside the mild motion sickness.
I'm constantly doing random things because it fits the story in my head.
AKA why I keep playing Skyrim and Morrowind over and over again...
We had the second round (in the classroom) interviews with our two applicants "finalists" today.
After the first round two weeks ago, I was certain I wanted candidate A as my assistant teacher* for next year. After today, the opposite is true. Boss and I discussed the questions that she plans to ask their references and we're tabling the discussion until that happens.
*Yes, assistant teacher, not credentialed teaching partner. We aren't getting applicants with prior Montessori experience, which is both alarming and sad. This also means more work for me.
“Head cannon.” I know what is meant by that, but it’s not what I imagine when I see that term.
I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, andEek... is it as tied into the story as it is in Fallout 4? That was pretty much my least-favorite part of the game, alongside the mild motion sickness.
I'm constantly doing random things because it fits the story in my head.AKA why I keep playing Skyrim and Morrowind over and over again...
I once spent an entire day (real time) following these three goats across the continent until they were all killed by a dragon on the opposite coast. I got my vengeance on it though.
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Spent a couple hours after work helping my landlords install window AC units in some of my neighbors' apartments. Always good to catch up with everybody, and I found out that the new guy who moved in down the hall plays D&D. All in all not a bad day, at least after I got back from work...
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I once spent an entire day (real time) following these three goats across the continent until they were all killed by a dragon on the opposite coast. I got my vengeance on it though.
I wonder if your character would be friends with this guy...
As long as I'm around, captain yesterday, are you playing Starfield? I poked around looking for some of your Fallout 4-esque posts and didn't see anything...I have not yet, which is hilarious because the whole reason I got an Xbox was to play Starfield.
I tried for a bit after it came out but I was injured right afterwards and then I started a 2nd playthrough of Elden Ring (yes I already ordered Shadows of the Erdtree). I was actually just thinking I should give Starfield another try though.
That's hilarious (I mean the buying and not playing, not the fact that you were injured - sorry to hear that!). I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, and I'm constantly doing random things because it fits the story in my head.
Yeah, last Christmas i got myself Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 with the idea I'd play them all on addition to Starfield when I had time off this winter. I had a week off for Christmas and then we set up for 2 garden shows this winter and then all the snow was immediately after each garden show so I only had 2 weeks off all winter.
So I only got to Baldur's Gate 3.