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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

Every day I'm undlatin' undlatin', undlatin'

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Hide and seek champion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

licensing issues

I understand that the buyer doesn't lose the de facto ability to install the game from a local copy of the installer, but is it possible to lose the de jure right to install the game in that way due to licensing issues on GOG's end? I'm not saying it is, I'm just curious.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

The guy in the middle is holding a goedendag.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Must have been the wind.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difficulty of restoring to life someone who is already alive is why such high-level magic is required.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In case you're curious, the one in the picture I posted is in the art nouveau style but the one in the comic looks more like arts-and-crafts.

Note the floral decorations versus the simple geometric shapes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have never come across an ancient Egyptian statue in this style before. It's interesting that even the statue of his wife from the same tomb is much more stylized.

(from your link)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've noticed that fiction authors tend to dramatically overestimate how long history actually takes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's probably a beautiful slag-glass lampshade she just smashed.

Slag glass is thick. I guess Mr. True's skull is thicker.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The nuclear war happens in 2077.

Fallout 3 happens in 2277.

During those 200 years people in DC don't just fail to rebuild civilization. They even fail to get rid of the random pre-war garbage inside their own homes!

New Vegas (which starts in 2281) is better but still way too post-apocalyptic. I want my Fallouts to be post-apocalyptic but they should have been set much sooner after the war (maybe 70 years, just long enough that almost no one who remembers the pre-war world is left) and even then settled people shouldn't live in shacks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It adds insult to injury, since it shows that they expect that some people will want to apply those filters, but then they don't care enough to make the filters work. They just waste even more of my time by creating the false impression that they have made a tool that does what I want.

 

Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

 

Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.

Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...

 
 

There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

 

I live in a 20-story building built in 1929 and I want to do some minor renovations on my apartment. I've worked on a basic modern house made of 2x4s and drywall, but I'm out of my league here. I don't even know how to hang a mirror up on the wall...

If it's made of gypsum brick, can I treat it like masonry? What if it's hollow? Can lathe-and-plaster support any significant weight? Is drilling into the wall going to release some ancient evil they used as a normal construction material back then?

I'd love to find a guide for how to do even the basic things in these buildings. Does anyone have recommendations?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/buildapc
 

I have an Intel i7-4770 CPU (from 2013) and I don't think I have ever been CPU-bound so I would rather not spend money on upgrading it. However, I want to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon RX 7600. My motherboard supports PCIE 3.0 which the RX 7600 is fine with.

Is there anything I should look out for? I'm worried that I'm missing something that will prevent me from running a 2023 video card on hardware ten years older than that.

(In case anyone is curious, my current video card is a GeForce GTX 960. It has been good enough for Diablo 2 Resurrected but I don't think it will be able to handle Baldur's Gate 3.)

 

I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

 

Driving is the most comfortable, convenient, and fun mode of transportation. Walking and biking can be OK but only for traveling relatively short distances in good weather. Mass transit is inherently unpleasant. No matter how nice you try to make it (and most mass transit systems aren't nice) the fact of the matter is that passengers are still stuck in a crowded box with a bunch of strangers and limited to traveling to the mass transit system's destinations on the mass transit system's schedule. Compare this to getting into your own car and driving wherever you want, whenever you want...

I currently live in a place too crowded for driving to be practical - I get that places like this need mass transit. But needing mass transit sucks!

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