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What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've enjoyed the books, but they really seem that they need an aggressive editor. Being long for the sake of being long just doesn't work.

What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed Name of the Wind until about 3/4 of the way through and I sat back and though: Orphan kid, goes to magic school, has male and female friend classmates, one professor seems to not like him....holy shit, I'm reading a reimagining of fucking Harry Potter.

best song lyrics youve ever heard in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The sun is the same in a relative way
    but you're older      <- Time, Pink Floyd

A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Article 1, Section 5:

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can easily see the DNC having Newsom put Shiff in the seat if Feinstein dies (she's not going out any other way). Then Shiff would be the incumbent and the DNC and Dem voters usually go for the incumbent. Otherwise, they'll end up with Porter. She makes waves and the boys at the top, they don't like waves.

Heat wave puts over two-thirds of U.S. population under heat alerts in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It’s such an uncomfortable truth!

Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!

What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two I have to mention

The first book of Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow trilogy, Blood Song, is one of my favorite fantasy books. I just really liked it. The second book was OK, the third was an absolute train wreck. I would have preferred it to be unfinished. Huge disappointment for me.

The Lightbringer series by Brent weeks started off strong. The Black Prism was great in the magic system seemed unique. Second book was OK, good enough I was looking forward just enough to finish the trilogy. Then the third book didn't finish, so I figured he just stretched out the series to milk a few more dollars from the idea. Then the fourth was similar. I couldn't bring myself to care about the next book. Big disappointment.

HONORABLE MENTION: WoT. Made it to book 6 or 7 both times I've tried to read through them. Then the characters, the writing, everything, just starts to piss me off.

People whose original language isn't English, which dialect did you try to imitate while learning? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a weird rule, but of course this is the internet. Nobody said you had to tell the truth. Take it from me, living in Chagos.

A confused Dianne Feinstein tried to give a speech in the middle of a Senate hearing vote and was told to 'just say aye' instead in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

People decry most "both sides" arguments for legitimate reasons. But this geriatric pandering takes place on both sides. It is absolutely disgusting to witness.

I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he'd been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

Donald Trump unleashed a war against the U.S. government — and now he can't control it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Then came Ronald Reagan and the dark times.

That about sums up the situation.

What habits do you have to protect your privacy? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I configured the newsboat rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @[email protected]'s javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for "rssurl". That will give you the rss feed for the channel.

A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.

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Copying website for offline (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is probably not the right place, but I figured I'd give it a try. I've been trying to copy this website so I could have offline access when tooling around the Channel Islands. I could (and probably will), just copy/paste whatever info I need for my little trips, but the fact that I can't copy it ass over is annoying the hell out of me. I've tried variations of wget -r ... as well as httrack with no success. Anyone have any idea how I can get this?

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Media Manager (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any idea for what to use as a media manager? I'm getting ready to go on a small trip and I would like to be able to import all my videos/pictures from an SD card and have them filed based on the meta data. At least by date. I've always done this manually and it's not awful, but there has to be a better way.

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Using at command (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people haven't heard of the at command, and I just figured I'd post up a little bit about it. I use it as a semi-alarm clock type reminder.

Structure of command the way I use it:

echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 'YOUR URGENT MESSAGE'" | at "2pm Jun 18"

I actually wrote a tiny function so that I don't have to remember the -u critical -t 0 part. That is to keep the notification box from timing out. Now tomorrow (June 18th) at 2pm, a message box will pop up with the text "YOUR URGENT MESSAGE".

There are options for running commands (like cron, but you don't have to edit, then delete your edit after running). It is great if you don't want to mess with cron, or another utility for a quick reminder.

My quick little function looks like this:

notify_me ()
{
    if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
        echo 'Usage:  notify_me "message" time/date' 1>&2;
        echo '                   make sure to enclose message in quotes' 1>&2;
        echo "                   also enclose date if it's more than just a time" 1>&2;
        return;
    fi;
    echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 '$1'" | at "$2"
}

So say I have to remind myself to call the wife when the work day is over. I'll do something like:

notify_me "Check with the ol' ball and chain" "4:45pm"

I'm sure if you wanted to, you could make a very quick zenity (or whatever you like) gui for it, if that's the way you roll. Now I'll get a nice little pop-up 15 minutes before I check out. Tiny little things like this are why I enjoy the command line so much.

For more uses, check out the man page, or the tldr. It's not complicated and I find it useful.

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