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Does anyone remember a Christian soap opera that aired in the early '80s called "Another Life?" I remember really getting into that show in 1981.
in reply to David Goldfield

Wow it had a classy theme. youtube.com/watch?v=Ryvx9GxrsJ…
in reply to Robin Frost

@robini71 That's amazing. Hadn't heard that theme in over 40 years. Thanks for finding it.


I'm hoping this is not the case but I need some answers from tech people. I have a 128 GB SD card. I use it to listen to movies/TV shows/graphic audio via my Victor reader three. Currently I am trying to copy a graphic audio onto it with 39 GB space available. It is refusing to copy or cut onto this card. Does this mean that the SD card is going bad? This has only started to happen recently. I can put the graphic audio on my hard drive but it is not allowing me to put it on the SD card.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield It took me some figuring out because I for some reason can't get the computer to display the size. So I plugged my hard drive into my phone. This is the size of the file I want to copy onto my SD card. Size, 902.5 MB


Wow, it's great seeing more of the Internet Archive back in operation. I was so disgusted at what happened to them. This amazing library helped me to find electronic copies of out of print books that I've wanted to read for decades. These are books that I honestly never thought I'd be able to read, short of purchasing used copies of the books and spending hours of my time scanning them. I can't express enough my thanks for the hours of joy I've received from this service after finding books that I thought would always be inaccessible to me as a blind reader.
@internetarchive

Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21
blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/in…

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I always wanted to look into why I procrastinate, but I keep putting it off.
in reply to I Has Wisdom

You'll find plenty of good company at this year's 1994 procrastinator's convention.


#DoctorWho was probably the last thing the English could offer and now the Americans own it.


Our DM is experimenting with giving us players more free rein to suggest aspects about the world and especially stuff that concerns our characters. He's finding it's more fun for him if he gets to enjoy what other people add to the story.

I think it's fantastic, but it's difficult to foster that approach in #DnD. It's not really built for it. Of course, at this point the version of "D&D" we are playing is so homebrewed and tweaked that it's eventually not going to qualify as the same game.

#dnd
in reply to Artemis

I wish they'd just be content to sell books with cool, creative content instead of trying to somehow gain control over the *game* itself.

You can own the license to publish official D&D content. You *cannot* own D&D.

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in reply to Artemis

Blame Hasbro and their investors for fundamentally failing to understand the D&D community, and instead wanting to tightly control and monetize it in search of the greatest profits.

Personally, I've been liking the campaign architecture of newer systems like Forged in the Dark or Apocalypse Word for using different ways of encouragement towards specific play styles. Even the way they use dice like 2d6 means you've got a better bell curve distribution of success. Or how "well, bad thing happened, but you can push yourself to resist the bad thing, but the pushing yourself adds up".



in reply to Sven

And Pluto, at least, attempts to play DW episodes in order, unlike Amazon Prime Video and Xumo Play where you just never know what you'll get. #DoctorWho


Fun facts:

The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.

The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.

The fastest commute comes with working from home.



Hmm I have a book I bought saturday that came with PDF and Epub versions. Q-read won't open the Epub, error says parsing failed "Unable to parse document." Any other programs for windows that can open it and save as txt?



What if Doom II had a propper OPL3 soundtrrack?

It would fucking slap, that’s what.

youtube.com/watch?v=EmA9R8bt0v…

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in reply to Drew Mochak

Ah, my family had an SB16. That might be why OPL3 was familiar to me. Never played Doom or Doom II, though.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Most DOS games were OPL2 and didn't have much optimisations for OPL3. There was a list of games that fully supported it somewhere, can't remember where I saw that.


Wellp, over the weekend, I got Sling TV again, and boy do I regret it. When I had it in 2016, only the guide was inaccessible mostly, now the entire video player has no accessible controls, not even a way to adjust volume via the keyboard. I'm crushed, honestly, just crushed. YouTube TV being $72 is too much, Philo is better but with fewer channels, and FRNDLY TV has some of the ones I want but even fewer. Sling sucks, if you're blind, just don't get it.
in reply to Tamas G

nowadays if you're using an actual tv more and more sites aren't working like they're supposed to, so the best chance you have is to pirate or find a good tv service.
in reply to Goemon Ishikawa

yeah what's hard is that we don't have a physical TV here (I stream content from my computer through a local-hosted Icecast server that gets pulled in through 2 multiroom Echo studios, 2 dots, from a skill.)
upside: No fuss about video and audio syncing or using propriatary OS and screen readers.
Downside: Well, this, I guess. Ideally I would somehow play streams as playlists in VLC and channel surf that way, but never in our corporate DRM-protected world.
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in reply to Tamas G

Brother man you could still use websites if you know where to go, you might want to use an adblocker for this one though.
thetvapp.to/
in reply to Goemon Ishikawa

@GoemonIshikawa ha yeah, that's not a bad one with the hosts file I have none of the ads show. I think my big problem tends to be the quality of streams and then of course not knowing when something moves, but for sure a sad state of the world when sites like that are more simple and accessible than mainstream paid streaming sites are who would have the money but not dignity to relinquish control for user freedom and ease of access, either.
in reply to Tamas G

right? It's almost like accessibility is becoming more of a service issue than anything elce nowadays.
I think you can check what comes on as well if you can get the schedual from the site and manage to import it somehow.
in reply to Goemon Ishikawa

@GoemonIshikawa that schedule is perfect for each channel too, that's what's surprising there, no fuss, just the straight channel schedules. Ugh. It's almost like in an effort to feed us more content and recommendations and have fancy two-directional scrolling for the guide and bla bla bla ruins it all. LOL. Will probably cancel Sling because their iOS app shows actual .PNG filenames with URLs attached, gonna screen record it and complain to them.
in reply to Tamas G

Yes you should as that's really bad on there part.
Hopefully they can fix it because when a dam piracy service does better than your actual leegal service, you know you have issues.
in reply to Tamas G

Neverused Fubo, but Direc TV Stream and YouTube TV are the most expensive. Direc TV Stream has the most channels. I wish Google would get their shit together and bring back MLB Network.


I just drove four hours round trip for a monitor lol



Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday devontechnologies.com/blog/202…


¡Las postulaciones para GNOME Latam 2024 aún siguen abiertas!

¡No pierdas la oportunidad de ser parte de este evento que une a la comunidad
@gnome en América Latina! Regístrate ahora y asegura tu lugar en Medellín, Colombia, o en línea.

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It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.

The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture owns a share of the blame.

But why do I care? A short thread.

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in reply to Alex Russell

My primary motivation is that I want the web to win.

What does that mean? Concretely, that means that I want folks to be able to accomplish most of their daily tasks on the web. A reasonable diagnostic metric is time spent as a percentage of time on device. JTBD fraction would be the natural leading metric, but it's wicked hard to track.

This phrasing – fraction of time, rather than total time – has the benefit of not being thirsty. It's also tracked by various parties.

Ok, but why?

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The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

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I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optimist with experience in how the world actually works


Just applied to the STF fellowship in a project with #GNOME, #postmarketos and #alpinelinux. This was only possible after my dad and @craftyguy got me out of a terrible emotional deadlock earlier this week. Asking and accepting help is truly worth it.

#mentalhealth



¡Explora el calendario de actividades para el 25 y 26 de octubre en #GNOME Latam 2024!

events.gnome.org/e/latam2024

No te pierdas las charlas y eventos que hemos preparado, con destacados expositores y una gran promoción del Software Libre. ¡Va a ser imperdible!

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iOS 18.1 upgrades business messaging with RCS support 9to5mac.com/2024/10/21/ios-18-…


iOS 17.7.1 is coming soon for iPhone users not yet on iOS 18 9to5mac.com/2024/10/21/ios-177…


If you make $20/ hour, you take home about $15 after taxes.

That night out isn't $300, it's 20 hours of your time, or 2.5 days of work.

That car isn't $60,000, it's 4,000 hours of your time, or 500 days of work.

Framing purchases in time instead of dollars will help you make better-informed decisions with money.

Always consider opportunity cost. Your TIME is valuable.



AWS announces a seamless link experience for the AWS Console Mobile App
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws


Analyze access patterns and use the most cost-effective Amazon S3 storage class
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/a… #aws #blog
#blog #aws


Deploy a serverless web application to edit images using Amazon Bedrock
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#blog #aws


When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.

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Since the recent update to 4.4.3-ose #DAVx5 crashes on every sync 😪 @davx5app are you aware of that issue?
in reply to Rapha Mack

maybe this is already fixed in 4.4.3.2. it should be available soon



I misspoke at work babbling too fast because OF COURSE I DID while telling co-worker about ADHD and yeah that leads to this.


you're offered free music by somebody, which format (of the following) do you choose? please boost for sample size.

  • Cassette (5%, 10 votes)
  • CD (49%, 99 votes)
  • USB drive (46%, 93 votes)
202 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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