Blue_Morpho

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I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they’re all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…

Blue_Morpho,

Is this new in the past few months? I was using mulvad with qbitorrent a few months ago and it was uploading.

Blue_Morpho,

That was lucky timing for me! I was updating all my media around June.

Blue_Morpho,

Imo rule of two was an unnecessary retcon of a line from Phantom. “Always two Sith are found together” didn’t have to mean ONLY two. It was to reflect that like Jedi Master and Jedi Padawan are always two Jedi found together, two Sith are always found together.

Instead of seeing the symmetry that Lucas was so fond of (it’s like poetry), the EU ran with the line into an absurd history of how Sith developed into only 2 Sith in the entire Galaxy.

The fact that there was Emperor, Dooku and Maul coexisting meant Lucas saw the Sith as the evil version of the Jedi.

Blue_Morpho,

Fencing with a rapier is different from waving around something which cuts and burns through stuff without pressure with every side

It’s actually closer to what Lightsaber dueling would be than the Kendo style used in most of Star Wars. The Light Saber has no mass and a single touch is incapacitating. So two handed hard chops like classic Luke are ridiculous. The rapier fencing technique to parry, thrust or slice quickly and lightly is ideal. You have a massless blade not a two handed clamore. You need only prick the opponent to severely harm them in the same way in fencing a touch, no matter how light, is a point for you.

Blue_Morpho,

A bo staff beats a sword where any touch is deadly.

Blue_Morpho,

Make the microchips shaped like tiny guns. Sell it as a premium. Do you want a communism vaccine or a $100 vaccine that comes with a premium microchip gun so you can tell your friends you are always packing.

Blue_Morpho,

You left out that you need a $70 -$150 meat slicer.

Blue_Morpho,

You think I meant 20k?

“Probably saved nearly $20,000 on groceries those two months. Give or take”

I can’t tell if you are trolling

Blue_Morpho,

Are those like the Burger King Star Wars glasses that have dangerously high levels of lead and cadmium?

Blue_Morpho,

You could have pasted the Scanners head exploding meme in as the last frame.

Blue_Morpho,

Be careful careful about arguing that on lemmy.world. I argued for a bit with a “both sides are bad”, eventually called them out for being a Putin puppet, and got my post deleted by a Lemmy.world mod.

Blue_Morpho,

It never works when you need it. Like “that file was too big”, that file was on a network share, that file is outside the window of how many old changes are saved. It’s like using an undelete utility. Sometimes you get lucky.

It’s better to save every change as a dated/numbered file or use a real source control system.

Blue_Morpho,

Works with 11 22H2. That’s a year out of date.

It’s the same problem that all the prepackaged modified Windows have when I go to try them out in a VM. They always seems to be way out of date and with all the security problems of Windows, I don’t want to run an old version just to save the time of cleaning out the telemetry and bloatware. Powershell scripts are more robust for me.

Blue_Morpho, (edited )

But here’s the gut punch. If you were listening to Physical Graffiti in 1975, 24 years earlier was 1951.

That was the end of big band music. You know, oldies.

Blue_Morpho,

A piece of paper that sticks to most things is a sticker. Because toilet paper will stick to damp things despite not being a sticker.

Blue_Morpho,

There’s a reason Dooku was friends with Qui-Gon. I like to imagine a better PM which would have shown that.

Like Qui-Gon and Dooku are working from the inside to reform the Jedi and take out Sideous but then QuiGon dies.

Blue_Morpho,

How does heat get from the water radiator to the air?

Radiation.

Atoms don’t physically touch. The electrostatic force that both binds atoms into molecules and keeps molecules separated is mediated by photon exchange.

Blue_Morpho,

Air cooling is not as effective as water cooling,

It’s not that simple because air cooling in pcs today means a heatpipe. A heatpipe uses fluid (such as water under a vacuum) that boils at a low temperature. The phase transition of liquid to vapor transfers hundreds of more times heat than simple conduction of cold water running over the CPU.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization

It’s how refrigerator compressors work to cool things so effectively. The genius of a heat pipe is it works without an electric compressor ( this limits it’s cooling ability but it’s still genius).

So a heatpipe CPU air cooler with a 120mm radiator will outperform a water-cooler with a 120mm radiator in almost every situation. The advantage of water-cooling is you can make that radiator huge (280mm is typical today), and place it on one of the side/top panels of the case where air is cool instead of deep inside where the air is hot.

Blue_Morpho,

conduction

The metal atoms in the fins don’t move into the air. They stay on the fins. The fins’ atoms have to transfer their kinetic energy via photon exchange to the atoms in the air.

So conduction is radiation at atomic distances.

Blue_Morpho,

someone in their life that was adversely affected by the vaccine.

There are rare side effects. When someone brings it up, it’s important to acknowledge it but qualify the risk. .0001% of heart problem or .1 % of death. Tell them it’s like driving without a seat belt because of the 1 in a million chance you get in an accident where the seatbelt traps you. Meanwhile 77% of all people have been in an accident.

Blue_Morpho,

“The COVID-19 age-adjusted death rate for the age 65 and over population was 533.5 per 100,000 standard population.”

“the death rate for COVID-19 among adults aged 85 and over (1,645.0 per 100,000)”

www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db446.htm

Assuming the relative was somewhere between 65 and 85 puts it at around 1 in a thousand.

Blue_Morpho,

I was saying 1 in a thousand to die from COVID vs 1 in a million to have complications from the vaccine.

Blue_Morpho, (edited )

This won’t change until someone sells a yacht to a Senator with fine print that it’s only a perpetual license. Then comes back 3 years later and takes the yacht citing the fine print in the contract.

Blue_Morpho,

Everything was once “legally fine” until a court ruled otherwise.

Shrinkwrap licenses were once “legally fine”.

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