ElderWendigo

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ElderWendigo,

Jackett GitHub shows activity in the last day, so I’m not sure where you got the idea that it wasn’t maintained.

ElderWendigo,

A truly random walk through a playlist might choose the same song twice in a row. A truly random shuffle would only have each entry appear once and you’d have to play past the end of the shuffle to hear a song repeat.

ElderWendigo,

And you have my bow

ElderWendigo,

I don’t know about the other dude, but I do CADD work all day for weeks on end sometimes. There’s no avoiding using the mouse. Trackball is MUCH safer for my wrist. My other option is to hover hand the desk all day to prevent RSI or twisting up my wrist, but that kills my shoulder after a few hours.

ElderWendigo,

m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSz2gW8IsEThis video sums it up pretty well.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

Do you currently have a bunch of active torrents, each with a bunch of connected peers? What’s your network topology like? Aging combo modem/wifi/router? Have you tried limiting the total number of connected peers in your torrent manager? Torrents can really clog up a network. Sometimes routing too many connections overwhelmed my old router, forcing a reboot before any traffic could get through again.

ElderWendigo,

I’ve always just dropped down into a different virtual terminal with CTRL+ALT+F#, killed the bad process and/or just rebooted from there. Is that not a thing anymore? I haven’t had to do it in so long because of improved stability and not using the DE on my server much, so maybe I’m out of the loop.

ElderWendigo,

I’ll have to take your word for that. I’ve never encountered such a thing in any of my podcasts. That sounds like a technical possibility in theory, but a practical fantasy given the way most podcasts are distributed.

ElderWendigo,

I think most of the nerds that might be able to strip inline ads would prefer to support (or at least appear to support) podcast producers and so wouldn’t have much interest in developing said app.

Also, stripping ads isn’t an easy problem given how unpredictable they can be. Some podcasts ads are read live by the same voices presenting the podcast without skipping a beat (particularly common with a popular DnD podcast).

The more practical solution is to use a player that lets you set distinct skip intervals for skipping forward and back. For example on my podcast app, when I skip forward it jumps 30 seconds ahead, but when I skip backwards it only jumps 10 seconds. That means I can jump ahead in roughly commercial length intervals until I no longer hear the ads, but if I’ve gone just a little too far then skipping back once or twice usually gets me close enough to the start of real content again. If you rely on an app to strip the ads, you’re practically guaranteed to remove some actual content, you’ve already put more effort into avoiding the ads than I have just hitting skip once or twice, and if you’ve removed content that you want to hear then you’ve got to go back to the original podcast and listen through the ads anyway. Why bother? Podcasts aren’t like YouTube where a third party is inserting the ads in random obnoxious places that interrupt the narrative or musical flow. Are they?

ElderWendigo,

One of those rainbows should be inverted. -Buzz Killington

ElderWendigo,

Worse yet, the girls might become cunning linguists.

ElderWendigo,

Orgy of the Dead starts off like it’s going to be your standard weird bad Ed Wood horror movie. We get to meet Criswell, who you might recognize as inspiration for a character in Fright Night among others. There’s also an Elvira type character before Elvira did it better. But then suddenly it’s just a topless woman go-go dancing in a fake graveyard. The whole thing suddenly feels like an softcore porn parody of a Gilligan’s Island episode. The scene ends, and you might think “Gee, maybe they’ll move on to a different location or move the plot along somehow?” Nope, you get a short narration scene and then the next woman comes out with a slightly different costume and dance, still topless though. That scene ends and you think “Well they can’t possibly do that again, so maybe now the ‘plot’ will move along.” Nope! More narration, and another topless dancing woman. By the third girl I was bored. But it was funny again with the fourth. With the fifth woman, I gritted my teeth and thought, “When will this end?” But, by the seventh dancing topless woman it was hilarious. Each one of these dancing girls was almost identical, just slightly different slutty costumes and music. At some point they introduce a Zombie and a Wolf man character to leer at the women along with jerk boyfriend and scared girl tied to a post. After it was clear that the ninth topless dancing girl was the last, I felt immense relief and raised a glass to that mad genius Criswell. Those 92 minutes felt like days. This is not a movie to watch sober and alone during the day.

ElderWendigo,

widely spread myths

That’s your problem. You can’t seriously argue that these myths were being taught as fact in school because they weren’t. They’re all myths spread by common idiots through word of mouth. Common public misconception on the facts can and does happen very independently of actual education, as evidenced by antivaccers lately. The only things you could honestly add to a list like this would be some scientific theory that has been definitively disproven or amended. Maybe something like changing training about CPR would qualify also.

But those kinds of things are boring. It’s much spicier to claim that people were taught that Columbus’s contemporaries thought the world was flat even though that was just an over simplified story told to 5 year olds to explain why they got out of school on Columbus Day. Meanwhile anyone that didn’t sleep through trigonometry should learn that Eratosthenes showed the world was round about 1700 years before Columbus. I would believe that there are some lazy educators out there that would teach such myths as fact, but to claim that it was at all universal is silly. The whole premise of “old generations dumb, look what they believed” is just so smug and offensive. I must be getting old.

ElderWendigo,

Pretty much all of these examples were pretty often and commonly debunked by all of my teachers, parents, and adult mentors. But that’s exactly why lists like this are garbage, both of our experiences are anecdotal. You just can’t make blanket claims about things like this about entire generations.

Columbus was more a lie of omission than outright falsehood. That item on the list was probably closest to a universal truth taught across the US, as long as you ignore any school with an indigenous student body. But, most of our teaching about any historical figures in grade school is a near obscene over-simplification of the actual people and events.

ElderWendigo,

It just listed a bunch of myths and old wive’s tales that no one at the time thought were very credible anyway. Literally all of the “facts” they list were common chain letter/email memes that everyone trotted out at parties to sound smart and hip. Nobody ever believed what DARE told us, we always knew Christopher Columbus was an asshole, and every first aid class I’ve taken recommended against the whole tilt you head back thing.

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