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I've been having intermittent problems with selecting text. I'm not sure which software it is in, but it is certainly in Slack and IntelliJ. The text I select will often/sometimes not stay selected once I lift my finger up. It will take several times to make the selection last, sometimes swiping in a different direction.
Is it my mouse or the software?
My mouse in made by Inland, model RTM098( J10 ). Probably very old.
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Hello Tildes! I often find myself intimidated by authors of great sagas, trilogies upon trilogies, and dozens of standalone novels. How do I know which book (or series) to read first?
I've been recommended Terry Pratchett and Brandon Sanderson recently. I've read zero novels by either author. I've also been warned that there is a definitive best place in the canon to start, "and it's this one!" But then someone else interjects and says, "no, it's this one!" followed by passionate reasoning. Okay. If it is really worth starting somewhere in particular, where should I begin?
I'm unlikely to read an author's entire corpus. I just have too many books to read and not enough time. But I'm not opposed to reading longer series if they're really fun. I'd appreciate any input about these authors in particular and this problem in general. Thanks!
Posting for ideas/advice, if anyone has any, as I'm unsure of where else to turn.
I have a VPS (Named "Bucket") I rent and self host a few services on, along with a home server (Named "Vergil") that lives under my basement stairs and I host many more services on. At 2:01 AM today I got a notification from Bucket that my Plex (hosted on Vergil) was down/unreachable. I'm assuming that's when this issue started.
When investigating I found that Plex wasn't down, but Bucket couldn't reach/talk to Vergil. Further investigation showed that it wasn't just Bucket, but nothing can reach/talk to Vergil. At first I thought it was an issue with my router, as I have my gateway set up in IP bypass mode and manage my network via my third party router (UDM-Pro). But after digging through logs looking for any automated blocks from any misclassified intrusion attempts, I realized that none of my attempts were even reaching the router. So I checked the route, and that's where I found what I think is the problem.
Running mtr to route from Vergil to Bucket gives full resolution of the route:
mtr -rwzbc 10 45.79.209.169
Start: 2024-12-19T16:49:53-0500
HOST: Vergil.goose.ws Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. AS??? 192.168.2.1 0.0% 10 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0
2. AS??? 192.168.99.254 10.0% 10 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.8 0.1
3. AS7018 45-26-156-1.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net (45.26.156.1) 0.0% 10 4.4 3.6 2.0 5.9 1.2
4. AS7018 107.212.169.24 0.0% 10 5.2 3.7 1.6 6.1 1.5
5. AS7018 12.242.113.31 0.0% 10 2.2 3.7 2.2 5.3 1.0
6. AS7018 12.247.68.178 0.0% 10 2.8 3.8 2.2 5.8 1.2
7. AS20940 ae6.r21.atl01.mag.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.94) 0.0% 10 3.2 4.3 2.3 5.7 1.1
8. AS20940 ae0.r21.atl01.icn.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.65) 0.0% 10 3.7 4.1 1.9 6.5 1.5
9. AS20940 ae1.r21.atl01.ien.netarch.akamai.com (23.207.235.35) 0.0% 10 4.2 3.5 1.9 5.6 1.1
10. AS20940 ae22.gw3.atl1.netarch.akamai.com (23.203.144.39) 0.0% 10 5.2 5.0 2.4 8.8 2.0
11. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
14. AS63949 bucket.goose.ws (45.79.209.169)
However, routing from Bucket to Vergil does not:
mtr -rwzbc 10 99.42.115.109
Start: 2024-12-19T16:49:13-0500
HOST: Bucket.goose.ws Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. AS??? 10.204.3.155 0.0% 10 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.8 0.2
2. AS??? 10.204.35.16 0.0% 10 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.1
3. AS??? 10.204.32.2 0.0% 10 0.7 9.4 0.4 74.3 23.2
4. AS63949 lo0-0.gw4.atl1.us.linode.com (74.207.239.106) 0.0% 10 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.7 0.1
5. AS20940 ae45.r22.atl01.ien.netarch.akamai.com (23.203.144.36) 0.0% 10 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.1
6. AS20940 ae4.r22.atl01.mag.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.98) 0.0% 10 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.1
7. AS20940 ae1.r24.atl01.ien.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.103) 0.0% 10 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.0
8. AS7018 12.247.68.177 0.0% 10 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.2 0.1
9. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10. AS7018 107.212.169.25 0.0% 10 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.5 0.0
11. AS??? ???
Calling the tier 1 support number for AT&T residential support was very less-than-helpful. They kept on wanting to send a tech out to the house claiming there's an issue with the line. I kindly thanked them for their efforts but gave up, and tried emailing the contact email address for the AT&T datacenter/core router from the WHOIS in that last successful hop of the trace from Bucket to Vergil. I doubt I'll hear anything back, but I'm unsure of who else to turn to/what else to try. I've never seen/experienced a route broken in one direction like this. But I'm unable to access any of my devices/services from outside my house, due to it. Hoping someone has an idea or suggestion?
Edit:
Well, after about 38 hours of this issue, the power went out at my house. My networking equipment is on a UPS, so it did not go down. But when the power returned, the route began resolving again, and I am connectable again. Don't know if an area power outage rebooted some AT&T equipment nearby, I would imagine their stuff is also on UPS. But who knows?
For the non-believer about my route previously being complete:
[goose@Bucket: ~ ] $ mtr -rwzbc 10 99.42.115.109
Start: 2024-12-20T15:20:23-0500 HOST: Bucket.goose.ws Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. AS??? 10.204.3.155 0.0% 10 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0
2. AS??? 10.204.35.16 0.0% 10 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.1
3. AS??? 10.204.32.2 0.0% 10 0.6 1.8 0.4 9.9 2.9
4. AS63949 lo0-0.gw4.atl1.us.linode.com (74.207.239.106) 0.0% 10 0.4 2.0 0.3 15.6 4.8
5. AS20940 ae45.r22.atl01.ien.netarch.akamai.com (23.203.144.36) 0.0% 10 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.1
6. AS20940 ae4.r21.atl01.mag.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.90) 0.0% 10 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.9 0.1
7. AS20940 ae0.r24.atl01.ien.netarch.akamai.com (23.192.0.95) 0.0% 10 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.0
8. AS7018 12.247.68.177 0.0% 10 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.2 0.1
9. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10. AS7018 107.212.169.25 0.0% 10 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.6 0.1
11. AS??? ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12. AS7018 99-42-115-109.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net (99.42.115.109) 0.0% 10 3.6 3.2 2.1 4.9 0.9
[goose@Bucket: ~ ] $
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I started playing F2P when they first released it for OSRS years ago, and played some membership when I had GP for a bond back in the day. I'd been slowly working on my account for a few years and was transitioning my account to a new 2FA method when I had something come up at work and completely forgot about it (I would log in once every few months or so to poke around with my account). I came back to my account being banned for botting, and wasn't able to recover it.
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