What do you listen to while you’re reading?
Music, rain sounds, white noise, nothing, etc. Do you do anything specific with sound to create your own reading environment? If so, what, and why?
Music, rain sounds, white noise, nothing, etc. Do you do anything specific with sound to create your own reading environment? If so, what, and why?
This month's discussion is the last thing on the schedule. Are people interested in continuing? If so, two things will need to be decided: a new schedule, and a new host; a rotating series of hosts, like in the CGA threads, is likely the most sustainable long term move IMO.
Humble has put out a bunch of single-author bundles recently, and I figured I'd link them all here. They're listed in order of how long they have left, from least time to most time.
If anyone has any specific recommendations for any of the authors in general or specific works of theirs, let us know. There's a lot on offer here!
Also, as always, make sure you adjust the sliders to your liking before purchasing any of these.
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I wanted to put out a more complete guide than what's currently available for people who may want to do this in the future; welcome to my blog.
Love the mouse, but the battery wasn't lasting more than 3 days.
Here's a pic of the original battery (602030 300mAh 3.7V):
https://drive.proton.me/urls/TT7GVDNG5C#BKMx0MHmSwvg
I bought a replacement battery from AliExpress:
902030 550mAh 3.7V JST 1.5mm 3pin
Here's a pic of the final result:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/BEMDHJH668#I2ZixElmwv7E
There's plenty of height clearance, but no wiggle room with length and width.
The most important tidbit is the polarity of the wires; I had to swap red(+) and black(-).
On the original battery (all black wires) you can see the P- and P+ indicators on the original battery circuit board. In summary, the "bottom" of the connector (on the mouse) expects a positive (red wire), middle is the sensor (yellow wire), top is negative (black wire).
The battery arrived with the red and black wires the other way around. I used the smallest flathead screwdriver to, very slightly, prop the plastic "prong" (where you see the three plastic 'prongs', not the flat side) of the red/black wire and gently pull them out. Take note of the wire's positioning (the metal bit). The top has a very tiny metal bump that "clips" against the plastic prong you lifted. Putting the wire back into the housing should be "like a glove"; no forcing.
Everything is working without issues so far. The Pulsar software is reporting the battery level, but can't be sure if it's accurate. I also haven't had a chance to measure how long the new and improved battery lasts.
Another tidbit, I tore the "ribbon" when taking the mouse apart.
https://drive.proton.me/urls/DE33WP907M#Xc4A2qfEoMat
The cable connects the side buttons. I found a replacement (no thanks to Pulsar support who told me to either pound sand because they wouldn't even hint on tech specs of the cable or pay to ship to Korea and wait months for it to get sorted which it wouldn't because me disassembling the mouse isn't covered under warranty [fair enough]).
The exact title of the cable I ordered is: "uxcell FFC Flexible Flat Cable 10 Pins 0.5 mm Pitch B Type 80mm". The most important specifications are:
(please read as "colorados tildohs, how-dooose it suit you?")
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I have a bit of a fascination with it and have considered moving, but it's a big change from where I currently live.
My kids were asking me about my clothes and why I don't get new clothes. They are growing and get new clothes are they outgrow their old clothes. I was telling them I'm done growing and that my clothes still work so I only get a new piece of clothing every now and then, or when something I use breaks.
It got me thinking how old some of my clothes are getting, which is a perfect question for my fellow Tilders.
For me, the oldest t-shirt I have I still wear regularly is 17 years old from my high school American football team
I have a dress shirt and jacket my grandpa gave me that is ~30-40 years old. When he gave it to me he said he got it when Reagen was in office.
I kind of wish I had more of his clothes as he always made sure to dress presentable. Slacks and a button up at minimum, but I tried not to ask him for things as a lot of my family members would ask him for money and/or things and I didn't want to be like them. I mainly wanted to spend time with him and got the shirt because I mentioned needing to get a new dress shirt on the way back to university after be asked what my plans were. He took the shirt he was wearing off and then grabbed the jacket off the hook by the door before insisting I take them both since they looked good together.
Sadly a number of my family members got into my grandpa's house after he passed away before my Dad could change the locks and a lot of things went missing, including most of his wardrobe.
As a follow up to the "do you iron your clothes" question, does anyone else experience significant clothes shrinkage (particularly for t shirts) when they put clothes in the dryer? This never used to be a problem, but no matter what settings I use, it always seems to shrink them now!
Anyone got any advice? I am currently hanging my best clothes to avoid shrinkage, but a better solution would be preferred.
Linux has certainly come a long way, but it's also got room to grow.
Importantly, I ask this NOT to have people dunk on Linux or to start arguments about different aspects of it, but I do so to start a conversation about what could be better/smoother/easier. I love Linux and love that it just keeps getting better, day after day and year after year. The idea of highlighting where it could continue to grow in the future is exciting to me.
I can't imagine anyone doing this regularly but at the same time, people at work have wrinkle-free clothes!
I hear people take their clothes to the laundromat to avoid doing so, but that seems like it'll get expensive.
How do you manage to keep your office clothes neat and presentable?
A bit late to the party. How did you feel about the show?
The retro 90s artstyle is definitely the highlight for me. Really gave me fluffy feeling of watching anime when I was (more) little.
Though that look was not a straight copy but got updated with some slight modern touches,
Now romance is not my strong suit so what I could glean from the story is pretty rough. How I interpret the ending is something like the beginning of a long-distance relationship, Lara went out to explore more of the human world she loves, while being secured that the connection she formed with her loved ones back home would remain strong.
A running theme of the story is how there's no one singular "true love". This was stated most explicitly when Lara saved Mari from the fish dagger, she yelled about how she didn't need true love but only to be "in world with you [Mari]". One way to interpret that Mari was her true love, but I think it's more interesting if she wasn't "the" one, but that didn't matter because Lara cared about her enough to go through the struggle for her, and that was enough to dispell the curse.
Another point for this being how the mermaids' light power worked is in Grace flashback, we was shown that Rigmore loved Rowan enough that her light could keep the kingdom alive as what everyone wanted, but she also loved Grace enough to come rushing and sacrificed her life for her. So which love was more "true"? Of course both were, and that was okay. Lara desperately searched for an ultimate love but maybe what the light required was just that she loved something/someone strong enough.
Earlier the show hinted at it being about multiple forms of love when Mari's brother complained about how he would never be able to find love, but his grandma reminded him that she loved him too (to which he said that's not the same). The show made it clear enough that her affection for Luca was genuine (she mentioned feeling a sense of warmth when being with him that she didn't feel with other people). It wasn't necessarily that she loved Mari more, her feeling for Mari was just different. It's most straightforward to see the ending as yuri but I see them behaving more like sisters with each other. Beside, Lara is a grown-ass adult no matter how you interpret her age while Mari is still a highschooler so making a couple would be really weird.
Another reason why I think Mari was not "the one" of the story is the fact that we're introduced to her being curious about human artifacts first and foremost. If being forced to pick one thing, I'd say her love of human culture was the "truer" one and her infatuation with the prince (then Luca and Mari) are partly because they were a part of this culture she was enamored with. (This is how I felt about the original fairy tale as well. If the prince was meant to be her true love, it could have been more effective to introduce her starting out hating humanity, but this particular prince changed her and won her over.)
And so this ambiguous ending worked for me. She was finally free to live true to herself and explore what she loved most which is human culture, not just being with any one particular human.
Something I'm also curious about is the red/blue color scheme for the mermaids. There must be some significance to who was chosen as red or blue but I couldn't quite tease it out yet.
Someone said Sayonara Lara sounds better than Goodbye Lara so that's what I go with for the title :)
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.