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This is the fifth and last movie we discuss of Academy Award Winners. Ariana DeBose won for Best Supporting Actress. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design.
Did the movie deserve its nominations and awards? Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
Voting for December will come up in a few days.
This is Album of the Week #11 ~ This week's album is Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Year of Release: 1984
Genre(s): Heavy Metal
Country: United States
Length: 39 minutes
RYM | Listen! (Album.Link)
Excerpt from Ride Into Glory:
Ample Destruction is filled to the absolute brim with killer riff after killer riff. It’s difficult to pick out a highlight track as they all flow together in one, singular metalstorm. There is very few moments for reprieve as Jag Panzer keep it at 100% for nearly the entire album. The guitars, played by Joe Tafolla and Mark Briody, are masterful and a worthy match for Conklin’s performance. The bass, as became standard for most US power metal, is very prominent in the mix. John Tetley’s bass guitar works to compliment the guitars and drummer Rick Hilyard is certainly no slouch as his drums round it all out. The production is thick and undoubtedly old-school sounding. It does a wonderful job bringing together the instrumentation while letting Conklin take the lead with his soaring vocals.
Discussion points:
Have you heard this artist/album before? Is this your first time hearing?
Do you enjoy this genre? Is this an album you would have chosen?
Does this album remind you of something you've heard before?
What were the album's strengths or weaknesses?
Was there a standout track for you?
How did you hear the album? Where were you? What was your setup?
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I had a conversation with someone who teaches research skills at the university level. They said that incoming new students seem to start with the assumption that .org and .edu domain names can be trusted for accurate information and .com domain names will be unreliable.
I didn't find it hard to find dodgy nonprofits and sketchy colleges but do you know of any extremely reputable corporate sites that they could use as counter examples to this misinformed theory about how to find reliable sources online? I'm thinking maybe Bloomberg but would love to hear more.
I'll start posting a recurring topic for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app. This first one's a little early, but I wanted it to coincide with the Android v0.6.0 release.
A recurring megathread will make it easier for people to hit Ignore on each one if they want, without feeling like they're missing out on bigger announcements surrounding the app.
I'll make an effort to summarize the previous month's updates at the start of each topic, so people can read the updates and then hit Ignore if they don't care about more frequent updates or user feedback.
Recently:
iOS hotfix v0.7.2: Fixed another Notifications crash, and fixed crash inserting emoji in reply
iOS hotfix v0.7.1: Fixed crash in Notifications tab
Known bug: You can't manually mark notifications as read. I overlooked this because I have the "Automatically mark all notifications read when you view the Unread Notifications page" setting enabled on the website settings. I'll fix this soon.
Also the iOS version is still getting feedback on TestFlight after its November 1 release—thanks everyone for trying the app and giving feedback. The Android app will tend to get features sooner than iOS; I expect it to continue this way in general, just because I'm more familiar with Android development.
Android version on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes
iOS version on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy
Family member was recently diagnosed, and I’m trying to manage our menu, activities, and expectations to help them. I know every body is different and food intolerances vary, but I’m curious what helped you?
And the 2023 Formula 1 Season has ended!
This isn't a spolier this "late" in the game, so congratulations to Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT for winning the 2023 World Constructors' Championship, and their driver Max Verstappen for the winning the 2023 World Drivers' Championship. Plus all the other records Max has smashed this year—talk about domination!
The 2024 schedule is out and the first GP is February 29 - March 2 in Bahrain.
Pre-season testing will also be in Bahrain, Feb. 21-23 (the week prior). We usually get a little bit of sneakpeak, I think.
Anyway, enjoy the break, everyone. I know I'll enjoy not waking up at odd hours or not sleeping for F1 sessions for a few months! See you all -- according to David Coulthard -- in 97 days for testing!
| POS | NO | DRIVER | CAR | LAPS | TIME/RETIRED | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Max Verstappen | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 58 | 1:27:02.624 | 26 |
| 2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | FERRARI | 58 | +17.993s | 18 |
| 3 | 63 | George Russell | MERCEDES | 58 | +20.328s | 15 |
| 4 | 11 | Sergio Perez | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 58 | +21.453s | 12 |
| 5 | 4 | Lando Norris | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 58 | +24.284s | 10 |
| 6 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 58 | +31.487s | 8 |
| 7 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 58 | +39.512s | 6 |
| 8 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 58 | +43.088s | 4 |
| 9 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | MERCEDES | 58 | +44.424s | 2 |
| 10 | 18 | Lance Stroll | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 58 | +55.632s | 1 |
| 11 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 58 | +56.229s | 0 |
| 12 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | ALPINE RENAULT | 58 | +66.373s | 0 |
| 13 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | ALPINE RENAULT | 58 | +70.360s | 0 |
| 14 | 23 | Alexander Albon | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 58 | +73.184s | 0 |
| 15 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | HAAS FERRARI | 58 | +83.696s | 0 |
| 16 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 58 | +87.791s | 0 |
| 17 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 58 | +89.422s | 0 |
| 18 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | FERRARI | 57 | DNF | 0 |
| 19 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 57 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 20 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | HAAS FERRARI | 57 | +1 lap | 0 |
Fastest Lap: Max Verstappen
Source: F1.com
| POS | DRIVER | NATIONALITY | CAR | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | NED | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 575 |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | MEX | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 285 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | GBR | MERCEDES | 234 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | ESP | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 206 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | MON | FERRARI | 206 |
| 6 | Lando Norris | GBR | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 205 |
| 7 | Carlos Sainz | ESP | FERRARI | 200 |
| 8 | George Russell | GBR | MERCEDES | 175 |
| 9 | Oscar Piastri | AUS | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 97 |
| 10 | Lance Stroll | CAN | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 74 |
| 11 | Pierre Gasly | FRA | ALPINE RENAULT | 62 |
| 12 | Esteban Ocon | FRA | ALPINE RENAULT | 58 |
| 13 | Alexander Albon | THA | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 27 |
| 14 | Yuki Tsunoda | JPN | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 17 |
| 15 | Valtteri Bottas | FIN | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 10 |
| 16 | Nico Hulkenberg | GER | HAAS FERRARI | 9 |
| 17 | Daniel Ricciardo | AUS | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 6 |
| 18 | Zhou Guanyu | CHN | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 6 |
| 19 | Kevin Magnussen | DEN | HAAS FERRARI | 3 |
| 20 | Liam Lawson | NZL | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 2 |
| 21 | Logan Sargeant | USA | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 1 |
| 22 | Nyck De Vries | NED | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 0 |
Source: F1.com
| POS | TEAM | PTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT | 860 |
| 2 | MERCEDES | 409 |
| 3 | FERRARI | 406 |
| 4 | MCLAREN MERCEDES | 302 |
| 5 | ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES | 280 |
| 6 | ALPINE RENAULT | 120 |
| 7 | WILLIAMS MERCEDES | 28 |
| 8 | ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT | 25 |
| 9 | ALFA ROMEO FERRARI | 16 |
| 10 | HAAS FERRARI | 12 |
Source: F1.com
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I want to keep this short and sweet:
I used Macrium Reflect to clone a Windows 11 install from one bad SSD to a new one. I had to reinstall to repair the Windows install, but it's a done deal, but I feel burned by Macrium and want to find an alternative.
I was wondering if anybody had any leads on great cloning software for general use? I'm willing to pay money, and it can be online or offline software (in OS or via USB).
I have two drives, a 4TB and 1TB HDDI'm cloning to 4TB SSDs to have on newer devices, since these two are quite old and I got a deal on a pair of Crucial SSDs on Amazon (a brand/line I'm familiar with, they're good drives). These largely have games that aren't installed, legacy data old music rips I want access to, and currently active user profiles.
My goal: clone the partitions over to the new drives, pop them in with hopefully the same drive letters, and expand the partitions to use all free space and be done with it. Ideally I would also have tool I can recommend to others without concern, assuming they have basic computer literacy.
Will CloneZilla do this just fine? Is there anything better, proprietary or otherwise? Any idea how long this can be expected to take over Sata II (I've got a hotswap port I'll be cloning to outside my case, then popping it open to swap the drives).