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8 days agoYeah, that’s about the right time period for my old ASUS LOL. Does that advice still hold up nowadays or is it outdated? Does it apply only to older machines maybe?
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Would pulling out the battery (if possible) and running the laptop only via AC be a viable way to prevent unnecessary battery wear?
I remember back when I didn’t have a desktop PC yet I had a crusty old ASUS laptop that was basically at death’s door and I specifically remember just running it on AC alone because the battery was… uh… gone
3·16 days agofor anyone interested:
the scroll not working is most likely due to the main container in the page (usually the <body> tag but it can be some other element) having the
overflow: hiddenCSS property assigned to it.overflowdictates the behavior of an element that has its content overflow past the parent element’s boundaries.the property can have four values:
visible, where the overflow is fully visible and allowed to extend past the parent element,scroll, which clips the overflowing content and allows the user to scroll the parent element,hidden, which clips the overflowing content and prevents scrolling, andauto, which works almost identically toscroll
most sites run a script that assigns this property with the value of
hiddento the <body> tag, making the user unable to scroll the page.ive seen this behavior the most with sites that blast you with an unavoidable cookie banner which you have to click through to access the page. usually removing the cookie banner element is not enough to freely access the page, and so you have to additionally find which element has its overflow set to
hiddenand disable that property.i reckon youtube’s adblocker popup is doing the same thing, and coincidentally turning off fullscreen also runs a script that makes sure the overflow is set to either
scrollorauto
While we’re talking about tower defence, I really recommend the Gemcraft series! IMO probably the best tower defence games out there. Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath are both on Steam, and I highly recommend them.
Based on the other responses to this, I’d say it really varies from person to person.
In my case, Kdenlive does in fact tend to crash often the longer I use it in a single session. It tends to get unstable on my system after around 2-3 hours of continuous work.
I remember losing an hour’s worth of progress once, and from that point I’ve been saving my stuff compulsively. At least it taught me good habits!
1·4 months agoIf it doesn’t bother you, could you say what happened? This sounds really interesting!
In fact, shooting him in the head would center-mass the kid. Not a good way to go.
Soon the cadburies will be cheaper than actual eggs
Pretty cool technology ruined by greed. If we don’t get this under control (which we won’t probably) we’re in for a pretty interesting age of the Internet, maybe even the last one.
It honestly makes me wonder why my symptoms went away, but yours persist…
I’ve talked to a few people (like 3 or 4 i think) with the syndrome in the past, and it behaved differently for each person I spoke to, whether it’s the symptoms, the cause, or, as in our case, whether it goes away or not.
It’s a pretty unresearched syndrome, though the Wikipedia page for it has way more info than when I last checked.
EDIT: Another thing I’m curious about is that the symptoms also stopped causing panic attacks for me. I haven’t had the eyelid thing for a while, since it’s way easier for me to do that when I’m extremely tired, but the last time that happened I didn’t get an attack at all. If anything, I tried to actually focus on what I was perceiving, I tried to make something out. Again, very weird how it develops differently for every person.
Yeah, it used to trigger panic attacks in me too. That’s fascinating!
Everything feels the wrong size. Like my hands feel tiny, or my teeth feel enormous. The bed feels like it’s the size of an ocean, or the phone I’m using to distract myself feels like a matchbook in my hands
Sounds a lot like the Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
I used to have it when I was little, and my symptoms were very similar to yours, but mine kind of went away on their own. When I close my eyes and focus, though, I can still make myself feel like the dark side of my eyelids is getting impossibly far away from me, which is very weird.
Do you still get these symptoms?
2·6 months agoSubtitles are usually stored in .srt
Damn, that’s interesting! Also just realised I forgot that pulsars are a type of neutron star
Given that even 3 T is already considered a large amount of flux, would it be even possible for an object with 10 billion Tesla to even exist? And if so, what would it take to achieve that amount of flux? Does a neutron star or a pulsar* get even remotely close?
* - pulling these examples kinda out of my ass – while i’m sure neutron stars have extreme magnetic fields i’m not so sure about pulsars
28·6 months agoDamn I’m bad at searching, then. Thanks!
Then I realized I was being circled. Which was an extremely unnerving realization. I went from thinking about aggro ranges and AI states to being thrust into a situation that I sometimes have to worry about not falling into in real life.
Makes it that much more sad seeing A-Life getting trashed in STALKER 2. Moments like these were awesome
From what I remember yes, it’s a placeholder for currency
almost blew myself up for good after a pistol flare exploded half a meter from my face.
went to the ER with superficial burns on my left hand and hearing damage that still rears its ugly head out to this day.
each time i think about that moment i realise that if i had been in any other position when that flare blew up i probably wouldn’t be here today