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bluewing ,

OK, I'm confused.

I have seen 2 different articles that claim WinAmp is NOt going to be open sourced. At least in the common sense. But rather kind - of - sort - of - but - not - really.

Here is a https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/winamp-is-not-going-open-source-heres-what-it-is-doing-and-why/ ZDNET article about it.

bluewing ,

Thanks for the explanation!

bluewing ,

Hey, I'm old AF. I STILL use wobble windows!

bluewing ,

Can't you see those are safety sandals. And just like safety squints, are approved PPE across the whole 3rd world industrial sphere. OP will be perfectly safe.

bluewing ,

For a machinist yep. For home gamers, a waste of money. They don't have the knowledge of where and when to use them nor the skills to get accurate repeatable measurements. So for OP's use whatever CCC, (Cheap, Cheerful, Chinese), caliper he's got is good enough.

It's the definition of "nominal size is what ever we say it is" that pisses me off. Buying wood/lumber is the worst offender of Nominal sizing, but even metals are getting worse. I used to buy a round bar of say, ASA1018 and it would be +0"/-.002". It's now +0/-.006", (that's +0/-.05mm and +0/-.15mm for those living in Boca Raton). At the end of my career as a toolmaker I was often forced to purchase oversized stock and waste time turning said stock into the actual sizes required.

bluewing ,

You simply change the expected specs.......

bluewing ,

I'm not an architect, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn.

The easiest way to think about an element being "structural" or not is is to consider what can happen if you remove that element - will the roof/wall collapse on top of you or not. If the answer is no, the roof/wall will not fall down, it's not "Structural" or "Load Bearing" If the roof/wall can fall down on if you remove it, it is "structural" or "load bearing".

So, using your example, if you were to remove the drywall and furring strips from that cement block wall, will the wall and ceiling be in danger of collapse? If it is, then it was structural. If not, then it wasn't structural.

The Architects and Civil Engineers that I have known, do not consider drywall or furring strips to "structural" when designing a building. I'm going with their consensus on this matter.

bluewing ,

First, What's a vacation?

Second, I don't post anything on line now as it is.

bluewing ,

I would certainly hope so...

bluewing ,

I need long range and I need it at -30F. A round trip to the grocery store or to see a doctor is 100 miles and can be as much as 300 miles. I can't justify an EV until I can get that kind of range at an affordable price. $40,000US+ ain't really affordable for most people.

I almost bought a Chevy Bolt, but between not being able to actually find one to see and touch, and the almost good enough range, I just didn't feel comfortable with such a large purchase.

bluewing ,

Northern Minnesota often sees those temperatures. And if it's a real medical emergency, you could well be dead by the time anyone can get to you - IF you have cell service to make a call. If they do make it to you, you will probably be airlifted by helicopter. Making a a 100+ mile trip, would be just for a clinic visit or even to pick up a prescription, which I did last Saturday for my Wife.

bluewing ,

I'm in northern Minnesota. There is a fairly large low population area across the north central and northwestern part of that state. Not many people live here. And yes, the use case is pretty niche compared to anyone living in a more urban area. But while there aren't many of us up here, we do exist.

Financial constraints are the biggest issue with the adoption of EVs for most people. It is still cheaper for many to own an ICE than invest in an EV. The pay back is painfully slow. Still, if it hadn't been for the battery problems of the Bolt, I probably would have bought one. It would have been just doable for my needs as a second vehicle.

I have looked into hybrids also. The problem there is since I live in a very rural area, the long distances I travel means I drive at highway speeds for almost all of the trip. The ICE motor would run the whole trip anyway. Paying for a battery that is seldom used and dragging the extra weight around makes no sense.And it would be difficult to something repaired if it needed it.

bluewing ,

Hi! Neighbor! I am a lot closer to Winnipeg than the Twin Cities.

There are government programs to install chargers here also. The problem is, there is no money to fix those chargers when they stop working. My Daughter, who is a research engineer in the fields of public charging for EVs and HVAC systems, will tell you that she can get all kinds of money to install them, but there is no money to actually keep them working. And it's expensive to repair them. So it's nearly useless at this point in time to install them only to have them break and not get repaired. She is currently doing a 10 year study of a string of 60 chargers across the northern part of the state from Red Lake to Brainard to the Twin Cities.

bluewing ,

That's great for you, I'm kind of jealous. The Prius is a very good vehicle, either as hybrid or ICE.

bluewing ,

I haven't been to Winnipeg in a long time, since before COVID. But I do get to Fort Francis when I go to the 'Falls. I miss the days when we could just pass the border without the hassle it's become today. I used to have family up in Roseau years ago. Might still be some shirttail outlaws up there.

My Daughter works for a non-profit too. She does research on not only public charging for vehicles, but also HVAC systems for homes across the US. I have also had to swim in the ocean of paperwork of state and federal grants. Few survive the experience for long. May God 'ha mercy on your soul!

bluewing ,

No translator needed. Just any 13 year old kid.

bluewing ,

I was thinking 'shrooms or LSD. But you might be right. A slight over voltage would probably get you the same effect.

bluewing ,

I know. The SC network and plug could make Tesla the new "Standard Oil" of the 21rst, (and a half!) Century. It could be far more valuable over the long term than that stupid truck.

bluewing ,

I think there are actual longer term mechanical and safety issues with it. I don't think the idea was quite ready for prime time just yet.

bluewing ,

I have a lot of clover covering my yard. I really love it when it blooms. My whole yard looks magnificent and I don't mow for about 2 weeks as I enjoy the carpet of color.

bluewing ,

Nope. But I never have the radio on anyway because I can't stand the noise. Instead, I would be planning on just how I was going to kill each bad guy in the most torturous ways.

bluewing ,

And wear sackcloth and ashes while scourging ourselves while reading error logs.

bluewing ,

I was broken long before nVidia drivers and Wayland.

I was crushed long ago while trying to compile the driver for a Sound Blaster Gold sound card for Fedora 6 and Mandrake 6. Two weeks and 20 pages of printed out instructions. Two weeks of hell in kernels. It should have worked. The terminal showed no errors and nor did the logs. But no sound came forth. I had to buy a boxed set for Mandrke 7 to get sound.

So here I sit with a fresh install of Fedora 40 on my trusty old Nitro 5 wondering if I should install the nVidia drivers and I hear the silent foot steps of that Sound Blaster........

But hey, at least my printer works.

bluewing ,

E911 is a thing in some places and not in others depending on what each county dispatch wants to do and pay for. It does require some call center upgrades as I recall when I was working EMS and fire. It was kind of sketchy when I was working. But, everything is a bit sketchy when working in a very rural area in public safety.

bluewing ,

LFS -Linux From Scratch. Or if you can't handle that, either Slackware or Arch - I don't run Arch by the way. Maybe try some obscure distro produced and maintained by one person.

bluewing ,

Linux is now at 4% of all installations so far in 2024 - the highest it's ever been. And there is also an uptick in desktop installations as it seems people are moving away from Windows, (Thanks Win11!), and Apple.

But it remains to be seen how many of these new users actually stick to a distro as an everyday driver. I've been living the "year of Linux" for 30 years now.

bluewing ,

Nope. I often use dish soap and a soft scrub pad on my cast iron just like my Grandmother and mother did with those same cast iron pans and dutch oven. A decent seasoning on cast iron is probably more durable than non-stick coatings. Just keep it out of the dishwasher. The high temp hot water and caustic dishwasher detergents WILL damage your seasoning. But, then you just need to re-season to fix it all better again.

My lazy way to keep my cast iron and plain high carbon steel wok properly seasoned is to clean with hot water and mild dish soap then return to the stove top heat on high until hot, then shut the burner off and hit the insides with a light quick spray of cooking oil. Or I just use some plain vegetable oil and wipe on a thin coating with a paper towel. and leave it cool.

bluewing ,

That's the cool part- no matter what happens to your cast iron pans, it can be fixed. You scratch or chip a non-stick coating and the pan is pretty much ruined.

bluewing ,

Then you simply wash with dish soap and hot water before you use it. This ain't rocket surgery.

bluewing ,

Wet/dry sandpaper is fast and will easily get you down to the fresh bare metal again. Then you simply re-season and start cooking that delicious bacon in it again. A rainy Saturday afternoon will easily get it done.

bluewing ,

I have yet to see any kind of powered abrasive that WON"T get to the bare metal in a right quick manor. It's kind of what the stuff is made for......

bluewing ,

Why not both? Besides, you can't make home made baked beans or a good stew or bake bread, cakes or pies in a plain high carbon steel pot.

If you push me to it. I will be happy with just my plain high carbon steel wok and cast iron dutch oven.

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    bluewing ,

    I recently wiped my Nitro5 of Windows 11 and now I'm currently using Kubuntu while waiting for the Fedora 40 release. I think I'm going to try the Plasma spin, (Fedora always seems to end badly for me though).

    I was reasonably satisfied with Win11 when I first upgraded to it. It ran smoothly and was easy to setup the way I wanted it. It basically stayed pretty much out of my way. But the last "upgrade" put an end to that. I wrestled with the last service pack, and got pissed and wiped it.

    Now I'm just waiting for Fedora 40 to drop along with Ubuntu 24.04LS. I will pick a KDE spin that seems to run the best.

    bluewing ,

    When I was a medic for 15 years, I was paged out to 4 suicides, two self hanging, one OD, and one wrist slashing, (all male). Nor can I remember any reports of suicide by gun either. There were also good number of attempted OD's though. And this was in a rural community where almost every home had at least one gun and often more.

    I don't think anyone could prove one way or another why guns didn't seem to be a choice for suicidal people in that community. I certainly don't know. But people who are not of sound mind often do strange things for inscrutable reasons.

    bluewing ,

    There, at the very least some truth to that. I did run across one failed attempt with a gun that fit that bill.

    bluewing ,

    You need to try a pair of suspenders with your shorts. Soooo fashionable, you will be a trend setter!

    bluewing ,

    They can't because even they have no clue where those socks went. The inter-dimensional portal is very well hidden.

    bluewing ,

    The US has such places along highways also.

    bluewing ,

    I'm not much of a gamer, Gnome Mahjong is mostly good enough for me, but I have enjoyed Xonotic. It's a pretty fast play.

    Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

    in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...

    bluewing ,

    Meta didn't "give" anybody shit. They sold that access. Do you see the difference?

    As always, users are the commodity.

    bluewing ,

    That fresh black pepper makes biscuits and sausage gravy killer!

    bluewing ,

    I've home brewed a lot of English ales and I agree that those ales should be served warmer. If you don't, the cold mutes and kills the subtle and rich flavors.

    Lagers are good, but a good British Ale is something to savory with good friends.

    bluewing ,

    Yeah, Prohibition killed all the beer we had and we did have good beer right up until then. And it's been a long road back. Those large US breweries are still far more interested in cheap ingredients made cheaply.

    But you can find good craft beers scattered amongst the bad craft beers if you look. And home brewing is maybe more popular in the US than Europe, but I'm not sure of that.

    bluewing ,

    Irish whiskey? Triple pot stilled to strip out all the flavors? Dang near vodka for depth of flavor. (I jest - I do enjoy a good Irish whiskey myself).

    Now bourbon is the drink of the gods. Rich deep complex flavors that fill your taste buds with joy. It's so good the Scots and even the Irish use our used bourbon barrels to impart those complex flavors and taste to their whiskys.

    bluewing ,

    It depends on where the bourbon gets made. Very generally, the temperatures cycles vary a lot more more than in Great Britain. So the bourbon "ages" faster than Scotch or Irish whiskys. So bourbons have to be younger and that can make them somewhat sharper in flavor. Plus the requirement of using new oak barrels also cuts the time spent in the barrel.

    bluewing ,

    Oddly, moonshine and bathtub "gin" became quite the impetus for the popularity of cocktails, at least in the US. Since the added flavors tended to hide the rotgut taste of the illicit booze. And the loss of beer breweries had the effect of giving rise to ice cream parlors and soda fountains since saloons had to close. Plus as Minnesotan, I feel the need to apologize for the Volstead Act, as it became known, since Andrew Volstead was a Minnesota House of Representative and Chairman of the House Judicial Committee and was pretty instrumental in getting prohibition enacted. Scandinavian Protestantism (tm) is not a good thing by in large.

    Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

    Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

    bluewing ,

    It's always been that "there is little new under the sun." Whether it's math, science, or the arts, the "new" is all built on what went before. It's all just incremental and very often what was old is now new again.

    AI might be good a copying, but the desire to create and destroy is a human drive. It will remain and find a way.

    bluewing ,

    All nice thoughts. And I agree with them.

    But the "smart" people are always willing to tell others what to do - it's their job you know.

    And I wouldn't hold your breath about "safety nets" anytime soon. Resources aren't unlimited and greed to prevent that net is eternal.

    And government tends to not do broad social policy well. They are stuck with "one size fits all" solutions out of necessity. And the more granular those polices get, the more byzantine the rules get. Plus by the time there is wide social approval to do something, the moment has passed and the world is now worse off.

    Shuttering whole industries quickly, (a generation or less time frame), is how you create a huge population of "angry refugees" without homes or jobs as they try to move to other places to try and not starve. This seldom works out well for anyone.

    The tried and true methods humanity has historically used to solve social upheaval are:
    Starvation and death where you are at.
    Moving to new lands that have few to no one else living there.
    War to eliminate surplus populations.

    Since no one wants to starve where they are and there are currently no new lands to settle, my money at this moment is on War. It will, unfortunately, solve a lot of current issues caused by excess populations - at least for a while.

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