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The Toxicator closed for about an hour on its first day after a burst pipe flooded the area nearby with sewage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Great, so it'll be affordable to maintain and easy to extend or repurpose as the museum's requirements change over time? Right? Right?...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

He had some brothers as well. I remember Groucho formed a club that's still going today.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cron already exists and is established as the solution in this space. It's also used as the model for a lot of other timer services outside the Linux kernel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How are systemd timers not a solution looking for a problem?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Toilet can mean the whole room if separate (i.e. no shower or bath) or just the appliance, depending on context. Can use loo to mean what Americans would refer to as 'bsthroom'/'restroom'.

 

A bullet grazed the Memphis man’s thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun’s trigger guard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This is also happening after scrolling through many posts. Going to have to find a different client , 😕

 

I keep running into a situation where the top menu bar disappears. I can scroll up down and enter/exit posts but I can't e.g. change filter settings because the interface elements for them aren't there. Most recently this happened when I blocked a community- my feed was reset and my menu bar disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Happens with TV shows all the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what we were all told for years and years- that it was impossible that anyone could hear anything in vinyl that was supposed to be there but that couldn't be reproduced with digital at cd quality. Then DVD came out And people could genuinely hear the difference from CD quality audio even in stereo. It turns out that dynamic range is limited by the audio sampling rate and the human ear can easily detect a far greater range CD audio supports.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

'Jolene' and 'Blackbird' were covers of black songs? Which ones?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Strictly speaking, you cannot make an ISO from an audio CD. Yes, you can make a bin cue file pair as another commenter has suggested. But realistically what you've then got is uncompressed wav audio with the metadata in separate files. The only real advantage this gives you is something that theoretically allows you to recreate precisely the original layout of the audio CD, together with the appropriate length of silence in between the tracks, etc.

When you convert to FLAC there is no loss in audio quality, you use approximately half of the storage space compared to wav, and you can have all of the metadata such as tags and art images embedded in the file itself.

Bin/cue is not really very useful unless you're not listening directly from a computer or burning to a CD and listening to that. For every other use case, it's better to have a file that you can play directly and index directly.

 

They linked to wicked.com when the movie site is at wickedmovie.com

 

Literally, 'not the onion'

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I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful recommendations? I am in the UK so e.g. 'Sceptre' is not available here.

In advance, with respect, I am technically capable (check my post history) but could I ask to please avoid threads along the lines of:

  • 'non-smart TVs aren't a thing' - fallback is a commercial display
  • 'Nobody wants/buys non-smart TVs' - I do
  • 'Any TV not connected to internet is dumb'/ 'Just don't connect it' - This is no longer true since many TVs require a setup before use involving internet access and/or will seek access via open wifi/bluetooth/HDMI.

Thanks!

Edit:

Some commenters seem to be struggling with the 'why do you care if it connects?'. Some examples why:

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