Zachariah

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Peags

  1. noun - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency 

Peaks

  1. noun - 
  2. a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" 
  3. a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points" 
  4. the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid" 
  5. the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak" 
  6. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity 
  7. to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" 

Peals

  1. noun - a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) 
  2. ring recurrently; "bells were pealing" 
  3. sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" 

Peans

  1. noun - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) 
  2. Heraldic fur with gold spots on black (English)
  3. a formal expression of praise
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

black dialect, not slang

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn't make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

There are nearly 1,000 islands in lakes on islands in Finland alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But is it though?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

— Frank Wilhoit, 2018

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

That cunt doesn’t deserve four stars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

an svg car would be much lighter since it’s just vectors

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Hank on a tank

 

I saw this sign near a church once. It seems to be them admitting prayer doesn’t do anything.

 
 
 

My ultimate goal is to install Xubuntu on this computer, but I am stuck.

I cannot find any way to get into the BIOS to change settings, including being able to boot to the USB installer drive.

I have tried F1 held, F1 repeated, Fn+F1 (held/repeated), same with F2, same with F12, same with Del.

I tried telling Windows to boot to UEFI settings, but it reboots directly to windows.

I ended pulling the drive and removing all the partitions, in hopes that then it wouldn't try to boot to Windows anymore. Now it just gives me this:

Using this menu, I can't boot to USB, nor can I boot to DVD.

I opened it and do not see any jumpers on the visibe side of the motherboard. I also did not see a CMOS battery. There are lots of tiny ribbon cables and the heat sink+fan that I'll have to remove if I need to look on the other side.

What I want most is access the the BIOS / UEFI settings.

If a workaround like installing an OS to the drive using another machine and then putting back in will probably work, then I'll try that, but that will be such a hassle.

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my tortie (lemmy.world)
 
 
 
 
 

This Kickstarter is for odd-numbered dice: D9. D11, D13, D15, D17 and D19. Available in Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Purple. $12 plus shipping for the set of six.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impactminiatures/cursed-dice

I’ve backed Impact! Miniatures before and it’s always been great.

I really like that odd-numbered dice even exist. It sounds like a what-if that was taken too far. And it turned out great.

What about a unique way to show curses and disadvantages to your players. Impact!'s cursed dice allow you to give your players a unique die to use for the session to show the effect of their misguided actions. A D19 to show a curse that prevents criticals and natural 20s. Along with several other different dice to disadvantage rolls in many creative ways.

These dice were designed to be as fair as possible for an odd sided die. All the sides are equal sized and equal distant from the center mass. Each die was created by a specialist trained in working with geometeric design.

These odd dice are all new molds and modified designs by Impact! We've learned from our attempts to make odd sided dice in the past and these dice are brand new designs to make sure the dice stop faster by being larger and designed to have better defined stopping surfaces. The new designs are also easier to read with larger fonts and better extras to show you the top value being rolled.

 

After using WireGuard to VPN into my LAN, I can use RDP or SSH+VNC to control machines on my LAN. I am able to reach them via IP or by host.domain.private for remote control, but I cannot browse to
\\host.domain.private\share for the same machine to access its network share.

 

I saw one show in the middle of the road, so I moved it to the curb. I walked a bit further and found the other shoe on the side of the road. When I came back through the second shoe was still there, so I carried it to back to be reunited with the first. No clue if their owner ever found them. They must have been on someone’s car and fell off at different times. Both were near curves in the road.

 
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