[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've had many deathstars fail.

Old sysadmin trick I was taught was to freeze the drives overnight, have used this trick on multiple occasions, but once the drive heats back up it's really dead. But you've generally got ample time to backup the drive before it dies.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 weeks ago

I'm very sorry about this. But every time I read "jorkin depeanus" a picture of the Swedish chef pops into my head

Jorkin Depeanus

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 months ago

I work with middle eastern guys who are like this, they hide this side of themselves when I'm around (white guy) but it comes out when my female coworkers are alone. It's common enough that I've heard about it from multiple people. But when I'm around they're great and I consider them good work friends.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Grab the rom for whichever Texas Instruments calculator you like best and use one of the various TI8X emulators:

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.eanema.graph89/

Just google for the rom file you want. I just tried the TI92+ found here:

https://wowroms.com/en/roms/mame/download-ti-92-plus/108878.html

Weird calculator, but one of the more common TI models should look just as nice

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[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Interesting fact, this baby was everywhere because it came with 3D Studio Max. It was included as a demo model alongside a cartoony ogre and a velociraptor.

The animation was also included to demo their Character Studio animation and motion capture capabilities.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 4 months ago

We have a hard drive degausser and shredder. Lucky bastard taking things home

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 months ago

I bought Sony Bluetooth earbuds recently, out of the box they wouldn't connect. You have to download an app, and agree to their EULA which is essentially "Were gonna steal data about everything you listen to" before you can connect to them via Bluetooth. Returned them the same day. Fuck Sony.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh geez, I'm one of those people who can't code on paper. I was applying for something ages ago and I went in for a programming test and they handed me a paper test and my mind completely shut down. Put me in front a computer and I have no issues at all... It was embarrassing.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hamilton, up on the escarpment. Clouds were rolling through but it cleared enough to get this. Buddy used his eclipse glasses to capture this, I have a few shots without the glasses and the shots don't look half as good.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago

Our politicians are pushing hard for an American system in Canada, the provincial Conservative (Republican) governments are underfunding healthcare so they can turn around and say "See!? This is why we need a two tier system." it's bullshit.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

So lately I've been seeing shorts on YT about a D&D podcast that looks mildly interesting and I'm running out of good webnovels to listen to with TTS at work. So I thought I would give podcasts a shot...

They have instream ads... ~~And it's the same damn ad on repeat~~ Not the same ad, that was a Conan podcast I listened to in the past, but still it's like 4 ads in a row. Is there a tool to download these podcasts and strip their ads? I just read that there's a way to download them via rss so that's what I'm going to try now. But manual ad removal might get tedious over a hundred episodes.

I can't imagine with all the nerd centric podcasts that we wouldn't have automated a way to extract ads by this point.

Edit: At this point, trying a number of things. yt-dlp seems to be the best way to do it. If the podcast is available on YouTube someone most likely has already submitted SponsorBlock segments for it. You can then use yt-dlp to download the episode or the whole playlist using this command:


yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 192K --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist 'PLAYLIST URL'

You can even run it directly in Termux on your Android phone and skip sponsors on the go.

[-] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

I hate bugs, like HATE. But I watched that video of the girl living in the storage space in the ceiling. And she'd come down at night to eat food and piss in the sink... I'll take the bugs

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