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Living Room / Re: Is there a way to easily carry earphones for my mobile?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 13, 2018, 08:10 PM »

Duct tape your mobile to your head so you don't need earphones.

-Deozaan (November 13, 2018, 07:10 PM)

I think it would make more sense to duct tape the earphones in your ear.  That way you don't have to worry about carrying them.

-wraith808 (November 13, 2018, 08:08 PM)

You don't have to worry about carrying them if you don't need them at all.

FYI you don't need to use duct tape. You can also use a rubber band.

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Living Room / Re: Is there a way to easily carry earphones for my mobile?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 13, 2018, 07:10 PM »

Duct tape your mobile to your head so you don't need earphones.

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Living Room / Re: Is there a way to easily carry earphones for my mobile?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 13, 2018, 04:24 PM »

Wear them. String them through your clothes down to your pocket.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Color Mixer

« Last post by Deozaan on November 13, 2018, 02:47 PM »

Shouldn't the Mix Percentage go from 0%-100% instead of from 0-255?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on November 10, 2018, 01:25 PM »

GOG is giving away a live concert (movie) featuring music from The Witcher 3. Claim it from the banner on their home page.

Video Game Show - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Concert

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General Software Discussion / Re: placing pre-fab HTML pages online (e.g the Rightnote Webbook)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 08, 2018, 01:52 AM »

With Keybase, I see lots about chat and teams, not a way to upload HTML files to have an accessible page.  Am I missing something?

-Steven Avery (November 08, 2018, 01:31 AM)

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

This link explains the basic concepts pretty well, and don't get scared off simply because it shows some command-line stuff. The process is very doable with simple drag and drop in your explorer.

After you install the Keybase app, you will get what appears to be a "network drive" on your computer. Just store the HTML pages on that drive and you will be able to access them from anywhere on the internet. Use the public folder for things that anybody can see. Use the private folder for things that only you can see.

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Living Room / Re: Energy cost of mining crypto more than the cost of mining precious metals

« Last post by Deozaan on November 07, 2018, 10:27 PM »

Yeah, it's pretty much a karma ran over dogma type of scenario. Trans fees sounded great until folks started noticing them … And then shit hit the fan.

-Stoic Joker (November 07, 2018, 04:00 PM)

I think the idea most people had was that 1) the "miner subsidy" (i.e. new coins being mined via the block reward) would more than pay for mining costs for at least a couple more decades, and 2) that transaction fees would always be very cheap individually, but because adoption of Bitcoin would be so high, cumulatively the transaction fees from hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of people using Bitcoin regularly would be quite lucrative for miners.

But then the Bitcoin Core team crippled Bitcoin, which slowed (and regressed) adoption, while driving transaction fees through the roof. And now Bitcoin (Core) has gone from 90%+ of the crypto market share to something in the 40-60% range, IIRC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: placing pre-fab HTML pages online (e.g the Rightnote Webbook)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 07, 2018, 10:13 PM »

You could do something a little unorthodox like store it in your free, private KBFS cloud storage. Only you could access it because it would be encrypted with your private keys

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Living Room / Re: Energy cost of mining crypto more than the cost of mining precious metals

« Last post by Deozaan on November 06, 2018, 05:33 PM »

There's a difference between the amount of energy "required" to mine Bitcoin and the amount of energy being spent to mine Bitcoin.

There's currently a "gold rush" in Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency in general) where there is a lot of energy being spent in the hopes of striking it rich.

As Stoic Joker mentioned, it is relatively inexpensive to get starting mining Bitcoin, so the economics of it naturally results in a fairly balanced system where costs to mine nearly equal profits earned. When it becomes more profitable, then more people start doing it. When it becomes less profitable, some people shut down their miners. It's simple supply and demand, with relatively little cost of entry or exit.

There is nothing in Bitcoin that requires energy consumption mining it to be so high. That is just a natural side effect of the current (or prospective) profitability, fueled by the greed inherent to human nature.

Technically speaking, one could mine Bitcoin on a Raspberry Pi. The proof of that is the fact that when it first began, it was just a few people running the software on their old laptops nearly 10 years ago. And indeed, under the right circumstances, the network could easily survive on a network of hundreds of RPis (or less) instead of the huge multi-million dollar ASIC operations we currently have.

A system that gives you a reasonable shot at gaining new BitCoin is going to cost you. You still need many GPUs, preferably a motherboard with enough PCI lanes to properly support these GPUs, a processor that can support those lanes as well, a power supply that can support this setup, a case that allows for all this equipment to be mounted in and you will be needing an airconditioned room to put this contraption in. Several thousands of USD such a system will cost you. Still nothing compared with actual mining equipment.

-Shades (November 06, 2018, 07:46 AM)

This is a few years out of date. It's senseless trying to mine bitcoin with GPUs (just as it is senseless to try mining bitcoin with a RPi). The Bitcoin world has moved on to ASIC mining.

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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource

« Last post by Deozaan on November 04, 2018, 05:31 PM »

That card has "abduction" spelled incorrectly, twice.

Do you mean because it's capitalized?

-kyrathaba (November 04, 2018, 04:07 PM)

No. It was spelled something like "abudction" in two places.

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Living Room / Re: Smart Tech people do some really stupid things

« Last post by Deozaan on November 04, 2018, 01:22 PM »

Yikes! 

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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource

« Last post by Deozaan on November 03, 2018, 09:17 PM »

Added some new card images to OP.

-kyrathaba (November 03, 2018, 02:29 PM)

That card has "abduction" spelled incorrectly, twice.

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DC Gamer Club / Destiny 2 free (to keep forever, if claimed before November 18, 2018)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 02, 2018, 10:14 PM »

If you launch the Battle.net client you can claim Destiny 2 for free between now and November 18.

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Living Room / Re: Help with VPN Recommendation

« Last post by Deozaan on November 01, 2018, 11:30 AM »

ProtonVPN has specifically Netflix-compatible VPN servers for paid users.

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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource

« Last post by Deozaan on October 26, 2018, 10:00 AM »

Neat. Even though from the sounds of your description, booster packs may not apply, here's a somewhat related thread from December 2017:

Designing Collectible Card Games: How do rarity and booster packs work?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Bundle: Fallout games on sale - incl. Fallout4 + Fallout4 Season Pass.

« Last post by Deozaan on October 25, 2018, 02:30 AM »

On sale? Or for sale?

Looks like regular prices to me.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by Deozaan on October 22, 2018, 11:53 PM »

I know this doesn't solve the problem in its entirety for you, but it may be one step along the way:

If you have a tool that can batch edit the .LNK properties, then maybe Skwire's Earl will help you convert your .URL files to .LNK files.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenShotCaptor at 4K resolution

« Last post by Deozaan on October 22, 2018, 04:16 PM »

By your description it sounds like you're only getting screenshots at a resolution of 1920x1080. But I use Screenshot Captor all the time to get captures larger than that.

I just made one that is 4480x1440 by pressing Alt-PrtScr.

Do you by chance have it configured to capture only a predefined area on the screen? Try using the Menu to capture your entire workspace and see if that gets an image of the appropriate size.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10: merge the bugs now, we'll fix them later

« Last post by Deozaan on October 21, 2018, 04:42 PM »

I can't think of anything that has been broken by Windows 10 updates on my machine. Sure, many of my customizations have been reverted to their defaults, requiring me to re-customize things. I'm not saying Windows 10 updates haven't been bad for people, because surely some people have had issues. But I've never had a bad update experience with Windows 10.

I actually had more trouble on my machine due to a faulty Windows 7 -> Windows 10 upgrade that broke various things throughout the OS. But once I did a clean install of Windows 10 (about a year ago) all my troubles went away.

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 18, 2018, 01:00 PM »

I have a cousin who put his sunglasses up on his forehead like that so often that he had seemingly permanent indentations in his scalp.

They probably would have gone away eventually after several hours or a couple of days at most. But the last time I spent several consecutive days with him, he never gave his skin that long of a break from his sunglasses, so the dents were always present.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Deozaan on October 18, 2018, 12:53 PM »

[OT]: This smells a lot like a spam message..., and also it should have gone into the existing thread of (nearly) the same name.
Any admin who agrees with me should IMHO remove this thread and probably the OP too.

-Ath (October 18, 2018, 10:02 AM)

It was a spammer who copied mouser's post from 2006(!) verbatim, probably intending to change the link to a spam link:

btw, anyone who tries firefox to see if they want to keep using it, should not even start to try it until they install Tab Mix Plus.

To me, this 1 extension is the make or break feature of firefox to me.  It turns a browser with poor tab support to one with amazing tab support.  (note: there are a couple other tab extensions for firefox, they may be equally good for all i know, but you NEED one of these otherwise ff sucks, imho).

So if you are a tabbed-browser fan, and have been dissapointed with plain firefox, you need to try tab mix plus, it's just packed with cool options.

-mouser (September 24, 2006, 11:55 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on October 12, 2018, 02:53 PM »

I have not experienced it, and the reason why not seems to be that it is related to HP computers/keyboards:

This HpqKbFiltr.sys file is a keyboard driver and is part of the HP Quick Launch Buttons software that allows you to configure various buttons to launch programs in Windows.

When users attempt to install the KB4462919 update, the HP computer will crash and display an BSOD stating "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart " and a stop code of WDF_VIOLATION as shown below.

-https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/hp-pcs-getting-wdf-violation-bsod-after-installing-windows-10-updates/

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Living Room / Re: "If you don't steal [from the commons] you are stealing from your family".

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2018, 10:19 PM »

Some people are really petty and will http://www.latimes.c...ojects/la-me-framed/ do everything in their power to ruin your life over perceived offenses.

-Deozaan (October 06, 2018, 01:52 PM)

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

-Los Angeles Times

-Curt (October 10, 2018, 09:22 PM)

Try this link: http://archive.is/aAs16

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Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by Deozaan on October 09, 2018, 11:26 PM »

The ironic thing is, this question from Kalos is one of his most reasonable and specific requests for advice, and a question that might not yield a quick easy solution with a google search.. Sounds like something someone might be able to give some advice about, or at least point him in the right direction..

-mouser (October 09, 2018, 05:31 PM)

The Boy Who Cried Wolf comes to mind.

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Living Room / Re: Google finds Vulnerability in G+ API. Sunsets G+ in response.

« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2018, 05:09 PM »

You don't have to give a lot of personal information for Facebook. But they'll datamine it out of everyone they can based on your friends and tagged posts, etc.

That said, your use case seems to be different than mine. I was never really into any of the public communities. They never held much personal worth to me.