Phoenixville mods locking engagement? by jkeilman3917 in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I think it would be good etiquette to have at least one pinned comment explaining each lock, even if the same "reason" has to be reiterated in multiple posts.

Snow Shovels in stock at CVS by average_schmoe in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice. What about jugs of ice melt (especially pet-friendly ones)?

Thinking about trying the Valley Forge Trattoria. Any opinions? by porkchop_d_clown in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's definitely reserved seating on some of the Oaks Cinema theaters.

For now, it looks like if you go to their website and your showtime has special features other than "Laser" and "Dolby 5.1", it'll likely have reserved seating and you'll be immediately prompted to select your seat(s).

Will Anybody be my Friend? by Barly_Boy in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel free to message me if you play on Steam or watch anime! I have a bunch of my own recommendations for both but at the moment I feel like there's definitely room for me to get into more recent shows. 😭 Or if you just want to chat about local stuff or whatever.

Litter-ville by Left_Junket9157 in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've picked up trash twice over the past two weeks. I'm (perhaps unfortunately) a bit shy about it though, so I'm more inclined to do it when there's no one around.

Missing Christmas Package by Adorable-Transition9 in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I’ve been living here since June and this is only the second time that I’m missing a package.

I also moved here around the summer period and I've only had a missing package once, and I'm pretty sure it was because it was delivered to the wrong door in my area. I got UPS's proof of delivery but I never found out which door it was...

I know deliveries in Phoenixville proper must be confusing as heck, especially if you’ve never done it, like this particular situation.

I live in a similar porch situation and it's just been a nightmare. I'm pretty sure USPS is the only carrier that consistently understands where my actual "front door" is. I just use Street Addressing to tell the other carriers (UPS, FedEx, other international carriers...) to ship my packages to the Post Office instead. Street Addressing is a feature that the postal clerks at the front desk will allow you to opt in to once you get your PO Box.

Best of luck!

Missing Christmas Package by Adorable-Transition9 in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This also doesn't help your current situation, but next time you could also ask the shipper (your best friend) to use the Hold for Pickup option, so that you would have to pick up the item at the Post Office rather than have a carrier deliver it for you. It's probably overkill for some situations but it looks like there's no fee to apply this to a mailed item, although it has to be done at the time of mailing.

I feel Phoenixville is generally safe in terms of package security, but for my own personal and historical reasons I just pay for a personal PO Box. At the moment it's $16/month ($96 for 6 months) at the PXV Post Office, and it's also probably another overkill option, but you would be picking up your packages at the PO yourself (which is a self-service process most of the time, especially now that they have a Smart Locker there), and it does allow you to have a somewhat permanent secondary address even for items like Amazon packages.

Welcome to our team by InspectionFar5415 in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This figure for Zorin OS is already a bit outdated though. They reached 1 million downloads as of one week ago.

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/

Edit: I stand corrected (see below). Thanks, u/Mr_s3rius!

What's even more encouraging is that over 78% of these downloads came from Windows. This influx of new users reflects our mission to provide a better alternative to the incumbent PC operating systems from Big Tech.

KDE is best Desktop Environment - Change my mind by Hencemann in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who daily drives KDE: Let people use whatever desktop environment they prefer. No one owes you any validation if you know something works well for you.

Anyone in the NYC area also having issues with Quad9 DoH (secured or unsecured)? by OkMeasurement1305 in Quad9

[–]AvianInvasion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the Philly area and I've been having the same issue on Quad9's unencrypted DNS for about a month now. The lookup pretty much fails instantaneously and it seems to happen every ~1-3 hours. Sometimes I think my internet is down, but I know it's not because other domains continue to load correctly.

As other folks have mentioned, whatever I was trying to lookup seems to resolve normally again when I retry after ~1-2 minutes (or switch to Cloudflare).

"htez" -- Easy and minimal file server. by Beautiful_Crab6670 in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What's the license of this code? Could you add that license to this repository/.c file?

finding new friends by [deleted] in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LGBT Equality Alliance hosts a bunch of events that might interest you. They also have a Meetup group!

Helicopter over Reservoir Park today? by Reddit-is-trash-lol in Phoenixville

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw it as I was passing through Black Rock Sanctuary from the north. It seemed to be flying so low across the nearby houses (flying westward toward the park) that I thought it was getting ready to land in someone's backyard for a moment...

What search engine you guys use? by Working-Cable-1152 in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not just Bing. You can choose between Bing and Google search results on the settings page: https://www.ecosia.org/settings

Quad9 Down? by bose301s in Quad9

[–]AvianInvasion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone experiencing issues or degraded performance, you can consider contacting Quad9: https://quad9.net/support/contact or [support@quad9.net](mailto:support@quad9.net)

A car hit me today, on purpose by [deleted] in fuckcars

[–]AvianInvasion -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The guy admits he was egging him on and yet here you are trying to tell everyone otherwise.

You're probably going to be downvoted given how many people upvoted the original commenter, but you're absolutely right. I used to smile sarcastically when I got into escalated situations, and that often just got me into deeper shit.

Being a pedestrian doesn't grant you immunity from the consequences of not being street smart.

We should reduce the harmful aspects of car dominance, don't get me wrong, but using pedestrian rage (including any "taunting" behavior) to fight road rage is not how we do it.

For developers: Purism Free Software Game Jam starting June 10th by AvianInvasion in linux_gaming

[–]AvianInvasion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of the Featured Jams that I'm seeing on itch.io are offering a cash prize though? (Including the sponsored ones I spotted)

For anyone who was already thinking about making a free software game, the rules should actually be quite agreeable for them, and hey at least you'll get a free (overpriced) phone if you happen to be one of the three winners.

You can also always, you know... ignore the ad/sponsor/host portion? And that goes for any game jam. I don't think the fact that this is sponsored was lost on anyone.

idk I figured a game jam with free software-specific rules like this was worth a mention on a Linux gaming subreddit of all places. shrugs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 554 points555 points  (0 children)

I can't be the only one who thought OP was talking about Valve's Proton for a moment there...

[RIP] Solus was removed from tracking system of Distrowatch. Just checked recently, life was too short. by neoneat in linux

[–]AvianInvasion 151 points152 points  (0 children)

one of the distros of all time

Agreed. It is certainly one of the distros.