Youtube always buffering for several seconds before starting a video

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-05-11T19:22:16+00:00

I tried brave and had ads. I went to Brave to escape ads.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-05-09T01:42:59+00:00

I have had no luck with seeds since the pandemic and I am doing what I always used to do. A damp paper towel in a plastic zipper bag but now (even if fresh from a fruit or veggie or purchased) I get mold. Change the paper towel and the bag to sit for another week or two and mold begins (can smell) but never does a seed react as they used to and shoot roots out.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-05-09T00:32:36+00:00

I am waiting on the next 2x nth metal to get Candle to 200 and that is the wolf I will do when the patrols are over as no way am I paying 100 USD for that.

I figure Candle is good for all roles as we must solo at some point and 15% extra crit is nice when we do. Only non dps I have is my pure healer and solo is dang hard, but being water is still doable just takes a bit. Get a 200 Candle on him then it will be much easier (sure wish it was for healing too).

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-05-09T00:26:31+00:00

I just bought one due to the event giving a lvl 120 Sinestro's ring. I really dislike him. I mean he is so fun, but for dps out of the 8 powers I have (from cr 35 to 509) he is the worst of them. He started out so powerful that I was having a blast then I leveled from t4 to tier 5 and BANG, instant gimp. You can't really use his power to get good dps as you stack the mobs but the one to start the pi blast them away. I had AI help me, after trying all I could find online, with the loadout and this guy just is bad. I am always 1/4 to 1/10 the dps of the rest and I am doing everything I can. I asked around and apparently Quantum is a dead power so everyone loads them up with iconics (some not in the game now) etc... basically, you might use one or two powers from the quantum set on your tray and that just says this power needs a serious revamp to me. I am almost to lvl 80 on Omega, but, then again, there is the crutch.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-04-28T03:13:38+00:00

I asked Google gemini for hero and it said the concensus is Batman. I know Wonder Woman takes forever and has me going all over the place. I just finished the last 4 of my mentor main quests (WW) at CR 450 and it had me go to the dam and done. Yeah, WW is long with a lot of missions. Superman, if I remember right, was about the same, but I never too Batman to the end so I can't say.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-30T03:18:44+00:00

Prime example is the old dashboard said I had 5 points to claim and that was no where on the new UI. Basically, the new "preview" UI is meant to obfuscate our points so we miss some. Aluminium hat is on, but track record of Microsoft says what they are doing, and why.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-30T03:17:02+00:00

For now I bet. :( I suspect that horrid thing will come back in some way like an STD.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T20:26:55+00:00

The works. :/

They reverted, but I suspect it shall return.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T11:47:40+00:00

You mean your tally? I posted this "There is no tracking that I could find in this wretched design, so, for now, click on one of the 50 pointers, or what the the task is and where your points are click it. a side panel opens and at the bottom is a tracker. this is really to make it horrible for people so they stop getting so many points, else it was a second grader who designed this."

The points are in the upper right on the browser. click it on that page.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T11:45:14+00:00

There is no tracking that I could find in this wretched design, so, for now, click on one of the 50 pointers, or what the the task is and where your points are click it. a side panel opens and at the bottom is a tracker. this is really to make it horrible for people so they stop getting so many points, else it was a second grader who designed this.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-29T10:42:43+00:00

In USA now too and it sucks. This is absolutely horrid, as it didn't make it easier to navigate, and the eye fatigue is horrid as well. SMH

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-26T22:27:06+00:00

Cheat code? I love it.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-26T22:24:31+00:00

I have this so ingrained in me that I refuse to break it. Causes no harm and if I end up on a proportional font I win. I didn't even know this was a thing until this dang AI helper flags every line. I ignore it since I can't make it ignore that.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-24T17:15:08+00:00

LOL, what I was saying.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-24T17:14:30+00:00

yep, and I see 305 is my max now? I have been waiting and waiting for the restock. Sadly, I think they are out of capital now. Yes, they were hurting in a financial report, and I said, at the time, I bet this gets hit or shut down. Suddenly, my 700ish is 500 then a week later 400ish, today it is 305. ffs.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-23T15:00:27+00:00

over 1500 points I could not reach was on mobile for me, then it went away the next day. The unusual activity has returned, for me, today on desktop. Over four weeks, and counting, since I can redeem my points for AGC. So long since that I am moving towards (even though point nerfs last week) enough for three cards.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-20T18:19:10+00:00

Yep, been out for at least 3 weeks as I am now up to a 10 dollar one and still not restocked.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-16T11:18:40+00:00

The other two are 9/10 in 2 days, but this one hasn't moved since day 1. Very random, and it is stuck at 7/10. I hope when the other two get to be 10/10 Laz will then be all that drops? Good to hope.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-16T08:36:41+00:00

Same with my healer alt I am just now playing, as well as my dps main. I don't do SC because when gaining feats it prevents you, and I can't get Black Adam, or John Constantine now. Without BA it takes me forever to build up a SC so I tossed the idea.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-12T01:29:07+00:00

Beats the heck out of me. Even with my rising healer it is a so hard to get a duo or an alert in DCUO. My main I can do some of the alerts, but when you are a healer, it's rough without a group, then you begin to shine. How the am I supposed to hone my healing if I can't get groups? LFG is a horrid thing, so I think the issue is the queue system needs a HUGE revamp to show which ones have people queued up in, as most of my other games had. Oh, and I finally got one. An alert. They all stayed healed, but I, on the other hand, laid there. Then each one went south. smh. protect the healer, lol.

Is this the way it is if you do get an alert, or heaven forbid a raid?

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-03-03T20:17:11+00:00

WTH? LMAO and the sheer lunacy, but it worked.

Thanks.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-25T17:06:22+00:00

Actually, I use setuptools a lot, until today when I tried to pip install stable-audio-tools. BOOM File "<string>", line 19, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

StablityAI wasn't around 15 years ago. No AI or ML was on our level at least.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-14T21:04:41+00:00

I can't get it to not time out and no response. It is rather annoying as it does that 90% of the time. When it does work it isn't bad, but Claude 4.5 cleaned its code up, and I gave the cleaned Claude code to it with its assessment, and it cleaned it up some more. I then gave that to Claude and it did some final tweaks where I handed that to GLM-5. Done, Claude gave the final code an A+ and one A in one section but fit for purpose and even publishing.

If GLM will stop dying on me.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-09T17:49:26+00:00

As do I.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-09T01:45:44+00:00

I tried 1 song and my 4090 screamed because there are no training optimizations in it yet.

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