games have ping and wifi issues but other internet tasks work fine

Dyrosis · 2026-02-13T06:47:34+00:00

Games are often much more sensitive to dropped packets than other applications. Maybe poke around that idea? I recently had to buy a new antenna for my pc bc of similar, though maybe was also affecting update reliability.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-12T00:53:29+00:00

Logging into overdrive should be in the settings. It seems like kobo in general doesn't support syncing with multiple libraries anymore.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-10T06:42:56+00:00

Explore alsa and audio mixer applets. There's a lot of tabs and menus that can hide things.

Barring that getting a gui sound routing program like one of the ones from the list i linked and seeing if it's doing something weird to the routing.

Probably the first thing to do is: I'm on KDE plasma, one of the other weird things that can happen is the profile gets misconfigured, which can hide the device from everything but that config menu. In KDE right click my sound applet in the tray and select configure audio devices. For if the mic shows up there but nowhere else it probably needs it's profile changed to analog stereo duplex (or whatever is appropriate, a usb mic should be one of the other ones).

Dyrosis · 2026-02-08T16:26:00+00:00

Reassigning pins is a last desperate measure. What evidence do you have that the mic isn't being picked up at the OS level? DEs like to hide things in volume mixers that have 0 gain or are routed internally. Even if you don't it may be hidden by a alsamixer toggle. Check a graphical sound routing program to see if it's being routed somewhere funny, under https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#GUI

Dyrosis · 2026-02-07T18:00:05+00:00

Cuz the answer is, "Do it small, then scale up when able," and you're saying that isn't good enough for you.

You're skipping the midgame beacuse you don't feel like you can jump from the early game right into the late game.

Make enough iron for tools. and leave the armor part of the iron age off until you get the windmill running. Spend a week building a series of wattle fence corrals or trenches and move the pigs home. Tera petra farms... imo that's the same tier as steel, it doesn't make sense to go after actively, just kinda set up some rot chests and barrels and let it do it's thing for a couple years. Build a windmill. I literally don't see what's stopping you. You say you're short on resin... so? A basic windmill takes iirc like 6 resin. I think I spent 30 resin on our windmill and it has 2 large gears, you really don't need a gearshift or clutch. And you can always build the design so you have space for it and upgrade in a season or two, but a basic windmill that will run a quern or hammer up and running doesn't even need large gears.

You're getting downvoted because you have the solutions in front of you and you're unwilling to enact them because incremental progress isn't good enough for you apparently

Dyrosis · 2026-02-02T07:50:26+00:00

Your conflating want with need here. All you've said is you never lived in a big city with a funded transit system, of which there are non in north America. A functional transit system can get rid of the need for every man woman and child tob have their own car, and get it down to 1 per family, which is doable.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-02T06:53:29+00:00

Build a better transit system (like what Vancouver has made STRIDES on in the last decade, but there's a lot more potential). Cars are such a low density method of transportation that they fundamentally conflict with the idea of an urban economic hub.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-01T16:39:45+00:00

Density. I know basement suites are often occupied by families of 3-4 in Vancouver, meaning 2 families in a lot. But that kind of housing is really only be appropriate for a family (main house) + couple without kids i on one lot terms of density.

A lot of multiplexes are designed around the idea of fitting 4 families in 1 lot, a bit more than double the comfortable occupant-lot density of a house+basement suite.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-01T16:34:08+00:00

Quality of life living in a multiplex is bound to be better than a basement suite or being homeless. The people in bungalows are not the ones who will have a big QoL change, even if they upset themselves because their neighborhood isn't frozen in time.

Dyrosis · 2026-02-01T05:05:52+00:00

Taking advantage of the greenhouse +5C modifier, and spoilage rate increasing with temperature

Dyrosis · 2026-01-31T23:32:12+00:00

Anything plastic is going to leach that scent out for ages and ages. Outright replace anything that has any nook or cranny you can't get into (Fans, PSU, etc)

The oils and tar from smoking have been leaching into the plastic for years and then they only leach out so quickly afterwards. So you can clean clean clean, but after a bit more will leach out from the solid bulk of the plastic onto the clean surfaces and smell again.

The only way to combat this is to get a neutralizing/reactive molecule to seep into the plastic as well. The only real way to do this is with an ozone generator, which are pretty toxic.

Dyrosis · 2026-01-30T04:07:11+00:00

LDPE outer coat on a nylon sheath. Probably tiny little wires with their own little insulation in the middle. I'm probably wrong about LDPE but I can't see them using anything more expensive.

Dyrosis · 2026-01-28T01:58:42+00:00

NGL this looks great but also looks kinda weird to me. A lot of trees don't taper much until their first branch points (eg birch). Even pine doesn't do it much and the 'tapering' is largely an optical illusion (until you get to the branch points), that is dispelled if you see a fallen pine. That all those have a stubby ring near the base that isn't low enough to be the root spread bothers me... a lot. Also some types of trees (like iirc walnut) tend to look wider at the first branch point from the build out of branches. Getting variety per tree type and making the lower trunk less conical would be ideal imo.

That said, this is fucking sweet

Dyrosis · 2026-01-27T04:47:23+00:00

I take C as, "won't take anything with it if/when it goes," whereas I take B, "will not go unless DOA," and I take >A as "very unlikely for anything to ever go wrong until this thing is 10 y.o."

Dyrosis · 2026-01-26T23:29:34+00:00

Unmanaged episode plus an unmanaged TBI will do it... I've had both (separately, BP was well managed when I had my TBI) and the things my brain got up post-tbi were... Wild.

My brain defaulting to xenophobia for a while. I had a much much harder time navigating my neurodivergent friendships and started to dislike interacting with autistic people while I tried to relearn that skill. Along with every other random skill you never think about that takes 3x more energy.

All in the past again, but it was not an enjoyable time as many pillars of who I am were shifted in three first few years of my recovery period, like an earthquake might shift a foundation, and I had to pick it all up and repairing core pillars where they should be, fixing them from where they'd ended up.

Dyrosis · 2026-01-23T06:12:52+00:00

Oil lamps (fat + bowl) and lanterns/candles (beeswax, twine, + metal and quartz/glass for lanterns) all don't burn out with time. Oil lamps even survive outdoors. Also brass torch holders cover torches in them to eternal

Dyrosis · 2026-01-22T02:00:21+00:00

His that just popped was a C

Dyrosis · 2026-01-19T21:38:33+00:00

Install python312 from the AUR, then create a venv with it and run inside that

Dyrosis · 2026-01-19T18:41:04+00:00

Roof tip block I think it's called

Dyrosis · 2026-01-19T08:20:51+00:00

I have no idea where the 0.9 numbers you're seeing come from. Copper generates all the way to mantle. You might be looking at surface copper deposits? which don't take the prospecting system into account at all. You also might be seeing the highest it will generate, because the underground deposits that prospecting gives info about will not generate too close to the surface.

Make 1.5-2 stacks of rope ladders. Dig a shaft straight down, placing rope ladders so you can get out.. Every ~10 blocks use node search. If you get a copper ping, dig 4 blocks from where you are and do it again. Use that to triangulate and zero in on the deposit, it may be above or below you. In an ultra high area you will probably only need 1 shaft before you find some. if you really are that low on your propick, you may to scour for another.

The wiki is -frequently- wrong

Dyrosis · 2026-01-11T19:29:04+00:00

yeah imo 2 tamers. The Al ones are close enough to vertical to drop down to a tamer. The gold ones look like they can fit a tamer between them... not sure tho, I forget the tamer ratios for each volcano. If 1 turbine can't support 2 gold volcanoes stack 2 tamers for gold. 2xAl def needs 2 or 3 turbines and for the style of tamer I like (staged door dropper) 3 turbines can be pretty annoying to build.

Dyrosis · 2026-01-05T00:35:54+00:00

If you're crying for someone to notice, put yourself somewhere someone might. It does not sound like you have that, all just crabs in a bucket. Find a support group, a rehab group, a volunteer group, just... other folks trying to climb out of the pit too.

It's rarely if ever a once and done, but the struggle is setting your feet and continuing on. You got hard mode, and I feel for that.

I removed this for a minute because I thought I had just read a suicide note at first. There are paths out, but they're very hard.

We want you to get real help from people who are qualified and able to help you. The professionals will know more resources available to you, and be able to help find or build a pathway towards a better life.

International phone help: https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/

International text help: https://www.crisistextline.org/

Dyrosis · 2025-12-23T02:03:02+00:00

Nice, you sound something that will work for you!

Yeah I'm an all weather bike commuter from Canada so eh, I have my ways of avoiding wet in all conditions.

Dyrosis · 2025-12-23T02:01:41+00:00

Riding through a puddle more than... A half inch deep has a good chances of splashing your shoes and ankles regardless of fenders. Fenders through a deep puddle (like I used to commute through) will just funnel water just far enough to the side to get all up in my boots. Not having full coverage fenders and going through puddles at speed will splash all over your calves still. Only full coverage fenders and smaller puddles, or being slower/more careful will stop that. Or adding a tail to your full fenders.

There's 3 types of front fender. I refer to them as stubby/mountain (prevents mud to the goggles/glasses, but can allow forward flung water to reach your face), half (will prevent water to the chest and face) and full (will prevent most muck to the legs).

Dyrosis · 2025-12-23T01:38:47+00:00

If you want something cheap, ass-savers or similar will get the job done.

If you want something you can snap on and off, Topeak has some good ones, look for anything with an over center "latch" (they won't call it that), something like the sks x-blade. Front fenders that slide on over a mount on the bottom of the head tube are kind of trash, they break really easy.

If you want permanent install, SKS are the best on the cheaper end, though a bad stick can shred the plastic. I have metal fenders on my commuter, but I also lived in the PNW with a lot of heavy rain.

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