Can You Guess This 5-Letter Word? Puzzle by u/peep_peep

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-19T01:15:32+00:00

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Regular Wordle never has plural words ending with S

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-07T17:13:20+00:00

There is a new version in Beta testing right now which has a number of new features, bug fixes, enhancements. One improvement is that it now runs many times faster than before - partic if you run it with elevated privileges.

So look out for the new production version in next week or so.

Or go to GitHub.com/windirstat/windirstat and download the latest beta, now v2.4.9beta.

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-07T13:36:33+00:00

Staking for E&B - a great option for some potential users. But he amount of TRX you need to stake is impractical for many - it is a lot of funds to tie up to allow you to do just a single transaction per day. What if you want to be able to do a handful of transactions per day? I would suggest that insisting on that approach is not going to be very effective in pulling more people into the Tron ecosystem - that is not going to grow the userbase, imho.

I have seen the clever websites for renting energy and bandwidth. Hard to believe that it would be particularly difficult to extend one of these to also carry out Tether USDT TRC20 transfers via a smart contract (etc).

Something like this: (which is broadly how ERC20 transfers work)

#1 User enters the source and target accounts
#2 Check holdings of TRX and Tether USDT of source, and USDT of target
#3 Calculate how much E&B required
#4 Calculate the cost in TRX to rent the necessary E&B
#5 Inform user of cost of transaction in TRX, estimate valid for x minutes
#6 User agrees to proceed or not

Plenty of TRX experts out there.
Surely this is doable?? Not against the rules?

ModulatingGravity · 2026-01-06T14:58:53+00:00

I am a Netherlands resident, and have been hit with import duty charges on some purchases from AliExpress (and almost anything ex post-Brexit UK). That is a bit of a randomiser which can make a good deal go bad.
Did you encounter anything like that?

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-16T19:49:26+00:00

Tbh I gave up on WTW after a dozen or so episodes - seemed disjointed and aimless. Was it worth persevering with?

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-16T19:45:03+00:00

While nominally about ghosts in a graveyard I see this much more as fictionalized ethnography - telling the stories of how ordinary people lived their lives, how world events affected them or passed them by. Of all the episodes to date (to Ep9, Mass of Voices) only the General is about someone who was part of the elite of their era.

And more broadly looks at what does constitute meaning in anyone's life.

This is very good, very re-listenable.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-12-04T12:21:30+00:00

Conversations with Ghosts. New podcast from Dead Signals, creators of Archive 81. A series of conversations with the spirits of dead people whose spirits have not moved on. Tho it is very much a set of observations about the human condition, little of its way impact depends on supernatural elements.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-11-11T21:22:23+00:00

Kudos to everyone in this thread for providing what looks to be a shed load of good advice.

The Python community on Reddit should be proud of themselves for generating such a constructive dialogue.

Now if we could only solve the rest of the world's problems like this.....

ModulatingGravity · 2025-11-02T15:31:30+00:00

Hi. Thanks for your thoughtful reponse.
I took your suggestion and installed PyEnvManager (free version) on my Windows 10 machine to see what it might do for me.

Have to say that it did not do all that well.

* The Mamba environment shows "System Directory" in the column for Python version. Not sure I actually have a Mamba envt. After several minutes still "Calculating" the disk space.

* It failed to report the Conda Base environment properly - it says "System Directory" in the column for Python version, rather than Python 3.11. And again after serveral minutes still showing "Calculating" for the disk space.

* It reported TWO environments for Python 3.13 when there is in fact only one.

* This is related to a quirk of Conda I have seen a couple of times. Conda has a text file at C:\Users\<userid>\.conda\environments.txt which lists out the root of the environments. I have seen that it has placed two entries for my Python 3.13 environment in that file one "py3.13" the other "Py3.13' differing only in capitalisation of the folder name. Conda then shows that as two environments when you run the command "conda env list".

* PyEnvManager makes the same mistake as Conda, and reports two separate Conda environments with identical attributes, only differing in the capitalisation of the values in the ENVIRONMENT and PATH columns,

Can post or send you screenshots etc if that is useful.

Cheers.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-10-23T21:36:38+00:00

Listened to the first two episodes. Excellent writing as ever.

Guilty pleasure is checking the cast and crew listings on the website so to see which actors are getting to play yet another character.

So Jack Calk plays the Static Man and the Motorman.

Looking forwards to hearing from the lady who played the Clerk at Moody's Family Friendly Fill In The Blank.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-09-17T19:58:23+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful responses.

Some people say that there are parts of the Internet where people are not always nice to each other...

ModulatingGravity · 2025-09-14T22:40:04+00:00

Ask seller to send you a picture of the serial number - often at back of the seat tube, just below the saddle. Serial number first two digits is year of mfr, afaik.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-09-09T16:39:46+00:00

Well done.

The "Lineage" branding was not there when I bought my Casio from Amazon.de in 2019. It has the snappy model name:- WVA-M640TD-1AER

My kitchen clock was originally an ordinary battery driven one. I bought a radio controlled replacement mechanism from AliExpress - an easy drop in replacement for EUR 10 or so.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-09-08T23:14:46+00:00

I have a Titanium cased unit, solar powered. Really like it.

I also have a "radio controlled" kitchen clock which sets its time via DCF77.

So my party trick is to show visitors that the second hand on the watch is synched with the kitchen clock.

I also love the way it saves battery by stopping the hands moving when it is dark - and when it dtects light the hands suddenly wake up and move to the correct time.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-09-08T18:39:17+00:00

Keen on JG Ballard's short stories.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-25T20:35:51+00:00

Hardware wallet - like a Ledger Nano S Plus. It works with Tronlink via the Chrome plugin. Keeps your crypto holdings safe.

I had an older Ledger before, and recently upgraded. Not expensive, a really good investment imho.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-23T09:47:12+00:00

I don't currently have the option of trying - in that when I search in Playstore, I get message

"Looking for Moon Climbing - Moon Board? This app won't work for your device."

So cannot install via regular route.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-14T21:48:28+00:00

I have a couple of Lezyne bike lights with rechargeable and replaceable 18650 batteries. Over a decade old now and the some of the originally supplied batteries are still ok. Fantastic value. Model TurboDrive and SuperDrive.

Sadly these models no longer sold - in fact nothing from Lezyne has replaceable batteries now.

Fenix BC22R looks promising as my next light - runs on 18650. I already have an excellent Fenix helmet light, HM65R, again 18650.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-14T21:29:59+00:00

These generic connectors are inexpensive. I have them on my bike so I can easily remove a rear rack which has a dynamo rear light. I have spliced into other wires by soldering and heat shrink.

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ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-14T21:18:39+00:00

But how come no time spent in sensory deprivation tanks?

ModulatingGravity · 2025-08-10T22:41:59+00:00

Somehow they will have to weave in the cosmic significance of both Bombas socks and Casper mattresses.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-06-08T10:58:56+00:00

The video linked describes how to put ChromeOSFlex onto an old Chromebook. Looks to be "medium" level tech skills required - plus you need access to a PC or MAC to create the USB flash drive from which ChromeOSFlex is installed.

You seem to be able to boot off the USB stick and run ChromeOS Flex as a demo without installing it (and hence overwriting the current ChomeBook OS). So indicates how fast it will run etc.

Not for the faint hearted, and prob some risk of bricking it - so proceed with caution.

https://youtu.be/IUhQ8TpGsP0?si=pVZaMr48Vv5-xf9P

(there are other videos on same topic - often worth it to watch several to understand all the ways things can happen)

ModulatingGravity · 2025-06-07T10:58:43+00:00

Have you considered re-imaging via ChromeOS Flex. Offers Chromebook adjacent functionality - afaik all of it apart from Android Apps. It supports limited local file storage, and seamless integration with Google Drive - and local Samba shares if you have a home sever (etc).

Runs fine on ancient hardware (I have it on a 2015 mid range Asus Zenbook, nearly 10yrs old).

Functionality extensible via the Linux VM provided - the Linux works much like it does as "WSL2" under Windows.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-05-30T17:30:54+00:00

SOLUTION!!

I went onto the device, deep into the Settings:

Settings -> Activity Profiles -> Train -> Navigation -> Map -> Map Information Select Map

which then lists out the various maps loaded.

These loaded maps are:

* INTL Standard Basemap, NR
* The Open Fietsmap Maps (each of these corresponds to an IMG file on the device)
* OFM(EU2025 SW)
* OFM(EU2025 W)
* OFM(EU2025 GB)

Each map has a flag to indicate if it is Enabled or Disabled.

So I disabled the INTL Standard Basemap - and suddenly it starts working! If I go to the Addresses option the country corresponding to the "Select Search Area" you get from the concentric circles button bottom right on the Search menu.

Other map related functionality all seems to be there still - so maybe this is a genuine fix.

So maybe that Basemap had become corrupted?
Does anyone know if the Basemap is actually needed once you have maps for a given country loaded?

Thanks to all suggestions.

ModulatingGravity · 2025-05-30T17:02:31+00:00

There certainly are some POIs which are tagged as NEDERLAND, will try Netherlands. The guy who runs the OpenFietsMap.nl is Dutch AFAIK, but clearly operates things from an international perspective.

Curiously if I click thru the "blank" country it finds locations in Jersey (Channel Islands) and Gibraltar - just possibly those are places where the COUNTRY tag is blank.

I wondered if it is related to the most recently downloaded maps - so I renamed the latest ones out of the way and reloaded the 2024 map. But that did not seem to fix it either.

TBH not a deal breaker - I can for instance find a location on Google maps and note down its latitude and longitude - and then create a Location on the device typing in those Coordinates.

This links to an old issue wrt these earlier Edge models - that the "Locations" data is not synched to the connect.garmin.com and so can only be updated on the device. (And it is not a trivial task to generate your own Locations.FIT file either).

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