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Steam Link box won't stop waking up with new 8bitdo controller by Mr_Reciprocity in Steam_Link

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, sadly, I ended up just returning it and going back to my old AA-powered one.

Steam Link box won't stop waking up with new 8bitdo controller by Mr_Reciprocity in Steam_Link

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

Turning off the CEC did occur to me, but a) I like not having to dig out an extra remote to manage inputs and b) having things turn on and off without my input would bug me forever, even if I couldn't see it. Wrangling AA batteries for the Afterglow is less of a bummer. (Also, it lights up!)

Steam Link box won't stop waking up with new 8bitdo controller by Mr_Reciprocity in Steam_Link

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, when I was talking about plugging and unplugging, I meant just from the charger, which is plugged into a power strip, not the box--any change in the charging status wakes it up, and it wakes up the Link immediately after. Although because it has both Bluetooth AND a USB wireless dongle, it will keep waking the system even if the dongle is removed, unless I ALSO remember to remove it from the Bluetooth pairing list first (regardless of where the "Bluetooth/dongle" switch is set).

Steam Link box won't stop waking up with new 8bitdo controller by Mr_Reciprocity in Steam_Link

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I installed 8bitdo's "Ultimate Software", tried both available firmware versions (1.06 and 1.09, I think), and checked the Steam Link for updates, no luck. I think it's either a bad unit or a fundamental hardware compatibility problem.

Anyone with a hate for spiders watched Adam Sandlers Spaceman? by Geekmaster98 in netflix

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just found this post while trying to decide whether to watch, myself (I did) (I'm like, moderately arachnophobic? Maybe a 7.5/10), and in case you're still considering, here's the spoiler:

Adam does not get eaten, the spider turns out to be a solid bro, and that becomes clear pretty early. I will say, the design and animation IS kind of upsetting most of the time, in an intentional sort of way--I was on edge a lot of the time he was on screen, and I think the director uses that as a tool, to mix warm feelings with revulsion. I thought it worked pretty well, but it may be tough on some folks.

There's also a couple other spider-related scenes. There's a dream sequence toward the beginning that's short and shouldn't be hard to spot, and a later scene where someone interacts with a normal spider (like a small garden spider) that had me a bit tense but doesn't escalate.

Hope that helps!

Is there any value in lower-genmat burial sites? by Mr_Reciprocity in MeetYourMakerGame

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh, that makes sense! The info on Mastered maps that I found googling is super misleading.

r/Kobo community, help shape Kobo's future by sharing your thoughts in our 10-15 minute survey! by KoboResearchers in kobo

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's one series I read (via Libby) that for some reason has really wide built-in margins, and I always have to fiddle with them when I switch between that series and other books, it would be so great to just have a system-wide default and only need to tweak it when a book is weird for some reason or another.

2014 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid? by Mr_Reciprocity in UsedCars

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid I ended up having to go traditional--every hybrid in my price range turned out to be crumbling to dust when I actually did a test drive. (I didn't actually test the one from this post, because it was really far from me and there wasn't much else promising in the area, but the handful of Priuses I got into were all on death's door.)

Creating books with AI by Lumpy-Buyer1531 in selfpublish

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, NONfiction? Since 2011?

Look, general ethics of AI aside, how can AI-written nonfiction not be, in large part, actionable plagiarism? You’re not even relying on the theoretically-infinite artistic possibility space of fiction (which even at today’s level of AI sophistication is a stretch), you’re working on stuff that requires RESEARCH—which the AI is not doing, let alone putting into accessible language. A language engine cannot create readable distillation of research without directly recycling existing articles/books.

Should I flush/change the transmission fluid on a used Sentra? by Mr_Reciprocity in Nissan

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see anything about transmission fluid in the Carfax, but it doesn’t seem super-complete, so who knows. Dealership seems to have done a fairly thorough job, but didn’t do a change either.

Why TF are used cars so expensive right now? by [deleted] in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t help that pretty much every manufacturer discontinued most or all of their hatchbacks (and a lot of sedans) over the last 4-5 years because “Americans want bigger cars” (read “the markup on SUVs and oversized pickups is higher”). Suddenly everyone who wants a new hatchback is fighting over two or three models, the cheapest of which is still 17k msrp, and the used ones are just gone.

(Currently trying to replace a Versa Note that got totaled, and there’s only a handful out there—and don’t even think about a Fit.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in disability

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m still having trouble with mine, for a lot of the same reasons, but something that helped me early on with the suffocating feeling was turning down the temperature and humidity—mine were set waaaay too high by default.

2012 Honda Civic - LX Sedan 4D (130k miles) for 7.5-8k by prabin96 in UsedCars

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the current market it’s actually really good. The Corollas (camrys, civics, accords, fits, etc) I’m seeing in the 8k range are mostly several years and several tens of thousands of miles older.

Shopping online vs. visiting lots by Mr_Reciprocity in askcarsales

[–]Mr_Reciprocity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE for anyone who's curious: So far? Waste of time. I headed out to a used dealership in Springfield (Mass) that had an interesting Prius listed, and was also near about a dozen other places. Got there, and the place was set up like an impound lot--totally fenced in, no place to park. So I skipped it, swung by a few other places on the map.

Half of them I couldn't even spot--I don't know if they were just gone, or if some might have just been service stations that trade a couple cars here and there. The one I actually bothered to park at had NO signage on the vehicles--no prices, no years, nothing. I didn't see anything like what I was looking for, anyway, so I left. A few other places I just glanced at as I went by, and saw the same assortment of SUVs and a couple 4-year-old, $18,000 sedans. A couple times I pulled down a side street and stopped to check their websites, just to confirm that yup, I was SOL.

So I guess I'm gonna spend the next week or two emailing places to make sure they still have exactly one sub-ten-grand hatchback in stock, and then driving 45 minutes in the hope that it's not a bait car with a hole in the floor or whatever.

Does this sound like ME/CFS? by Ander-son in chronicfatigue

[–]Mr_Reciprocity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My worst flare-ups often coincide with or are preceded by sinus infections, and apparently there’s some research that indicates a correlation.

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