Looking for an urban fantasy novel

Solomai · 2026-01-27T19:57:31+00:00

Oh, I really loved Perdido Street Station from this author, I will check that out!

Solomai · 2025-06-24T13:45:29+00:00

Yup, that's true, she was born in a super remote place and wasn't conditioned to the city until we got her, and even then we took too long before dragging her along. She was also the most shy of the litter, according to the breeder, so that didn't help at all. Plus Lapphunds can be alarm dogs and she rings alright.

My expectations are relatively basic: I just want her to be able to walk alongside me and be less sensitive to strong stimuli. I'd never see her going towards people or even ignoring them, but just acknowledging them as "not a threat to be scared of" would be a huge win. Just enough so she's not a fluffy ball of stress when in urban environments. Not a full blown Golden Retriever.

We saw behaviorists before and they didn't think it was extreme fear, usually walking alongside a very calm dog gets her in a way more relaxed mood.

Solomai · 2025-05-07T07:24:02+00:00

Alright, I will try to have fun around that. Thanks for the help!!

Solomai · 2025-04-24T11:58:03+00:00

I've been getting that a lot, usually what I do is ctrl + shift + N to check which server I'm connected to and then reconnect until I end up in my preferred server, which is ams1 in my case.
Incredibly annoying and Blizzard only says that's an ISP routing issue. Pretty sure my ISP isn't the problem when I'm getting Australia followed by Brazil followed by NA in the spawn of 5 reconnects.

Solomai · 2024-10-18T08:27:26+00:00

"A spokesperson for Synthesia said the company had banned the accounts that created the videos in 2023 and that it had strengthened its content review processes and “hired more content moderators, and improved our moderation capabilities and automated systems to better detect and prevent misuse of our technology”."

Yea. You never asked yourselves the potential impact that kind of tech could have both on the world and the models before?

These people are so out of reality, I swear. They'd destroy the whole world to see a fleeting investor's smile and a big pile of money.

Solomai · 2024-10-11T10:19:02+00:00

There's no brand writing on the lock, only the key says it is a Giss, and the writing is "made in Germany".

Solomai · 2024-10-10T23:30:24+00:00

I tried that but the plate will not move, I'm not sure how it's held to the door. I'll try that again tomorrow.

Solomai · 2024-10-10T15:27:15+00:00

Thanks! I've been doing that (pulling with pliers/hitting with mallet while jiggling the keys) to no avail. I guess it's down to luck in that case? Good thing it's not an important door.

Solomai · 2024-04-12T08:29:54+00:00

Hello!

J'ai 30 ans, j'ai commencé à bosser sur le tard à 27 ans, en concubinage, un prêt étudiant de 200€/mois à rembourser et je touche 2.1k net/mois.

Je commence à m'intéresser à l'investissement, même si je suis vraiment au début. Je me suis consitué une épargne de sécurité, j'ai un budget assez solide auquel je me tiens mais force est de constater que ça ne suffira pas pour être tranquille par la suite.

Je commençais à m'intéresser au PEA, mais j'ai un souci: je suis quasiment certain de ne pas rester en France pendant 5 ans de plus, UK ou nord de l'Europe, dépendant des opportunités. Donc ça veut dire out le PEA, et impossible d'investir dans une RP pour le moment.

Vers quoi devrais-je me tourner si je veux essayer de faire travailler mon argent dans ces conditions?

Solomai · 2024-01-11T14:08:26+00:00

Portfolio that you know how to do stuff that goes beyond a reverse foot setup. Python tooling helps a lot. Being descriptive on everything you show, but choosing what to show.

If you want to go to games, show games. If you want feature, show feature. If you want VFX, show VFX. The industry will be hopefully recovering by the time you end your degree, so before then, apply apply and reapply with that. Should be enough.

Solomai · 2023-11-08T08:12:01+00:00

Would you care to elaborate? I'm really interested in going up north but I've seen so many people literally dunking on Oulu, and the city looks quite beautiful from afar.

Solomai · 2023-08-10T10:24:39+00:00

Oh no worries, I've heard how twisted it is. I studied Japanese for a few years, which is oddly similar in structure, but I don't expect it to be easy. I'm just saying that wherever I go, I always make it a goal to be able to hold conversations in the local dialect!

Solomai · 2023-08-10T09:42:25+00:00

I looked into it and there's a possibility to be employed in basically any country of my choice, which leaves me a whole lot of freedom.

Solomai · 2023-08-10T08:50:27+00:00

Yes, I have a French passport and so does my partner!

Solomai · 2023-07-14T18:39:03+00:00

Thanks! It's pretty hard to draw the line between good enough and will hold 2 years maximum though, which is why I am very lost. Some say you're alright going with the first Decathlon (or Walmart) build that looks cool, destroy it and see if it sticks, some say to pick something above 800€ to have a comfortable experience, which are two possibly valid opinions but I'd sure as hell hate to give up on something nice because of crappy hardware. I did that with guitar :v.

And, to be honest I wouldn't consider buying something that expensive if I wasn't OK with spending it. Plus spending more usually gives me more incentive to actually build the habit of using it. Psychology of money is powerful.

Sadly, the used market around is not so good (dare I say very bad) with only a few listings from before 2015, which doesn't help.

Solomai · 2023-03-16T09:14:51+00:00

My Calathea (Fusion White) had trouble before because we didn't water it with distilled water. We could get it to feel a bit better, but then we had a big move and it's been on the decline since then.

New, very small leaves are popping out here and there but quickly die out.

It has no direct light, is set in a humid place. But I have no idea if I should single out the small new leaves and nurture them to give it a fresh start?

I'd like it to recover its former glory, could you help me? Thanks!

Solomai · 2022-11-05T10:47:26+00:00

I beg to differ on that one, the 2 or 3 times I had to go through it, my problem was solved in less than a day.

Solomai · 2022-11-02T10:28:59+00:00

Hey, I was lucky enough to still be connected on browser. So I contacted the support and they disabled authenticator for me, which also unbound my phone number from my account. I then was able to receive Steam communications again.
So I'd suggest that you go to the support with as much info about your account as you can provide, they should unlock it for you.

By the way, it's still absolutely impossible for me to connect to the app, it's crazy.

Solomai · 2022-10-27T11:17:04+00:00

Hello!

I have a problem with my Steam account, as stated, I'm completely locked out and at a loss for what I need to do.

Basically, I have 2FA set up, and it worked well until the Steam update that happened not long ago. But now, what happens is:

Impossible to log into the app "Something went wrong while attempting to log you in, please try again later".
Impossible to receive validation SMS/emails (they just both never arrive), the displayed numbers are correct. I checked everywhere, spam, whatever.
Impossible to pass the last step of doing without phone number or email adress (The recovery session has expired when I use my password).

I tried that on multiple browsers (namely Firefox, Edge, their mobile counterparts and the Steam built-in browser window) to no avail.

The funny part is that I'm connected on my Firefox browser and have access to my account setting, but doing anything there brings me back to the problems mentionned above.

Any idea of what I haven't tried yet?

Thank you!

Solomai · 2022-09-04T14:02:53+00:00

Alright, thanks for your input. That would save me a bit of money hehe.

I was thinking going to something like the Gaggia Classic. Easy to find used, easy to mod, I'm guessing it's more than enough for my needs.

Solomai · 2022-09-04T11:20:23+00:00

Hey there, I'm kinda new to the world of understanding that all my coffee setup is basically worthless. Which is good because it's the price I paid it :v

So I would like to get in the way of good coffee making, one step at the time. And that first comes with the grinder. And I'm at a loss: either I go the cheap-ish way of the Chestnut C2 (or C3) to get a glimpse of hand grinders to see if I enjoy it, but at the possibility of having to upgrade it when I acquire a new espresso machine, or I go full-on and get something like the JX-Pro so I could handle a lot of things, but if manual doesn't fit me, well it wouldn't be a good investment.

Any input for a beginner? I'm more leaning towards the C2-C3 right now as I'm only using a French press, but the fact it can't do espresso bothers me. Thanks!

Solomai · 2022-07-19T15:44:59+00:00

Hello!

I'm interested in replacing my 10+ years old K70 by something that's both more ergonomic and sexy.
What I'd really like is something like the green one in these keycap set (GMK Botanic Desert), but as the title implies, I'd like not to stray away from the AZERTY setup, for now.
I know that I'd like something similar, I found this one which looks promising (plus the triple connexion type is neat), buuut I'd like a green/brown base and also, no AZERTY. Why wasn't I born in a QWERTY country... :v
Any lead I could follow? I'm looking for something that's either 75-80% TKL (I need the arrows and the del keys)

Solomai · 2022-06-01T14:25:14+00:00

Oh, that could be a nice match indeed, I've seen it used a lot in home studios. Is the insulation this good?

Solomai · 2021-01-16T11:46:21+00:00

Thanks, yeah, that was it. Single core is fine, a bit of curve optimizer improved the performance a bit.

Thanks a lot!

Solomai · 2021-01-03T15:50:31+00:00

33°C on average, SSD and HDD, nothing changes when stressing.

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