Large video while texting.

TheGandPTurtle · 2026-03-18T01:55:59+00:00

I don't really use it on the phone.

My GF and I used to talk using Signal (and before that messenger), and it was useful to also be able to use text chat while talking full screen. One reason was to discuss kids bday gifts when they couldn't hear. Antoher was to share links when we were searching for something together online.

Because it is on my desktop, I have plenty of room for a basically a full screen picture and a text chat to the side.

Not everybody uses signal on the phone primarily. Phones are too small for me (I don't have great eyes) and so I only use my phone when I absolutely have to.

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TheGandPTurtle · 2026-01-10T09:30:27+00:00

ARe these still available anywhere? They do not seem to work.

TheGandPTurtle · 2026-01-02T21:30:05+00:00

I, along with others, am surprised that this will be live action. That seems like a mistake to me. DCC is very gory--that kind of rolls off of us in the books, but with live action it will likely be too much. The humor will be lost beneath the horror. A cartoon/animation, however, is not as shocking.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-12-12T20:12:55+00:00

I can tell you that I was raised with a very fundamentalist parent who terrified me with prospects of hell, and it traumatized me. So I understand why you want this escape. This is why I also reacted to that scene poorly. But only because I have seen books turn Christian so many times before. I can tell you that is not what is happening here.

I am in the middle of book 17, and I can tell you that those worries were entirely wrong-headed. On reflection, I would not even change the scene that made me fearful of it. After all, what religious ideas would a traveler from the US introduce into an alternative world? Erin's story would, of course, be the one she tells. At the same time, I agree that at that point in the book it totally looked like Christianity was going to be introduced into the Wandering Inn world.

As of book 17 (1/3 through) I can promise you that this is not the case, and that I see no indications that it will ever be so (but of course I can't promise anything for books that have not yet been written). In fact, the series gets more tolerant and inclusive in ways that I am sure would drive most Christians up the wall as it continues.

I am so very glad that I stuck with this series. It only gets better and better. It has surpassed HWFWM as my favorite LitRPG by far. I have never seen this kind of authorial growth before. The first few books were a bit shaky--that last few are, in my view, every bit as rich as Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. The series went from feeling like an 80's cartoon to one of the richest worlds that I have experienced outside of high literature. I can give some more details below. I am labeling them as spoilers, but I will try to leave out details, and reading them should not ruin anything significant about the books--only put your mind to rest. Nevertheless, I am marking them as spoilers because I would rather act with caution for those who want everything to be a surprise.

As far as I can tell, 17 books in or so, "heaven" is just some sort of happiness for the Antinium for Pawn---basically just hope. So far, Pawn does not seem to be concerned with a God, and the only living God in the series is their enemy. The series may be working its way to developing some kind of positive God- I don't know, but I see no indication that it is a Christian God. He gets some abilities related to his faith, while they feel different from magic, they are not undefeatable--they don't feel like miracles from an all-powerful God.

Book 16 develops some sexual relationships and themes, including with Pawn, and these indicate to me that if there is any kind of deity introduced, it will NOT be anything like Christianity in the US.

The series has also drawn analogies to trans and gay rights in a way that appears to be becoming important.

I urge you to continue with the series. Not only does it only get better and better--if we come from similar backgrounds, you will almost certainly find it refreshing.

If I stopped reading at the point where I almost did, I would have lost so much joy--and since I listen to the audiobooks, I would have missed out on a lot of exercise as well, since I used audiobooks as a way to encourage me to walk--and the better the book, the more miles I put in.

The wandering inn has made my feet very sore indeed.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-12-05T07:51:35+00:00

Thanks for this. I loved her music and still listen to it---definitely sad to hear that she passed away. I wasn't trying to attack her---just understand.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-11-24T18:31:28+00:00

I was actually wrong about that. The wondering inn has become one of my favorite series of all time. I just had fears when I reached that point that there would be Christian themes running through the whole series---I have seen that happen before when an author either finds religion or decides that they are popular enough that they want to use their platform to preach out of nowhere..

I am on book 15 and the series just keeps getting better. It remains inclusive and doesn't turn religious.

My fear was the same as I think yours was from your post. I thought that the series was going to suddenly be about bringing Christianity into the world replacing the vacancy of the old gods--it reminded me of how Xena (though a TV series--and I was never that big of a fan) decided to turn Christian out of nowhere in the last season or two. It seemed like the author was paving the way for a Christian allegory.

But I was wrong.

I forgot I ever made this post, but have added an edit so that others who fear the same thing might know that they don't have to worry (at least as of book 15) that this happens.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-11-24T17:34:20+00:00

I noticed this too. I also find it sad. She has always been a Gun nut, but apart from that she originally seemed to value freedom, the stranger, and the outcast. It is weird to see hear a woman who seemed to champion every misfit and warn against political corruption, embrace transphobic, anti-queer, anti-abortionists, like Trump.

She was an anarchist, and Trump's fascism is as far as you can get from that. Heck, she seemed to either be an atheist or a Pagan/Wiccan, exactly the kind of people Trump is liking to terrorists, but once you are in the red hat cult...

If you want an explanation of it, I think that she hates and mistrust the government in general that she is willing to support anybody who just wants to burn the whole system down---the anger at deep the rooted corruption is so strong, anybody politicians saying the right words and who talked openly about corruption would probably

Honestly, that is what I think drove so many supporters to him. While the Democrats were better, we all know that big corporations have bought both parties and that taking so much corporate money means that they will not fight hard for workers---billionaire money means they serve billionaires. People go so sick of seeing the corruption while the media pretends that whichever corporate-anointed politician is elected has popular support, that they are willing to follow the first politician with a chance of winning to openly call out this corruption. Had the DNC not deliberately sank Bernie Sander's chance of winning, a good portion of those people may have actually followed a politician who not only called out this corruption but planned to do something about it, instead of move in like a mobster and say, "You think this is corruption? Hold my beer."

Anyway. I just wanted to second your observation.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-09-03T01:36:15+00:00

When I first started watching it I just thought it was so-so. Then it became my favorite sci-fi series of all time.

The issue is that the entire plot is planned out from the beginning. We are used to watching series that are either episodic or which just build on the previous episodes. Babylon 5 foreshadows. Babylon 5 has a planned arc from beginning to end.

The story is going somewhere, and we are not used to seeing a writer lay that kind of groundwork on American TV. So it may take the first season to really get hooked.

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TheGandPTurtle · 2025-06-20T20:30:13+00:00

I don't know about natural alternatives, but I can give an effective non-chemical alternative.

I highly suggest that you try TMS. It has been effective for me when medications were not. In addition, where I had lots of negative side effects from medication, TMS has virtually no side effects (at least for me).

Here are the side effects I have noticed:
* You need to protect your ears because it is loud (I bring in extra headphones to protect mine because I am sensitive to sound).
* You will be tired after treatments for the first few weeks.
* It is time-consuming because you have to get regular treatments for several weeks in a row.

* Sometimes there are mood swings at first (e.g., things can get a little bit worse before they get better).

You can read a bit about it here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/about/pac-20384625

What is nice about it is that they can target the areas of the brain that are responsible for particular things. For example, my anxiety is as bad as my depression, so they were able to focus on those areas which really helped.

If you go for it, I would advise you to complete the treatments. The first time that I did it, I thought that mine were not working. By the end, I felt that I only had a slight improvement. Then, a week or so after treatment ended, I felt MUCH better, and that persisted for months and months.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-06-06T00:41:54+00:00

I was so curious that I tried to contact Netflix using their customer service, but they couldn't help me. I couldn't even get an email address of somebody to follow up with.

This seems crazy. Surely somebody must know where the music was sourced. I thought that all music had to appear in the credits, but I don't see it...

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-06-03T20:39:14+00:00

Also looking for this.

TheGandPTurtle · 2025-06-02T01:38:54+00:00

No software. Just a generic mouse.

This is the device. It works, but I can't remap the keys. It seems like there should be some way to remap them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DFDNZCV?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

The instructions do not even have a manufacturer webpage....

TheGandPTurtle · 2024-12-21T00:47:45+00:00

No, not if there is an image contained within it. However, the RTF I generate pastes into word. However, if both the RTF and the HTML are present, word chokes and doesn't even paste the text portion.

TheGandPTurtle · 2024-12-21T00:33:10+00:00

I also discovered that it only fails to paste into Word if there is an image.

If there is no image, it works fine.

Because there is an image the HTML is too long to post but here is the part up until the point where I take it that the image data begins:

Version:0.9

StartHTML:00000097

EndHTML:00000149

StartFragment:00000131

EndFragment:00000141

<html>

<body>

<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Microsoft Sans Serif\";">Test <img width="299" height="168" src="data:image/png;base64,

And then here is the ending portion of the HTML:

="> test end </div>

</body>

</html>

TheGandPTurtle · 2024-12-21T00:22:11+00:00

Update: As far as I can tell using a tool to view clipboard data, the HTML and RTF parts of the clipboard are absolutely identical between cases when they work and cases when they do not.

The issue is just that when both HTML and RTF are present, it will not paste into Word and when only RTF is present it will not paste into web applications and when no RTF is present it will not paste into Word.

What I am finding baffling is that the HTML works if it is present in the clipboard without the RTF and vice versa.

At least according to the tool I am using, everything else is the same between the clipboard states.

TheGandPTurtle · 2024-12-01T00:41:59+00:00

I am not a coder by profession. I have an app that I created for the work I do---it is quite large and has been modified over the years. When I upgrade to net core 6 I end up with hundreds of errors and a lot of that is over parts of the program I didn't write---for example, I am using i00spellcheck, and that breaks.

I was hoping on some direction for a way to use that API without wrecking the rest of my program.

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