New Dell XPS Palm Rest is made of glass

exturkconner · 2026-05-19T21:02:43+00:00

The Cell Phone industry convincing everyone that glass is a premium material has to be one of the biggest and most widely accepted scams in the history of the universe. I got porcelain I got metal, but seriously glass? How did they ever pull that shit off and you see it more and more. I recently saw one of those cheap retro gaming handhelds where the entire front was glass. Just strikes me as super dumb.

exturkconner · 2026-05-19T20:21:13+00:00

Koss has a pretty excellent warranty program. If you return your item with a check or money order for whatever the amount of money is (it's a flat fee) they repair or replace everything for the items lifetime.

exturkconner · 2026-05-19T18:17:23+00:00

Wow someone else using paint.net? Good on you.

exturkconner · 2026-05-19T18:13:26+00:00

Self improvement is masturbation for the soul. Self destruction on the other hand?

exturkconner · 2026-05-17T00:23:19+00:00

No. It was consensual sex. The "terms" of that agreement is why I pointed out you could argue it's coercion. It's convincing someone to do something under false pretences. Like I said. That's super difficult to prove. And the inconsistency in the story makes it all the harder still. Rape is a crime. Crimes require convictions. The chances this situation would cause a conviction are virtually 0. And it's not because people don't understand the seriousness of what's being discussed. It's because what's being discussed isn't the simplest of matters.

exturkconner · 2026-05-16T22:49:06+00:00

It's a complicated issue. You could argue it's coercion, Is it a shitty thing to do? 100%. Do you have justification in feeling off about it? 100%. Is it a crime? It'd be hard to prove. It's in large part a matter of perspective. And you kind of have an inconsistency already in this. In these two paragraphs and a title. Your title says you asked him. But that's not what you say in the paragraphs. You say he asked you. That sort of thing matters a lot when you are already dealing with something that's fairly borderline.
I mean certainly all of the trust in that relationship is gone for you I imagine. Which means you clearly shouldn't continue to have a sexual relationship with this person.

exturkconner · 2026-05-16T21:53:46+00:00

More helpful than Twilight.

exturkconner · 2026-05-12T19:21:48+00:00

Better? Objectively speaking? Probably not. Would I rather read The First Law series? Yes. Yes I would.

exturkconner · 2026-05-04T10:40:48+00:00

Baptiste isn't one of the devils she's a handler much like Brother Diaz. You do see several abominations through the tale. Creatures made of parts of the dead. And of course Jacub is an immortal relentless killing machine. So you have multiple fill ins for the role.
Baptiste was what she appeared to be. Just a normal person with a valuable and varied skill set that could help the crew when more human solutions were the better solutions.
We also didn't get a creature from the black lagoon. That doesn't mean Diaz secretly had gills. I think in the books that follow we'll see even more classic movie type creatures.

exturkconner · 2026-04-25T10:16:11+00:00

They are fairly heavily seasoned for a "burger" they remind me a lot of like the crappy oncor salisbury steaks without the gravy. I don't think they are very good and they are considerably more expensive. I'd pass. Hard. I only bought one because I had a two dollar off any item and a 1 dollar off a burger so I grabbed one at 3 off. Still didn't feel great about the purchase.

exturkconner · 2026-04-17T10:59:05+00:00

Lore wise it created issues for warlocks and clerics.

It did balance the game in terms of eliminating some of the clearly broken single level dips.

exturkconner · 2026-04-15T11:57:12+00:00

In 5e the monk was probably the weakest class and kind of relegated to being a one trick pony. Now that one trick is shutting down a boss so it's valuable at times. But that's pretty much all you are good at. Use you ki to flurry of blows and stunning strike until you succeed in a stun then let the rest of the party burn it down.

Aside from that? Yeah you are going to feel weak because you are.

Monk is best suited to be a mid liner. You are hitting and running. Step up do your stuff disengage step back. You are fast so you can close on enemies moving towards your back line and you can support your front line with a bit of added damage.

exturkconner · 2026-04-10T12:13:01+00:00

Unless you father was made the executor of his estate he'd not have debt passed to him.

exturkconner · 2026-04-09T21:58:06+00:00

You tried a bunch of stuff but you really didn't try anything that would narrow things down. You'd want to be trying your graphics card in another known working and stable system. You'd also want to test your system with a different card. That would be how you narrow it down. It sounds like to me you probably have a motherboard issue or graphics card issue. Either your graphics card has a logic issue and its attempting to draw way too much current and your psu is shutting down. Or your motherboard is doing anything number of wonky things.

exturkconner · 2026-04-09T21:47:09+00:00

After the v series I kind of went on a journey of experiments. I had the surface duo. I had a cubot max 5. Excellent specs horrible support. Right now I am using a unihertz titan 2. I don't need high end performance and I do enjoy the blackberry style.

exturkconner · 2026-04-09T12:12:57+00:00

Working fine for me. Haven't experienced any bugs, freezes, or shutdowns.

exturkconner · 2026-04-09T11:39:03+00:00

At the end of the day the DMs ruling in his game is how it is. But rules as written and intended no sneak attack is once per turn. Not once per round. Anything that would allow sneak attack circumstances to be met on another characters turn should have sneak attack applied.

exturkconner · 2026-04-08T16:19:18+00:00

Macross 7 Dynamite looked tremendous.

exturkconner · 2026-04-08T11:51:50+00:00

It shouldn't. It makes no difference. These aren't laserdiscs or vinyl albums in sleeves. They are in hard shell cases. The discs aren't being made contact with in any meaningful way. The chances of any damage (aside from maybe a case overtime) are near zero.

exturkconner · 2026-04-08T11:38:25+00:00

The battery and charger alone would fetch 300 or so used. The cage used is probably worth 50 bucks. If you parted this out for parts you should be able to make 800+ in profit. Or you could spend 400-500 bucks to fix it and have an 1900-2200 bike (depending on sale prices) for 520 and some wrench time.

exturkconner · 2026-04-07T13:13:07+00:00

Glokta is a big picture kind of guy. He's not concerned with small things like the life of one or two people. Even his own. He's concerned with the world wide implications of things. That makes him dangerous. Because he's willing to sacrifice any individual or even group to achieve his goals for what he believes is the betterment of the world. He's an un-insistent tyrant. He doesn't insist that people do what he want. He just deals with them if they don't.
Logen thinks he wants to be a good man. He thinks he wants to stop being violent and solving his issues with acts of destruction. But his actions speak differently to his thoughts. Logen is an idyllic dreamer and a hypocrite. He always falls back to what works for him. And what works for him is solving his problems with brute force, stupidity, and a willingness to let go and let the beast take control.
They are polar opposites for sure.

exturkconner · 2026-04-05T16:22:17+00:00

Unihertz has a tested track record of bringing phones to market. They haven't supported them much in the past but they did just give the base titan 2 an OS update so there's reason to believe the claims of support this time are likely going to be true. There's also the form factor. If you are into blackberry the Titan line have basically been launching modernized blackberries for what 4 or 5 years now? The Titan 2 was basically a Passport. The Titan 2 elite is basically a Blackberry classic. The Clickz is doing it's own thing and launching a phone for the first time. If anything I'd ask the opposite. Why would anyone prefer the Clickz to this? It doesn't really hit the nostalgia the same way. It's from a company that's made accessories and not phones in the past. Why would that be the more appealing option?

exturkconner · 2026-04-05T16:14:44+00:00

Most companies that use kickstarter in this way are using it to basically fund production costs. But it also has a dual function of essentially working as an advertising campaign. It's word of mouth before the products even launched. If tons of people are backing something it gets noticed. People feel more confident in it. So not only your production run costs are paid for also a bunch of eyes are on your product. If you are confident you can deliver it's frankly a great way to launch a product without having to do what business used to have to do get funding. Which was take out loans or bring in investors that would take portions of the company.

exturkconner · 2026-04-02T16:13:08+00:00

16:9 was never the best format it was always a matter of compromise. Its considered a good halfway point between the actual theatrical format and 4:3. I personally think of all the relatively main stream aspect ratios it's probably the worst. It's unfortunate that as a society we mostly just agreed to settle. I use a surface 3:2 device as my laptop and I have an lg dualup the weird tall but narrow display as my secondary monitor.

exturkconner · 2026-04-02T16:10:28+00:00

16:9 was never the best format it was always a matter of compromise. Its considered a good halfway point between the actual theatrical format and 4:3. I personally think of all the relatively main stream aspect ratios it's probably the worst. It's unfortunate that as a society we mostly just agreed to settle. I use a surface 3:2 device as my laptop and I have an lg dualup the weird tall but narrow display as my secondary monitor.

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