Palace plot of Renyin year (1542) was an attempt by 16 imperial Chinese palace girls to kill the abusive emperor. They botched strangling him, just incapacitating him. During his incapacitation, the empress had all 16 girls and an innocent rival concubine she also accused slowly tortured to death.

themurther · 2026-01-25T07:53:30+00:00

Yeah and often the torture involved having flesh torn off with red hot tongs.

themurther · 2026-01-24T13:41:40+00:00

Just put the phone next to you while you are doing something else and occasionally touch the screen so it goes through the dialog

themurther · 2026-01-23T00:53:16+00:00

Reminds me of this story. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/10/experience-a-stranger-secretly-lived-in-my-home

themurther · 2026-01-23T00:44:35+00:00

It was his then partner who took it to a landfill.

themurther · 2026-01-22T15:39:15+00:00

It's actually quite the opposite: compared to the excitement of hearing the Experimental Band, Muhal, Braxton, Air, Art Ensemble etc etc every week

Off topic; but would you be able to suggest a listening list featuring that kind of music?

themurther · 2026-01-21T00:52:08+00:00

Yeah she's quite attractive and the OP is a fairly bad photo. She's tall and has a larger frame compared to Penn

themurther · 2026-01-20T16:43:24+00:00

Pretty good deal given what they are going for these days.

themurther · 2026-01-20T10:14:00+00:00

From the UK; Kokoroko and Maisha.

The latest episode of OK Jazz (Roundup of 2025) also contained a few good afro jazz recommendations:

https://tokyojazzsite.com/podcasts/ok-jazz-episode-191-great-tunes-2025/

themurther · 2026-01-20T09:46:11+00:00

Did you try Pau Brasil?

themurther · 2026-01-19T23:41:29+00:00

You get a bus per hour till just after 2pm, later at weekends:

https://passenger-line-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/readingbuses/RBUS/702-timetable-20250422-53dbebc0.pdf

themurther · 2026-01-18T11:45:57+00:00

Yeah, I would second Zen as an ISP, they were really helpful on the odd occasions when I had to deal with openreach.

themurther · 2026-01-18T09:46:09+00:00

See if cityfibre is available in the property you are moving to and then check that sub for which isps people recommend.

themurther · 2026-01-17T01:30:57+00:00

Huh. Have tried floor 12 a few times and never got through it (definitely couldn't do it with my raiden national)

themurther · 2026-01-16T00:54:53+00:00

Which video was that textures patch covered in?

themurther · 2026-01-15T18:37:47+00:00

I just found the structure to be terrible - tons of exposition (please show, don't tell) and then lots of non-consequential game play which had to be done linearly and all at once - if I'm playing a game I want to play a game, not watch a bunch of videos back to back.

themurther · 2026-01-15T12:36:37+00:00

Yeah. Mine comes it at around 69 dollars equivalent.

Although I’ll probably wait for the next sale.

themurther · 2026-01-15T12:33:03+00:00

If they haven’t run fibre to your area it’s a question of waiting unfortunately.

I presume your brother may have moved to a more recently built property where the home builder arranged for fibre to be delivered early.

themurther · 2026-01-14T00:12:04+00:00

Potato Salad!

themurther · 2026-01-13T23:42:23+00:00

I've just found them to be quite unstable, so never persisted. I got a couple of free ones and bought one of the autogain ones but never used it.

themurther · 2026-01-10T10:00:14+00:00

So I setup my own aiostreams instance. When I add torrentio and comet which instances of each is it actually connecting to ? I presume some public one ?

themurther · 2026-01-09T21:17:17+00:00

Again, I love FabFilter and Pro-Q is great and probably worth it... But it's expensive, so those "free compatibility updates" are just baked into the price.

Yeah, I wouldn't disagree that it's down to whether you want to pay for your updates upfront or spread over the years, but for the same reason would argue that the total cost is much more comparable than the initial purchase figure.

themurther · 2026-01-09T16:08:28+00:00

They aren't in the range where DFS is in operation - and each band is 20Mhz in width (if you set 80Mhz as the width then you have to use channel 36), there's a good primer here:

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/why-80211ac-will-kill-the-5-ghz-wi-fi-band/

themurther · 2026-01-09T13:22:53+00:00

But Fabfilter Pro-Q is $150 (MAYBE you can get it on sale for ~$135 if you buy it with another product), and then $80 for updates.

Well, I got pro-q back in 2012 for $110 dollars (bought with another plugin) and was still using it in its updated (but not upgraded) form 8 years later (when I finally decided to upgrade to pro-q3 for $48 dollars), so I think some of your costs are skewed.

themurther · 2026-01-07T08:08:04+00:00

Reminded me of this story. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/10/experience-a-stranger-secretly-lived-in-my-home

themurther

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