stoy

joined 2 years ago
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago

I started with Clementine for a few years, and then migrated to Strawberry, I love the mood bar.

I am still on Windows, but am looking to switch to Endevour OS next year or so...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I absolutely love that book now that I have experienced it!

Just fantastic!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I bought it last week!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I just completed the the book last week, it was great, I really liked the confusion at the start.

I found the ending a bit predictable, I don't want to say more to avoid spoilers.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, I know they were there, but I didn't watch the event as I had better things to do with my time.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

I am well aware of the bullshit that the politicians are using abused kids to push through.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Ok so if I have to travel to the US for work, I will now require my employer to give me a burner phone with a burner number.

How will they prove that I have any social media history?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The concept is identical, but depending on the execution it can be quite different.

This like saying that classical music is the same as pop/rock just because they are both music that entertains people, some people hate classical music, other's hate pop/rock.

I would like to know how often these different calls to prayer is being played and how long each call takes, as well as how loud they both are in comparison.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago

I saw a company presenting a silent gaming mask thing for use with VR, it was basically a combination of a gasmask, ear defenders and a microphone...

Looked a bit kinky...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, so Hollywood will do what they did with China when trying to sell their movies there, Saudi's will suddenly for some random reason be cool, popular and kind completely out of the blue.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 96 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Based on your question, I will assume that you are inexperienced with computer hardware and advanced tools for rescuing data.

So let me be blunt, this a summary of what you should do:

  1. Stop using the drive
  2. Unplug the drive
  3. Put the drive in a warm dry place
  4. Assume that water has got into the drive
  5. Give it time to dry completely
  6. Start saving money, you'll need it....
  7. Start looking at data recover companies
  8. Read reviews and check prices

There are tools you can use at home, but unless you have some understanding of the risks and have internalized them, you should not try them on this drive.

What you can do if you have a spare computer and spare external drive that you can test with is to experiment with that and learn how data recovery might work, unfortunately you probably won't be able to exactly recreate a scenario as you are experiencing with the other drive, but it might be a decent learning experience.

 

I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.

Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?

I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.

At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.

I have the following books in my library:

  • Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
  • The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
  • The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
  • The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
  • Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...

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