captsneeze

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[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 15 points 7 months ago

There are so many other reasons to lose patience with some of my coworkers, tech illiteracy is nowhere near the top of the list. If anything, I like helping people with tech.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 13 points 7 months ago

“It would be a good value if the value was good, but it isn’t.”

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The logo in OPs image is definitely the best IMO. There’s an option in the iOS app to use this icon if you wish. Not sure if it’s an option in the web app.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 15 points 8 months ago

In the US, a conductor is the one who checks tickets, makes announcements, and delegates tasks to the crew to help ensure things keep moving on time.

The locomotive engineer is the one who is “driving” the train. They run the engine and communicate with dispatch and traffic control to keep them informed where this particular train is fitting into the overall juggling act,. They also make every effort to keep things safe (watching for signals, obstructions, etc.).

I’m not 100% sure if the terminology is different outside of the Us.

(Source: My father is a 3rd generation locomotive engineer.)

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 5 points 8 months ago

FANTASTIC reference! This movie is so funny and awesome, and it seems to have completely disappeared from pop culture. I never understood why Conan looms so large in our collective memory, but this movie totally vanished.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m a Darn Tough sock devotee. Same deal as you. I didn’t want to spend the money for a long time, then I finally shelled out for 8 pairs. This was many years ago, and still wear them daily. I’ve since added a couple more pairs.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You might be talking about Never10, made by Steve Gibson over at GRC.com. It has since been updated and renamed InControl. It now also works to prevent unwanted Win11 upgrades, as well as other things. https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I loved Sigur Ros when they first broke the scene around 1999. I thought it was so beautiful, and angelic, and weirdly transcendent. I wondered what beautiful poetry was being sung in this mystical Icelandic language I did not speak. Then, I learned that it’s not Icelandic. It’s not anything. It’s a made up language that means nothing. It shouldn’t really bother me, but I felt like I had been tricked, and haven’t been able to get past it.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Very nutritious, but they smell like death.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where are you?

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s about 7%. That is a lot.

The real question is, what is the overall population growth rate compared with before? I wonder how many people are leaving TX, or (more likely) deciding to not move to TX, compared with previous years.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this tip. I hadn’t heard about this before, and it sounds like an interesting thing to add to my tool chest.

so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads.

Can you tell me more about this? I’ve never heard about that this is a thing, and it sounds like a good thing to known

 

If this is already possible and I’m just not finding it, I’d be very happy to be mistaken and learn the method. Otherwise, this is something I used all the time on the old site with Apollo and I miss, desperately.

Even with this post, I couldn’t find a way to search the VoyagerApp community to see if this feature was already asked for.

 

Is there any way to go back to the old icon? I’ve been trying to figure out a way to hack it into place, and I’m sure I can with enough time, but it would be nice if there is just a switch somewhere in settings that I’m missing.

 

I hope this isn’t breaking any rules here. I’ve been struggling with a personal web project for the past week, and I’m hoping some smart people here could get me pointed in the right direction.

I’ve already posted a full explanation in another community here, with some informational comments.

Long story slightly shorter… trying to get a website that is great for scoring a tennis match, and making it work offline so I can have it run locally on an offline machine. For some reason that I can’t figure out, the js refuses to work as expected.

First, I thought there may have been a CORS issue. And, the js is checking the protocol and changing it from “file” to “http” (see comments in like above). I worked past this issue, but it's still not really working.

Now, I can see the first action of the “score” function is working (it logs to console), but nothing after that does anything at all, and I can’t figure it out!

Edit: A very kind person (what’s the lemmy equivalent for “redditor”?) offered some insight through a DM that got me on the right track! I won’t put all the details here because it could be considered borderline “unethical” if the wrong person was trying to follow my path. Thanks to that person and to the community! Ive learned a lot in the past weeks.

 

I'll try to make this as short as I can, but with enough info to make sense. Be warned, I am not a programmer or developer by any means. I'm just a hobbyist who spends a lot of time trying to learn on my own.

I'm looking to save "https://scorecount.com/tennis/" locally on a PC so that it can be used offline. I've done the normal "right click, save as" routine in both Firefox and Chrome, which saves the main page (I save it with the name "tennis") as well as a similarly named folder that contains the js, css, and image files. (so, in my case... "tennis.html" and a folder called "tennis_files")

When I try open the tennis.html file, my browser eventually gets to a "we're having trouble finding that site" message. The URL it's trying to reach in the URL bar is "https://driveLetter/path/on/local/drive/tennis.html", instead of the more expected "file:///driveLetter/path/on/local/drive/tennis.html".

I believe I've narrowed this down to something in the tennis.js file (which gets renamed to "tennis.js.download" when I save the page locally). If I remove this file, the page loads, but of course it doesn't actually work. I think something in there is redirecting the URL, but now that the file is saved locally the path it's creating and trying to reach doesn't work.

I've tried going through the js, deciphering all of the array references as best I can, but I'm not able to figure out where this is happening. I'm hoping someone can throw me a lifeline. Thanks in advance!

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