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Xucaen

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I'm Gen-X; C# programmer, laid off & going back to school; interest in Writing; I watch way too much TV & movies; learning languages on Duolingo; Occasionally trying to learn guitar; into RUSH, Atari, Trek, and other nerdy stuff; I workout, cardio & weights; recent stoner, indica is groovy; INFJ-T; Looking for kindred spirits in the void. KBlร˜DG

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teamtuck, to guitar

With the new guitar on the way, I'm going to take some time and start working on a more structured practice routine, trying to hit a good 30 minutes per day.

Any words of advice for some with .5-1 year experience?

Xucaen,
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@teamtuck

For me, what I've learned is that my motivation for practicing doesn't last long. I think guitar has to be your life passion in order to really practice every day of your life. For me my passion is writing code (which I've been doing professionally since the 90s) so I practice guitar maybe once a year or so. I think that when you love something enough to devote your life to it, the daily routine comes all on its own. ๐Ÿ˜ŽโœŒ๏ธ

Xucaen, to VideoGames
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Every time I log into my RSI account to buy Star Citizen, their website makes me enter an authentication code that was sent by email, but it never arrives. This has been going on over the last year.

Is Star citizen even open to the public? The website makes it look like it is, but now I'm wondering if it's a closed sign up or invitation only or something like that. Does anyone know? Does RSI have an email address?

Xucaen, to random
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Given that people seemed to want to post irrelevant topics to unrelated hashtags (for example posting pornography to anime hashtags) it would be nice if we had the opportunity to block hashtags. To take my above example, I could block all the pornography hashtags while following the anime hashtag. โœŒ๏ธ
I'm not looking for feedback, just a suggestion for a future feature.

@feditips
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Xucaen,
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@feditips @Gargron

Do you have parental controls to prevent children from viewing CW?

Xucaen,
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@feditips

ok I'll keep reporting them. Thanks.

Xucaen,
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@feditips so I can do something like "follow unless it contains or "? That's really what this is about. Pete posting porn to unrelated hashtags tags trying to sell their warez as it were.

Xucaen,
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@feditips

ok I can't seem to find where filters are. I went through all the icons on the right.

Xucaen,
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@feditips

I found it.. it's the gear โš™๏ธ then tap on the 3 bars menu โœŒ๏ธ

williamgunn, to ai
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What would a superintelligent AI think about creating an intelligence greater than it?

Xucaen,
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@williamgunn

Of course it would only do that if it was asked a question that it couldn't answer ๐Ÿค“

veronica, to StarTrek
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I'm about half way through Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and just watched "Our Man Bashir". I spent most of that episode on my phone instead. ๐Ÿ˜…

I really can't stand holodeck/holosuite episodes. They are almost as bad as parallel universe with evil twins episodes. Those I really hate. It's my main reason for not liking Star Trek Discovery.

Next up is a double episode back on Earth at Starfleet HQ. They're much better, and on the main story arc too!

Xucaen,
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@veronica

Focus on what you love and not on what you hate. โœŒ๏ธ

Xucaen, to StarTrek
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RamenCatholic, to random

Hello and pals - I could use a little positivity online right now. I let myself get worked up; bad Jules, no cookie.

What is a good way to "let go" when people say some extremist bullshit about faith/religion/whatever that really upsets you?

Xucaen,
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@RamenCatholic

I think it's important to understand that when someone lashes out with their words it means they are hurting. (They could be trolling too but that's another thing entirely)

Allow your faith to give you the confidence to know you are a good person. โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ’š

Xucaen, to woodworking
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What's a good first workbench to build? I know there's a lot of choices, just looking for guidance. โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘

video/mp4

Xucaen, to random
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@Gargron
Is there any way you can fix Mastodon so that if I'm in the middle of writing a post and my screen accidentally gets refreshed that I don't lose what I wrote? It happens way more than I care to admit.
Thanks!

(And whom it may concern, no I'm not interested in using any third-party apps)

Xucaen,
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@Gargron Google Chrome on Android

Xucaen,
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@Gargron also no, I don't get any prompts when page is refreshed while writing a post.

Xucaen,
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@Gargron

massivelyop, to MMORPG
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The Daily Grind: Do you complain about MMO buyables โ€“ and then buy them anyway? https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/22/the-daily-grind-do-you-complain-about-mmo-buyables-and-then-buy-them-anyway

Xucaen,
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@massivelyop of course! ๐Ÿ˜‚

liztai, to movies
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Omg I hope so. I loved so much and was heartbroken when it was cancelled. Also dying to see something freaking original and not a reboot or a spandex superhero flick for once.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/westworld-movie-reboot.html

Xucaen,
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@liztai

Have you seen the original movies from the '70s? They're pretty good.

Xucaen, to Disney
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Wow there is a lot of callous murder in the Disney TV show Star Wars Rebels. I expected from the empire but not from the Jedi.

Xucaen,
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@rm4

S4E8 Crawler Commandeers. Jedi stood there and watched as the mining manager fell to his death and then he laughed. But seriously if you want more examples you should just watch the show.

vwbusguy, (edited ) to Bash
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Here's a fun script pop-quiz for you:

[[ true == false ]] && myvar=2 || ( myvar=0 ; myvar=$(( $myvar + 1 )) )

echo $myvar

Bonus points if you can say why :-)

Xucaen,
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@vwbusguy what is the starting value of myvar?

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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If you could go back and re- live any of these, would you? And no, you wouldnโ€™t go back there knowing what you know now๐Ÿ˜‰ You would be dropped into your first day knowing what you knew on that day.
Options are what they are called here in the US. I added the ages for reference

Xucaen,
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@dancinyogi

If I'd have no memory of what I know now how do I know I haven't relived my life over and over again? Without memory, each iteration is the first time. So there no point in this thought experiment.

Now, if I could somehow Quantum Leap to a moment in time and relive my life knowing what I know today and being able to make changes, then absolutely yes I would. โณ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ

EgyptianAphorist, (edited ) to books

โ€œThis is a very large collection of aphorisms that strike me as familiar .

They touch something deep, are honest and deserve to be ingested slowly.โ€

โ€” @EricIndiana

https://www.amazon.com/Quarantine-Notes-Aphorisms-Morality-Mortality-ebook/dp/B0CBCWV7HS?ref_=ast_author_mpb

@bookstodon

Xucaen,
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@EgyptianAphorist @EricIndiana @bookstodon

You can't buy Kindle books without a credit or debit card. So what's the point?

astronomywriter, to Astronomy

Hubble Images a Swirling Supernova Site

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-images-a-swirling-supernova-site

Search over 2,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko

Xucaen,
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@astronomywriter

Looks like a galaxy.

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