That’s not run down, that’s a warehouse. Is it falling apart? Is the flooring worn? Are the walls cracking? Ceilings leaking? That’s what run down means, not whatever your weird complaint is about the decor and color scheme is.

Elden Ring. Been on a souls like kick, so decided to do another playthrough. Haven’t played in over a year I don’t think so it’s time!

Okay but FR wtf is usenet. I’ve never known, and I’m old enough to be able to say that I should

Have an electrician come map your outlets. They find the connections in the breaker panel, then they trace them out to figure out where they go and what they do. Your contractor may be right, but as someone that bought a house that’s over 100 years old, it’s just as likely that the switch goes nowhere/isn’t live, or powers something you’d NEVER think of, or powers something that you can’t even see because someone put a drywall facade over it or some other weirdness!

We discovered that we had a LIVE outlet, under our living room floor. For some reason, at some point someone decided that needed an outlet literally in the middle of the living room floor (coffee table lame is my guess). The previous owner/flipper put feaux-hardwood laminate down in the whole house and instead of deactivating it, they just put the flooring right over the top of it and its live 100 year old cloth wrapped wires, leaving us a lovely little fire hazard! That outlet was controlled by, you guessed it, the mystery switch on the wall next to the front door that didn’t seem to do anything.

Thanks! Yeah I figured I would ask in each of the communities in looking for content in vs mass asking in a larger forum. Thanks for the recs, I added several! Krebs, techspot, anandtech seem great!

Return all that shit, sell your keyboard, and buy one with USB instead.

You lost me at lemmitors

I don’t care how it tastes, I’m not drinking anything that has this much cringe on the label.

Have you tried having better luck?

Its kind of fucked either way. They’re too short but a lot happens because each book is broken into thirds that are separated by huge time gaps, and inside those thirds there are also time gaps. A movie, even a long one, would be incredibly disjointed and the pacing would feel bizarre.

I imagine it’s probably why nobody has made it a series or movie before even though it’s such a beloved sci Fi series. You’d have to take a lot of creative liberties with it, which is for better or worse, what they’re doing.

I’ve just started the show, and I feel like from the outset they made it clear that a LOT of the show is creative fiction to fill in the gaps. I feel like a lot of people forget just how short the original trilogy is. F, F&E and SF, collectively, are like an 8 hour read! I don’t love everything the show has done (and some of the acting is atrocious) but I love how they chose what boils down to allusions in the books and focused whole episodes on what that would’ve looked like in real time.

I also really like how they are not afraid to completely abandon cliff hangers for several episodes at a time, while still keeping you invested in what’s happening. Asimov dwas notorious for that and did it SEVERAL times on the trilogy. Oh you wanna know what happens? Well I’ll tell you eventually, but first, here’s forty pages introducing brand new characters on a completely different planet…300 years in the future. Bitch.

Tbf they’re trying. Executive order stopped all fracking and halted in-process permitting. Project applications for new water flood injection projects are being halted because operators are trying to sneak in project that use injection gradients above the fracture gradient (which is literally fracking). Orphaned wells were legislated to be abandoned and operators are being held responsible for finding them, at ( very) exorbitant cost because they just walked away from them and now don’t know where they are or how to really abandon them to the satisfaction of the state regulatory bodies governing protection of drinking water and fresh water resources. There are also moratoriums on oil pumping in several major counties with the intent to phase out all oil production.

The biggest problem California is encountering is that every operator and oil company is suing the state over every piece of legislation they pass. Literally just trying to bog down the courts as long as possible so they can either maximize profits before having to fold or adjust the existing operation or (what they prefer), buy a new governor and legislature that will roll everything back for them once they’re elected.

You thought this was …Ceti alpha six…

It was at that exact moment Kahn realized he was about to fuck all kinda shit up.

I had Pixel 6 (2 of them thanks to my wife accidentally yeeting mine from our second story balcony) and currently have 7 pro. My battery life was/is fine on both models. Haven’t charged my phone since I took it off the charger and it’s sitting at 55%, granted it was a light use day. Usually finishes somewhere between 30-40%.

My pixel 2 and 3 had okay and shit battery life (respectively) for comparison. Switched to OnePlus after the 3 for a few years.

Interesting it works now. Before I just got a bad gateway error or something

Heh, you said tittles.

Your link doesn’t go anywhere for me. Is it on my end or is the link bad?

Omg patent that giant Kite design quick, you’ll make a killing!

Also wasn’t there a famous video of BMW showing how to mechanically perform every task on their all electric sports car? From car doors to hood releases to way more niche things 99.9999% of people will never use or even know exists?

That does sound like a big concern. In that case, feel free to add nervous pacing to your standing routine. I do not recommend standing in the pool currently, maybe wait on that one for a bit!