AFK BRB Chocolate @ AFKBRBChocolate @lemmy.world

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disas

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Okay, thank you. I am, in fact, running Windows. I appreciate the info.

Hmm, okay, that sounds good. This is a Python? So I just need to install Python and then download libpst?

For context, I have a CS degree (1985) and was a software engineer for many years, but I went up a management ladder like 20 years ago, and about the only programming I've done since has been office VBA. I'm retired now. I've never used Python or git personally, though I managed people who did. So a couple pointers to get me on the right track would be appreciated.

The free trials all limit use to like 25 emails and I have orders or magnitude more than that.

Edit: oh, you probably mean the free trial of Outlook? Is there such a thing? If so, that might be viable. As I recall, the MS tool only works with a locally installed version of Outlook, not 365. I'll have to look into that.

It's possible, and that's a good idea. The only one I know of for sure is my son, but he lives 900 miles away, so I'd have to do it remotely, and the PST file is like a GB in size, so I was trying to avoid that. It's possible one of my friends does though.

Thunderbird looks like a viable client. I installed it tonight and poked around a bit - seems fairly feature rich. If you have outlook, there are a number of options. One of the easiest is to just point Thunderbird at the same address as your Outlook points to, and move your PST contents into Outlook proper. But I don't have outlook, and don't want to buy it just for this.

My step son memorized a single sentence in Spanish, which he would say with good pronunciation and a lot of confidence: "tengo un gato en pantalones," which means, "I have a cat in my pants."

Normally: awfully darned funny. When sleep deprived: hardly funny at all.

I noticed similarities with The Player of Games (you can see my comments on that one). It's like none of the main characters have close relationships, even with people they love.

A number of people told my to just skip Phlebas, because it's the weakest, but I decided to read it anyway. I didn't hate it by any means, but I did have issues.

I had a Sound Blaster 16 in my computer from about that year. Had totally forgotten that sound cards were almost as prevalent as video cards.

By "ravioli bowl," do you mean it currently has ravioli in it? If so, put it in the microwave for increments of like 30 seconds.

I don't think that changes anything.

I'm not at all arachnophobic - I'll often pick spiders up with my hand to put them outside - but I don't think I could let this one crawl on me without crying.

Awesome, thank you.

I started on the culture series at the suggestion of a number of people here, and some suggested I skip the first book as it's the weakest, but I decided to read it anyway. I didn't dislike it or the second, but it seems odd how insular the characters are. I'll probably keep reading the series, I liked them will enough.

Let me know if you really like anything this list points you at. I appreciate your reply

Perfect! That's exactly what I hoped for when posting this. I hope I help steer you to things you enjoy but might not otherwise have read.

Reminds me of something from the opposite end of the lifespan. When I was young, they didn't clear the theater after a movie, and they sometimes had "double features" where they'd alternate between two movies and you could watch both for one ticket price. My dad's aunt lived with us (she was probably in her 70s at this point), and one day a couple of her friends picked her up to go watch "a double features of animal movies" at the local theater. They dropped her off some hours later and her face was grey - she said it was horrible, and didn't want to talk about it.

It turned out the double features was Day of the Animals and Night of the Grizzly, basically both horror movies. They didn't think they were allowed to leave during the movie, so they stayed through both.

It's funny, when I was young if I went to the doctor and said my knee or my lower back hurt, they'd take X-rays and try to figure out what's going on. Now he just says, "Yeah, that's going to happen..."

My wife had a procedure under general - one where they had her legs pulled away back after she was out. She woke up during it to the point where she could hear them talking, but she couldn't say anything. She told the doctor at the follow-up that she heard them talking and he said lots of people think that, but it's just hallucinations from the drugs. She said, "One of the things you talked about was your kid's soccer game," and he got an "Oh shit" expression and moved the conversation to something else.

Why did he do that, you might ask? Because another thing they did was make fun of my wife in the position she was in. Extremely unprofessional, and she could have made a stink about it, but she just indirectly let him know she heard it.

It's not an absolute rule, but it's true in the vast majority of cases. The coloring is on the X chromosome, and males usually have only one, but some males with have an extra X chromosome (XXY) and those can be calico. It's rare.

Silly me for retiring in January