FigMcLargeHuge @ FigMcLargeHuge @sh.itjust.works

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And dump the asterisks if that is the actual entry.

Do people actually want this?

Nope. Just like those stupid hard coded buttons on my Roku remote that I have never used.

I am taking the metro train to downtown with my bike. I will ride around a little, stay for the fireworks, and then take it back home. Easy enough. You are obviously going through something so don't make being alone on new years eve too significant. Stuff happens, and hopefully you come out of this stronger.

You can also add to the output. I use it frequently to pull a list of files, etc, from another file, and then do something like generate another script from that output. This is a weak example, but one I can think of off my head. Not firing up my work laptop to search for better examples until after the holidays. LOL.

awk {'print "ls -l "$1'}

And then send that to a file that I can then execute.

I use awk constantly at work. Very useful in my opinion, and really powerful if you dig into it.

My goofy theory is that we are in a simulation, and we go through every life once. Round robin style. That way, when they end the simulation, no one can complain that they had a worse time than someone else. Everyone gets one go around as each person. One time you are the poor guy skinned alive by barbarians, and one time you are some rich billionaire with more money than brains. Then, when the simulation is over, who knows.

WTF is 'shifted'?

This is not going to sound right, and apologies if you do take it like that, but time to find some new friends. Let me explain this. If they are really friends then they shouldn't let your concerns like that stop you. I have a couple of people I play board games with weekly (mostly online). One of them decided we should play DnD, which I had been asking to do for a long time, but they didn't seem to have much interest, so I didn't push. Once it came up again, the person wanting to play also wanted to DM. Now being a friend I went along with it. They are the DM, and they have never played a single game of DnD in their lives. But you know what, it all worked out and has been great. Don't let being new and maybe having to rework something stop you, and your friends shouldn't let that be a hindrance either.

It's going to take a little work here, but I have a large drive on my plex, and a couple of smaller drives that I back everything up to. On the large drive get a list of the main folders. You can do a "du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hk1" on the root folder to get an idea of how you should split them up. Once you have an idea, make two files, each with their own list of folders (eg: folders1.out and folders2.out) that you want to go to each separate drive. If you have both of the smaller drives mounted, just execute the rsync commands, otherwise, just do each rsync command with the corresponding drive mounted. Here's an example of my rsync commands. Keep in mind I am going from an ext4 filesystem to a couple of ntfs drives, which is why I use the size only. Make sure and do a dry run or two, and you may or may not want the '--delete' command in there. Since I don't want to keep files I have deleted from my plex, I have it delete them on the target drive also.

sudo rsync -rhi --delete --size-only --progress --stats --files-from=/home/plex/src/folders1.out /media/plex/maindrive /media/plex/4tbbackup

sudo rsync -rhi --delete --size-only --progress --stats --files-from=/home/plex/src/folders2.out /media/plex/maindrive /media/plex/other4tbdrive

Well I guess it all depends on the dm and the material. I play a couple of games each week, and one is a 4 hour session and it's pretty immersive. We have a few hiccups now and again, but it's not anything that bad in my opinion. There is some work on the dm side, but since we are all spread about the planet, it allows us to get together and run a campaign. Even my local board game peeps use FG to play. We talk about playing local, but when we get together it's usually to break out some board games we have and want to play, and one person playing our dnd game is a couple of states away. We joke about putting him on an ipad and facetiming him with his head sitting on the table. LOL.

Not a clue. I have it on steam.

Senate sex tape - Now there's three words I never wanted to hear in that particular order...

Don't let your dreams be dreams! What were you going to spend all that money on anyway, retirement?

Who the hell would downvote this suggestion??? Space Engineers is a great game.

Oh yeah, DnD is a great idea, and if they aren't into dragons (but who isn't) there's all kinds of variations of rpg games. Mutant Year Zero, Vaesen, Alien, Pathfinder, Starfinder, etc. The list goes on and on. And since you have mentioned you have a pc, you can use a virtual tabletop like Fantasy Grounds, for them to play where you don't have to get them all together in the same room. I play a few different games each week with people I have only met in game. You could buy the FG Ultimate license for one pc, whomever is going to be the DM, and all the other kids could connect with the free beta license, and only the DM needs to own the books. Everyone else can just get on and read the manuals, or play the game with no expense.

This is a good suggestion. I like this game as well. There's a lot of customization that can be done without paying extra for it, but I am an old fart and don't care to have all that crap in my game. Give everyone the same pair of pants and lets go. Time to go change the onion on my belt.

Definitely have to get him Valheim, and they have an Xbox version now. Also, not multiplayer, but Kerbal Space Program is pretty fun. I have only played the PC version though, so can't speak to the console version.

Left off a key bit: "As dramatic as that might be, it can’t hold a candle to the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833. On the night of Nov. 12-13, so many meteors burned through the Earth’s atmosphere that they seemed to turn the night sky into morning. Eyewitnesses claimed the air was filled with brilliant “snowflakes,” while newspapers dubbed it “the shower of stars.” In oral histories, Native American tribes referred to it as “the night the stars fell.” "

V8s.

I was just trying to see if I could preempt the comments where people would ask if I ever washed my clothes. Evidently my entire comment was a disaster in people's opinion. Oh well, just an old guy yelling at clouds over here.