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Chapter 1

Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.

Suddenly a new voice could be heard. 'Hi, I'm Grady and this is Practical Engineering', Grady said.

The name for the insect probably originated in the Caribbean. Then brought over by the Portuguese and transferred to Spanish. The English got it from the Spanish, where other languages like French and Dutch got it from the Portuguese.

In English it went from the Spanish cacarucha to the English cacarootch. Which later changed to cockroche and eventually became cockroach.

The original Caribbean word was most likely kakalaka. This went to cacalacca in early Portuguese and then into the Spanish cacarucha. Interesting enough the newer Portuguese word of caroucha was based on the Spanish word. So the word went from Portuguese to Spanish and back again.

People always forget languages are a living thing and words for a lot of things were very different hundreds of years ago.

Imagine gate keeping Linux, the irony...

Steam works absolutely perfectly on EndeavourOS. No tweaking or anything required, just install and run. It also runs just about any game I ever tried, with troubleshooting as easy as choosing a different version of Proton from the dropdown.

Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

"I try my best, but I'm not a perfect person" - Dr. Collier 2025

Right in the feels....

Yes create a Windows stick and boot from that. But that's a lot of work, just create a Windows setup stick and install it. Installing Windows and running some tests should take less than an hour and can save you a lot of headache. You can download the ISO directly from Microsoft and you don't need a license for some simple testing like this.

Temperatures read out in software can be very unreliable. The software might say it's perfectly fine and the thing still throttles because some part of the chip gets too hot.

Cleaning it out and re-doing the paste is my go to for any refurbishment on old laptops. Unless it's something weird like liquid metal or something, it's usually very easy and quick to do. And even if it isn't strictly needed, it usually helps.

The CPU speed crashing like that seems like thermal throttling maybe? Any idea on the temperatures? Clean out the vents and redo the thermal paste?

8550U isn't like fast, but is isn't super slow either.

I would also suggest for debugging purposes to re-check on Windows. You can go crazy chasing down a software issue when it's hardware and vice versa. Using a wildly different software stack can point you in the right direction. If the problem persists, it's most likely hardware related.

They are very good indeed. I love the taste of sour in candy, but since I'm an old man my stomach can't take it.

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Cola is a bit harder than the bears tho. The bears are like silk, very soft and bouncy and melt in your mouth.

Why yes I do have a bag of bears in front of me right now. I know it says Share size, but this is my bag. Get your own bag if you want some.

Yeah I always laugh when movies or TV portrait a character being good at strategy by depicting them being good at chess. Those two have zero relation. Total war on the other hand, get good at that and you're cracked at strategy

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I was in a hotel last month that had that, and the led was blue as well. I pulled it forward out of it's little cubby and unplugged that fucker right away. I meant to plug it back before checkout, but I forgot, oops.

You are totally correct, hydrogen is by far the most common element out there, since it's just a simple proton. Any space without a boatload of hydrogen is what we call empty space. Oxygen is also super abundant, so it's basically everywhere. As far as we know water is everywhere and very easy to get. Like I said you'd need to filter and clean it, since it's probably full of nasty stuff, but that's something we could do 100 years ago so it should be easy.

Now it would be possible for some kind of weird system where there is just hydrogen for the star and not a lot else. I'm not sure how that would be possible, but lets say for the sake of argument that it is. Then you won't have any planets as well and you for sure wouldn't have any abundant life to get to civilization levels. The early universe was like this, because a lot of the heavier stuff needed stars to get made. So the early stars systems were just a whole lot of hydrogen and some helium and nothing else, but there obviously wasn't life as we know it back then.

But I don't know how this would extend to an entire region of space. And even if it's for the entire region, why would you stay? Just move on, the region sucks, you have warp capable vessels so just get out of dodge. There's plenty of stars around with a lot of water in their systems, Voyager gets to them within the year.

They also have, you know, space ships, so they have some level of technology. They say the stole the tech, but that's a little too easy. Even if they stole the idea and the blueprints, they still understand a lot of it. They operate and maintain it, so they have some technical level at least. That means their space ships probably have pretty decent water recycling options. Or are they just venting their piss into space like we did in the 60s? If water is such a big deal, they would surely have their tech tree invested into recycling and water saving techniques. Even a ship with replicators like Voyager is a very sealed system, why waste the resources?

I think in the show it's just hand waved away like this is a region with very little water and the audience is just supposed to go with it, instead of thinking even a little bit about it.

The annoying thing is, a lot of modern battery protection circuits will brick themselves once they read a too low battery voltage. So not only will they not charge anymore, they will never charge, even with new cells. It's so dumb and meant to prevent 3rd party refurbished battery packs.

Yeah it's so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.

For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I've never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?

Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing "corrects" the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.

Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I'm just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.

And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well

Sure but when you have space travel, its dead simple to get water. Just park up at any old moon or asteroid, a lot of them are almost all ice. Sure you need to filter and clean it, but that's the easy part. Replicators seem like the hard way to get water.