CrabAndBroom

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah V and VI (even even IV I think) are still perfectly fine and playable, so I'm happy to wait pretty much indefinitely lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I literally had one on Friday! Long story short: mine was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.

I had a wisdom tooth removed a couple of years ago and that sucked but it was bearable - it hurt for about two weeks, but Tylenol made it manageable. So I was expecting something along the same lines here. The actual procedure itself was fine - the scraping out of the inside of the tooth is a weird sensation, but not painful 'cause they freeze you up. Then afterwards, once the freezing wore off it hurt for about three hours and I was expecting it to suck for a while. But I had a Tylenol and a nap, and when I woke up it wasn't hurting at all and it's been fine ever since.

Other people have told me that they had pain for a week or so, so your mileage may vary, but yeah for me it was literally just a few hours of discomfort and then back to normal. Nowhere near as big a deal as I thought it was going to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's there now!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah this is me with Civ VII too. Normally I'll pick up a new Civ game on day one, but since the new one has Denuvo and it's nearly $170 CAD for the full version, I guess I'll just be picking it up in a Christmas sale in like 5 years or something.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This is one of the greatest scams that conservatives get away with IMO, not just in the US but it happens in the UK and other places too. Conservatives get in, go hog wild cutting taxes, selling off public assets and throwing huge contracts to their friends, and then as soon as the other side gets back in they find that they have to now balance the books, the conservatives start complaining and saying they're the fiscally responsible ones.

It's literally happening right now in the UK - we just got rid of the Tories finally after about 15 years, and the new Labour government immediately found a £20 billion hole in the economy which they now have to make harsh cuts to sort out, and they're the ones getting criticized for it by the media.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Done! I told them this is the first Civ game in a long time that I have no interest in picking up at launch, because of Denuvo and that the price is wildly unreasonable. Nearly $170 Canadian for the full edition!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was a teenager in the 90s and there was a whole pirate video game ring going around our school that worked this way! Someone would buy a game, and everyone would bring in their blank floppies and it would get distributed around the computer lab. Also a separate ring of banned VHS movies taped off Swedish TV for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think that game is the third best Alien movie lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I thought the new one, Romulus, did a pretty good job of keeping the retro look going. I actually didn't like the movie itself very much, but props & costumes did a good job lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think in the UK we have a similar thing but they're called Refreshers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah as someone living in Canada that seems wild to me. I can't imagine they still do that in places with snow, that would be madness.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also Smarties! These are Smarties everywhere else in the world apart from the US as far as I can tell.

 

This is swiped from reddit but I thought it was really helpful so please don't judge me too harshly lol.

So it turns out that some Linux distros don't enable this by default for whatever reason but if you have an Intel wifi card that uses the iwlwifi driver (you can check this with lspci -k and look for a section that says Network controller: Intel Corporation and Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi under it), you can add a simple line to a config file that might make a huge difference to your wifi speeds.

Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf (if it doesn't exist just create it) and add the line: options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8 then reboot. I ran Speedtest before and after trying this on my laptop and it seems to have increased it by about 20% or so.

Your mileage may vary of course, but hopefully this helps someone!

 

Altered the title to avoid spoilers - hopefully that's okay! But for those who don't want to click - Miriam Margolyes is voicing Beep The Meep.

On joining Doctor Who, Miriam Margolyes says: “I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died."

lol

 

Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.

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