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jrjones9933
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23 Feb 2017, 9:59 pm

I think the young people are switching genders around. It doesn't bother me, but I do get a little amused at the feeling that I'm losing my mind, and I hope that doesn't cause offense. We all have to accommodate each other, after all.

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23 Feb 2017, 10:46 pm

I wonder if the fact that I get along so well with the people I volunteer at a church with is a fluke, or something else at work. For the first time I feel I actually have a circle of friends that I don't need the internet to interact with. I turned to the internet a long long time ago (probably before some of our younger members were even born) as a means of finding friendship somewhere, and whilst it's had its good moments, there's been plenty of bad ones as well. Unfortunately I've made mistakes -- mistakes that have cost me big, and ones that forced me to dig as deep as I possibly could to maintain an outwardly calm demeanor no matter what I was feeling internally. As a result, I'm not sure if in the end the internet has made everything better or worse.

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23 Feb 2017, 11:04 pm

I never thought that avatars of Sgt. Schultz would show my true nature better than my old avatars of Mick Avory and The Kinks, but they do. I'm not all that surprised to be honest, though. Avory has British emotions. Schultz has German emotions. The British are more able to keep it together.

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24 Feb 2017, 12:43 am

SentientPotato wrote:

Odd... I thought USB was designed to be reverse compatible, with the only difference being that the speed being capped to the lowest gen usb in the chain.

e; Wait, which USB 3 type are we talking here (identifiable by the color of the plastic separator in the connector, with white being usb 1, black usb 2, blue usb 3, and red being a special type of usb that always has power even when the pc is turned off I believe)?

I believe the change is current is only advertised for charging stuff faster, I would imagine it maintains backwards compatibility by never drawing more the 500 mA on USB 3.0 devices that are USB 2.0 compliant. For example if you have a 2000 mA battery, you can charge it at any current between 1 mA to 2 amps and charges slowly or faster depending on how much current. I am thinking the change in current only applies to things that can also take a lower current.

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24 Feb 2017, 12:47 am

In the USB 1.0 and 2.0 specs, a standard downstream port is capable of delivering up to 500mA (0.5A); with USB 3.0, it moves up to 900mA (0.9A). The charging downstream and dedicated charging ports provide up to 1,500mA (1.5A)

Source - https://www.extremetech.com/computing/115251-how-usb-charging-works-or-how-to-avoid-blowing-up-your-smartphone

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24 Feb 2017, 1:07 am

All this decorating I'm doing is the biggest pain in the arse. I need to paint faster so I can chill.

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24 Feb 2017, 1:29 am

aiming to make my avatar transparent somehow. would editing the frames in gimp (there are just 12) and removing the background manually work?

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With all these people leaving, I'm scared WP might not be here a few years later. :cry:

Which sucks because I can't make friends other than over the internet! :cry:

i know...

where will i go to when this place goes belly-up eventually? i don't like very much the idea of starting over from scratch...

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24 Feb 2017, 1:38 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

aiming to make my avatar transparent somehow. would editing the frames in gimp (there are just 12) and removing the background manually work?

Yeah but you'd have to edit each individual layer, like rub the white background out on each one and also animations are gifs so you can't really make stuff animate without it ending up like pixel art cause the black outline of the character would end up a bit blocky unless you went around the character on each individual frame and put like a white outline in a 1px brush. I hope that makes sense.

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24 Feb 2017, 12:55 pm

Eh, weekend's here. Oh, and baseball's back, yay, Spring Training!

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24 Feb 2017, 1:23 pm

dcj123 wrote:

Actually, I've been doing a bit of wiki digging and it appears those current values are max ratings on data transfers. The big difference between USB 3.0 and earlier usbs is that it has 5 extra pins dedicated for "SuperSpeed" USB transfer. Logically, if a USB 3.0 device were to be connected to a USB 2.0 port (or vice versa) those extra 5 pins are not connected to anything and thus the device would be utilizing the standard middle data pins out of the original 4 pins, which would then be drawing the lower currents of USB 2, but if a USB 3.0 device is connected to a USB 3.0 port, it then has those extra pins available to it, meaning it defaults to those as opposed instead of the older data pins, drawing more current as a result to maintain those higher speeds.

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24 Feb 2017, 1:24 pm

Listening to the Metroid menu themes with headphones on is surprisingly creepy.

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24 Feb 2017, 1:40 pm

SentientPotato wrote:

dcj123 wrote:

Nice...

I have never solder on USB that wasn't four pin, shows what I know

Thanks for info,

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24 Feb 2017, 5:54 pm

To be fair, I spent an hour reading earlier just because curiosity was nagging at me, so I didn't know either.

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25 Feb 2017, 5:02 am

Ice cream or DIY pesticide?

Hmmm...

Ice cream AND biscuits, or DIY pesticide and certain household ingredients?

......

Ice cream or DIY Watercolor paint or DIY pesticide?

.... :scratch:

Or maybe I'll wait until next week AND buy them all? :twisted:

...

:lol: + :wall: = :compress:

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25 Feb 2017, 5:44 am

I've found an all female death metal band called Castrator and I'm highly amused.

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25 Feb 2017, 10:40 am

There's only one letter different between deadpan and deadman...

Bum-pum-pum!

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