0ops

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

There's an old saying, "If your feet are cold, put on a hat". You could have the nicest coat ever made, but nothing will warm a particular body part more than the body parts next to it. There's tons of blood flowing close to the surface on the head, neck, and wrists; having those areas exposed turns your skin into a blood-cooling radiator. So consistent, thorough coverage and tucking in layers will make your winter clothes warmer than the sum of their parts

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For driving: If there's snow on the ground and you're in a safe place to do this, get up to 5 mph or so and slam on the brakes. That'll give you a good feel for your much traction you have. Of course, conditions vary, so don't sue me if you had grip on your home street but not the freeway. Other than that, keep acceleration to a minimum, and I mean that in any direction. Ease on the gas, ease on the brake, slow down BEFORE you need to turn, and turn easy. Be calm, a panicked reaction to a slide can make it worse. Abs and traction control can save your ass, but they're emergency systems. If they are activating frequently, SLOW THE FUCK DOWN.

Driving aside, nice winter clothes are great, but how you wear them is much more important in my experience. Keep body heat in and cold wind out. Assuming that your clothes actually fit, the best, free way to do this is to simply tuck your shirt into your pants, and if you have them, coat sleeves over your gloves and neck gaiter into your coat. You lose so much heat in those areas, by addressing them you can be out many degrees colder before you need another layer. However, if you're physically exerting yourself in the cold, don't let yourself sweat, because as soon as you stop that shit will freeze. Be mindful of when you start getting warm and be prepared to untuck clothes, open vents, or remove layers.

Finally, and you should be doing this anyway but people forget in winter, drink plenty of water.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Make it a habit. People like you can change the country, remember that

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

So is my nervous system.

🎶 Wake me up, when November ends 🎶

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's why we invented ide's with linters

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I'll wait to see if the kid can swing it

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It always bothered me that two-face has no pronunciation problems with only half a pair of lips

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Also tomato: Because I literally am

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Snake, probably: "Jesus Christ! Lock the door, dumbass!"

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

You got stickers? I literally got nothing but a bad sandwich in a bag. I wouldn't have known it was a Krabby patty meal if I wasn't the one who bought it. Afaik mine didn't even have a special sauce - or any sauce for that matter. And they were out of vanilla so I didn't get the pineapple shake either.

Fast food used to come with toys goddamn it! How we've fallen as a society 😞

 

TL;DR if the Roku app is failing to play back some videos recently, try turning on "Text Subtitles Only" in playback settings

So I'd been having this issue where certain videos would fail to playback in the Roku player (but only on Roku, playing from the Android app, the browser, or directly all worked). The video would get stuck buffering at 33%, but after a minute or so it'd finally stop with "There was an error retrieving the data for this item from the server". Transcoding issue? I'd been trying to figure this issue out for a few hours over the course of a few days. I don't recall having this issue before mid-December, and as I learned today apparently there was a big update to the Roku app.

Anyway, my first real clue was using "ffmpeg -i video.mp4" to compare the codecs of a known working video and a not working video. The non-working video was showing an issues with subtitles. So after poking around in the Roku client's settings I saw the "Text Subtitles Only" option in playback settings, and enabling it worked!

Hopefully someone sees this and it saves them a headache. I had to postpone my personal movie night like three times trying to figure this out

 

Pretty much title. Sometimes I want to see new content, sometimes I want to go back and look at old content. It's a little exhausting having to jump into settings to hit that toggle, and it would be really cool if we could switch it from the top bar or in the three-dot menu in the top bar

 

Scrolling down hides them, scrolling up they come back. I like being able to see more content at a time, it'll make the app feel less claustrophobic.

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