Last time I used Puffin was to test a Flash site back in 2015 made by IBM, since then I have not used it.

@wls-itguy Oh I remember that scene, just priceless

I'm wondering if war caster is worth it for me to maintain darkness or not. I'm leaning on no for the above reasons, but I def could be wrong. Depends on how many things can get around darkness that I encounter, which I can't know in terms of my campaign.

My favorite apps are the ones that are cross platform like VSCode.

@rojoloco said in Health benefits of drinking coffee:

You forgot:

Caffeine makes people more tolerable
Caffeine can help squash the desire to kill your coworkers
Caffeine increases the will to live

FTFY

@fiyafly said in Google Keep:

My workflow got too heavy, and I didn't have just one solution for note taking, so I ended up in a whirlwhind of chaos. I dropped back to purely pencil and paper for now, but I'm also looking to jump back into digital once I get my method down.

I plan on going with either Freedcamp or Asana for tasks, and I'm not sure yet for notes. OneNote is frowned on a bit here due to FIPS compliance, and I'm sure Evernote would be the same. Makes me think that even Freedcamp and Asana would fall into that category as well, which is part of the reason I'm taking my time finding a solution.

I'm no expert but ... Asana from when I played with it is for team and task sharing, it is good though, I enjoyed it. I looked at alot of Kanban tools as well about 18 months back, one of them stood out more than others, but like alot of things it comes down to what you can work with.

I find Keep is very helpful as it searches through the text of the note. So if I add a note or a bookmark and I can only remember 1 word in that note or bookmark I can search for that instead of trying to remember what tag I may have used.

Keep actually has a limit on tags, it's not much, may be only 100 or 150 or something, I ran out of tags quickly.

I think the trick with Keep may be don't try to find anything in it, use Search.

@coliver said in Favorite Writing Utensils?:

@kelly said in Favorite Writing Utensils?:

@fiyafly said in Favorite Writing Utensils?:

@coliver said in Favorite Pen/Pencil?:

@kelly said in Favorite Pen/Pencil?:

I came here looking for a discussion on RPGs.
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You and me both

Okay, okay. @coliver @Kelly I changed the name of the topic to be a bit more precise about the topic lol

:thumbs_up: :smiling_face_with_halo:

That brings up the question... Do we need a thread for reviewing role playing games?

yes.

@scottalanmiller New Done

@jaredbusch said in If You're Not Already, You May Want To Block Roku Log Domains:

Your logic is flawed.

If you let it communicate once, it has no reason to continually retry.

If you block it, it does not know that it cannot do as designed and will continually retry.

Re-read the post.

27k hits (actual hits...not attempts) last week (before it was blocked) and >10k attempts since blocked.

There is also an "I can't even thread" that is updated regularly. Maybe it is time to add that as its own category.

@wrcombs said in Changing Lana number:

@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:

@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:

@wrcombs

As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.

fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!

If they are ever retired, lol.

Well they have been around this long. . . Why not another decade with no support? LOL

Exactly. At this point, there is no trigger coming down the pike to push people off of them. If you are okay with them today, you'll be okay with them in twenty years.

@jaredbusch said in Where did they come from?:

@wrcombs said in Where did they come from?:

When if first joined ML there were no spammers (at least to my knowledge) where did they all come from?
Why do companies push their employees to spam and such on Thread websites?
Sounds like a great way to push people away from you product.

Because it costs them next to nothing to spam hundreds of websites.

And it only takes one sucker to click through and make that phone call to earn a profit.

Yeah, some quick math...

A full time spammer can be hired overseas for $300/mo. That's a MONTH. And that's high, $200 is definitely plausible. All they have to do is join websites, post pre-written spam copy. Simplest job ever. They can spam maybe 100 communities a day. That's 2,800 a month. Out of 2,800 posts, it would take maybe an average of five "customers" to cover the cost of that for really cheap software.

Easy math.

@wrcombs said in Uninstalling Programs (Windows 10) Using Powershell:

@jaredbusch said in Uninstalling Programs (Windows 10) Using Powershell:

@scottalanmiller said in Uninstalling Programs (Windows 10) Using Powershell:

@wrcombs said in Uninstalling Programs (Windows 10) Using Powershell:

@scottalanmiller said in Uninstalling Programs (Windows 10) Using Powershell:

Now, I thought that you had installed this via Chocolatey, not the Windows installer, though. Based on other threads.

I did install via Chocolatey does that have something to do with it?

Yes, a lot. Chocolatey is its own package management system. So Get-WmiObject knows nothing about it and can't interact with it. It's not "installed" in Windows terms, it's just "sitting there."

Actually, no. It is almost always there for windows to see. Because most chocolatey installs actually use the default windows installer. Just with a /silent switch (or whatever is appropriate).

so by this information, one of the above commands should have worked?

Not reliably. Only in the case, which might be "sometimes" and might be "often" and might be "almost always", where the one package manager used the other. So no matter how often it works, it's not "meant to work" and works only by coincidence. The coincidence might be really often, but it is still coincidence and not working by design.

@scottalanmiller said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@wrcombs said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@scottalanmiller said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@wrcombs said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@tonyknobel said in First Time Server Buy . . . Build. . .:

@wrcombs Physical space -- how big do you want it?

Small enough to fit on my desk

No real server is going to fit there

Well around as small as possible.

A real server is the size of a desk and sounds like a jet engine.

Sounds wonderful.. Glad I have a basement! lol

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@dustinb3403 said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

The topic of Windows Firewall came up again today when a site had turned it on
When I asked "Shouldnt there be a way to write rules in the windows firewall so that we could just keep it on?"
He replied: "look into that, and see what you can find. It would have been better for the vendor to add that to their image they give us to boot the POS but if you can find a way to do it we can try it that way."

That's a win in my book, now setup wireshark and see what the hell is being used!

Or just look at netstat and know instantly.

Ran netstat in CMD as admin.
Do I use the Foreign address or the IP address?

Do netstat -a -b

You only care about listening ports.

Okay Thanks.

You bet.

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@nerdydad said in Odd place names:

I heard about a town literally called T&C, short for Truth & Consequences....

Truth and Consequences, NM is very likely the third best known town in the state after Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

@wls-itguy said in New Gmail UI:

Am I the only one to still not see the Early release option?

It's finally there!

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