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Cake day: January 11th, 2024

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  • But we don’t have a ‘Year 0’, it goes 1BCE to 1 CE.

    Lunations are only ~29.5 days long, between specific moon phases. They still count one year as 12 lunations, ~354 days. Right now is Rajab on the Islamic Calendar, but that’s still the month, not the moon. According to the Farmers Almanac, January is the Wolf Moon, taking from both Native American and European Colonial traditions.

    Yes, there are multiple counts. Rajab is the 7th month of the Islamic (Hijri) Calendar, AH 1447, while Tevet is the 4th month of the Hebrew Calendar, AM 5786.

    Hopefully this helps, and I understood you correctly. If not, Wikipedia has charts of the current date according to multiple calendars when looking at specific calendars, like the Islamic Calendar, or you can look more at Lunar Calendars, and the differences between Solar, Lunisolar, and Lunar Calendars.




  • Uh, interesting take seeing as how they could just host a website to distribute, or go through a site like itch.io.

    From the article:

    That’s according to a new whitepaper from PC distribution platform Rokky titled ‘The State of PC Game Distribution.’

    Oh, and they aren’t biased at all, I’m sure.

    From the referenced paper:

    88% of studios say Steam accounts for over 75% of their revenue. 72% feel Steam effectively exists as a monopoly and 53% are concerned about their level of reliance on that single platform.

    48% have distributed a title to the Epic Games Store, 30% to marketplaces such as G2A and Kinguin, 38% to e-stores such as Fanatical or Humble Bundle, 10% have distributed with GOG, and 8% with itch.io.

    I’m not going to make an account to read their paper, but I’m dubious about the methodology, and they don’t seem to understand the definition of the word ‘monopoly’, when they list so many alternatives in the summary.

    And a cherry on top from the blurb on the Rokky site showing in search results:

    Rokky has acquired ChinaPlay, unlocking access to over 1M Chinese gamers for global publishers.






  • You seem to know this person’s activities, are they related to you, or someone you consider a friend? If so, maybe a more delicate approach would work better, but I don’t have advice for that. It seems to me this kind of person would laugh it off and continue, or get mad at you for calling them out and it would just become a wedge between you.

    If you don’t know this person, the old adage stands: don’t feed the trolls. If they’re breaking rules, report them. Block them, and maybe take a step back from that kind of social media, to reevaluate what you’re trying to get out of it. If you’re following this person around, just to be angry or judgemental, that isn’t healthy for you nor helpful to anyone. You’re just another viewer or comment to the algorithm.


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    While the Egyptian Eye of Horus is a similar symbol of protection and good health and luck, the Greek evil eye talisman specifically protects against malevolent gazes.

    Yeah, weird they didn’t put it in the section where they mention the Eye of Horus (Protective talismans and cures).











  • Maybe I can give you confidence. Batteries, RAM upgrades, and heatsink swaps are great starting points for anyone.

    1. Remove the back panel - if the screws come out of the cover, put them in a cup or on a piece of tape and watch for longer screws and remember where they go. If they don’t come out, still try not to turn that piece over as captive screws aren’t always held in well
    2. Ground yourself by touching a hinge, or attaching your ESD wrist-band there - only to the metal
    3. Disconnect the battery
    4. Trace old fan cable and unplug it from the main board
    5. Unscrew the 3 or 4 larger screws with tension springs around the outside of the heatsink and remove it (a little slowly, some thermal paste dries more and makes this difficult)
    6. Wipe off old thermal paste with alcohol wipes and let dry
    7. Peel plastic off new thermal pads and place them (or apply a thin spiral of paste) on each silver cap of your CPU
    8. Center the new fan over the CPU and check your wire isn’t underneath or in the way of a screw
    9. Screw the heatsink down and reconnect your fan
    10. Reconnect the battery
    11. Test
    12. Put cover back on

    The main things are grounding yourself, not touching anything you aren’t working on, the battery (disconnect first, reconnect last), the plastic wrapping on thermal pads, the fan wire (just pay attention to it), and testing first. The computer will check the fan as soon as it starts, and they are usually set to shut down if overheating.

    You’ll spend less time than I took writing this, probably. Good luck