tenchiken

I hope that didn’t come across as attacking. It’s frustrating how much pet stores present incorrectly and it ticks me off.

For what it’s worth, proper food etc pays off with these guys. According to some of the chain markets near me (PetSmart and Petco) they can live up to 15 years.

I have 2 that are 19 and 20.

i appreciate the candor.

Gorgeous little furrbutt

… Either you are kidding or you don’t know that sugar like that is supremely unhealthy for chinchillas.

Cute in theory but in reality it’s gruesome

This is the right approach.

I personally use UniFi 6 dishes for my APs, and am never going back to “consumer”.

A note unsaid: typically these also handle band steering and roaming awareness. This means that you can walk from one AP to another and they will connect you seamlessly without fighting over who is stronger, and will adapt to prevent collisions.

Not sure about Aruba (almost guaranteed they have the same), but you want the options to deploy a Wifi config universally across your house, with each member being aware of and cooperating with the others. In UniFi case, they will occasionally scan the spectrum and auto assign the channels for what is least crowded in the range. The group automatically avoids each other during this process and it’s beautiful.

Agreed. Several of his books have suffered the same fate unfortunately.

That said, the ideas do still ring very true… Albeit, many of them are the ideas I wish were more fantasy.

Time enough for love - Heinlein

Nor crystal tears - Foster

A world out of time - Niven

Ringworld - Niven

Sassinak - McCaffrey

The Martian - Weir

An absolute evil. And not the cute fuzzy kind of evil either.

Cattle mutilations are up.

Nice fukkin’ model!

Honk Honk

Yes, have some.

He doesn’t deserve you.

It’s tricky to get an abusive narcissist out of your head. They have a way of living there.

No joke! That’s been the worst!

I’m glad you still have her around, and the chance to share time without the negatives.

I am. My 21 year old daughter has been evidence that I’m doing something ok despite, and it’s amazing.

One of the most healing things so far has been the fact that I can look back and feel confident that I was right every time I thought “this feels like it is wrong and should be different”. My daughter still finds me regularly for spontaneous hugs and any time something needs fixing that she hadn’t figured out yet.

I hope you find a similar chance. It’s deserved.

Solidarity. I can say that from the other side of that coin, it’s not always better… Divorced when I was 12, I told my mother “about fucking time” and got slapped.

My single mother later destroyed my teenage years and 20s. She died and it took 10 years for the financial fraud to fall away. I’m still working to escape damage from her extorting and manipulating me by threatening to accuse me of molesting my daughter with several of her friends willing to lie to police.

I hope you at least came away with positives to build with.

I flat celebrated my father’s death. The upside was he instilled equality of gender well, and considering the 80s that wasn’t common around middle USA.

Father’s Day is complex for me. Balancing my adult daughter bringing it for me vs memories of mine takes effort.

OS/2

“Boost” yes… Mood? No.

Send help.

Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?

Oh hello.

I don’t use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I’d recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It’s all open source as well.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I’ve been away from that side long enough I’d suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.

It sounds like perhaps torrents aren’t the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?

You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.

And as to the past month or so:

That’s without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don’t use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.