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Edit: previous post: https://lemmy.world/post/36281965

With Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac around the corner, I thought it was time to look at a forgotten game created by Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani - Libble Rabble. This bizarre arcade game has you drawing ropes around enemies, and fighting eclectic monsters like scissors, fireballs, and demons.

former bed side nurse here on sick leave till the end of the month. I should start my new job away from patients with normal working hours on October 1st.

I feel drained, even though I eat and sleep well, the best I've slept in months, my circadian rhythm is that of a normal human being, I can cook, go shopping, I even play some hobbies now.

Nobody yells at me or makes passive aggressive or backhanded remarks for me to hear.

The 1st. of October is a week away and I don't believe I'll be a fully functioning human being by then, most probably I'll ask for a 2 week sick leave extension.

what worked for you to go back to your normal self?

Hey there,

searching online for a solution.. did not work out quite well.

Can you recommend a good noise cancelling headphone (preferred inear), that is wired and ends with an USB-C connector?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52200240

From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of all those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.

From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of all those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.

General

• You can now join friends playing "Knockout Tour" by selecting "Friends" from "Online Play" "1p."
• Up to 2 players can now play "Free Roam" while waiting if the game was full when trying to join friends playing "Race," "Knockout Tour" or "Battle" in "Online Play."
• The "Free Roam" map now displays the locations of P Switches you've run over and Peach Medallions you've obtained.
  • You can now select a P Switch from the map and move to a location near the P Switch.
• In "Free Roam", you can now transform into the character pulled into the UFO.
  • If "Dash Food" in "Settings/Controller" is set to "Doesn’t transform" then you will not transform.
• It is now easier to encounter UFOs in "Free Roam."
• The conditions for the appearance of some Peach Medallions in "Free Roam" have been adjusted.
• When spectating in "Knockout Tour" or "Balloon Battle" in "Online Play" or "Wireless Play", you can now choose who to watch, even if you are holding the Joy-Con 2 or Joy-Con horizontally.
• Decreased the time between when an item box is taken by someone and the next time it is revived.
• Increased the invincible time after spinning or crashing during a race.
• Reduced the force of jumps when landing on a rival from above.
• Decreased the amount of time between when you finish and when spectating begins in "Knockout Tour" or "Balloon Battle" in "Online Play" or "Wireless Play."
• Decreased the amount of time between passing through the checkpoint and when the ranking is displayed in "Knockout Tour" in "Wireless Play" and "LAN Play."
• Further increased the frequency of lap-type courses appearing in the selection when choosing the next course in "VS Race" and wireless races.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue in "Online Play" and "Wireless Play" where the ranking would sometimes become incorrect if a player went off course at the same time as reaching the finish line.
• Fixed an issue in "Grand Prix", "Knockout Tour", and "VS Race", where the CPU's ranking would sometimes drop after reaching the finish line.
• Fixed an issue in "Knockout Tour" in "Online Play" where other players' ratings would sometimes appear as "0" on the results screen.
• Fixed an issue where a Spiny Shell would sometimes pass the first place player in "Wireless Play" or "Online Play."
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be sent flying backwards a great distance when hit by a Spiny Shell.
• Fixed an issue where the second item in an item slot would sometimes not disappear when hit by Lightning.
• Fixed an issue where hitting the base of a pillar in mid-air would sometimes cause a large jump.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused movement to become unstable when doing a wall ride on water.
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be swept away strongly after landing when doing a mini jump while going up a river.
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes pass through the ground when hit by a car driving on the road.
• Fixed an issue in "Free Roam" where players would sometimes be unable to enter pipes correctly after exiting a trailer.
• Fixed an issue where the results screen would sometimes become distorted after spectating "Balloon Battle" in "Online Play."
• Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes not proceed to the course selection screen after exiting a pipe during "Free Roam" in "Online Play."
• Fixed an issue where Bullet Bill would sometimes slip through walls when used in "Sky-High Sundae."
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes get stuck on a wall at the start of the race heading from "Airship Fortress" to "Shy Guy Bazaar."
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes get stuck in walls when using a Bullet Bill in "Bowser’s Castle."
• Fixed an issue in "Cheep Cheep Falls" where item boxes were sometimes difficult to pick up when Smart Steering was turned on.
• Fixed an issue in "Knockout Tour" "Spiny Rally" where sometimes there was an item box buried in the ground.
• Several other issues have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience.

I just wanted to say thanks to anyone who may have donated. Again you have no idea how much it means. Not gonna spam this message all day today, don't worry, but thank you to those that did... Thank you so so much. And to anyone who upvoted or commented or gave well wishes. It means the entire world to me right now.

I just wanted to say thanks to anyone who may have donated. Again you have no idea how much it means. Not gonna spam this message all day today, don't worry, but thank you to those that did... Thank you so so much. And to anyone who upvoted or commented or gave well wishes. It means the entire world to me right now

Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36604428

Hello everybody,

I want to ask for some opinions on my current setup and how I pretend to use it for my Media Server:

Current Layout

I currently use an UGREEN DXP2800 NAS running TrueNAS Scale with two 4 TB HDDs in Mirror mode. This is planned to be my "long-term storage" for backups, photos, and so on.

Additionally, I have 1 TB SSD installed in the system. I created two datasets on it: one for Docker containers and the other one for Media, following the TRaSH guides folder layout

My current plan:

My idea is to use the SSD for the torrents and the seeds, and once the file (e.g. the ~~movie ~~ Linux ISO Image) is completed, to move it to the HDDs. From there, Jellyfin would read the corresponding dataset and play the media.

The question:

The TRaSH guides puts a lot of emphasis on hardlinks and atomic moves, and that forces you to operate in one single filesystem. Is it worth it to stick to the TRaSH guide or my current setup would work just fine? What do y'all think?

Thanks in advance and happy self-hosting!

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Stanzi hitting all the right notes (imo) regarding this whole situation for past 2 weeks.

It doesn't make sense to mourn for a person who would have gladly seen you and millions others dead in the streets.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/62619

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El Fasher had been under siege for more than 500 days. In May 2024, the UN warned it teetered on the “brink of famine”. No aid has entered since. Somehow, against all odds, El Fasher has not fallen. Its defenders – a hotchpotch of volunteers like Abdelghaffa, rebels such as Bakhit and a depleted infantry battalion – have been shoehorned into a shrinking slice of the pulverised city with 260,000 trapped residents, half of them children.

Yet aid has not entered for nearly 18 months.The evidence indicates a key US and UK ally intervened to effectively derail lifesaving humanitarian aid entering El Fasher. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intruded at a critical stage; hundreds of children are believed to have since died from starvation in the city.

The UAE, repeatedly accused of supplying arms to the RSF, denies it supports the group. Informed sources monitoring the crisis claim that one of the longest urban sieges of modern warfare has only been possible because of such backing. “The UAE is the lifeline to the siege. Without its support, the RSF would have called it off.”