Gestrid

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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.

Do not go in knowing anything.

The most I will tell you is that it's an adventure game with some minor tower defense elements. And that it is the best game I've ever played, and no game has ever topped it since.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

We do a lot of commemorative stamps instead.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

"GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK!"

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I can't remember the last time I got a DLL error on my Windows laptop, honestly. I don't think that's ever happened on my current computer.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Did you make sure you have several GBs of free memory on the device while patching? At least until recently, ReVanced Manager would throw an error if it ran out of memory, and it actually needed (if I recall correctly) around 8 GB of free memory in order to finish the patching process or it'd throw one of several errors, depending on where in the process it ran out of memory.

Supposedly they've fixed this issue with the latest update to ReVanced Manager, which included a new patching process, but I haven't had a chance to test it.

Edit: Also, did you use the default patch selections? While there are other patches available to select and deselect, using anything other than the default selections can sometimes make things a little unstable. I once ran into an issue with patching, and the solution was just... reset the patch selection to just use the default patches. And it suddenly worked.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Did you make sure to turn on the "GmsCore Support" patch? (I think it used to be called "MicroG Support".) You have to enable that patch on unrooted devices in order for the app to work.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

What is this, Person of Interest?

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Excuse me while I go bleach my eye holes.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

An exit poll is conducted after a voter exits the voting booth. It's conducted by a private organization (usually either a news organization or someone working in collaboration with a news organization) and polls people to find out how they voted. The exit poll is voluntary.

Organizations can then categorize that info based on age, gender, race, area where they voted, and other details. News organizations can then use that info (along with a bunch of other data, including polls conducted leading up to the day of the election) to extrapolate who will win an election in a given area. Typically, despite being somewhat limited in their scope (not everyone at every polling location nationwide is polled), the exit polls are usually reflective of the actual election polls.

Campaign organizers for the next election can also use the data to help figure out their strategies for the next election. For a general example (I came up with it off the top of my head), "We failed to gain the aged 60+ black male vote in this state. We need to study how to appeal to them better in the next election."

Fun Fact: The actual official votes actually take days to count. So these and other types of election polls really help news organizations predict the results even just a few hours after the election polls close, and they're rarely wrong. Sometimes, they're even able to call an election the minute the polls in that area close*. These news organizations often each crunch their own numbers, too, so they don't necessarily all rely on each other's data.

*I should note that each state has its own rules about how and when they release election results. Often, to avoid influencing voters who haven't voted yet, they won't release results (including results from early voting) until polls in the entire state have closed. This is usually the case with news organizations announcing their predictions, too. That's why some news organizations are able to immediately predict some races as soon as the polls close.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll field this one.

Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I've had the odd stability issue every now and then. (There was one ongoing issue with my wifi that was caused by a bug in my manufacturer's driver, but that was years ago on Windows 10, and they eventually fixed it.) But I honestly haven't had any issues caused specifically by Microsoft recently that I can recall.

Any problems caused by major features updates are usually solved by simply reinstalling the driver. (And I haven't had any of those sorts of problems in at least a couple years.)

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It... only updates once a month, though. The second Tuesday of every month.

Any other updates are from the manufacturer/ software developer and not from Microsoft.

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