The cable is 10+ years old and looks very cheap/sketchy. I still see red light coming through it, but I have no way to gauge/know if it's bright enough.
The cheapest attempt would be to replace the cable. They're $3-8.
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- Wed May 15, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: TOSlink optical cable problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 120
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: Nausea from Virtual Reality
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6839
Re: Nausea from Virtual Reality
Mission accomplished! I managed to get motion sick, yay! :-P After fiddling with the settings in DCS, I increased the framerate from the 16-20fps (borderline unplayable) to a playable 30fps. (Most want at least 50-70fps which is also what I get in 2D+headtracking). I'm definitely barely meeting the ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: TOSlink optical cable problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 120
TOSlink optical cable problem
Does anyone have experience with these things? We have an old LG TV that's connected to a ZVOX 220 soundbar by an optical cable via the digital out on the TV. The TV is fed by a Roku. This used to work. However, over the last year or so, the soundbar failed to detect the sound input from the TV for ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Yeah, I'm not really considering the totality of these wants and the cost of ownership. I guess your question makes me wonder: with everything I own, should I try to have every part of it, even something that at first glance looks like bothersome work, really be aligned with my values? Is it okay t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Is there a theory of this process or at least some terminology? Like I understand what you mean by "abstract-concrete" rule, but where did you get that term from? What are the other types of rules? Is there a theory behind identifying this kind of thinking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Western Red Cedar's Journal
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- Views: 167161
Re: Western Red Cedar's Journal
With that said, it is still wild for me to see 2 years of personal expenses drop off in a month. A bad day on the market might be 2-3% down, so depending on how many years of stash you have, it could go a lot faster. To take a year off of 25x requires 4% and that's almost half a correction (or a me...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I also think it is easy to overcomplicate some of this by geeking out on the theory too much. Going back to the example above on health/movement/time-saving devices, one could have a pretty solid start to a robust system with some basic rules like make all/most of your food from scratch, walk or cy...
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
The slowest one of the all: viewtopic.php?p=288420#p288420
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
If money is abundant, why wouldn't I try to own certain things that free up my time**, or even potentially subscribe to them***? The answer is that those things end up owning you, which circles back to my question: how do we balance these trade-offs? [...] Curious how you guys think about the non-m...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Investments Trade Log
- Replies: 3066
- Views: 794269
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
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- Views: 356886
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
Ah, okay. So e.g. a salesman would likely score very high.
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: Nausea from Virtual Reality
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6839
Re: Nausea from Virtual Reality
I "won" @Slevin's HTC Vive on the "swap thread" and so I got a chance to try VR for the first time. Wow! This is something else! Setup: The HTC Vive is from 2016(?) which perfectly matches my computer build which is from the same era. I run a GeForce GTX 1060/6GB graphics setup, ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
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- Views: 356886
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
16+27+37=80 ... It's like I don't even try to understand or hide how I basically don't care for most social interactions beyond knowing enough not to make a scene :-P One comment on the test is that is that the scores between autistics and neurotypicals are very close together. The difference is onl...
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:49 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180475
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
And I guess my questions with the needs of modernity are: how do we decide what to "own" vs "subscribe to" vs "quit entirely"? How do you think about those choices? This decision can be complicated(vb) as much as you want, but here's a way to get started (also see ERE ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
- Replies: 16
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Re: On-the-go Meal Prep Kit for maximizing grocery stores as an alternative to fastfood/restaurants?
in decroissant order of importance knife I find it interesting that "knife" always comes out on top. In a modern world of airplanes and paper, I find a pair of scissors more universally useful. This to the point where I use scissors for typical knife-problems like cutting lettuce, broccol...
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
A minor "ah-ha" moment I had recently was realizing that Fe-Style Compassion could be spreadsheeted under the realm of Personal Finance in the form of a Non-Profit and this would make it easier to "sell" ERE to those with Fe further up their stack. Very similar to how somebody w...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: FI with regular income?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5917
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Embracing Solitude: INTJ's Journey Towards Retirement
- Replies: 247
- Views: 94938
Re: Embracing Solitude: INTJ's Journey Towards Retirement
From what I hear, educated Americans go to a therapist all the time, they talk about it as a privilege of social status, and think of it positively. Europeans think mental therapy is for deplorables who have given up on themselves and rely on a state therapist to put them back together. Kind of the...
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180475
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I also believe that resolving the metacrisis is the most important problem facing humanity. Part of what I was trying to communicate is reflective of feeling mature tertiary Fe compassion for Little Carl Big Carla, Green-Team Jean and Gene, and even 60 year old ESTJ engineers named Hank who are cli...
- Sat May 11, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: FI with regular income?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5917
Re: FI with regular income?
You think the plumber goes home and belabors his wife with vivid stories of the particularly intransigent pieces of excrement he had to deal with today? Somehow I doubt it. Admittedly only a sample size of one, but one of the in-laws is actually a plumber and every time we meet, it's all he ever ta...