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    As gentle as the quakes are by the time they reach Darwin they're pretty scary when you have a...

    As gentle as the quakes are by the time they reach Darwin they're pretty scary when you have a large fish aquarium in your lounge room. I spent many times trying to help stabilise the tank and stop it from tipping over on it's stand, water sloping out everywhere.
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    Darwin gets a lot of earthquakes, or the effects of them anyway. They happen out in the Banda...

    Darwin gets a lot of earthquakes, or the effects of them anyway. They happen out in the Banda Sea north west of Darwin and Darwin gets gentle wobbles from them. Minimal damage but it feels really funny when the earth is jiggling around under your feet.
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    You know it's close when you hear a sizzle just before the boom, when it's that close it doesn't...

    You know it's close when you hear a sizzle just before the boom, when it's that close it doesn't rumble, it goes off like a cannon shot. Tropical storms are very short lived but intense.
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    I got to see a lot of magnificent storms in the tropics but seeing trees explode made me think...

    I got to see a lot of magnificent storms in the tropics but seeing trees explode made me think that being outside during a storm is not necessarily a good idea. That shrapnel would be pretty nasty if it hit you.
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    Seeking help with understanding depression

    My thoughts are similar to your own in this, some people might think my attitudes are a bit harsh but I spent the first 50 years of my life mixing with all sorts of people from all walks of life and I've seen a thing or two. My opinions aren't created from some academic treatise on ethics and...
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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    Found it, as soon as I found the right story other facts jumped out of memory, it was Switzerland. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-vote-on-licence-fee-tax-reform-cash-and-climate/91045322
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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    No idea, never read the story, just noticed a couple of words here and there as I skimmed past. I read a lot of news and sometimes bits and pieces that I didn't take any notice of show up in my memory. I'm one of those weirdos that learns by osmosis. :)
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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    Australia's the same as Canada with our ABC, I think ours is a little better funded and supported than yours though going by news content. Just In The UK isn't the only country that charges a fee or has a television license system though. Just the other day I read a story about a country who's...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    And a big tip for people making custom Wine prefixes: You only have to get it right once. Once you've got a prefix running the programs you want copy it to another drive as a back up. But better still, you can just copy that same prefix in to any other Linux system and as long as wine is...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    Some older games have fanbase made patch files to get them to display in 16:9 but there's not many of them. Some games will also let you play in Windowed Mode instead of Full Screen, when you do this the aspect ratio will be correct but I find playing games in a window a little distracting. Not...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    An example of a Wine prefix for Win98 games. This will create a 32 bit prefix in your home folder called .wineWin98, and naturally in order to do this you must also have the 32 bit version of Wine installed. Except for the last one with a bogus example path you can just use the mouse to copy and...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    Yep. I got used to seeing them stretched to fit my monitor. There's more than just simple games in there. 0 AD is one I play often, a war strategy game a little similar to the old Age of Empires but with a much better game engine and far better graphics. Widelands is another one I play quite...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    If I was still into programming I'd still be using Fedora because of how up to date all it's libraries are, my only issue with Fedora is that there's no long term service version so you have to keep upgrading your system at least every 18 months. For simple ease and convenience with gaming I...
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    (30M) I'm relatively ugly and I'd like some advice

    You were being bullied. That's the main aim of a bully - to make you doubt yourself, to break down your self confidence and take away your self determination, to turn you in to a victim. Some do it with violence, some do it with social vilification and some go for the psychological attack, but...
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    What distro you're using and how up to date it's libraries are makes a huge difference. For many years I was a big fan of Fedora but I went off of them in favour of Ubuntu's LTS versions. But when I bought a new laptop about 18 months ago Ubuntu couldn't recognise it's built in Intel graphics...
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    Planet Names

    I could never remember what Tuesday is. :) You're right though, Norse not Roman. Mind you, from where I live they're all sort of the same place. ;)
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    Planet Names

    Because the Romans and Greeks were considered to be the peak of civilisation back when the planets were first really discovered and they believed the brighter "stars" were manifestations of the gods. Our days of the week are also named after those very same gods although the way we say them has...
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    does life happen to you? or do you happen to life?

    I grew up with a sort of similar bit advice from my great grandmother, an old Geordie woman who'd had a hard life and was as tough as old boots. "If you don't like something, change it. And if you can't change it there's no point whingeing to me about it." I very much doubt she got that from...
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    does life happen to you? or do you happen to life?

    I learned not to be a victim when I was still fairly young, not to people and not to the world itself. Sometimes life dishes up some pretty hard knocks but I roll with the punches and keep going. Sometimes beaten physically but never mentally.
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    This is usually the biggest difference between different distros, what they've got available in their repositories and how up to date their systems are. A tool I find much more useful than the modern graphical apps is Synaptic Package Manager. In there you get to see every package available in...
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