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One of my cats must have some delayed predator's instinct set in whenever he eats fish, because 10 minutes later it is spread half way across the hall with him gleefully leaping upon the chunks.

^That made me laugh. Do you have any other cat stories to share? My old cat Monkey Pi used to meow to go outside [the deck door was sliding glass], but once she was outside, she would turn around and stare inside.

My cats do that, too. The two of them are siblings and often get into play fights. When the girl was a kitten she scavenged a ball of fluff from an arts and crafts set and would walk around with it in her mouth, deliberately go up to her brother or me and growl fiercely, because it was totally her property.

So I was playing pokemon Sun, and it was in the middle of a cutscene, and the water spontaneously changed from blue to orange for some reason.

^Pokemon Sun is set to be either at a sunrise or a sunset, so the sky or water turns orange to reflect [hah! silly pun] that.

I think the young people are switching genders around. It doesn't bother me, but I do get a little amused at the feeling that I'm losing my mind, and I hope that doesn't cause offense. We all have to accommodate each other, after all.

I wonder if the fact that I get along so well with the people I volunteer at a church with is a fluke, or something else at work. For the first time I feel I actually have a circle of friends that I don't need the internet to interact with. I turned to the internet a long long time ago (probably before some of our younger members were even born) as a means of finding friendship somewhere, and whilst it's had its good moments, there's been plenty of bad ones as well. Unfortunately I've made mistakes -- mistakes that have cost me big, and ones that forced me to dig as deep as I possibly could to maintain an outwardly calm demeanor no matter what I was feeling internally. As a result, I'm not sure if in the end the internet has made everything better or worse.

I never thought that avatars of Sgt. Schultz would show my true nature better than my old avatars of Mick Avory and The Kinks, but they do. I'm not all that surprised to be honest, though. Avory has British emotions. Schultz has German emotions. The British are more able to keep it together.

I believe the change is current is only advertised for charging stuff faster, I would imagine it maintains backwards compatibility by never drawing more the 500 mA on USB 3.0 devices that are USB 2.0 compliant. For example if you have a 2000 mA battery, you can charge it at any current between 1 mA to 2 amps and charges slowly or faster depending on how much current. I am thinking the change in current only applies to things that can also take a lower current.

In the USB 1.0 and 2.0 specs, a standard downstream port is capable of delivering up to 500mA (0.5A); with USB 3.0, it moves up to 900mA (0.9A). The charging downstream and dedicated charging ports provide up to 1,500mA (1.5A)

Source - https://www.extremetech.com/computing/115251-how-usb-charging-works-or-how-to-avoid-blowing-up-your-smartphone

All this decorating I'm doing is the biggest pain in the arse. I need to paint faster so I can chill.

aiming to make my avatar transparent somehow. would editing the frames in gimp (there are just 12) and removing the background manually work?

i know...

where will i go to when this place goes belly-up eventually? i don't like very much the idea of starting over from scratch...

Yeah but you'd have to edit each individual layer, like rub the white background out on each one and also animations are gifs so you can't really make stuff animate without it ending up like pixel art cause the black outline of the character would end up a bit blocky unless you went around the character on each individual frame and put like a white outline in a 1px brush. I hope that makes sense.

Eh, weekend's here. Oh, and baseball's back, yay, Spring Training!

Actually, I've been doing a bit of wiki digging and it appears those current values are max ratings on data transfers. The big difference between USB 3.0 and earlier usbs is that it has 5 extra pins dedicated for "SuperSpeed" USB transfer. Logically, if a USB 3.0 device were to be connected to a USB 2.0 port (or vice versa) those extra 5 pins are not connected to anything and thus the device would be utilizing the standard middle data pins out of the original 4 pins, which would then be drawing the lower currents of USB 2, but if a USB 3.0 device is connected to a USB 3.0 port, it then has those extra pins available to it, meaning it defaults to those as opposed instead of the older data pins, drawing more current as a result to maintain those higher speeds.