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  1. So apparently AO3 is suffering from a DOS attack at the moment. It was posted on FB in one of my writing groups. Just thought i would put this out there 

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @Deadman Channeling Mad Eye Moody’s rant about keeping constant vigilance, stay out of trouble!  :)

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      We don’t allow Patreon here, exactly because there’s no way for us to be sure that members are only receiving donations for original work.

      It is a clear and distinct violation of copyright law for anyone to profit from copyrighted material without written permission from the copyright owner. So, a toy company can make a Harry Potter game, as long as they receive permission from JK Rowling, but if someone sells Harry Potter merchandise without having obtained that permission, the lawyers will swoop in, and generally the person violating copyright law gets to pay their lawyer and the copyright owner’s lawyer, substantial fines, and possibly could receive a jail sentence based on how much they earned.

      The same thing applies to fan fiction. If someone sets up a Patreon on a fiction archive, and publishes both fan fiction and original work on the archive, there’s no way to tell what the patrons are donating for. The patrons might think they’re doing the author a huge favor by donating, so the author can work on that fan fiction they love so much, and if they mention in a review that they donated for that reason, well. I would not want to be in that author’s shoes when the copyright owner finds out.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @BronxWench “Money attracts lawyers” is my more succinct way of putting it.  If @Deadman wants to pay a copyright lawyer to sit in their conference room learning the finer points of copyright law to research a theoretical loophole … I’m guessing there’s better ways to spend time & money.

      Me personally… I don’t seek money in my writing, so exploring into copyright & fair use is more of an academic brain teaser for me.  I do keep my fanfic and original pen-names distinct, so there’s less to muddy if I were to setup a Patreon for under my original writing pen-name.  BUT… I do have a good day job with vacation/insurance benefits so monetizing writing isn’t a necessity.

  2. well my laptop sucks atm. i visit certain sites and the internet goes in and out. cant do much! no one else has this issue with the internet but me!  i dont want to factory reset it cuz then i lose the story that took me a while to create! ugh! suggestions? 

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @BronxWench Got a couple half-used spools of cat 5e myself, but given the current standards, I’d rather put in cat-latest if I’m crawling in the attic and going through that effort.  In the meanwhile, the stuff stapled up is...working fine.  I do like to control the router, because it’s basically running my internal network, and I don’t want my printer, my network drive, etc, accidentally “published” to the internet as a whole.  Cable company… to mitigate service calls for “internet not working”, likely has it configured to maximum-open possible.

       

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Hi, all.

      “Not ordinary” is actually a great thing if you can either set it up yourself, or have a friend that can do that for you.  In my case, I only turned the WiFi on on the router when I finally broke down and got a iPhone.  The computer(s) are wired into the switch ports of the ADSL box with good patch cables.  Wires are not obsolete by a long shot.  They just take some effort, and to more than a few people appear to take far more effort than they actually do.

      Since I live in “BFN,” my cell coverage is so good that I’m still subscribing to PTSN telephone service at the princely sum of just over $100 per month, since it works, where the cell coverage usually works, most of the time.  Worse, the way the cell towers are set up around me, when my ADSL conks out, so does cell service, and vice versa.  And, the cable company’s Internet also gets wiped out.   Neat, hunh?  So, I can’t even switch over to VoIP, despite my ADSL box having provisions for two lines plus internal battery backup for the VoIP, since I could end up SOL if the internet and cell towers break.  And, they have broken several times in the past year, exactly like I’ve described. 

      I have my computers and stuff in my dining room, which admittedly isn’t the best place for them.  I am now the proud owner of a beautiful color printer/scanner/copier/fax that I need to take apart to clean the laser mirrors on it to get it behaving itself again.  I will do that before the end of the year, or pay to have done; but I’m putting it off because that’s an hour or two of my life that I would never get back, and it would be too much like work.  The fancy rig replaced a 1995 monochrome laser printer that has the “same indigestion” going on, and will likely never get set back to right, since no one refills cartridges for it anymore, and they haven’t done so for a few years. 

      When the color printer is behaving itself, I can print to it from the iPhone, which really does come in handy sometimes.  And, I could run steel or PVC conduit (for future-proofing,) and wire my house with Cat 6a, and put a “real” switch in a service cubby “somewhere.”  But, I’m retired, and all the cutting, patching, etc would be too much like real work.  I have walked the configuration of the “ADSL Box” to get it where I want it, which is actually a pretty good rig all things considered.

      @kagome26isawsome, @BronxWench and @Desiderius Price’s advice is still absolutely spot-on.  Being hard-wired in is better than WiFi, if your circumstances actually allow it.  Back to your original problem; did “fubar.com” ever work for you from your usual computing location?  If so, what “changed” around your house at the same time it stopped working?  Did you get additional housemates?  Or did your “existing” housemates get more WiFi stuff?  Or, did their data requirements go up?  Did you get a new TV and install it wirelessly?  If so, there’s your problem.  If not, you just managed to find a site that doesn’t like WiFi at the edge of its working area.  WiFi transmitters, like anything else, do degrade over time.  So, that might be all, or at least part of the problem. 

      WiFi transmitters also operate as hubs instead of switches, even if the ethernet sockets on the device are a switch instead of a hub.  What’s the difference?  A hub is a single “collision domain,” where every device on it can have its traffic “crash” with the data from the other devices.  A switch provides a separate collision domain for every subscriber, so data collisions don’t happen.  If your household got more “WiFi stuff,” you now have more data collisions, so you have reduced service, no matter how good a signal you get.  The first solution below won’t help that much if “everybody” has a smart-phone, plus a computer, plus some if not all of your TVs are all on WiFi, along with your doorbells, your thermostat, and so on.  Improving your signal may still help somewhat, since you never turn down a better signal if you can avoid it.

      The easier of two possible solutions for you would be to have the cable equipment moved out of the basement and installed in your parent’s office, or some other sane location on the first floor instead of the basement.  That would put less distance and fewer barriers between your computer and the router, giving you better signal, and better data capacity because of that.  Spectrum could do that for you, and if “you” [the account holder paying the bill] complain properly, they might do the move as a “free-of-charge courtesy” service call, since the location they arbitrarily picked for the equipment isn’t working for you.  Or, your father could do it himself.  Beyond a “new” location for the cable that has electricity, he would only need a length of top-quality coaxial cable, plus a top-quality coaxial cable union to get the job done.  He might need to drill a couple of holes to allow the cable to pass, but this shouldn’t be that big of a deal.

      The more “extreme” solution, if your living circumstances allow, would be to hard-wire in to the router in the basement, completely bypassing the WiFi altogether.  Pre-made Cat 6a ethernet cables cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $22-$25 for a factory-made twenty-five or fifty foot cable, and $37-$60 for a one hundred foot cable.  The variation on price depends on the manufacturer, the type of insulation, and the like.  Before buying a cable, make sure that you can route the cable without upsetting anyone, forcing the cable to make hard bends, or subject it to being crushed by doors being closed.  You can “plan” the cable’s route with string, but keep in mind that the cable is much less flexible than string.  Once you’ve successfully routed your string (or whatever,) measure how long it is, and buy the shortest pre-made cable that is longer than the string by enough to be practical.  So, if your string is twenty-six feet long, you would need a fifty foot cable, and you might also need the fifty foot cable if your string is twenty-four feet long, too.  You will need to allow for at least nine foot of length for every story up you need to go if your dwelling has standard eight foot ceilings, plus more for the “wandering around” your cable run might need to do to either avoid or minimize the drilling of holes for the cable. 

      You might be able to use air ducts for part of your run.  If you do, make sure the cable you use is either marked “CMP” or “plenum rated” on the packaging or the cable itself.  Plenum rated cable, if a disaster happens, won’t put off poisonous smoke if it catches on fire.  Non plenum-rated cables, which are typically cheaper, might put off poisonous smoke, which is very much not good if problems happen.  If you pass the cable through a grate, make sure the edges of the grate the cable comes in contact with are taped with electrician’s tape to minimize chafing.  If you actually drill holes in any duct work, make sure that the hole is grommeted, and seal the hole between the grommet and the cable.  Don’t enter the supply ductwork right on top of your furnace.  Better yet, if you do use ductwork as part of your route, try to use the return ducts as much as possible over using the supply ducts.

      You might also be able to run the cable through a grommeted and sealed hole at the nearest window frame, up the outside wall of your house, and back in through another grommeted and sealed hole in the window frame into the room where you use your computer.  You would use “spiral-wrap” cable shielding for the outside portions of your run, and either nail, screw, or glue cable staples or saddles and zip-ties every few feet to support the outside cable run and keep it “out of trouble.”

      All of the above are suggestions based on the assumption that you (or your father) are possibly somewhat comfortable with “homeowner DIY” tasks but are not professional cable installers, and do not want to hire a network cable installer to do the job for you.  It also assumes that you don’t have a local friend to do all of this for you.  While I just noticed that I am much physically closer to you than I realized, I’m still south of I-80, and you’re still north of the “Cheddar Curtain,” even if you’re somewhat “Milwaukee-ish” or “Kenosha-ish.”  And when I was still doing this stuff routinely, I’d always had my employer buy the top quality tools I used, which does bugger-all for me now.

      Good luck with whatever you end up doing to fix things.

    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      wow just wow you guys gave me alot to think about and do! i love the support! @Desiderius Price we currently have 2 computers, my laptop, 5 cell phones, and my sister is connected thru her xbox in the playroom. my parents computers might be the ones getting the most access since they are connected by the ethernet cords. @Wilde_Guess I do pay the spectrum bill so i guess i can make a stink to them but its under my dads name. um as to my dad moving it from the basement to the office (or livingroom) he can barely walk at times. we do have other capable people who can do it but it is all up to my dad and hes very, very anal about stuff. this is a recent thing with fubar. we did get a 5G transmitter installed across the street like 4 months ago but i doubt it would wait til now to do anything. I am looking into everything you guys wrote and hopefully i can get this resolved soon. thanks

  3. I am seriously thinking quitting Walmart and going to amazon before Christmas hits! my team leads and coaches keep pulling BS on me. ugh! i was promised different hours and now the bs is that oh we have to go change the hours by hand because you are still under core scheduling (1-10). My Team lead hasn’t done it yet and i was supposed to start my new hours (12-9) December 1st! ugh! 

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @Deadman I’m getting the feeling that my attempt at sarcasm (ie, the water bottles) is getting misinterpreted as an endorsement of amazon workplaces… it’s not, it’s the opposite.  Obviously, if the other choice is starving I wouldn’t fault a person for choosing amazon.

    3. Deadman

      Deadman

      @Desiderius Price Oh I didn’t think it was an endorsement and figured it was sarcasm. I was just saying that some people (namely me) don’t have a job at all. I can appreciate that Walmart probably sucks as a work place, and that Amazon is also a terrible place to work. But for someone without a job, working at a terrible work place is a better option. Walmart might suck but it’s better than having no job.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Corrollary @Deadman  Walmart needs Amazon around to seem like a better place to work!  (And that’s saying something… achievement unlocked.)

  4. people think i am crazy for paying $43 for 4 bottles of Mountain Dew. I might be but i got my hands on that Canadian only Mountain dew! its pretty good!

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Next up, a Kinder smuggling ring organized via AFF?   Sounds like a story idea… :smartass:

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      For over $10 per bottle, it would have to be very good, even if those are two liter bottles.  We all have our own pleasures that others don’t appreciate, though.

    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      @manta2g ok ill poke at you next. lol

      @Desiderius Price NO MORE STORY IDEAS! i am still working on the last one!

       

  5. just got a call from my aunt about my grandma, she has shrunken colon, she is hallucinating because of her meds, and has the phenomena..mom is crying and i am starting to worry

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      thanks BW..i always have a hard time pronouncing that word and typing it lol

    3. Melrick
    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      *hugs to you too melrick*

  6. update on my grandma!: she has 3rd stage ovarian cancer...she will start cemo therapy next week :(

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      thanks..unsure about that..found out she has the flu too...:( but i am hanging in there

    3. sumeragichan
    4. Melrick

      Melrick

      Damn, I'm sorry.

  7. i wish there was a way to get ‘first bank of Christina’ off of my damn head so my sister can stop asking me for damn money! i need that money for work and i want a pikachu squishmellow lol

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      yep. both do have jobs but they are getting dicked around. something like they need to get paid more if they work different hours or something like that and its like the HR lady for them doesnt want to redo all the checks for them so they get paid the right amount or something. yeah. doesnt help that they have to move into my parents playroom for a month until they file taxes and then get a new place to live. that is the really fucked up part and i wont even get into that but ill just say it involves an uncle from the other side of the fam being a slum lord. *smh*

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      *blinks*

      You know, you could write this and no one would ever think it was actually real. And this is coming from someone who’s had a drink in vampire bars.

    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      you are making me really really want to write this. lol 

  8. So if its not one thing it is another. I now need to go get my left bottom wisdom tooth pulled. ugh! not looking forward to seeing an oral surgeon! at least my boss is gonna help me out with being off for a couple of days 

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      I wish, to this day I can’t stand cloves. The dentist pavlov’ed me pretty good.

    3. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Better an oral surgeon than a doorknob and a piece of string. :)

    4. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Sorry to read about your difficulties, and good luck getting things seen-too.  I had all four of mine removed in my early twenties, at my then employer’s insistence and expense.  No cloves were harmed in the removal of my wisdom teeth.  But I did get a small bottle of “enhanced” Tylenol to take for the pain afterwards, after driving back across town to where I was living then.  They had it done on a Thursday afternoon, IIRC, so I only had to miss one day of work.

  9. After so many years of filling out applications, I FINALLY GOT A JOB!!!! wooottttt I start tomorrow

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    3. WillowDarkling

      WillowDarkling

      So, how was the first (and second) day of work? :D

    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      Interesting Willow! I got my computer stuff done and was at the fitting rooms for an 1 1/3 taking phone calls

  10. heard my first christmas song at work yesterday but im not sad about it because it was “the grinch” song and it was a mood! lol I hope that is the only song they will play til after thanksgiving! lol 

  11. Taking a short break from it all...my grandmas issues got worse and we got to make a dash up north to see her...one last time....pray for me and my family please

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      Yes it is and thanks! Mom is taking it the hardest. I cry when i feel like it but i havent had a real good cry..i think that will happen when the actual funeral happens...

    3. WillowDarkling

      WillowDarkling

      my condolences, Kags. *hug*

    4. kagome26isawsome
  12. Anybody else feel like writing a story about their favorite charaters dealing with this virus or is it just me! a new BBT fic might be in the works!

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      i mean @BronxWench or @DemonGoddess wouldnt mind if i set up a prompt for others to try! 

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I don’t have a problem with it!

      Put something in the Writer’s Corner thread, like we do with the Hallowe’en and Holiday collections, but instead of setting it up as a collection, you can just challenge others to write a COVID-19 story in their favorite fandom, and maybe link back to the thread so others can read what they wrote.

    4. JayDee

      JayDee

      Good idea – need to self-isolate those stories for at least 14 days!

      “I’m… I’m not detecting any fever in fact, according to this you… you’re dead. You’re too cold, you have no pulse.”

      “I told you not to bother fucking testing me, cabron. I’m only here for a snack. Sleeve up.”

  13. 6 days till the start of my staycation! then off of work for a week. hope to use that time to start writing again! 

  14. so what does a 33 year old do on her birthday weekend when she doesn’t have to work?! DRINK!!! woooohoooo party time!!!! party starts Thursday with a shot of lemonchello!!!! (birthday is friday)

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      And it’s Thursday now!  Happy Birthday!  :birthday::bday::w00t::party::beer:

      Though, you could make it a kinky celebration.  :sex:

      :bounce::Banana::smileytriangle::chook::twirl:

    3. BronxWench
    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      thanks for all the early birthday wishes! lol i need my house keys back George. i don’t drive! so i will be safe there! lol 

  15. starting to look like a damn hillbilly with 3 teeth now missing. 

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Mine? I was a young kid, my dog on a leash pulled me over, face planted into over-sized gravel, snapping my front tooth.

    3. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      @InvidiaRedif you was talking about me, nothing epic just drank too much soda in highschool to cause me to lose my teeth. oh and when i was a small child i was accident prone. i tripped on a sidewalk and landed on my teeth so now i got buck teeth along with the crooked and missing teeth.

      @Desiderius Pricethey wanted to do a root canal and cap it but that would have cost me money i dont have so i had it pulled. but i might need to go back to get the right side done now cuz that side now hurts! i can never win!!!!

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @kagome26isawsome For me, the root canal was about … 5-6 years later.  As to finances… not sure, the parents handled that given my age at the time.

  16. woot! my trip to maine helped! I am writing updates! :D

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      And we didn't even need the bucket of pig's blood or the possessed car! :D

    3. JayDee

      JayDee

      Or so we thought. It's actually kagome2526's car who posted the above updates! :D

    4. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      The perils of classic cars. This is what happens when you fill them with the unleaded stuff. You get updates instead of performance. It's not like the good old days, I'm telling you... :D

  17. well its official!! I am 30 today! Hmmmm i don't feel any different!

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Hey, according to the tabloids, we're all supposed to look, act, and dress like we're 21 until two days before we drop dead. Or until we spork our own eyes out at the vision of our grandmothers wearing Kardashian Kouture.

    3. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      oh god! can i spork my eyes out now!

    4. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      ::passes titanium spork::

  18. HAPPY EASTER! *tosses out easter eggs*

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    2. KerantliDreamer

      KerantliDreamer

      *looks at candy and holds hand to mouth* too much...

    3. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      see what did i tell you kera! dont eat all the choco bunnies :P

    4. KerantliDreamer

      KerantliDreamer

      buh... buhh... It was nice at the time!

  19. so just wondering whats everyones costume for Halloween/Samhain?  I am going to be a crazy, old lady.

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      omg @JayDee i am actually not horrified….lol

      lol @BronxWench, any advice for me? lol

      i wanna see the cute kitty ears @WillowDarkling

      kinda sad you cant dress up @InvidiaRed, im glad my store manager lets us but i get to miss out on handing out candy!!! 

    3. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      On the bright side, I will be most likely the one to hand out candy :D@kagome26isawsome

    4. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      fun. we didnt get to hand out candy at work yesterday and there was no costume contest (even tho they advetised it). 

  20. being sick sucks...:(

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    2. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      Ive been sick since wensday, no worries BW! Midterms are over and thanks for the well wishes!

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      ::tucks kags in with tea and soup::

    4. kagome26isawsome
  21. YEA WE GOT SNOW!! XD

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Rogue, I'm always happy to send our snow elsewhere! :D

    3. kagome26isawsome

      kagome26isawsome

      lol we got enough snow here...7 inches is good enough for me! At least it isnt the 2 feet of snow we got in feburary last year!

    4. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      we did too! not as much as you have though

  22. gosh, i cant believe i am 35 now. scary! lol 

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    2. BronxWench
    3. InBrightestDay

      InBrightestDay

      I mean, I’m only a year behind you, so I know how you feel.  At any rate, happy birthday!

    4. kagome26isawsome
  23. I’m melting! 

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    2. Sinfulwolf

      Sinfulwolf

      I must admit… I believe this is pretty much the entire world’s status right now.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Well, with it hot, best to all get naked...wait, think that’s my stories :)

    4. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      I think that’s all our stories. :)

  24. forgot to post this but on may 21st at 5:05am, my sister had her baby! 3lbs 5oz 13 inches! Adeline Bernice Rose! PROUD AUNTIE! they are keeping Addy at the hospital til she reaches 7 pounds! 

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