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deranger ,

What is it doing what LTE hasn't done?

Bandwidth. I’ve got faster upload on 5G than my home cable internet. It’s a massive speed increase vs LTE, and I’ve not had issues for a long time.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way ( www.reuters.com )

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....

deranger ,

I hope there’s a blancoliro or Mentour Pilot analysis of this aviation mishap. I’m guessing spatial disorientation or controlled flight into terrain.

deranger ,

That’s what got Kobe.

deranger ,

Relax, close your eyes, fall asleep. Not much to it other than making sure you're not in a position where your arm will fall asleep or neck gets cramped. There's no secret to it, you just go to sleep.

deranger ,

I feel extremely lucky to fall asleep in 5 minutes very regularly. It takes my wife a few hours to fall asleep, we’re polar opposites in that aspect. Maybe it’s genetic, my grandpa and father both fell asleep quite easily.

deranger ,

Instead of requiring weatherization, they allowed power plants to opt out.

Lawmakers on the Senate Business and Commerce Committee were frustrated that the new law allows natural gas companies to opt out of weatherization requirements if they don’t voluntarily declare themselves to be “critical infrastructure” with the state.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/28/texas-power-grid-loophole/

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

deranger ,

I spun up a Plex server for myself, built a NAS, then started inviting friends and family. If I can get multiple users to drop their subs, I’ll be making a larger impact. Fuck streaming subscriptions, I’m pirating content until I die. Now I can pirate for multiple users 🏴‍☠️

deranger ,

One of those -arrs can be setup to download automatically when someone adds a movie or show to their watchlist.

deranger ,

I run triple LCDs at work and an ultrawide OLED at home. I prefer triple for productivity because of W11 window snapping, you can divide the three screens up really well in no time. For games I prefer the ultrawide, the unbroken picture and smooth curve are great.

deranger ,

This feels a bit anachronistic. Email attachment size limitations were strict in the 90s, bandwidth was limited, and video codecs sucked. I don’t have strong memories of people forwarding realplayer videos. I don’t consider gifs and flash to be video, maybe that’s it?

deranger ,

Those were the golden days of infecting people with Sub7. No antivirus, no firewalls. I’d get someone on AOL instant messenger by social engineering them to try out my “screensaver”, then pull their AIM login and buddy list, hit up someone from their buddy list, rinse and repeat.

deranger ,

I picked up an AW3423DWF for $800, originally $1099 MSRP. No regrets, perfect price to performance ratio for me.

deranger ,

It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing. There’s a sick conversation with an AI in a side room in the last level that is one of the best video game dialogues IMO.

Tap for spoiler

  • JC Denton: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.

  • AI: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.

  • JC Denton: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

  • AI: The need to be ovserved and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

  • JC Denton: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

  • AI: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.

  • JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.

  • AI: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

  • JC Denton: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.

  • AI: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands.

deranger ,

3 - The Road

Also what I was going to recommend :)

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

deranger ,

Not sure if this is exactly good news, but Epic Games doesn’t own it anymore, it was sold to Songtradr.

deranger ,

Still is, for now. I run a small vaporwave tape label via Bandcamp. No significant changes under Epic Games or Songtradr that I’ve noticed. That could change, though.

deranger ,

Sure, https://mysticspools.bandcamp.com/

Most of it is pretty fun- find music, reach out to artist, make a few tapes. We just do small runs of 25-100 tapes depending on how much will sell. The worst part IMO is order fulfillment, you either pay a third party a boatload or you DIY and packing 100 cassettes is a bit of a drag. Coming up with good art if the artist doesn’t already have something is quite difficult. The label is on a short hiatus for that reason, but I think we’ll do some more tapes now that some labels have dried up. There’s waxing and waning periods when it comes to these little micro labels, and I can tell people are feeling the economic squeeze.

The most fun part is mastering to tape and dubbing. I’ve got a Nakamichi Dragon and 3x NAD 6300, and I’ve dubbed probably 500-600 tapes across them all. Dunno what it is about tapes, but I really like em.

deranger ,

Insane “meh” for movies IMO.

Perfect black is the best thing for movies, especially dark ones. Of all the content I’d want to see on OLED, movies are near the top. No way I’d massively downgrade to an IPS LCD for movies.

LG B6 w/ over 12k hours on it, probably 6k hours of just movies. Completely spoiled me, I can’t switch back.

deranger ,

Via ferrata in Italy is so much better. First off, I don’t even think it’s safe to have more than one person on a segment at a time - when you fall, you slide down to the previous anchor into the wall. You also get fucked up, worse than regular mountain climbing, because the fall factor can go way over 2 and you can hit whatever metal stuff is on the wall.

deranger ,

I’m certain this travel was “unofficial” and not cleared with the correct people. I had to go talk to the security officer for an interview / safety brief and a signature when I was stationed in Italy and wanted to visit a friend in Budapest. No fucking way they’d let someone go to Russia right now.

deranger ,

It’s not like BMW locking heated seats, a trivial feature, to nickel and dime the owner out of $300.

Yes it is; it’s exactly that.

Reducing the battery capacity severely alters the value of the car possibly dropping it into the range of more budget conscious buyers.

Or they could not reduce it for the same production cost. No money is saved by tasking an employee to develop the battery nerf.

There are benefits too. Less wear on the battery by not using its whole range, faster charging to “100%,”

There are no benefits. You could simply unplug at 80%.

deranger ,

Then decrease the cost. Nerfing the battery benefits no consumer. Make maximum charge level a user controlled setting (up to 100%) and you’ve gained any benefits you’ve mentioned in this thread (faster charging due to lower capacity, less wear) without fucking the consumer over.

deranger ,

That’s correct, but you could do this just as easily by allowing the user to toggle a “battery endurance” charge that stops at 80-90%. My friends GM EV does this, she uses it during the work week as a full charge isn’t necessary for commuting needs.

deranger ,

It’s only cheaper because they inflated the price from a limitation they created. There is absolutely no reason to limit the battery capacity in software in this manner other than to create an artificial divide to upsell people on the “”higher”” capacity.

deranger ,

There is no “larger battery”. It’s an identical battery with different software limitations on the charge level.

No consumer benefits from artificial limitations being imposed on them like this. It exists solely to extract more money from consumers. The fact people are defending this blows my mind.

deranger ,

They must have determined that it was cheaper overall to do it this way rather than physically rip the batteries out of the vehicles or they wouldn't do it.

Or, you know, just keep the capacity the same and lower the price without imposing a battery nerf. It costs the same to make. The only reason the nerf exists is to extract money from consumers.

deranger ,

None of those other behaviors you describe are any less shitty. “Look, Tesla is doing the same shitty things as other corporations, they’re not so bad!” What a terrible argument.

For the record I pirate my content for the reasons you describe; I also don’t fuck with AAA games with day 1 DLC or paywalled content. Those get pirated or purchased on a heavy discount later.

Got any compelling argument as to why this software nerf should exist?

deranger ,

If they can sell the same battery, just one has a software limitation, they can just forgo the limitation altogether and sell full battery capacity models at the reduced limited capacity price. The only reason this limitation exists is to juice customers and it’s bullshit. They are going out of their way to make a product worse that costs them exactly the same regardless of if the limitation is there or not. You cannot convince me that the software limitation they impose is anything but hostile to consumers.

deranger ,

You don’t want an encounter with Delta P

https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0

deranger ,

Check out the Byford Dolphin incident if you really want to hear about a terrible professional diving accident. A whole guy was sucked through a tiny slit in a fraction of a second due to massive delta P.

deranger ,

I do this on Windows, it works fine. Never had an issue with mass uploads / initial library sync. I have a large library of 30k tracks, mostly lossless ALAC.

I switched to Plex / PlexAmp though, it’s better and I don’t have to pay a subscription.

deranger ,

What is the trailer park of soups?

deranger ,

Big fan of media player classic / MPC-HC for many years now.

deranger , (edited )

I’ve never stopped getting updates.I’ve been using K-Lite Codec Pack since Kazaa lite was relevant. It has always come with updated MPC-HC. Looks like the GitHub is here:

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

MPC-HC with madVR and a beefy GPU for the upscaling algorithms is godlike.

deranger ,

I’d like one example where MRSA has been used for bioterrorism. Never heard of it when I was a medical lab tech in the military, nor as a medical lab scientist later in my life. Bioterrorism is extremely rare, and MRSA is a poor choice for a biological weapon.

E. coli O157:H7 would be a better choice, or Vibrio, or really any of the enteric pathogens introduced to food or water supplies.

deranger ,

Salmonella is not MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The point I was trying to make is Staph isn’t a good bioterrorism agent. It doesn’t spread like weaponized anthrax, it’s not particularly deadly, and it can’t be spread by food/water like the enteric pathogens. It’s just not suitable or we’d have researched the fuck out of it at USAMRIID.

deranger ,

Airman, not plural

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