“We were like this close” 🤏

It reminds me of the Griswold’s neighbors in the Christmas Vacation movie, Elaine and Ponytail

Cheese frisbee!

Well if they do that, I’ll draw at least 2 dicks pointed towards his mouth on each one that I handle

Bandcamp is great for music downloads

It depends, sometimes you can “buy” digital ownership from these places in the form of DRM-free files. If you are able to download the DRM-free file and make a reliable backup of it, then I could call that actual ownership. This is how I approach my music and ebook libraries. I don’t do subscriptions for streaming anything but TV.

You can even buy books directly from publishers. Recently I wanted a hardback copy of a book and it was out of stock, backordered, or absurdly high priced on all the big popular online places. Ended up ordering it for MSRP from Penguin Random House direct.

1. To get a camera with RTSP or ONVIF (video stream output) support, you look at the specifications of cameras that are available for sale. Web search engines should be helpful for this pursuit.

2. To get the surveillance functions of your camera streams (recording, alerts, etc) you install software on the Raspberry Pi that aggregates and records / analyzes the camera feeds. Zoneminder, Shinobi, and Motioneye are some examples of that kind of software.

It’s not that hard, and you only need cameras and the raspberry pi.

Pretty much any wifi camera that supports standards like RTSP or ONVIF can be made to work with open source camera stuff on the Pi. Also you can store the videos on the RPi’s storage (USB or SD)

The eyes and the groin should be the first targets according to Bruce Lee

Crypto mining on GPUs is pretty much dead. According to the “What to mine” charts a 4090 can only make about $1/day on the best shitcoin available to mine on GPUs. Factoring in the cost of those cards, it’s like 20 years to break even on that.

I think the big deal with GPUs now is AI processing. AI is burning down the rainforest now with megawatt hunger instead of crypto.

Yeah WTF is up with that? My car does the same thing with a USB drive full of songs. It will literally play the same “shuffled” sequence over and over every time you drive. I have to take out the drive and change the files on it sometimes to make it actually Shuffle the songs’ order and that’s too much BS

Many are actually engineered to take the lives of animals, when you factor in the design of a hunting rifle and its hunting ammo. Those designs allow for the hunter to fill their freezer with high quality meat for far less cost than it could be purchased.

Pistols are generally designed for killing people though. Pistols are used more often in any kinds of homicide than any other type of firearm, yet strangely enough most modern gun control legislation tends to be focused on rifles.

Same in the US too. LiFEPO4 storage batteries are available cheaper than lead-acid for equal or even higher capacity.

Until the trumptard tariffs wreck our markets at least

Sodium Ion batteries would be a better weight compromise than going to shitty old lead batteries. The new sodium batteries have almost no downsides but aren’t quite as energy dense as lithium types. So they might be great in a large vehicle that’s already going to be heavy, not so much in a smaller car. Saving the lithium stuff for smaller things is best (phones, laptops, etc)

One solution to that problem is to close YouTube on your device and do something else with your time.

I’m wondering about the cost to the server’s resources / bandwidth to serve up unlimited random junk also.

But kudos to the developer for making this anyway

The most annoying phone thing to me is Zoomers / teens / old people / anyone with videos and music playing from their shitty little phone speakers in public. A lot of kids seem to be phone and tablet addicts and don’t comprehend the noise they’re making is bothering others.

But a few notification sounds is nothing. It’s all about the quantity and duration and volume. Personally I don’t put my phone on Silent or Vibrate unless I’m in a quiet public place like a movie or an office - but I also control all notifications with a heavy hand, not allowing any bullshit apps notification permission unless it’s an important direct communication.

Coke is shit now, fascism soda. Relationship ended with Coke, Pepsi is new best soda.

Did you bring that up because it’s such a good analogy for the Trump presidency? I feel like I’ve been inside a version of that story since about 2020