Oh man, you’re missing out on OLED in a basement though. It’s so fantastic for dimly lit evironments that I’d take the smaller size any day, and just sit a little closer. LCDs, on the other hand, look pretty terrible in a really dark room.

The only thing that would make me pause is if you’re trying to squeeze a big family around the TV. In that case, it would make sense to get a bigger one, so everyone can sit farther back without compromised viewing angles.

TVs are fantastic monitors.

It sounds reasonable to not want to pay for basically a small computer inside the TV.

But in practice, its not that expensive of a component. And TV volumes are so high that they’re bigger and cheaper and higher quality than an equivalently priced monitor, anyway.

Hence, while I’m fine with the monitors I have, I’m never buying a “monitor” again. It just makes no financial sense when I can get a 40" 4K TV with 120hz VRR instead, that happens to work fantastically as a streaming box too.

In the name of original fediverse content, here’s a little of what I took last year:

Click to see rest:

Anyway, my takeaway is that big cats are just… housecats. Unless they’re guarding a cub/kill, they couldn’t care less about tourists, and just lie around and do cat things pretty much like OP’s photo.

EDIT

I offer no context:

If SDV was made as a “walking simulators” with decision making, would people still like it?

…I would.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but as another an example, I got into Knights of the Old Republic (the Star Wars MMO). But all that stiff grinding just wasn’t worth the rare view, music, or interesting character arc.

And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that more and more gameplay feels “pointless” like that. My brain can engross itself in Satisfactory setups, but after like a day I stop when I realize I’m grinding all alone. I get into Age of Wonders or Stellaris until around mid game, when AI civs get too dumb to be convincing.

So yeah. I think there’s a grain of truth there. I adore SDV, but some aspects do feel like “chores” just to see the passion and writing they gate.

Where are all the “foreign interference!!!” Conservatives now?

Tucker Carlson and his lot are all in on this.

This is an important distinction: foreign means “foreign.” Venezuela and Canada are considered to be the US’s back yard, hence fair game. This is what anti interventionist MAGA has been pushing and pushing for.

There are already phone apps that try to do this with WiFi/Bluetooth scanning, object detection, red “filters” and so on.

Theoretically, it’d be really cheap to make a tiny “detector” camera; maybe a Bluetooth earbud looking thing on one ear? Every existing tiny camera can pick up infrared if you just take off and change the filter, and your phone can run tiny object detection algos with almost no power.

The problem is mass adoption.

Reverse image search, friend:

google reverse image search

Tineye

Chasing down those links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IronFrontUSA/comments/cs9hfi/a_journalist_for_the_blaze_took_this_photo_of_the/

The title implies a site called “The Blaze” posted the photo. I haven’t found it yet, but it’s probably somewhere here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190819161337/https://www.theblaze.com/

And of course, not a single post linked their source.

So the takeaway is:

• It’s not AI.

• It’s mid 2019, at the newest.

• To all the jerks that post without linking a source: I want to punch you in the face. This is why we can’t have nice things.

And yes. I’m looking at you, OP.

Yeah. Lemmy is kind of crazy. For all we complain about Reddit being filled with clickbait and echo chambers, we kind of replicated it here.

Like, I feel I’m pretty extreme/progressive, yet I don’t feel like I’m in the same reality as /c/politics.

It’s pretty remarkable to have an organization that China and the EU reject, that other big powers respond with “uh, I’ll think about it.” Most who accept are lead by demagogue attention seekers, like Argentina, Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, Israel, Kazakhstan and so on.

…To be fair, it is interesting that Qatar, Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, the UAE, and such are onboard. I would assume they have a genuine interest in Gaza humanitarianism.

The problem with Davinci I encountered was that very common encodings like x264 or x265 don’t work with the community edition and I can’t justify getting the pro version from an economic standpoint

vapoursynth

It’s basically video editing in Python, that can be piped directly to ffmpeg or whatever encoder you want.

…It’s finicky. And poorly documented.

It’s not fast and does a lot on CPU, but it’s extremely powerful. As an example, I have a script for transcoding high ISO footage that, frankly, blows Davinci’s filters out of the water. And I have another for fixing up an old DVD that I just couldn’t have done with Davinci.

As a real life example, the Canon 600mm F11 telephoto lens should be awful, on, say, a 32MP crop sensor R7. That’s insane pixel density somewhere in the ballpark of this Fuji.

…But look at real life shots of that exact combo, and they’re sharp as hell. Sharper than a Sigma at F6.3.

The diffraction limit is something to watch out for, but in reality, stuff like the lens imperfections, motion blur, atmospheric distortion and such are going to get you first. You don’t need to shoot at F4 on this thing to make use of the resolution, even if that is the ideal scenario.

See: https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/hyperfocal-distance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocal_distance

But TL;DR: for distant landscapes on a wide field of view lens, you can shoot at F5.6 and everything is in focus. I even do this at F1.4 on my lowly aps-c camera.

Put more concretely, the hyperfocal distance for a 35mm f5.6 lens on a medium format camera is 5 meters. Everything in the distance can be in focus.

For portraits, you want background blur anyway.

And if you’re doing anything else on a medium format camera, you’re kind of insane, heh.

Davinci resolve has acceleration support on Linux, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

Doubly so with vapoursynth.

Honesty, Windows sucks too. As sad as it is, I color grade some video on my iPhone because it just works with HDR, in basically any format.

I’m in your boat.

I don’t play anything anymore, basically. Even “nostalgia” doesn’t feel fun because the dopamine hit from figuring the mechanics/lore out has passed.

My advice: co-op.

Playing a cooperative game with mates is fun. As an example, I got into Baldurs Gate 3 with family; never would have gotten so engrossed without them, and it sped up combat.

We started an Age of Wonders 4 game. One of them bounced off because it was too slow waiting for each other’s turns, but it was enough to get me engrossed with its systems and lore.

As for real life?

Gamification is a freaking menace.

Organizer apps are great. Apps/reminders that beat you in the head are excellent. But I’ve had just about enough manipulation from my phone, thank you.

Sony’s modern OLEDs are sick. There are a few between my family, and they have the best processing I’ve seen, they decode massive bluray rips no problem, and native options for a clean ad-free UI.

Why TF aren’t people buying them?

It’s because social media is toxic.

Look at the view counts below conservative posts. That is why there is no counter; the game is rigged.

Good!

Even if you’re a climate change denier, fact is Ford has to figure out cheap EVs anyway. ICE costs pretty much bottomed out, unless you’re talking about a generator for an EV drivetrain.

Yyep. The Nazi gambit.

Just a little nationalist fascism to get the economy going.

Voters seem to always think “well, unlike the last hundred times, it might be alright this time?”

And, in practice, take forever, don’t really promote it, and make it look like no one at Facebook has ever laid eyes on a video game.

Oh and add to that stupidity the fact that almost every company refused to keep working from home after the pandemic

Including Facebook.

Zuck loves a bandwagon.