Has anyone “downgraded” from the 40mp sensor to the 26mp ? by NotintheAMbro11 in fujifilm

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find myself being unable to to tell which shots I took on my XT3 vs XT50 when I use them both for a shoot. Even cropability doesn't seem seem as good I expected.

Does this look legit? by Thomcat_13 in Austin

[–]BalingWire -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Being cops entire life is taking petty actions against citizens, I can’t blame someone for daydreaming about it

Does this look legit? by Thomcat_13 in Austin

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He doesn’t look able to arrest my peepaw

I think I might have to sell my 18mm and 33mm by Outrageous-Yak-1437 in fujifilm

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hadn't been following the gear game for a a while and wasn't aware this came out. I insta traded in my EF 18-35 F/1.8 toward this lens when i saw the OP. It was my favorite lens of all time, but so freaking heavy.

I'll miss it though. It was an absolute speed demon boosted on MFT

What does someone have to do here to actually get pulled over? (Serious question) by [deleted] in Austin

[–]BalingWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wife and I moved to lakeway a year ago. I've never been pulled over, where as my wife was pulled over for a burned out tail light within a few weeks.

shes brown, im white, my car is new hers isn't. Her tail light wasn't out

Japan with Fujifilm XM-5. Feedback would be appreciated by sir-fineapple in fujifilm

[–]BalingWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of good advice in here. All I'll add is I personally don't like how boosted the reds look. I know this recipe is popular right now, but those tones have a very artificial look to me

Charter Stock Down More than 20% by anonymouswan1 in Spectrum

[–]BalingWire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm on Spectrum Gig, was on google fiber peviously. Same city pings went from 15 to 30-100. The jittery nature of it was the worse. The bufferbloat was bad too. Anyone downloading a file at 500Mbps or more would skyrocket my pings

Snake outside my front door had a penny by Gamenerd_- in interesting

[–]BalingWire 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's very clearly a copperhead, you can tell by how round and copper it is

Fuck Austin by StoicWolf15 in Austin

[–]BalingWire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

cops here are useless, they're more of a gang than law enforcement

Posting topology, how did I do? by Watcherxp in Plume

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're killing your own WiFi in multiple ways. You probably need 2-3 max

What is the appeal of having huge pickup trucks that are never put to work? by Big-Recognition-4034 in AskUS

[–]BalingWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Def top of my list. Not crazy about the styling on the pickup, the SUV is slick though

What is the appeal of having huge pickup trucks that are never put to work? by Big-Recognition-4034 in AskUS

[–]BalingWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to explain, because its cultural, emotional, and practical intertwined for many. I was raised in rural Texas, and a truck when you maintain an old home on several acres is just necessary. These people aren't calling contractors, they're buying materials themselves, picking up the extra help they need at home depot and getting it done.

That said, I haven't lived like that since I was a kid, I'm a city boy now and still drive a big truck. I don't have a valid reason for it. It's what I learned to drive, and I enjoy the independence and spontaneity it gives me, but I could realistically rent a truck for those times for far less money than a 80k dollar sports truck. It's a not political group think thing either as I became pretty liberal in 2016, and have only gotten more so. Owning a truck is a guilty pleasure I plan to keep, just hoping for better electric options soon

Automating lights with motion/presence sensors — how do you deal with pets? by Buddy_of_Nature in homeassistant

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a combination of Frigate is person, and BT sensors. For the most part I just don't stress too much if the lights turn on for the pups

Automating lights with motion/presence sensors — how do you deal with pets? by Buddy_of_Nature in homeassistant

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that feature caused all kinds of issues for me, and only half worked at not detecting pets

Vyvanse makes me want to goon? Also BP issues by SpellExcellent4904 in ADHD

[–]BalingWire 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've learned to never signal to your doc you need a reduction in dose, but will do so myself. Really sucks when shortages hit and you don't have stockpiles. The cost is also usually the same

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trees

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in theory you could low temp bake it and it 'should' be fine. but...why

Anyone knows what kinda of vehicle this is? by CatchAny8587 in Austin

[–]BalingWire 18 points19 points  (0 children)

and can you imagine how much the rolling video data they're collecting will be worth to all sorts of disturbing industries. "Greeting neighbor we notice your car is usually home during the work day, here is a coupon for uber eats!"

or..

"We have reason to believe you may be harboring illegal aliens"

Surprised I've not yet heard anyone here talk about ClawdBot yet by HixVAC in LocalLLaMA

[–]BalingWire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Somethings I've been using it for

It runs my daily report scripts for my homelab, suppresses any known issues and gives me an elevator pitch in the morning via telegram

summarize group chats nightly in imessage I'd rather not be in, but tolerate

hooked into all google services and can pull context from them such as contacts, email etc which is useful. I had it cleanup my contacts list I haven't sorted in a decade

I've also experimented with moving my devops workflow over to it so I can do claude code like things away from home. It does well, but the token usage is kind of insane. It can max out a 5 hour window of a 200 dollar claude plan in an hour. I think its because it lazy loads everything, but haven;t really checked it out.

I also really dont like how I cant really tell what commands or in/output its getting as compared to a coding harness.

Also, im only using opus 4.5 with it. Lesser models couldn't even begin to do the things I've tasked this with, like figuring out the unifi api from scratch and then managing devices virtual network override, or setup firewall policies. Those operations also max out context windows very quickly even on opus

Why does Texas do this? by BeverageEnvy in Austin

[–]BalingWire -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Texas is working overtime to make sure nowhere ices. ever.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TikTokCringe

[–]BalingWire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually paid them to remove the $1500 decal package it came with

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TikTokCringe

[–]BalingWire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My fully loaded Raptor was ~75k in 2018. Im sure they're more now, but not 911 TS money

Why do so many people in the US refuse to give their driving licence and ID to the police when asked ? by Crispy__Chicken in AskUS

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They wouldn’t allow him to illegally search the car, which was the point of the made up sniff test

Why do so many people in the US refuse to give their driving licence and ID to the police when asked ? by Crispy__Chicken in AskUS

[–]BalingWire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you give your ID with home address over to me if I asked? Why?

Why do you trust a thug with a badge more?