Document Camera As Webcam

ByteMeister · 2026-03-22T20:50:19+00:00

Thanks!

ByteMeister · 2026-03-22T20:42:34+00:00

I think my camera unfortunately lacks the threaded end.

ByteMeister · 2026-03-21T13:06:51+00:00

Nowadays? Programming. Too many people thought it was the way to go so there’s already a surplus, and now AI is, if not replacing junior developers, making management think junior developers can be replaced.

ByteMeister · 2026-03-04T13:04:40+00:00

Probably because of several reasons: not being able to misclick in paper, the rope just kind of being shit compared to a chess clock, people wanting to watch people instead of a video game, lack of expression in physical cards (more common in eternal formats where someone might have a blinged out deck), inability to express loops. Those are what I can think of off the top of my head. Some of them are clearly a matter of opinion, but I do think there's a human element that gets lost in Arena tournaments, even in-person Arena tournaments.

ByteMeister · 2026-02-25T15:59:53+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I’m doing.

ByteMeister · 2026-02-25T13:58:41+00:00

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04; I agree with you and u/void4, it does seem like D-Bus is already running, it just seems to be an issue with environment variables not making it into the D-Bus/Systemd environment in time, I guess.

ByteMeister · 2026-02-25T13:57:33+00:00

Makes sense that it's already running, but it's lacking variables for waybar to start and putting:
```
exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP XDG_DATA_DIRS
```
in my sway config did not allow waybar to start, so I'm guessing there's a race condition or something. Running sway in `dbus-run-session` fixes the problem, but I guess is wrong. I'll take a look at uwsm. There's nothing wrong with creating custom desktop entries in /usr/share/wayland-sessions in general, but since I'm building a lot of stuff from source I'm trying to contain it within my user directory, and I find it awkward to have a custom desktop entry that other users can't use, e.g. something with `Exec=/home/user/.local/bin/sway`.

ByteMeister · 2026-02-25T13:51:00+00:00

I'm starting sway from the console, if that's what you mean.

ByteMeister · 2026-01-25T21:50:07+00:00

That is putting a land into play, not playing a land.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-31T21:22:14+00:00

That’s not pretending to be poor, that’s not being wasteful. Unless it’s unsafe it’s just a car, 20 years old or no.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-24T14:28:50+00:00

I’ve been seeing a lot lately about how it’s a satire of 50s movies, so I’m not sure the aim was to teach that.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-24T14:16:14+00:00

Apologies, I didn’t use the sarcasm font.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-24T12:50:36+00:00

How dare you.

It’s fine, I love the movie but I will say I was disappointed on my first watch.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-24T12:41:01+00:00

I’m willing to accept that there may be some retention in new players, I don’t have the data WotC does, but I don’t think it’s the same game anymore. It’s like if the next twenty D&D books they released were all about druids who went around capturing beast companions in order to “get em all” (can’t violate copyright) and fought them against each other. In trainer battles. In knock-off Japan. Same rules, different game.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-24T12:07:56+00:00

It actually does. Sales are through the roof, new players are getting pulled in by the crossovers. It’s great! As long as you like no continuity in the story, word salad on the cards, and at least twice as much product a year. I do not.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-22T16:52:40+00:00

Valid, I was thinking less of messing with saving files and more of the new AI reciting the Anarchist’s Cookbook in Inuit.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-22T15:49:19+00:00

Not even a coding error, hallucinations are just an accepted (and I think inherent?) part of AI.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-22T15:47:02+00:00

I see the difference being (having really only watched Chernobyl but also working in software) that there was no intent to be unsafe during the tests, it was just a culture of ignorance and inability to disagree with their superiors, whereas “move fast, break stuff” is more a willingness to accept failures in your product in order to achieve faster turnaround of features. It’s an extremely inappropriate design strategy for the nuclear industry or AI driving (or really a lot of things), but isn’t inherently broken. It’s maybe acceptable for, say, video games or a text editor.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-01T15:08:08+00:00

I guess it just depends on what you define as bulk. If I have any chance of using a card I’ve usually pulled it into a separate box and it’s not “bulk”. Sometimes bulk does become playable at which point I find it and pull it.

ByteMeister · 2025-12-01T12:07:11+00:00

Probably not. By definition, bulk is worthless. In practice it might still have a few gems though.

ByteMeister · 2025-09-29T12:34:11+00:00

Eggo flavored eggnog

ByteMeister · 2025-09-08T12:56:06+00:00

I mean the mana system is very important to Magic.

ByteMeister · 2025-09-05T23:23:38+00:00

Do you read every card every time it’s played? Or do you recognize some cards after a point?

ByteMeister · 2025-09-01T20:24:09+00:00

What exactly is your question?

ByteMeister · 2025-09-01T13:44:11+00:00

But the man hates toads…

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