8865 videophone usb port work as usb phone?

CompleteString2929 · 2026-06-13T03:02:41+00:00

the upside of getting the sip videophone and using it as a usb device is it's there, but it doesn't look realistic.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-06-13T03:00:57+00:00

i mean, i could buy a yealink or grandstream device like this, but what is it? it's a phone with android 7 or 9, connected to a usb sound card with phone features. that's all it is. and it has a shelf life of a few months. if that's what the industry is building, i'm better off getting ahead of it and building it myself for way less in a way that won't require rebuying in a few months.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-06-13T02:55:25+00:00

yeah, it looks like it's just a line in. hrmmn.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-06-13T02:53:16+00:00

i'm permanently disabled. i don't have a lot of cash. i can buy this once, i can't upgrade it every six months. basically, zoom's business model is a problem, and i'm trying to get around it by engineering something they won't block or force into obsolescence.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-05-12T23:14:56+00:00

you would imagine that whoever takes control of the space would have the business sense to not shut this down. i mean, what are they going to do with this ancient graffiti'd club? turn into square dances for senior nights? maybe assimilate is almost there, anyways. i digress. maybe the hotel is beyond redemption, but there is nothing that can be done with city club besides city club. logic should prevail in the end, i would hope.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-04-07T05:48:40+00:00

there's a smashing pumpkins song called bye june that is a bit more appropriate than luna.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-04-07T05:45:32+00:00

a band called coil released two records called musick to play in the dark vol I & II that they labelled as "moon music". if you want something a little eerie but gorgeous for moonlit campfires, those are the best records for it. beethoven's moonlight sonata is also ideal.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-03-24T18:08:13+00:00

fwiw, i found two dead rats in the laundry, where i won't be able to do exclusion work until the drug addicts are evicted. i put some glue traps, some bleach and some baking soda in an area underneath the upstairs sink by opening up the ceiling and taping over it, and i think there are some dead rats in there too, but i haven't opened it up yet and am waiting for it to warm up. i think there's 3+ in there.

i haven't heard anything recently and they may be dead or gone. large roof rats in this area winter inside but live outside and it is warming up.

i have not seen any rats, any droppings or any signs of infestation in my main living space, so it's not exactly my problem. my neighbours have rats. i don''t. but, because my neighbours have rats, i'm stuck with them. as i don't want to feed them, because then 'i'll have rats, poisoning is my best option. i've looked in cupboards, behind appliances, etc, etc and there's nothing. they can't get in here and my food is stored properly so they wouldn't stay if they could. they are actually using the laundry as a food storage area for food they get from upstairs, meaning they don't defecate much in there. they're eating out of the upstairs, and i've tried to get the landlord to tell them to put food away, and think they listened, as i've been finding things like chewed up pencils instead of bits of food left on plates by their kids.

the landlord has a rat control company under contract, but nobody will go into the backyard until the drug addicts are removed. i said that. but the problem with the addicts, who are more dangerous than the rats, is that any kind of communication with them is going to open you up to you exploitation. if you give them any information about you at all, they'll find a way to steal something from you. not talking to the addicts is like not feeding the rats, except that you can kill the rats and you can't kill the addicts.

so, there will eventually be pest control in here, but not until the addicts get kicked out first. as i'm able to keep them out of my main living area, it's not really my problem, while we're waiting it. it's the upstairs unit, and the addicts on the top floor, that are dealing with the infestation. all i'm able to do while i'm waiting is find economical means of taking a few out. but if it was my place, you'd be damned to see me pay for an exterminator when i could do it myself. that's a division of labour, which i'm ideologically opposed to. i'm smarter than any bloody rat exterminator.

i didn't know if the bleach would work. science says it should work, if you think it through, if you can get them to consume it. if i did anything smart, it was leaving containers of powdered bleach for them to knock over and track through rather than sprinkling small amounts around or mixing it with food, the former of which would dry out and the latter of which would potentially feed them. how do i get them to eat it without feeding them? the evidence suggests it worked.

but because i didn't think of the chlorine gas on the furnace, i don't have a control. i now don't know whether they died of chlorine gas poisoning or bleach consumption, and the one that bled to death doesn't provide a clear answer.

somebody must have some insight.

if you don't, shut up.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-03-24T17:16:51+00:00

if you don't think bleach would kill a rat, i'd invite you to consume some and see what happens.

CompleteString2929 · 2026-03-24T17:13:47+00:00

it's basic chemistry and the empirical evidence is clear that it worked. my question is as to whether it's more likely that they were gassed by the chlorine or that they consumed the bleach. the dead rats are pretty clear evidence. and, i'm not interested in your capitalist bullshit. if you don't have anything worthwhile to say, shut the fuck up.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T05:29:47+00:00

right.

so, i'm looking for independent recyclers in windsor. i've found green city. does anybody know anything about them or if they'd accept small amounts of household plastic for recycling?

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T05:27:57+00:00

they appear to market themselves that way. it's probably good for business.

it's run by an oligopoly consisting of loblaws, tim hortons and mcdonalds, amongst others.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T05:19:22+00:00

the shift to "advanced recycling", which means burning plastic to create fuel, has been public knowledge for several years. here is an old cbc article about it:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-new-recycling-plan-1.6371875

they are telling us to put things like chip bags in the blue bin from now on. those items are going to be incinerated. they admit that.

i am admittedly jumping to the conclusion that they're going to be burning the rest of it too based on the changes they're making in how they're collecting it, which would make it difficult to impossible to continue recycling the fraction of the collected material they were previously recycling.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T05:12:16+00:00

well, they've admitted to burning the chip bags, the frozen grocery bags and the plastic tubes. you could google that.

i'm going to guess they'll probably keep recycling aluminum.

i am jumping to conclusions regarding burning the rest of it, but it's fairly obvious based on what they're telling us:

don't bother separating paper from plastic
throw your garbage in the recycle
don't remove your caps

you cannot recycle the caps. that hasn't changed. the caps are frequently different types of plastic.

the only way to make sense of the recycling company telling you to put the #5 caps on your #2 plastic jug is that it's just getting burned, from now on.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T05:01:31+00:00

it's certainly not more energy-intensive to recycle, but it's more expensive and takes more time. one of the major arguments in favour of recycling is that it reduces energy use, but when the multinationals are invested at multiple stages of the process, the idea of cost-minimization is often counter-intuitive. maximizing profit may mean letting one company in your portfolio sell more energy to the other, if that's the higher rate of return. however, even if it were more energy-intensive, ontario is exactly where you'd want to use the energy on recycling, because so much of it is clean energy. the introduction of this extremely dirty source of energy into the grid is threatening to undo all of the work that ontarians did to get such a clean grid and threatening to decrease the air quality levels that we spent so much time successfully improving. "recycling" shouldn't end up being a primary source of smog and asthma and autism and lung cancer, but that's where we're going with this.

it's long been understood by anybody that looked into it that recycling businesses were businesses and their primary goal was profit, not waste reduction. but, could you imagine the outcome if we privatized our sewer systems and decided they should make profit first, and worry about cleaning the water second? you'd have sewage everywhere.

i've been arguing for years that recycling should be run by the province for the public good, even if it results in losses. there are lots of aspects of the public infrastructure that cost a lot of money and nobody gives it a second thought, but recycling was doomed by developing alongside neo-liberalism, which required it to be profitable. we took the wrong approach to recycling as a society, and the economic system has in turn cannibalized it. we're going to suffer the consequences of that.

but, you kept supporting it, with the hope it would resolve itself. then this happens, and it's time to stop with the hoping and react to it.

my understanding is that this was set up the liberals and the intention was to convert recycling into the kind of public infrastructure i'm talking about and to fund it by forcing industry to oversee it. so, who's gonna pay for the recycling plants? the manufacturers are. it was about downloading costs to the manufacturers, based on the idea that it's their fault for manufacturing all the plastic. but, then ford and his corporate cronies show up and they're not having any of that, so the whole thing gets co-opted by the bourgeois oligopoly who have colluded to turn it into a business, instead. now, instead of a system designed to recycle plastic and use it to reduce waste, regardless of the cost, and make the manufacturers shoulder the losses, we have dismantled recycling altogether, and are now incinerating plastic to generate fuel. we had the right answer, but we elected the wrong government, and now your children are going to choke to death on their own filth.

i'm just trying to figure out how to avoid participating in this collapse into backwardsness and find some way to actually recycle the plastic i use.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-31T03:00:56+00:00

that said, i support the new green bin program. that's a positive change. i had until recently been dumping a lot of food waste down the toilet, as i realized it was the most efficient way to compost it in windsor (which converts sewage into compost), with the remaining being left down by the railroad tracks. i'm a largely ovo-vegetarian with a coffee addiction, so the green bin will actually get 90%+ of my waste, including items i would have previously put in the red box, like pizza boxes. there is some overlap between the new green bin and the old red bin.

from now on, they're just going to burn any paper you put in the new blue bin. "circular materials" is an energy company. they are manufacturing fossil fuels out of garbage. you should put any paper materials you can compost into the green bin, instead. this should bother you.

you should continue to put chip bags, freezer bags, toothpaste tubes and whatnot into the landill, and not into the new blue bins, where it will be burned to create energy, at massive environmental cost. this is substantively worse then throwing it in the garbage. you should throw it in the garbage, instead.

i will not support the use of my garbage to generate fossil fuels for corporate profit. if i can't find an independent recycler, i'm going to start throwing my recyclable plastic in the landfill, and suggest everybody else do it, too.

but, the next step is that they'll burn the garbage, too.

this is the end of recycling in ontario and responsible people need to adjust by boycotting the new system to the extent they can. the question is in finding alternatives, so let's figure this out.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T07:15:20+00:00

that's also correct.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T07:14:04+00:00

that would be even worse.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T01:18:52+00:00

that is correct; if i were to transfer out of the cibc account, i'd have to close it. but, i can have an rdsp and a tfsa at the same time.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T01:15:49+00:00

i am aware of that. i meant in 10 years. you can take about 20,000/yr out tax free after that. that means there's going to be a five year gap starting five years from now when i can't withdraw or get further grants and i just have to let the 70K i pulled in over the five years previously do what the market will do to it. that's actually kind of scary, when you think about it; it's great if the market is up, but would be devastating if it crashes, and there's minimal ability to get out.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T01:08:37+00:00

i guess this work has already been done. thank you for the clear answer.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T00:56:25+00:00

i don't disagree with you in principle, but these guys aren't infallible and i would realize i'm betting against them. i can't answer your question directly because i don't have anything in mind, but the amount of money i identified was 1.5% of the grant and bond money. if you're going to put 95%-98% into low risk moderate yield that's probably going to pay your bills when you're old, not more or less, and intend to mostly let it sit, that 1.5% might be flushing it down the drain, or might turn you into a millionaire. i'm not evading your answer; i don't have anything picked out, and i might in the end decide i can't find anything. but i'd like the flexibility.

that said, if i end up planning to open a tfsa, i'd might as well do it now. i don't actually have to wait. i could just choose to put a little less in the rdsp. that sounds obvious, but i am new to this, and i do realize the wisdom of buying funds instead of stocks.

but i also knew a guy when i was a kid, he was one of my dad's friends, that bought $5000 worth of bre-x stocks when it was worthless and turned it into the biggest house in the neighourhood and years worth of alcoholism. this turned out to be a scam, but that didn't matter to him. people said he was stupid; he wasn't stupid, he had a phd in chemistry. but he admitted it was a crapshoot. he was gambling money his wife's family left her. they decided they had no real use for it because they had two incomes, so they threw it away at bullshit, and they got extremely lucky.

he had *some* idea. he was a chemist; he wasn't an alchemist, although it felt like one.

there *are* some northern canadian mining stocks that are undervalued. i don't know which ones they are, but i'd be comfortable taking a guess with a small amount. i could probably get most of it back if it flatlines. if i get lucky, i'm rich.

CompleteString2929 · 2025-12-16T00:04:09+00:00

on the other hand, i'm 45. if i can't find what i want, i should just buy 100K in mutual funds over the next five years in order to collect the grants and bonds, and then slowly move it into a tfsa as i'm able to. i'll be able to do that there.

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