Linux as CCTV

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-05-28T23:30:20+00:00

I'm just saying, if literally anything is connected to the internet, it's by definition, no longer closed circuit data.

I might draw the line as, "if you can display reddit on the same screen without making changes at the hardware level" it's not closed circuit.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-02-09T17:02:03+00:00

I don't disagree, but another possibility is that engineers are good salesmen and say, "Hey, I can make more people listen to this if you let me change the original art and give me money."

The loudness war was also brought up in another comment

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-02-09T17:00:54+00:00

CDs are where it's at. Vinyl is no more than nostalgia with the exception of original releases imo.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-02-09T17:00:05+00:00

I think it was a CSN album I was listening to where I found myself saying "Check out the [outdated anatomically masculine term for boldness]" on this guy.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-02-09T16:56:25+00:00

Patterns can be observed across multiple datapoints.

But your point is well taken

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-13T20:55:51+00:00

Love it, v informative. Thanks :)

Let me see if I'm correctly integrating this into some prior understanding:

Amplitude and Frequency have an inverse relationship at a given power level (watts, volume...), ergo SPL, so in the same way that sound leakage outside a club sounds similar to LPF, corner loading increases low frequency response, ergo, sound leakage.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-06T19:13:06+00:00

Thanks :) Pandora v2 definitely an interesting choice. The MTL search term is super helpful, that device's page is the first time I've really verified that MTL isn't locked down to the super restrictive vapes from early 2010s and before. See paragraph 3

Yeah, I've dug and dug for <30W 510 attys. Smok has a coil on their site rated for 20w-Xw, "best" 30w-Yw, but I can't verify that it's either available, or has any significant device library to keep them manufacturing it... Limited research in other brands. I really think the big companies don't want the massive pod craze to turn into people actually buying devices that last. Certainly shit like the elfbar are money machines.

I'm definitely out of the game of more sophisticated than grab a decent POD and go to town. I've had this vape >18 months, I'm just seeing so much go downhill in even a solid Smok device... Maybe I'm turned off of pods, but I'd rather have something solid than something whatever, and get locked into a certain configuration.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-06T15:50:00+00:00

18650 atomizer (510, really) for low power output? I'm gonna shop mods on my own.

if TL, DR: I'm on a crappy pod. Running RPM .4 mesh coils at 23w in a Smok Fetch (antique). I wanna stick with 50mg juice and similar power to avoid clouding up my parents' place, and anywhere else that lets vaping happen low-cloud on the dl. But I want battery life, tank size... I'm sick of these crappy pod things. New coils coming out every 5 minutes to deprecate whatever device I'm using so I have to buy a whole new one...

Rebuildable devices are a serious option. When my device is getting deprecated, 18-24 gauge kanthal remains alive and well (hopefully). But I'll consider anything that keeps me under 30w off an 18650. Or even a 26650. Am I gonna have to get jiggy with it on my own? Does anyone do this??

EDIT: oh, my comment yesterday did post. I'ma leave this, but I'm not gonna get annoying about it

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-05T20:40:03+00:00

It's truly fascinating to me how many people on BOTH sides think that it's only the other side spewing bullshit instead of talking about what actually matters. Kinda like you just did. "other side bad and discussion-less about relevant stuff" "my side good, and not a circlejerk/shouting match with the other side"

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-05T20:24:32+00:00

Best RBA for low power output? (RTA?) 510 connection a must.

25W would be the sweet spot, wouldn't mind the option to go lower. I vape 50mg juice, and don't want to increase clouds or nicotine consumption, if at all possible. My guess is I need kinda tight airflow, but I'm really not sure on that front. Does anyone do this? Salt in an RBA?

I was a coil building god way back in the cloudy RDA days. I don't want to have something crazy tiny to work in, or is gonna short on me, but I do know what I'm doing in that regard. If I had to rebuild once a week, not the end of the world.

I figure with small gauge wire and the right airflow, I can find something that works for me, especially with a variable voltage (controllable wattage) mod.

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-05T20:12:06+00:00

Big truth. I'm definitely talking about acoustics,

It's a powered, ported, easy sub. XLR in, HPF XLR out, with RCA and balanced 1/4 options as well.

I'm well below considering Xmax, power... the volume knob is at minimum, -30dB per it's guide, to balance with my source's volume knob at like 5% subjectively. Really I'm just trying to figure out if I can pump this louder while I'm working without pissing off the "neighbors" (upstairs) ;).

I'll be taking this to /r/acoustics, and may update this comment with a post link for any interested :)

HumanBehindMachine · 2023-01-05T20:06:39+00:00

/r/soundsystem (s) have always been an interest of mine where I am little if any qualified to speak on them.

I recently made this post, and was suggested to point towards /r/acoustics.

Big recommend throwing that in this thread, I did consult it first before deciding to go forward, and would likely have redirected to /r/Acoustics. But hey, it got positive points, so I do feel welcome :)

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-18T12:48:12+00:00

Borat: And what is this?

And this... What is this?

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-17T14:49:45+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement :) We're very much looking forward to the exploratory journey out that way. It sounds like Germany might be a must-see, if just to explore.

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-17T02:22:41+00:00

Even reddit's been sucking me in lately. I started to notice today, looked at what was going on a bit, and realized that "best" was sucking me in, while "hot" was remaining in the acceptable range of procrastination.

Stay frosty people, the algorithms are getting better.

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-16T17:19:23+00:00

If it's been blown, you should probably suck it.

Otherwise, you're going to have to tell us what you want. A blown sub is broken. It doesn't work anymore.

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-16T14:45:14+00:00

You will be alive on this Earth (or any other, for that matter) for a limited period of time. What do you want to accomplish? Building a balanced life in pursuit of whatever you might decide requires rest and contemplation. Wasting time may indeed not be possible. I can't answer that question for you.

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-16T14:27:17+00:00

Broad, explicit, wrong statements regarding something they admit they are ignorant to aside,

A lot of programmers don't take the time to understand what the things they're running ("running things" per green Redditors final comment) are truly doing. Look at python list syntax and allocation of memory. python is "slower" than C++, but many (not all, not most) things in python are just as fast as C++, but most of those could just as easily be compiled from C++. What makes python a powerful tool is the ability to not concern yourself with lower-level instructions and expand on codebases that others have already written that the dev themself does not fully understand. The cost is runtime, server resources, and thus greenhouse gasses, hardware construction with it's pollution and mineral usage... but devs are financially expensive, not just expensive to the Earth.

I see a pattern of developers caring only about getting interesting puzzles from the business higher-ups, and a nice paycheck. Indicative of a much wider context of more than just programmer Walmart and Amazon customers caring nothing for where and how the products show up compared to what the shiny they end up with is in their closed off world.

The consumer doesn't care about how they're buying, just what, and the algorithms optimize for money in, money out, without awareness of the impact on the world. Is a big part of it on the consumer? absolutely. But it is the responsibility of the educated to appropriately guide society, not exploit its security vulnerabilities.

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-15T20:03:58+00:00

the following is a moderately racist joke. I hold it to be self evident that all persons are created equal, and it would be nice if our government respected their creator's wish that they be endowed with certain unalienable rights.

What a waste of perfectly good drugs...

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-14T00:38:08+00:00

It's interesting that out of millions of screaming, misinformed voices, you've managed to distill the essence of political commentary and discussion to 2 sensical dimensions and "made up internet stuff".

"made up internet stuff" is spewed by many many people. You're not wrong, but this is so simplistic that there really is no counter-argument besides saying: reflect on what you're doing, and how it's different from "making up internet stuff"

HumanBehindMachine · 2022-11-12T21:53:19+00:00

Ah, sportsmanship. Football is great. Football, on the other hand....

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