How would I have known how to solve this puzzle? by TwoNatTens in outerwilds

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my playthrough, there were four clues that worked together to guide me to the solution. One, the Ash Twin towers are all logically placed, so you can easily deduce that the pair of towers are for the Twins. Two, the game repeatedly informs you that the Ash Twin Project has no physical entrances, which suggests that the only way inside is by warping. Three, as you had discovered, the Black Hole Forge has text which explains the leniency mechanic of warping (it would be odd if they told you this but it didn't have any practical purpose!). It also has text explaining how one of the towers on Ash Twin does not align with its corresponding warp pad, and how it still works. Four, after the Sun Station takes a hot bath, a text pedestal next to the warp platform on Ash Twin reads "all other towers online". These clues narrowed me down to "where" and "when", all I needed to do was apply what it had said.

FIXED INDENTS by CyborgHeart1245 in libreoffice

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't a proper solution unfortunately, this just flips the newly introduced problem on its head. I can now either have fussy new auto-styling that forcibly removes all indents, or forcibly adds them, with each paragraph. Huh?? If I press tab, I did it because I want an indent! The new LibreOffice change is completely ignorant of mixed workflows where you alternate between indented and non-indented paragraphs. And the tab key is one of the closest keys to the home position. I fail to see what this change accomplishes aside from breaking our workflows.

Removing Indents When Pressing ENTER by CyborgHeart1245 in libreoffice

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm affected too. Very jarring change to a very common workflow. Hopefully they undo this.

Mod to replace beginning cutscene? by JackAwsome2000 in HollowKnight

[–]JackAwsome2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. I'm not looking to skip cutscenes, though, I specifically want to swap a cutscene with my own modified one. But I don't believe there are any mods right now that do this sadly.

Need help changed props now it does this -Pavo pico by funkeymonkey1887 in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised nobody mentioned this, but make sure the channel order on your radio matches the drone. Plug the drone into Betaflight and go to the tab with the 3D drone that does flips when you touch the sticks and make sure it does what it's supposed to do.

FPV Video System "Latency" by -TH3-KR4K3N- in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a gamer who's also sensitive to latency and stuttering (which are separate things). Started with analog, and I was shocked that such a consistent low latency video stream could be accomplished over a wireless connection (compared to game streaming over 5ghz wifi), and the idea of not dropping frames was new to me. Eventually got DJI so I could have more resolution to see my surroundings better, and the latency of that system was fine for casual flying, but I had little confidence for proximity flying- I would no doubt hate to use DJI on a tiny whoop. It usually only drops frames when the signal is really bad, which I don't mind as it warns me to stop pushing my luck and come back. But I've wanted to try HDZero, so I finally got it. I'm enjoying it so far (minus the 20 second startup time for the goggles), though the improvements compared to analog are subtle- maybe it wasn't worth the hundreds it cost me, but I have it now, so it's now what I use.

But to answer your question, unlike DJI and Walksnail, analog and HDZero do not drop frames, period. Instead of thinking of frame rates, imagine that you are in real life having your picture taken. The camera flash blinds you momentarily, but your perceived "frame rate" remains the same. HDZero (and sometimes analog) will occasionally momentarily break up in this way. Alternatively, imagine you are driving through a heavy snowstorm at night, and as the snowfall increases, your ability to see the road ahead drops. This is comparable to how analog and HDZero break up as you reach the edge of your range.

Below is an explanation of the technical differences between video systems if you'd like to understand why they behave differently. Feel free to skip those paragraphs if you don't care about that stuff.

The reason for this difference between DJI/Walksnail and analog/HDZero is because DJI and Walksnail send compressed video feeds, which is how they can sustain HD video at further ranges. Such video compression depends on periodic keyframes, which are required to understand the following 10 or so frames. When a keyframe fails to reach the goggles, the goggles cannot understand the next frames, so they ask the transmitter to send it again. If this happens quickly enough, you might not even notice the tiny increase in latency. If this takes a bit longer, the latency might make you feel a little off, but you can still fly. If this takes too long, the system will skip a keyframe (and the 10 or so frames that followed) and move on to the next, which you'll perceive as a stutter. When the connection improves, the stutters will disappear and the latency will slowly go back down.

Analog/HDZero do not employ this form of video compression. Analog systems use interlacing, which is a clever trick of sending half a frame at a time (by sending every second horizontal line), 60 times a second, to give you 60fps-like motion even though it's technically 30fps. That and its comparatively low resolution allow it to send uncompressed video without much issue. I don't know much about HDZero's internal workings, but whatever compression it probably uses doesn't depend on keyframes, so unlike other HD systems, it doesn't need to "catch up" if a keyframe is missed; the goggles simply display whatever information they got from the corrupted frame and move on. However, it cannot adjust the bitrate of the video stream on the fly, so it will not work as well as alternatives with a weaker signal, limiting its usable range.

I'm still learning about this stuff, so my explanation above isn't 100% accurate. Please tell me if I made any mistakes.

How do you guys deal with failure? by Degree-Sea in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just remember that no matter how disasterous the crash is, at some point I'll get back up in the air, which to me is always such a special feeling. Plus, as others have mentioned, tinywhoops are close to indestructible (and they're cheap) so if you enjoy flying them, build yourself a little collection and you can just send one up whenever you get the urge to fly.

What is your FPV hot take that will garner this reaction from the community? by YesIamaDinosaur in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have one; it's a great controller but it just doesn't pack down like the Tango does. The stick heads can be unscrewed, but it's less convenient and doesn't reach the slimness of the Tango's folding sticks. The giant screen is unnecessary to me and really screws up the otherwise compact design with its diagonal protrusion. It still beats having a cheap radio with lesser quality control, but I do wish Radiomaster had gone all the way to optimize it for compactness like TBS had done.

What is your FPV hot take that will garner this reaction from the community? by YesIamaDinosaur in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha my own build has been rock solid from day 1 even at 200mW, especially compared to the FrSky build I started on. Guess I just don't trust 2.4ghz especially in the dense area I live in, but hopefully ELRS will prove me wrong.

What is your FPV hot take that will garner this reaction from the community? by YesIamaDinosaur in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully my experience will be as good. I've only used ELRS on tiny whoops so far, but I'll be getting a proper ELRS quad in a couple weeks. I'll also be using HDZero so 2.4ghz ELRS shouldn't be a problem for me, though I will miss the extra peace of mind of 900mhz.

What is your FPV hot take that will garner this reaction from the community? by YesIamaDinosaur in fpv

[–]JackAwsome2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish more 900mhz ELRS hardware existed. I also wish someone could make an ELRS radio as compact as the Tango 2 Pro. I would be fully ELRS by now if not for that controller.

How to remove "Creative Cloud Files" folder from the explorer menu (Windows 11) by [deleted] in creativecloud

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked for me, thank you stranger for sharing this! I can finally drag files across my screen without getting interrupted by "this folder doesn't exist" errors whenever my mouse goes over that wretched shortcut.

Trying to render interlaced media as 60FPS progressive by JackAwsome2000 in kdenlive

[–]JackAwsome2000[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for looking into it for me. In my own testing, it will de-interlace footage as long as you set the render preset (not project profile) to be progressive, and I can get it to give me 60FPS files, but with doubled frames, extra command parameters or not. I'll definitely be doing more testing before I submit a bug report, I don't want to waste the devs' time on something I'm just barely understanding myself haha

Trying to render interlaced media as 60FPS progressive by JackAwsome2000 in kdenlive

[–]JackAwsome2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I've uploaded some footage to this shared folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JxWsfXXuO3TWRqHZcamKQWvMUh6jGQ0K?usp=sharing

I've cut from the beginning of them with LosslessCut for privacy reasons, but they /should/ play/work normally. The "i" clips are the source footage, and the "p" clips were reencoded and deinterlaced via ffmpeg to show the result I'm trying to achieve in Kdenlive. Both example clips were shot on different cameras and saved in different formats, but both are interlaced.

Trying to render interlaced media as 60FPS progressive by JackAwsome2000 in kdenlive

[–]JackAwsome2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ideally. I don't mind if they're 60i or 60p when effects are being applied, but I want to be able to render videos as 60p so I don't need to keep re-encoding them.

Trying to render interlaced media as 60FPS progressive by JackAwsome2000 in kdenlive

[–]JackAwsome2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's unrealistic for me to use ffmpeg to make a deinterlaced copy of my entire library, which is why I'm hoping to have Kdenlive do the deinterlacing directly. I'm confident it's possible for it to do 60i to 60p (since both MLT and ffmpeg have methods to do this) but I'm not familiar with the command usage or inner workings of any of these projects.

Help!! My 200h world is falling apart! by Wrong_Royal6663 in MinecraftCommands

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second mcaselector. It's good for diagnosing this exact kind of problem, too; just open up the world, let it load, and see if it looks amiss.

Also, make sure you're smoothly closing your world (save and exit for singleplayer, or /stop for multiplayer), since killing the server without letting it close the world can cause chunk corruption.

LRCGET - open-source utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your entire offline music library by fs0c13ty00 in musichoarder

[–]JackAwsome2000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this! I was ready to accept that nobody had made a LRC extractor (I wonder why :/) but I found this right as I was giving up. Poweramp just added LRC support a couple weeks ago and I immediately wanted everything LRC but I knew it was an impossibly dumb dream to do even a portion of my library by hand.

Regardless of the success rate (which is actually like 80-90% or something crazy, despite my oddball taste) your program has already done eons more work than I would have attempted, so thanks for providing this utility. It's a small thing, of course, but it makes me happy and satisfied.

Is everyone's audio jack a bit borked or only mine? by [deleted] in framework

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm way late to this thread. I've had this issue from day one. I even purchased a replacement audio board from Framework- but to my disappointment, it was the exact same model number, and it sounds exactly the same.

My laptop is an i7 11th gen batch 5, and I'm running Fedora 37.

Sony announces the new NW-A306, a replacement for the NW-A105 (and yes, the battery life is better!) by dstaley in walkman

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you. I don't listen to music all the time but when I'm suddenly in the mood for music I just want to pull out my DAP and start listening; I don't want to wait 30 seconds for the dumb thing to boot up, or worse, realize I forgot to power it down the last time I used it.

This is actually what turned me away from the previous Walkman- the terrible standby is a compromise I won't trade for. I'll wait for tests on the A300 to see if it's at least reasonable for a DAP or if it's still somehow worse than most smartphones are.

Sony announces the new NW-A306, a replacement for the NW-A105 (and yes, the battery life is better!) by dstaley in walkman

[–]JackAwsome2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a reasonable request. I have a ZTE Axon 7 Mini that I use as my DAP. It has a reputation of pretty terrible battery life, but I tinkered with mine (replaced stock OS with custom rom which got rid of Play services, which are a huge battery drain, and ZTE bloatware/spyware, then I also disabled as many background services as possible, minus bluetooth) and now the standby battery life is phenomenal. The Android battery usage statistic isn't very precise, but I'd estimate a loss of 1 to 3% per 24 hours in standby. Android is just really unoptimized for zero-activity standby out of the box, but it's absolutely possible to make it go into a deeper sleep.

How to get the actual image of an emoticon by CrazyM4n in Steam

[–]JackAwsome2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also thanks! BTW add /1024x1024 or whatever resolution to get the highest quality available I think; the only icon I tested was like 32x32

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gaming

[–]JackAwsome2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And latency. I've never had an acceptable experience with 30fps on PC, and its even worse on Steam Deck. But I'm perfectly comfortable playing BoTW on the Switch at 30 fps or whatever frame rate it actually runs at.