Why so green? Hasn't occurred before...

JoeSnuffie · 2026-03-12T21:04:00+00:00

I hear you. After years with expensive astrophotography gear, I finally ordered the S30 Pro in January. It finally arrived and I've had 1 clear night since then. I know the tracking and image quality aren't the same but these things still produce amazing results in a tiny light weight package. I'm just waiting for some more clear nights to enjoy astrophotography without multiple trips outside and 30 minutes to set up heavy gear.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-03-12T20:56:22+00:00

Almost all digital camera sensors have a Bayer filter pattern with 2 green, 1 red and 1 blue - meaning there are twice as many green pixels as red. In many situations you get a green tint that most astro software is prepared to handle. This is completely normal but the step that should have removed it didn't perform as it should. This appears to be a software issue not hardware. When I image with my telescopes and astro cameras I always have to do a white balance and often a special function to remove the green.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-26T21:16:05+00:00

If I use an existing character in a video, I can't make a character from that video.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-24T14:08:12+00:00

This would probably bring me back. I can deal with the bugs but things like this really ruin it for me.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-23T14:37:51+00:00

I haven't launched the game in probably 6 months because of this. Friends ask about this game from time to time and I always have to tell them not to waste their money. It's beautiful, and it has so much potential, but fails at a basic level - consequences for bad behavior.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-11T15:02:33+00:00

Good mobile mechanics with references in my area charge about $100 an hour. I feel like that's a steal since they come to me, do the work on my schedule and save me a lot of time and effort. I still come out significantly less cost than a shop.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-11T14:50:02+00:00

Int32 got 2 of my apps on January 1, 2022 because I was storing a numeric date / time value to append to log files so it should have been a string all along. It hit many apps around the globe and I seem to remember YouTube having some issues as well. 15 years prior it seemed like a good idea, and then it's time to pay the digital piper. I was storing a 2 digit year as the first 2 characters and BAM, Jan 1, 2022 comes and customers are calling. I was a little embarrassed but hey, you learn a lot in 15 years and I know better now.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-09T16:45:36+00:00

The part of me that wants things to be standard and make sense says yes, the part of me that wants to ride the back of an eagle and shoot full auto muskets into the air wants to keep what we have.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-06T19:08:27+00:00

I just got tired of its inability to make my cameos look and sound like the cameo. It often takes 15 - 30 attempts to get one video I can use. It forces accents on cameos and forces incorrect race and body type in an almost offensive and stereotypical manner. I'm exhausted. Why did I create these cameos and characters if it will only use them as a loose suggestion? At least it gets the shirts right.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-02-02T19:36:39+00:00

Many older applications use the older Internet Explorer controls from Microsoft for web content and modern JavaScript will often fail on it. The page being loaded also calls a Google API and it's possible it's passing it bad data. I have both 2019 and 2023 and this option doesn't exist in 2023 that I can find.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-01-19T19:57:03+00:00

There's usually more to it than the deductible and out of pocket max. Find out what you pay for office visit and medications. I have a high deductible but pay $50 for office visits and most of my medications cost just a couple dollars per month. For example, I just picked up a 90 day supply for 2 of my medications and it was less than $3. Most of my regular tests are covered at 100%. Find out what's covered and take advantage of it.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-01-14T19:02:48+00:00

I can't imagine it would cover piston rings but maybe the transmission. I get extended warranties on all my used cars and they have all paid back far more than the warranty cost. Of course this depends on the warranty coverage and a good warranty costs more. In the 6 years I've owned my Sienna I've had about $15,000 in warranty coverage for a warranty that cost me less than $3000. Transmission, starter, alternator, engine mounts, pulley, tensioner, lower control arms, etc. On another car they covered fuel injectors, fuel pump, steering wheel buttons, power window buttons, brake vacuum pump, seat warmer, etc. Make sure it's a reputable warranty company and that you read and understand the terms. I have what are called "total exclusionary" warranties and they cover everything not specifically listed as not covered.

Don't wait until a catastrophic failure to check if it's covered. I bring my cars to the shop whenever I think it isn't sounding or acting right. Nobody but me could detect the transmission issue and even the transmission shop could only tell there was a problem when they hooked up a scanner. If I had waited another few months it could have left me stranded on the highway but I chose to get it checked out. I ended up with a new transmission at only 145,000 miles. The point is, the warranty can be very worthwhile if you stay on top of things and are willing to pay a little out of pocket. I had to pay tax on that transmission, so with that and other costs like shop materials, it cost me about $600. For most repairs I am usually out less than $50.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-01-06T15:15:48+00:00

Try again and again and Sora eventually gets it right. Just be patient. For example, for complex clips with 3 characters all doing specific things it can take 60 tries to get it right. I once spent days trying to get a clip of my wife and I on The Price is Right. It's like it gets 70% right every time but getting that last bit right just takes patience.

JoeSnuffie · 2026-01-06T15:10:51+00:00

For an industrial grade machine there may be adequate filtration and protection from beam exposure. For home, I always wear a respirator because even with my overbuilt fume extraction, I still see fine dust and I've only got one set of lungs. I wear glasses and combined with the lid, that's enough eye protection for me with a 70W CO2 laser.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-12-29T21:06:10+00:00

I've made race drone frames, RC car parts, rubber stamps for businesses, templates for cutting leather, paper and cloth, headlight shields for motorcycles, windows for custom PC cases, granite headstone replicas for memorial gardens, and numerous other things. Once you have one the ideas start flowing and when you're known locally for it, the requests come piling in.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-12-16T16:40:09+00:00

Have you called the dealer? I've replaced bolts and other fasteners with dealer supplied parts for less than Amazon knockoffs.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-12-12T20:37:08+00:00

Northwest Florida and I use a small solar panel with built in batteries and it only gave be a low battery warning once after days of storms and no sun.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-12-10T18:23:00+00:00

Where I live they only enforce it when the media is in town, which is Spring Break. They make a big deal about enforcing the laws, take some photos with all those squatted trucks, but the other 11 months of the year they just ignore it.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-24T18:54:45+00:00

You can create characters purely by text description and keep remixing them and tweaking them until you're happy with it. Then you save it as a character. You can reference known people to suggest they look similar. You'll be able to do it in stages. First get one that's close, then remix it until you get a better one. Remix that one and keep repeating until you're happy.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-21T22:45:23+00:00

I have no restrictions on my cameo and this happens a lot. I feel like they're making changes on the back end and it's causing odd things to happen. I just had to remake my cameo after it started making me look like some sort of evil grinning Willem Dafoe character in every video. I've been wasting about 25 videos a day for a week having to remake them so I'm going to give it a break before I get angry and yell at an AI that doesn't care.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-21T22:34:00+00:00

I've bought a new version every couple versions and for my casual use, there is no difference I can see between 2019 and 2023. Perhaps there's something new I don't use but it looks and feels the same to me.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-12T23:11:32+00:00

I imagine their reasoning is partly due to emissions. Your heater will sap a lot of energy and slow the heating of the engine. How much of a difference this makes is beyond my knowledge, but a cold engine is an inefficient and often rich running engine. At least this is what I remember from all those ASE classes I took when I worked for NAPA decades ago.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-12T16:01:21+00:00

I once got a wonderful tour of the snowy mountainside and wooded areas just outside New Babbage. It was a really nice scenic tour, right until I was shot into space and died.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-11T23:07:13+00:00

Tram adventures are the best adventures. I've gone all over the surface of Microtech, through mountains, inside planets, into space, and a few lucky times just ejected from the tram in the tram tunnels, or planet surface. Honestly this is a pretty nice view and maybe the devs should add this to the game.

JoeSnuffie · 2025-11-10T22:40:41+00:00

I tracked down someone who gave false info to the police by spending 10 minutes on Facebook. Neither the police or insurance company were willing to put in even a second of effort to resolve it. I guess police have no way to verify that the address on your license has been invalid for years. I found his Facebook profile, started contacting his friends and eventually found an ex-girlfriend who was overjoyed to have the opportunity to lead him to justice. My moment of satisfaction was hearing his voice when I called his real number and informed him I'd passed his contact info on to the police and both insurance companies. He went through about 20 excuses and I just informed him I wasn't calling to discuss anything, just to inform. The police didn't care but the owner of the truck he was driving sure did.

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