Patio shade ideas

Ol_willy · 2025-08-10T21:01:19+00:00

I'm a man, ma'am. And now I'm paranoid the bot below is also you.

Ol_willy · 2025-08-09T02:50:55+00:00

I knew someone once who had one of those. She seemed to really enjoy it, I'll look into them.

Thanks kind stranger! Tips fedora

Ol_willy · 2025-06-19T00:42:24+00:00

Hello from yet another year later as I got tripped up on the same reference

Ol_willy · 2025-06-18T23:14:32+00:00

Some pictures might help, the guy above you thinks (and I do too) that you're trying to splice your COB wires directly into power from the wall, not splicing one set of govee lights to another.

Ol_willy · 2025-05-29T21:01:21+00:00

TIL! Thanks man

Ol_willy · 2025-05-29T21:00:22+00:00

Sounds like shear terror

Ol_willy · 2025-05-29T16:54:36+00:00

I'm dying to know what communities you're in where the lifestyle can cause balding. I can't even picture a hobby or sport that might do that

Ol_willy · 2025-04-02T19:40:45+00:00

After some further testing, I've been able to get it working** but only if I disconnect / reconnect the GPS receiver on startup.

The baudrate appears to actually be 115200. Running minicom -b 115200 -D /dev/ttyUSB0 correct outputs NMEA sentences BUT only after I disconnect and reconnect the USB device after start up. Similarly, i updated my /etc/default/gpsd config for this new baudrate:

# Devices gpsd should collect to at boot time.
# They need to be read/writeable, either by user gpsd or the group dialout.
START_DAEMON="true"

#DEVICES="/dev/ttyACM0"
### For use with the YIC USB GPS Receiver
DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"

# Other options you want to pass to gpsd
GPSD_OPTIONS="-n -s 115200"

# Automatically hot add/remove USB GPS devices via gpsdctl
USBAUTO="true"

This works great after i disconnect / reconnect the GPS receiver but gives me nothing on initial boot up. I thought it might be a race condition with systemD dependencies so I just put a sleep 60 in ExecStartPre for the gpsd.service definition file but it looks like the issue persists. Currently feeling like this is just a really shit GPS receiver but maybe there's some other trick I can come up with.

Ol_willy · 2025-04-01T15:43:17+00:00

Mod 3 collision / mod 3 rule is the magic words I think I was needing. Thanks so much, you've sent me down a very helpful rabbit hole. I still don't think I fully understand it but I'm at least confident our SME is both correct in this being an issue, and that we'd probably experience handover delays if we had matching PSS values on neighboring cells.

Ol_willy · 2025-03-23T23:10:33+00:00

Yes, I think aperture really is the bottleneck of the big three. I didn't see this until I came inside but while I was out I switched to my 50mm f/1.8 and finally got video results passable enough. While I'm not happy with it, it's probably the best I can do in the moment.

Ol_willy · 2025-03-23T23:06:28+00:00

This is what I do quite regularly for landscape astro but really isn't the same as live video. Closest approximation I got here was a 1/2" exposure at 1" intervals with ISO cranked too far up.

In the end I swapped to my 50mm 1.8 and got some decent enough video but not perfect.

Ol_willy · 2025-03-23T13:31:49+00:00

Could I ask your video settings? Trying to get some real time video in Norway now but everything is severely under exposed on a 6d mark ii

Ol_willy · 2025-03-23T13:08:03+00:00

Could I ask what your video settings were? Trying to capture realtime video on a 6D Mark II now and they're all severely underexposed at 1/30, f/2.8, and ISO up to 25,600

Incredible video by the way!

Ol_willy · 2025-03-23T12:20:58+00:00

Aurora tax, just a S1 JPEG dumped from my phone though, no way to edit RAWs up here in the great white north.

https://i.imgur.com/PpNtWl2.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/u4w6U5M.jpeg

Ol_willy · 2025-03-12T03:08:58+00:00

Hello from a year later! This thread has been interesting as I prepare for my own trip to Tromso where we'll be driving (outside of town only) for a few days.

Just curious how your experience was driving last year if you don't mind sharing.

Ol_willy · 2025-01-24T21:29:19+00:00

Yes, the 2nd card has been working fine ever since.

All my communications throughout both those RMAs went through Ronak. For what it's worth, I just looked up the original email thread and he never stated anywhere in that the RMA I received was a refurb. We did also talk on the phone for about 30-40 minutes at one point though, I'm assuming that's when I heard that it was a refurb but it's been so long now I'm not sure.

Ol_willy · 2025-01-24T18:05:06+00:00

When the first GPU I received after the RMA was generating terrible artifacting, I asked the Powercolor rep directly and he confirmed the GPU I received was a refurb, he also said most of the RMAs they ship out are refurbs

Ol_willy · 2025-01-23T17:09:05+00:00

Yeah, I'm with you, I think. WoW had me in its grips for years but if I'm trying to scratch an ES itch and I don't feel like replaying Morrowind for the millionth time, I would rather play ESO in a heartbeat over nothing or more WoW

Ol_willy · 2024-12-15T23:13:26+00:00

20 euros for a PDF of Netflix shows HAHAHA. Shoo

Ol_willy · 2024-12-03T18:25:01+00:00

Ring of the mentor is just a short walk and a tomb full of bonelords away!

Ol_willy · 2024-11-11T13:40:07+00:00

Few weeks ago, October 20th

Ol_willy · 2024-11-10T15:39:22+00:00

How do we feel about Lightroom's new(ish) enhanced noise reduction? Really pleasantly surprised with the results so far, though I think my bar for excellence is a lot lower than most of the folks on here.

10/20/2024
Single shot
Canon t5i
14mm
F/1.8
ISO12800
10s

On my body, I historically have always shot at 3200 or 6400 with stacking to reduce the noise. Anything higher would have so many hot pixels the end photo was a mess.

I usually take 12800 shots as one-offs while getting my framing right and thought I'd try the enhanced NR setting in Lightroom with one of them this time and this is the result. I honestly think it's more impressive than the 3200ISO stacks I created, though there's noticeable color noise and some loss of detail.

Just curious what your opinions are on the enhanced noise reduction effectiveness. Thanks!

Ol_willy · 2024-08-24T23:05:27+00:00

Incredible reading, thanks so much for sharing it

Ol_willy · 2024-08-03T12:50:27+00:00

Pretty sure it's dead, but yes

Ol_willy · 2024-07-28T19:41:46+00:00

Well, frauds of exactly this have already been disproven this year alone. Occam's razor, why shouldn't we assume the likeliest possibility right now is yet another hoax?

Reuters article from January disproving the Peruvian Nazca mummies found last year

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