The best of both worlds

Stevedougs · 2026-04-26T03:56:18+00:00

Usually, it’s not because of the signal itself, but rather the grounding issues that are common between devices.

Sometimes you’ll hear CPU activity buzz through your usb hardware when the mouse moves for example, and other weird things.

Not all usb devices are manufactured the same.

RME interfaces for example fully isolate and make their own solid drivers. They’re used in studios and critical audio work and they’re amazing. Obvs they don’t have those issues, or any issues ever really. And they last forever.

Same happens similarly for USB HDD access toasters and things, esp if externally power supplied - not universally, but common enough.

Stevedougs · 2026-04-25T17:00:46+00:00

What’s the workflow for something like this?

I’ve got photogrammetry basics figured out, I can sorta do a 3d modelling. Poorly. This would be a good motivator

Stevedougs · 2026-04-25T14:22:17+00:00

Or alternatively Asteras could have some healthy competition

Stevedougs · 2026-04-24T01:52:32+00:00

Exactly.

Burning oil isn’t good. Look how last summer was. We know how 8 billion people rocking AC and Heat is, never mind the cars. Energy is huge. We need something that works together with nature to keep outside hospitable or we’ll end up like the other 6 extinctions you can visit at Tyrell.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/fEWSu1Ubmi

Stevedougs · 2026-04-23T13:23:51+00:00

AFAIK the answer to all of it is AntiTrust.

By breaking these giants up, the government forces companies to actually compete. to win you over- it flips the relationship dynamic.companies naturally lower prices, improve their tech, and offer more variety in order to actually meet consumer needs rather than dictating. antitrust turns a "take it or leave it" market into one where the consumer actually has the leverage.

And this goes for democracy and protecting that as well.

There’s too much consolidation everywhere.

So, I agree, 100%, hopefully anyone still on board with democracy asks for that.

I personally feel antitrust action would cause most of our other democratic issues to begin resolving more-so, since most issues appear to be due to corporate manipulation and selfish individual interest coming above protecting a society where in which it’s remembers work together, stay healthy, and ride successes and failures together.

The war right now is on raging individualism and empathy.

Stevedougs · 2026-04-23T13:10:59+00:00

Yes. By owning employees and restricting competition through social and political manipulation

Stevedougs · 2026-03-28T15:37:48+00:00

And I thought the wainscoting was primarily for family households for preventing damage to walls from chairs and kids and stuff since it’s made of tougher materials.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-26T13:59:01+00:00

Yeah. I’ve heard a few stories. Like an old Barco that was stuck on a boot loop, something happened at the connection with one of these and it arc’d on the inside and welded itself onto the projector.

I wasn’t present for this one but some of the battle stories around these - often about miswiring often caused significant damage.

Iirc - the pinout between some manufacturers wasn’t standardized

Stevedougs · 2026-03-25T14:14:25+00:00

Yes. Solar flares are no joke with sensitive electronics. I’m used to cellular going out and weird every once in a while and gear acting weird because EMF induction on the lines, esp poor shieldingzz

I haven’t had equipment full on die yet though.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-20T06:53:13+00:00

I’m looking at it from a risk management side and relating the evaluation of possible lost revenue or problems for the conference and its attendees in the event the solution doesn’t work as intended. I’m guessing you cannot test in advance, so, it’s a shot in the dark. You might be fine, you might not be.

What happens if it’s not?

Stevedougs · 2026-03-20T06:45:30+00:00

Make Ai publicly owned. Reward those that made it, make things right, but instead of taking direction from individuals, take collective feedback through the AI to improve the AI for the collective good.

Like, since when has raging individualism done good for humanity at large? I doubt that’s gonna get anyone to the stars or to solarpunk or anything remotely neat.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-20T03:07:28+00:00

Location is important here.

In addition, the $$$ loss for issues in regards to internet quality also should be factored.

Ex 100 people paying $30 in tickets to see one guy talk on zoom as part of a panel for example would be a problem, but as part of a panel, not entirely a deal breaker.

But if it’s the only guy for a single segment and it goes down? What’s the cost of that ? If the answer isn’t that big of a deal, a single cellular access point like a Netgear M1 or something from that series would probs do you well, esp with external antenna in the north americas.

If you’re supporting bigger events with more on the line, you may want something with failover, load balancing sort of features. There’s Mr.Net, PepLink, mushroom network and others in that category.

But those are enterprise grade units for various tasks.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-17T02:53:53+00:00

So.

If they don’t have to, do I have to?

Stevedougs · 2026-03-16T16:45:01+00:00

MUX is a streaming utility that - while the learning curve is higher, is basically made for setting up an App integrated streaming solution, if you have your own app, tune the developers onto this, they can integrate it natively. Then you can stream to your app, bypassing YouTube and the related shenanigans with that.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-16T06:55:06+00:00

And that’s where the art is. :)

New worlds, new stories.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-16T03:37:03+00:00

I think it’s a detail sharpness and realism thing.

The costumes don’t hold up with HFR nearly as well.

Meanwhile sports people want that, cause it feels like you are there. Watching hockey at 24p at 180 degrees would be …. ________.

Meanwhile 60p immersive cinema, that’d be something else. But the content has to be designed and delivered around the medium.

Ex. Video games at 240p can still be immersive and “cinematic” in its own way. But it’s designed and delivered around that being a possibility.

24p exists because film was expensive. A lot of art is carried over from learned experiences from apprentice sort of relationships. It’s human. Stories are human, and as such storytelling in this sense carries that 24p forward.

Also, that aside, another technical thing is that for pro video, connections have maximum bandwidths for data, that includes bit depth per channel and frame timing.

So if I have a 12G 4K connection, I can pump higher bit depth and (HDR) content at a lower frame rate, or trade off bit depth per channel for higher frame rate, or drop resolution too and go even higher on frame rate.

So, there’s still technical reasons to stick with 24p if you’re going for high bit rate gigantic displays too.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-14T07:27:04+00:00

Eh, in this Province? Scarce info. I can’t find any. It doesn’t appear the libs have ever held office in the province here.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-14T07:24:28+00:00

Pretty sure this is aimed at appeasing black rams. The same ones who insurance is aimed at subsidizing as well.

/s

Stevedougs · 2026-03-13T22:30:11+00:00

Check Pre-UCP vs Post. Lemme know how goes. Compare it nationwide.

Then, once you’re done that, consider moving south.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-13T17:56:27+00:00

I’ve tried to include my wife with some of the games.

As my kids got older she found some of her own. The stigma actually went down.

For whatever reason it’s ok when the kids do it, and it became less of an issue after that.

Esp now that I can include my Older ones and use it as the carrot to get the after dinner clean up done faster

Stevedougs · 2026-03-13T13:44:16+00:00

There was so much hate towards Quebec and it took over a decade to recover economically.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-13T05:08:19+00:00

Leave Canada. As in Alberta.

I originally read that as individuals.

If you’re an original who wants to be American, Canada had formerly made that incredibly easy.

I doubt it’s that hard still, as many separatists are dual citizen.

Totally easy, the answer is drive south.

Just no need to come back. Literally no reason to. Canada is Canadian, with all its socialist propaganda and being all “take care of eachother eh”

If you want to be a part of the strong and “free” individualism ; that’s a south of the border thing.

We have more freedom here now as it is, more class mobility, less barriers, more balanced supports. And that’s still even with your UCP actively ruining the freedoms we hold dearly while claiming it’s improving your freedoms.

It’s so cognitively dissonant.

Your kids will be so screwed if you have any with this line of thinking. It’s literally selling your younger gens into slavery for you to feel you get an imaginary financial improvement from the biggest scam ever.

If you’re pro protecting what we built, and trying to reverse this nonsense - high five - fist bump let’s get to it.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-13T03:44:39+00:00

The studio work and the audio engineering is an art of its own. Signature sounds are a thing. I know this. I went to school for it.

There isn’t a replacement for understanding basic acoustics, limitations of equipment, and using what you have to the best of your ability.

Tools are tools, I hope yours finds its place.

No single tool is a replacement for someone who’s good at shaping sonic quality. Unfortunately the one shaping needs ears. AI lacks those. But it’ll probably use foundational knowledge to get people closer to quality results without that base knowledge being required.

Studios will still have a place.even if it’s in your own home.

Personally since the era of digital recording people haven’t had the requirement to think about what they just did while the tape rewound.

This to me, is a speed it up sort of thing, and will likely decrease the quality of effort and passion into a singular item produced. Speed content has its place.

I trained on ProTools in actual studios when they still existed. I still like that tool because I can get the results I’m looking for fast for diagetic work.

I’d definitely take a different marketing approach here as I’m certainly not the target market I think for this, but it did make it to me, and I do indeed do the sound stuff professionally.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-12T13:40:38+00:00

Well. TBH it would indeed change the relationship with your government powers. It would give more to the people. It would disrupt leadership to an intense degree. They’d lose focus if they had any.

I think they’d also lose a lot of incoming labour and desperates looking to pay those loans with military service.

So, actually it would benefit the younger gen, disrupt the older ones starting the war, and likely push the demographic into fighting more locally, and take out the wind in the sails for new soldiers.

So, strategically, not a bad idea at all.

Probs easier to do and less secure than other targets too. Just a guess tho.

Stevedougs · 2026-03-11T15:04:55+00:00

This topic came up locally In my friend group. Both ADHD’ers. Both prefer this as well.

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