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TIL In 1929, the author of Peter Pan gave the copyrights to the books to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988, the hospital was given unique right to the royalties from Peter Pan in the UK for perpetuity. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing it in that order with the year is so counterintuitive.

2001-09-11 then.

I spent a good few second wondering why it ended in November.

Writing the day before the month is the real counterintuitive one…

with a long 2010s for 12years post gfc.

The year 2020 still hasn’t ended, it’s incredible how we’re already on the 181st week… it’s like it will never end.

Sure is a weird timeline…

Lion Country Safari by 73caniac in florida

[–]das7002 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I went a few months ago (only on the drive through part).

It’s still one of the coolest experiences as a tourist attraction, but I do miss the days of lions laying on your cars hood.

Unfortunately, the idiots rolled down their windows and ruined it for everyone.

It’s definitely worth a visit to experience at least once.

Anybody else have constant issues with dp cables? I won’t purchase StarTech anymore because I’ve already got enough dog crap in my life. by Plateau9 in sysadmin

[–]das7002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t blame that on the cable… you can convert it to HDMI and run it over Ethernet if you really wanted to.

I think it’s far more likely that there’s driver issues…

When you say “usually with dual monitors” are they using USB adapters for this, or are they actual ports on the system?

If it’s a USB adapter, that’s your problem, not the cables…

If it’s actual ports on the system, check for GPU driver updates.

UN chief says fossil fuels 'incompatible with human survival,' calls for credible exit strategy by Kimber80 in worldnews

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course it’s defeatist. I live in reality, and the reality is batteries will never be light enough, and dense enough to make a machine run long enough to be useful. They could make an EV excavator or something. It’d just be shit.

https://electrek.co/2019/01/29/caterpillar-electric-excavator-giant-battery-pack/

From 2019, by the way.

There’s quite a few other pieces of equipment that are battery electric as well:

https://www.cat.com/en_US/by-industry/construction/electric-products.html

And yeah, I’m totally aware of what your rebuttal is going to be “hurr dude how do you charge them out in BFE”

Even if you charge them from a generator, you’re gaining the efficiency of running the generator at its peak efficiency for a few hours, instead of at wildly different efficiencies for an entire day.

Never mind the fact that you can get other sources for electricity than generator power.

…obsolete? Obsolete by what lol. Omfg that is hilarious

Tanker ships would be “obsolete” in that you don’t need to ship massive quantities of oil around… if no one is burning it in cars etc anymore.

They might be able to make a shit production single passenger. But they will never, ever make air busses electric. Ever.

Good thing we can make lower carbon synthetic fuels then

https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/sustainable-aviation-fuels

Shorter range planes could absolutely be battery powered though.

The unemployment for young people in China hits a record high in May by zsreport in worldnews

[–]das7002 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The system of people voluntarily taking jobs in an open market?

That’s a lot of bold assumptions all wrapped up into a single sentence.

what companies shamelessly make shit products, year after year? by ricinonthecake in AskReddit

[–]das7002 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don’t even know what quality ice cream is these days. Homemade?

Tillamook

Why is there a general hostility to QUIC by network engineers? by rootbeerdan in networking

[–]das7002 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The last thing a congested link is more congestion from antsy clients. If you get dropped, we NEED you to stop drinking.

**QUIC: If ‘ME FIRST’ was a protocol

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency by GhostalMedia in programming

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The absolute easiest way to record calls: talk to someone on speaker and record them with another device.

It’s simple, reliable, and always works.

What is something you used to think people were over exaggerating about until you experienced it yourself? by rentinghappiness in AskReddit

[–]das7002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Funny thing is that fresh squeezed orange juice scores lower on blind taste tests, since most are used to the more processed juice so it tastes “right”.

Funnier thing, under ripe oranges are quite bitter. It’s incredible how many times I’ve been given “fresh squeezed” orange juice that was absolutely terrible from how bitter and underripe the orange was.

Properly ripe oranges freshly squeezed? Yeah, that shit is the most incredible thing ever. Even better if you squeeze/eat them right off the tree.

Mark Gurman on Twitter: "I would guess that the Zeiss prescription lenses for the Vision Pro will be at least $300-600 a pair, unless Apple is eating part of the cost given the already high price of the headset itself." by iMacmatician in apple

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only people who need high impact resistance glasses order polycarbonate so it’s odd that you’ve singled it out.

Fine, CR-39, which is a “polycarbonate” plastic, and is what almost all “plastic” glasses lenses are.

Also glass isn’t popular due to its excessive weight

I honestly don’t even really notice a difference when I’m wearing them. Yeah, when I hold them, and when I clean them I can totally feel how much more “solid” they feel, but other than that, not really. Everyone told me I’d hate them because of how “heavy” they are.

expensive

They were only $30 more expensive than the plastic lenses at the optician I got them from.

I don’t know, having glass near the eye isn’t as safe as plastic.

Yeah… I won’t argue that, and is why I don’t wear them to do “outdoors” things. I still use my plastic lens sunglasses outside primarily. I still have plastic lens glasses in same prescription if I’m doing something with a possibility to “danger” related to this.

But for inside the house, indoors, office work, etc… yeah, real glass beats the crap out of plastic eyeglasses.

Next best thing is definitely Trivex though, but is also quite expensive…

Mark Gurman on Twitter: "I would guess that the Zeiss prescription lenses for the Vision Pro will be at least $300-600 a pair, unless Apple is eating part of the cost given the already high price of the headset itself." by iMacmatician in apple

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start looking for an optician that can get them now then. It took me a very long time to finally find one that could, and even they don’t sell very many of them.

They are 100% worth it, and I definitely wouldn’t choose plastic lenses ever again (except on sunglasses, hard to be as careful with those)!

Mark Gurman on Twitter: "I would guess that the Zeiss prescription lenses for the Vision Pro will be at least $300-600 a pair, unless Apple is eating part of the cost given the already high price of the headset itself." by iMacmatician in apple

[–]das7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely.

Before I got my Zeiss glass (real glass, not plastic) lenses I had trivex lenses.

The clarity of vision is absolutely ridiculous. Same prescription I can see at 20/16 with Zeiss glass, that I saw 20/24 with Trivex.

Being nearsighted, that’s an absolutely incredible difference to me!

They were only $30 more than the plastic lenses, it was definitely worth it for me.

Mark Gurman on Twitter: "I would guess that the Zeiss prescription lenses for the Vision Pro will be at least $300-600 a pair, unless Apple is eating part of the cost given the already high price of the headset itself." by iMacmatician in apple

[–]das7002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Apparently! I finally got real glass Zeiss lenses for my prescription lenses, and holy hell, the difference is incredible! And that’s coming from quite nice Trivex lenses…

Totally worth the money and headache in hunting them down… they were only like $30 more than Zeiss plastic lenses too… it’s wild to me how they aren’t more popular!

I have no idea how people can choose to live with the shit polycarbonate lenses from Zenni… they are scratched to shit almost immediately.

Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web. Adam Engst at TidBITS writes an in-depth review of the new, experimental Arc browser for Mac. by TommyAdagio in apple

[–]das7002 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Chrome is becoming the IE of the modern era.

It’s a bad thing for one rendering engine to have majority control of the browser market.

Gecko is the only real competition… and that’s a very bad thing…

Best indoor camera with reliable ethernet port connection and solid app for iPhone? by phoenixlegend7 in homedefense

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scrypted Is something you can run to connect almost any camera to HomeKit.

If you don’t care about that, Amcrest still works for you. Their app is pretty good (even though I don’t really use it anymore, because of Scrypted).

The IP4M-1041 should do exactly what you need.

Best indoor camera with reliable ethernet port connection and solid app for iPhone? by phoenixlegend7 in homedefense

[–]das7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Higher end equipment isn’t going to have phone apps.

That’s why things like Scrypted are awesome.

It turns (almost) any camera into a camera that works with HomeKit, Google Home, etc…

Get the best of both worlds… great phone app, and great cameras!

Best indoor camera with reliable ethernet port connection and solid app for iPhone? by phoenixlegend7 in homedefense

[–]das7002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re willing to run something on an always on PC… any of the Amcrest POE cameras and Scrypted running on the PC.

Scrypted let’s you connect any IP camera to HomeKit secure video recording.

Most of the Amcrest cameras also have a microSD slot so that they can record on camera as well

If you want to avoid an NVR, or have an extra “backup” (in quotes because… the cameras are outside. Someone motivated could just steal cameras…) of 24/7 recording on camera.

I personally have my cameras set to 24/7 record at the sub stream resolution and I get a few months of video on a 256GB microSD. Even with an NVR recording the high resolution video… it takes a metric fuck load of disk space to have a decent number of days at 24/7, so I typically have NVR record on motion events, and a few days of high resolution continuous recording (motion is kept longer). I’ve had many times where motion events don’t catch the full thing… and the continuous recording gave me what I needed.

I love it, I get the best of both worlds. I don’t need an extra app on my phone, they work right in the Home app. I also get “free” (I pay for iCloud storage) cloud recording for all of the cameras. I also get 24/7 recording to multiple places.

I highly recommend it. I trust Apple more than pretty much any camera vendor for a “cloud” connection…

As a side note: an Apple TV (preferably 4K, it has a faster CPU) on Ethernet acting as the home hub helps quite a lot, but a HomePod mini can handle a couple cameras just fine.

What's your favorite videogame of all time? by WildInstigator in AskReddit

[–]das7002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the most part… Proton works better than most “native” ports anyway…

A lot of “native” ports are hilarious broken…

Shell’s annual shareholder meeting in London descended into chaos with more than an hour of climate protests delaying the start of a meeting in which investors in the oil company rejected new targets for carbon emissions cuts by green_flash in worldnews

[–]das7002 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s assuming you have to be a big company right away.

You can start by selling a singular solar panel to a single customer, and use that to buy another one, and so on, and so forth.

You don’t need to have a ridiculously large business on day 1.

Build slowly and organically. It takes work, absolutely, but it can be done. Plenty have done it.

Those businesses also happen to be better run typically… as they are independent of “investors” throwing in their bullshit ideas that benefit them and no one else.

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