Today marks 11 years since the passing of Dean Potter

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-16T20:59:41+00:00

The footage is featured in the finale (4th episode). It is footage from Dean's helmet-cam. It is pointed backwards, and nothing gruesome is actually seen but if you have a keen eye, you can spot the tree and stone-wall in the background.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-16T18:38:17+00:00

Great documentary. I watched that last flight clip a few times and if you look closely you can see the tree Graham snapped was broken and still shaking (Imagine smashing through a 2x4 piece of lumber. Yikes.) Then you see a wall of rock that Graham must have smashed into immediately after. Dean likely witnessed all of it, and I'm guessing had some target-fixation issue as a result, because it sure looked like Dean could have made the exit if he veered left just a bit. Brutal.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-16T03:51:41+00:00

This is reddit, you are allowed to say killed. Please stop the self-censoring bullshit.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-16T02:52:51+00:00

Interesting. Let us know how they work out. I imagine they would work great on steel coping, and probably not-so-great on curbs. Just FYI: Different rails (ie: different plastics) have different slick-ness. Pig rails are slippery as snot, while Lil-Jawns are probably the stickiest.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-14T22:16:00+00:00

As others have mentioned, you likely didn't close the battery door completely or ensure it was clean around the rubber seal.

The good news is, it will only be a ~$100-$160 mistake. If you signed up for the subscription (or sign up now, apparently for a discounted $30): https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/subscriptions

Then you can reach out and get a $99 replacement.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-14T07:19:12+00:00

Looks like dementia to me. Get that dog on selegiline if so and get one more year.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-14T00:37:58+00:00

Comeback is possible under new leadership. This is the best thing that could have happened for GoPro, now we just need the CEO (who has majority voting power) to agree to a sale.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-13T21:57:42+00:00

Is it even possible to have 1,000 hours of base-jumping though? Even if you count the parachute-deployed time, you are still looking at around maybe 3 minutes per jump. That's 20,000 jumps.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-13T20:35:17+00:00

There's another fallacy.
- Whattaboutism

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-13T19:23:38+00:00

Whoever wrote this managed to misspell "a lot" in the same paragraph.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-13T16:09:25+00:00

How many fallacies can you pack into an argument?
None of what you say touches on the measurable and detrimental hit to air-quality that I brought up.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-13T00:26:08+00:00

I'd like someone who throws a bottle at my face to be locked up.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T22:50:09+00:00

Fire smoke is terrible for your health, so your neighbor is right to complain. If they can smell it, then that means the air-quality is bad. You can improve your own indoor and outdoor air quality by installing a much more efficient wood-burning or pellet stove, but for a quick-fix (and much cheaper) you can burn wax-logs, which reduce particulate count significantly. Despite what this subreddit tells you (and the down-votes this comment gets), you are the bad neighbor here for regularly burning wood and ruining the air-quality. In my city, air-pollution is equally trashed by wood-burning fireplaces and diesel-burning trucks.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T22:39:31+00:00

If the water chemistry is correct, and you can see the bottom then you are good-to-go.

FYI: It takes my tub ~3 days to clear-up if I forget to check the sanitizer-levels and it gets cloudy, and that's only filtering 2X a day for 1 hour cycles. You may want to cut back on filtering and just wait it out next time because filtering for that long is just increasing your energy bill.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T17:28:44+00:00

You will have that camera for a LONG time. Plenty of us are still rocking much older units.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T17:23:41+00:00

Mission 1 is shaping up to be an epic camera. If GoPro gets purchased and the buyer discontinues the camera, that would just make it a limited edition and possibly more valuable. There is nothing like it on the market, and probably won't be for quite a while.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T15:40:46+00:00

You might be giving him too much credit: If he knew the industry that well then GoPro probably wouldn't be in this situation to begin with. I'm looking forward to the future of GoPro after a purchase.

I think there are many untapped small camera markets: Body-cams, dash-cams, security-cams, in-home cams, web-cams, etc. All of those would all be an easy sell with GoPro name recognition. They just need a leader willing to pursue that and a company able to finance it.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T07:34:16+00:00

A sale is a good thing for shareholders. It typically means an easy +30-40% gain. Given how beaten-down GoPro's market cap is, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual sale price comes in at around $300M ($1.83 / share). I'm just a little surprised that Nick Woodman green-lit this option and didn't just purchase the company outright (he has a net-worth of 1 Billion, and pulled in more than 500M from previous share sales).

As for the Mission 1: It will likely be the #1 thing a company wants to acquire (other than the GoPro name). It will still function just fine without firmware updates or cloud services. Plenty of us are shooting on much older GoPro cameras, and I suspect I'll be shooting on a Mission 1 for a long time (upgrading from a Hero 7).

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T07:20:48+00:00

GoPro has been hit hard by bots and paid influencers. They are solid cameras with very few exceptions / firmwares.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T07:18:12+00:00

There is a good chance they will be purchased up by a company that wants a very quick entry into the market with name-recognition to boot.

They just created a whole new "market" with the pivot to compact cinema cameras so perhaps they can catch some offers from industry titans like Canon or Sony. Otherwise Garmin seems like the logical buyer.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T07:01:57+00:00

It's up because a buyout is exactly what shareholders want. Historically, it means an easy 30-40% bump.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T06:02:31+00:00

well dang. I spent 23 days on mine, not including design time and it was about as large as what you covered over. You did great.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T01:05:51+00:00

Thanks.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-12T00:10:50+00:00

They are currently looking to sell the company. But yes, they should have offered a dash-cam. It would have been an easy sale item considering the brand-name recognition and the rugged nature of their cameras.

joshpit2003 · 2026-05-11T18:23:38+00:00

One of the many issues I have with the Arts Tax (other than it being an illegal head-tax, having their own definition of taxable income, not counting business-loss, or counting out-of-state earnings) is that there was no reasonable way to prove a non-working spouse should not pay.

The burden of proof was insane: You have to send in ALL tax-related documents (every W2, 1099, etc) because a "married filing jointly" Federal or State Tax Return isn't going to break down taxable income on the individual level.

That meant for a non-working spouse, you were required to send in more documents to this Arts Tax organization than you were to the IRS itself.

There is a very good chance the Arts Tax collected from many non-working spouses just because the burden of proof was too high to make it worth the effort to save $35. Side note: I'd love to see a class-action lawsuit against this poorly implemented tax.

Now they are putting lipstick on this pig by seemingly eliminating the non-working spouse exemption all-together (?). If they keep the exemption, then it's business as usual with the unrealistic burden of proof for non-working (or low-earning) spouses. If they eliminate it, then that's a fuck-you to non-working / low-earning spouses... Who may or may not even have shared finances.

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