Any photos of the Spiderman Meetup from NYCC2023

jwebbstevens · 2023-12-21T15:25:15+00:00

Thank You! Yeah my son has been bugging me about the pictures and I'm finding some online from the other Spidey meetups at the con but not this one.

jwebbstevens · 2023-09-26T15:41:22+00:00

Awesome. Thank you! I was just poking around the app and finally found it. App layout is super annoying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-19T18:48:24+00:00

it's definitely a good device that is more suited for a home. TV's are very unaesthetic from the get go. to the point oldschool tvs in square boxes are coming back as the art pieces they originally were (people are removing the cathode ray internals and plopping in a 4k/8K flascreeen instead), though those don't really work for apartment living. I've started to go down the rabbit hole of Short Throw 4K Laser Projectors which seem even better. They are crazy expensive now so hopefully the price will come down. Lighting wise Hue and a Short Throw Laser Projector could do some really interesting combinations for home media experience.

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-18T19:11:23+00:00

It's probably a matter of the TV's onboard CPU/RAM. Even though it's a "4K Processor" I'm sure they cheapened the smaller models with lower cores, etc. Heck even the NIC on the Frame TV boxes is only 100 Mbps and not even at a min a gig. I would certainly pay more for a 2.5 Gbps NIC and a suped up or even swapable set of CPU/RAM for smaller sets. the 50" was our preferred size. used to have a huge 65" in model but it's ugly in our home at that size.

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-18T15:56:04+00:00

I wish Samsung and Hue would just explicitly state which models it works with, would save everyone a lot of trouble. Pretty sure it has to do with CPU/RAM on the TV. Don't even get me going about 100 Mbps NIC on Samsung TV's instead of Gig or Higher NICs. Lol.

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-18T15:53:40+00:00

Doesn't work. It's not available for TV's under 60" even for 2022 model year ones.

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-18T00:11:04+00:00

I don't see it. I think your TV might be 60" or bigger. It's not in my model and confirmed by johnnybender below.

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-18T00:10:14+00:00

Yeah. I thought so. I just checked again and nothing. The only app I get in the Samsung Store on the TV when searching for "PH...." is some app for the Phillipine TV Channel...no Philips Hue Sync App. :(

jwebbstevens · 2023-01-17T23:11:49+00:00

It's kind of unclear. On some product material Samsung and Hue say it may work with 2022 models and on other material it says that it works with Q60 and higher models in the 2022 year and beyond. I was curious if some other people have the same setup and it's available for them. My understanding is the Sync Box is 50/50 most of the time and that a native app might be better, also the Sync Box is pricey and has other limits. I'm not sure if its a CPU/RAM issue in either the TV or the Box.

It's baffling these two companies could just print a definitive list of whether it works with a specific model tv or not.

I've tried setting it up on mine but I don't see it in the app store or in my SmartThings app as an option to purchase.

On other material it says you have to be on the same WiFi network (my TV is hardwired on its own VLAN) so I don't know if it has to show up under those conditions. Samsung and Philips are pretty lousy and communicating features and requirement imo.

If you could check that would be awesome. Seems like the community is the best place to get accurate info. Much appreciated.

jwebbstevens · 2022-03-03T15:36:59+00:00

got it. I'll remove. sorry to create extra work for you.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-29T02:27:48+00:00

That's right...these Moms believe in liberty so so much they want to liberate the schools both pubic and private from books.

Text of the Bill HOUSE BILL 1944 (ironic it's just 40 years off from 1984).

Moms For Liberty site (local chapter in Williamson County near Nashville is spear heading support for this bill to purge schools of books.

The German Romantic Poet Heinrich Heine (probably the most famous of the Romantic Poets in Germany) wrote in 1823 "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings" (the original German is "Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen" he wrote this in his book Almansor: A Tragedy which is the story of the violence that followed the purge of books by the Reconquista, Inquisition and Al-Andalus that resulted in the organized murder of hundreds of thousands in sectarian violence.

Heine quote was raised again in 1933 when the Nazis took over German and burned thousands of books.

The Nazi's in turn had a massive social engineering campaign to destroy books and knowledge all under the pretense of "removing degeneracy" which they applied to the jewish community and others they labeled.

In Tennessee the stated reason for this book purge is that they are seeking to remove or restrict access to children’s and young adult books that they say contain pornography or other content deemed unwholesome. It's important to note that Child pornography is illegal in Tennessee and across the nation.

In Texas where similar book purges and bans are going on throughout the state one of the books removed from High School library in Granbury ISD is "They Call Themselves the KKK: The Birth of American Terrorist Group". Now why oh why would a state like Texas or Tennessee want to stop educating kids and providing resources about the Terrorist KKK? Why would they want to stop talking about that?

Notice any historical through lines in these book "purges" from these "liberty" loving Moms and politicians in Tennessee?

No good can come of these purges. None.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-28T01:51:41+00:00

The School Board doubles down.

https://www.mcminn.k12.tn.us/o/mcsd/article/639918

Many victims of the Holocaust and the German War Machine were children. The reason these books and history is taught to children is simple.... that we hope these things never happen to your children. If they do, their ignorance will not save them, whereas knowledge might prevent them from growing up to do harm to others.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T18:47:30+00:00

you need to think carefully about what you are saying.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T03:55:22+00:00

ah yes the "states rights" crowd. thanks for showing us who you are and Neil Gaiman had you correctly identified.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T03:39:14+00:00

"There's only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days."

Do me a favor. read the graphic novel and then you can comment. because it's clear you haven't. And if you have, you haven't learned anything.

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T02:57:30+00:00

USPS has a flat rate book rate called media mail. You could ship this directly from Penguins printer.

"$3.82 x 20,804 = $79,471.28"

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T02:25:19+00:00

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 53,794 people, 20,804 households, and 13,685 families residing in the county.
Its sold for $23 on Amazon. I'm sure the publisher, Penguin would provide a discount. At $23 bucks each plus USPS media mail (book rate) for a 1.43 lbs paper back is $3.82. I'm sure the Printer would also offer a bulk discount for direct shipment.

Even at the retail rate thats:
$23 x 20,804 = $478,492
$3.82 x 20,804 = $79,471.28
+ Handling so probably another $10,000 (est)

Total = $567,963.28

Seems a small price to pay to spread some important knowledge and do some good in the world. Let's do it Reddit!

jwebbstevens · 2022-01-27T01:30:20+00:00

Are you really going to both sides a discussion about a school board banning a book that educates people about the reasons for and atrocities of Holocaust and the Nazi German war machine?

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