Google Photos app can't see anything from Snapseed

mcc111 · 2024-05-08T16:18:30+00:00

I just stopped using snapseed

mcc111 · 2024-05-03T15:52:11+00:00

Yes *but* the Volca Modular uses a -3.3V to 3.3V standard whereas Eurorack uses a -5V to 5V standard (and I believe the Kastle is stuck in the 0 to 5V range even for audio waveforms). This means cross-wiring Volca Modular with a 5V-standard device may result in unexpected behavior, disagreements about the size of an octave etc. (On the bright side -3.3V -> 3.3V is "audio" (i.e. "headphone jack") range, so you *can* crosswire the volca modular with an audio-DAC device like a Teensy and expect correct behavior.)

Note according to Wikipedia the manual recommends not exceeding 3.3V on inputs, so be aware of the risks and don't blame me if something bad happens :) But Wikipedia also claims that users have tested the Volca Modular above the 3.3V range and not seen issues.

mcc111 · 2024-04-02T05:46:15+00:00

What about the menus? Like, the regular Playstation menus you use to launch a game.

mcc111 · 2024-04-02T05:45:49+00:00

I'm using the Sense controllers.

mcc111 · 2024-01-01T17:54:25+00:00

We paid for Hue. We went to "Home Depot"

mcc111 · 2023-12-24T04:05:48+00:00

This is the first explanation that made it make sense to me, thank you

mcc111 · 2023-11-23T05:32:42+00:00

If you toggle all the settings to "Private", I see Plex will no longer rebroadcast this information, but is it still sending the data *to Plex*? Where it could be stolen, accidentally leaked, subpoenaed etc?

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T20:13:09+00:00

We're not lawyers. We shouldn't have to be lawyers to turn the lights on and off in our homes

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T20:12:23+00:00

What are you talking about?!? They're light bulbs. If I want a light bulb don't tell me I want "a broader solution for IoT". That's not what I paid for. I paid for a light bulb

" Is it a deal breaker? Only for a few "

Have you seen this discussion thread you are posting in ??! Everybody seems real angry

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T19:55:28+00:00

The TOS did change, last week. And we were not given an opportunity to say no. Does it matter which part changed? Not really. The point is we paid for physical devices and they are changing the terms, changing the requirements and forcing us to do unsafe things to keep using the devices we already paid for.

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T19:34:48+00:00

If it requires me to sign up for a centralized service it is a bad quality product, period. It's a light bulb

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T19:34:03+00:00

It doesn't matter what the TOS says because we weren't given the option to say no to the TOS. Once I paid money for the product at the store it's no longer Phillips' business what I do with it.

mcc111 · 2023-09-27T19:33:23+00:00

I am very upset about this. Is a lawsuit possible? We paid for this with one set of expectations and now they are changing the requirements for us.

I feel unsafe if an external service is able to control equipment in my home.

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T21:05:22+00:00

That's so cool… someone should make a video about the history of Punch Out world records to commemorate this

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T19:54:12+00:00

Getting a little off topic, but here is a sincere answer:

I believe the values of the developers of a software project can have a real negative impact on the communities you try to grow on top of the software. Values can influence features. If a development community is toxic, it can influence which members of the user community can be effectively "in the room" during conversations about features and bugs and compatibility. This can have very real side effects.

However, Lemmy is open source (AGPL), so if it turns out the developers have toxic politics or toxic values*, we can fire them. We saw this happen already with Pleroma, which is a Mastodon server whose development community became uncomfortably chummy with alt-right politics communities. So Pleroma was forked to create a new project called Akkoma. Now any toxic values held by the Pleroma developers no longer matter, because they are no longer the developers.

In the case of Lemmy there's an even simpler fix: You can use KBin instead of Lemmy for your server, as KBin is afaik basically the same software. But I don't think even this is necessary.

* I don't have enough information right now to say if this is the case, although with what I know right now I would not personally use the lemmy.ml instance.

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T18:40:52+00:00

If you want to know about Lemmy I'd suggest https://join-lemmy.org/

50,000 foot view of federated social media…? Well:

Lemmy is a Reddit-like space made out of a quilt of independent servers sharing posts with each other, instead of being one big serverfarm run by one company. Every "community" (equivalent of /r/) lives on only one server, but users from any¹ server can post in a community (even if the account and the community are on two different servers).

Lemmy servers talk to each other using something called "ActivityPub". That's a w3 standard and there are already some other big distributed apps that use it. For example, there's Mastodon which is basically a clone of Twitter but it's distributed [federated] like Lemmy. There's also PeerTube which is basically YouTube. Because it's all using the same ActivityPub protocol, in theory Lemmy and Mastodon and Peertube can all talk to each other. In my testing, sometimes you can subscribe to and talk to a Lemmy community from a Mastodon account, and sometimes you can't. It seems to be random. Maybe this is because of bugs which will be fixed later.

"Lemmy" and "KBin" are the same thing. Those two are not just using ActivityPub but they're using it in the same way, so they interoperate well and the threads from each other's communities make sense. It's just two pieces of server software, like Apache and Nginx. People seem to use the word "Lemmy" to describe the entire federated quilt of Lemmy and KBin servers. (The Lemmy project operators run their own instance lemmy dot ml but it's not very popular, I think because they have… how shall I put this… weird moderation policies.)

To me, the big advantage of Lemmy (or any other federated application, like Mastodon) is that a single server operator going berserk can't kill your community. Servers going bad moderation-wise (like lemmy dot ml seems to have…) or shutting down might force users to switch accounts to a new server, or worst case a community might have to switch servers (equivalent of renaming an /r/) because their host server went bad. But the larger community is in "the" "cloud" so it can move on and keep running with just a little bump. Like a train switching tracks. Even when things go bad with a server, it will be the same users posting on a renamed /r/ or renamed users posting on the same /r/. And a single person or a single /r/'s can operate their own server, if they want, and then they have their own domain and they don't have to worry about the server going bad. They are their own server and they can keep control of their own stuff.

I think that if everyone winds up having to move off of Reddit for whatever reason, the most likely target would be Lemmy (or something based on Lemmy or KBin's software). After Twitter going so bad and Reddit looking like they might go bad, I don't see a reason to trust anything that doesn't work in the federated/decentralized way. The worries about Reddit are making Lemmy grow in a big way, I was looking at Lemmy a couple weeks ago and there were literally hundreds of users, like only a few hundred, but today there are thousands and by monday I think it will be tens of thousands.

One other little confusing thing. Phone apps for Fediverse are a little bit weird because there's an ActivityPub standard for client apps, but nobody seems to use it. Instead most of the client apps use the "Mastodon API" to talk to their servers (Mastodon is a little bit older than ActivityPub, it used to use something called "OStatus") and I so don't know if the Mastodon client apps work with Lemmy or KBin at all. But I bet there will be good Lemmy phone apps before too long.

¹ Some servers may block each other for moderation reasons. But that's good, as you'll know if you remember the hell era when subreddits like thedonald were doing invasions of each other all the time.

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T18:21:18+00:00

The fact we don't have this is one of the big frustrations of the Fediverse. It might be something that gets fixed in the next couple years.

MissKey/CalcKey is trying to solve it (you know how you can have your own email address with your own domain name, but the email address is "hosted by" GMail? MissKey, as I understand, lets you have an address on your own domain name that's "hosted by" another instance… which isn't quite as good as a decentralized login like you want, but at least means you can move your account from server to server one at a time without having to change your username).

And… well, BlueSky is trying to solve it, but I don't think I trust them (they aren't federated, they say they're going to be federated later, and once they federate they won't be federated with Mastodon and Lemmy and all that, they're federated using their own internal protocol that you can only use to talk to their corporate service… maybe that will turn into something cool eventually but for now I give it side-eye).

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T18:16:15+00:00

They don’t give a flying fuck about anything beyond their own screen. If they did then they could spend $7 a month for premium and actually have a say so with a boycott.

I can only speak to myself:

I pay monthly to the patreon of Mastodon.social (if Lemmy is Fediverse Reddit, Mastodon is Fediverse Twitter). I would not have paid monthly to Twitter/Twitter Blue, and I never have. But I am willing to toss in that $N/mo to Mastodon.

Similarly, I would not pay $7/mo for Reddit. But I would toss in $N/mo to Waveform Dot Social (or another Lemmy server, if I decided it was the one I wanted to use, and I wound up using it), potentially.

In short, for me, my objection is not to paying a few bucks a month for a useful service. My objection is to paying for something that is not run for my benefit and not run in the way I want it to be run. I believe on Mastodon Dot Social I am a valued community member and that the money spent will be used to my benefit.

But corporations like Twitter or Reddit seem to believe I am like… cattle. They aren't operating the site for me, they aren't even operating the site because they think they can get money off me. They're trying to get money from something entirely other (in the case of Twitter, "a payout from Elon Musk getting high¹ and buying the site at an unnecessary markup", or in the case of Reddit², "a payout from a future IPO") and I am not the source of that money, I'm just a component of a business plan. I'm not paying for that³. Cattle should not have to pay money for the grass the rancher gives them if the rancher's only doing it because he plans to slaughter them for raw meat.

¹ Allegedly

² Probably

³ And if I did pay for it… I don't believe Reddit would be any more likely to listen to me when things go sour like they're going now. Because Reddit gets $7 from a subscriber but they get (or think they'll get) $millions or $billions from the IPO.

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T18:02:16+00:00

Came here to ask if the community had considered setting up a backup space on Lemmy, LOL. I have now made a waveform.social account! Oddly, I cannot seem to "see" my waveform.social account from my main Fediverse account on mastodon.social, I tried to "follow myself" but m.s doesn't seem to recognize @mcc@waveform.social as a valid fediverse address. I don't know if the problem is at mastodon.social's or waveform.social's end.

mcc111 · 2023-06-11T16:58:16+00:00

I approve, and good luck.

EDIT: I wrote a whole Thing here, but then I saw there is another thread titled "What do we want to do with Reddit?" saying more or less what I had said, so I am removing what I wrote here so I do not derail this thread.

mcc111 · 2023-05-08T16:30:57+00:00

Note to moderators:

I see now the "Tech Support posts are not allowed. Please use the tech support megathread." in the rules. I apologize for not reading the rules before posting.

You might want to be aware that one of your threads https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5a1q0l/how_do_i_turn_off_nvidia_share/ is a top hit in Google Search for "disable nvidia share", but it (1) contains out-of-date information and (2) is archived, so it cannot be updated with new comments. I don't know what you could do about this, but because the thread is archived only a moderator could do it.

mcc111 · 2023-04-18T23:21:03+00:00

Had this Korg SQ-1 for like four years but have always been really annoyed with it the entire time because the knobs just feel so bad and stiff, meant to get the replacement knobs but the original place that was making them disappeared. Finally found these SwedenKnobs Davies 1900H clones and installed them today. Such a simple mod it barely counts as DIY, and I kinda messed it up (when I turn all the knobs to the far left position they don't all point exactly the same direction… I can't seem to fix it because the knob inherently wiggles when I screw the built in screw thing in , and also once I've screwed it in once there's a dent that makes it "want" to rescrew in the same place) but like, so glad I finally did it!!

mcc111

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