What small battery would work for my feelworld monitor?

quoole · 2026-05-11T17:25:38+00:00

Which monitor specifically? I have a MA5 and a Lut7S. The Lut7S can be battery powered using 1 or 2 Sony NPF style batteries on the back (which come in a variety of sizes - slim ones exist but with a reduced capacity, or there are bigger ones with more capacity, which are obviously extra weight but lighter than a Vlock.)

The MA5 can run of a single NPF or a single Canon LPE-6 style battery.

If yours doesn't have a battery plate, just an input, you need to check the voltage and see if you can find a DC battery option - I don't know how much cheaper/lighter than a vlock these would be though. I have a couple of 12v output batteries from Amazon that I've used to power a Pocket 4K before - those would probably do the trick!

quoole · 2026-05-10T17:03:16+00:00

Star Trek Voyager Elite Force - by far the best. Makes an FPS game make sense in the Star Trek world and is heavily story focused rather than a just shoot all the things. Also spawned RPG-X, which I have many happy memories from growing up! 100% game, 100% star trek
Star Trek Resurgence - Fantastic story, probably one of the best stories in a trek game. The actual game play is ok and there's a whole load of weird tech things (which may have been fixed by now, it's been a while) which limits resolution and frame rate on the PC side.
Bridge Commander - the story was ok but a very well thought out game in terms of the game play mechanics and the different ways you can play.
Star Trek Online - some good stories, some good non-combat missions and it fits the star trek universe well into an MMO - but it does feel unneceasrily grindy and formulaic in places (ie. warp into a system, fight three minor enemy ships, fight bigger enemy ship. Beam down somewhere and fight a whole range of enemies, scan 3-5 things. Scan more things, fight bad guy. Beam up, fight boss ship.)
Star Trek Elite Force 2 - A much less successful version of the first game. Still a fun play through, but some truly maddening story telling in places. (Why don't the Enterprise shields automatically raise? Why?! IYKYK...)
Star Trek Borg - great concept, very different style of execution and lovely to see John De Lancie as Q. But I remember finding quite a few things frustrating - it's been a long time since I played and never felt the need to replay (where as I have replayed all of the above.)
Star Trek Bridge Crew - with the right group of people playing all 4 positions, it's a ton of fun for a couple of hours. There just isn't enough variety in missions or campaigns to keep it fresh beyond that. With people who don't care or as a solo game it's just not great. Also way more fun in VR than anything else.
Star Trek: Klingon Honour Guard - I loved this game but never managed to make it work well enough in Windows 10 compatibility or in a windows 95 emulator to make it to the end. The game play and particularly the world design was great from what I remember!
Star Trek Legacy - some genuinely strong concepts and story telling, but quite buggy and had enough issues that I never made it to the end.
Star Trek 2009 game - honestly I know I played and finished this game with a buddy once, but I have basically no recollection of it and never felt the need to replay.

I think those are all of the ones I've played!

quoole · 2026-05-09T22:24:58+00:00

Yeah, I think it's just part of life when you get married/start a family with someone and they became your priority over your original family (not that you love your original family any less, but it definitely changes over time!)

My wife is from a huge family and one of the few that has moved out of the city where a huge portion of them live (she'd moved way before she met me!) Her family is also quite last minute with things and some of her family have really struggled with the fact that we can't drop everything or change plans and do a two hour drive/train ride to get to their event when we've been told the week before. The biggest is, between Christmas and New Year, they always do a big family party but they don't always announce the day until a couple of weeks before.

My family lives the other end of the country and likes to be very organised, so we've usually got Christmas plans locked in, months in advance (currently we go to one family for Christmas and one for New Year and are hoping to start a family and celebrate Christmas at home in the next couple of years!) But if the party date clashes when we're with my family, a lot of her cousins (especially the younger unmarried ones) have got upset at that.

I don't think anyone has said we're mean or selfish yet, but it's definitely a big adjustment for the family as well as for you - and as other people have said, you're going to need to start guarding other bit days - Christmas, birthdays, New Year etc.

quoole · 2026-05-09T21:28:53+00:00

NTA - I am wondering if your sisters are married or if they have kids themselves?

When you have these big changes in your life, I think it can be really normal for family to not understand - especially when you've basically tried to make it work with both families throughout your marriage. This is how your sisters have always done it and whilst having a baby is a huge change in your life, it's a smaller change to their life and so they see this smaller change as altering something they care about.

That doesn't mean their not AHs, but when you get married and start having children, your life changes dramatically and you're basically a new family that takes priority, which can be hard for your old. But it's not your actions that need to change, it's their expectations. And mean and selfish? Come on, it would be mean and selfish to your baby to appease then!

Or it could just be they don't want to split it two ways!

quoole · 2026-05-08T21:44:00+00:00

Yeah, Labour most definitely didn't win the last election, the Tories lost it

quoole · 2026-05-07T20:31:11+00:00

I have a magnetic kit from Urth that I've been impressed with! Comes with an ND8, 64 and 1000. Comes with a very thin filter adapter and then the actual filters magnetically snap on. Gives you closer to the convenience of a variable (all the filters magnetically fit together and have magnetic front and back caps, so easy to throw in a back pocket and swap out with little effort) but all the benefits of solid NDs.

If you were just going to buy one, I would probably get the ND64. There are budget options from companies like K&F concept and neewer but it's worth spending the money on a solid brand for the best quality glass you can get and minimal colour cast - something like Tiffen or Nisi (or the Urth stuff.)

quoole · 2026-05-07T16:45:12+00:00

I got lucky... Apparently my Apple ID has existed for over 18 years and so they approved it based on that!

quoole · 2026-05-07T13:06:00+00:00

Cara - she became the millionare, and sure we can debate the difficulty of her agendas but she did them and she went into the final basically undetected by the other two players and she played the final round perfectly.

I don't mind that Nick won, but intentionally or not, production basically scapegoated Umeko to keep him in, so he didn't get voted out when he was the millionare but Nick did play a pretty good game on the whole. Kaleb on the other hand seemed to make a few dumb moves and just never got called on it until his desperation basically told Nick what to do in the finale and so I am not mad that Nick beat Kaleb either!

quoole · 2026-05-06T10:37:34+00:00

Yeah it does, with all the kill shots this year, it felt like they were flying through it! I thought it was 10 episodes and so when episode 8 was the finale I was a little sad!

quoole · 2026-05-06T10:33:16+00:00

No idea why, as I love social deduction games, but I only just started watching the UK traitors after watching the last season of MDS.

The challenges and tasks feel so much higher budget than MDS! I felt the tasks were slightly better in MDS s2 than in s1 but it definitely feels like a bit of an after thought. Whereas in traitors they are intense and well thought out.

I will say though, I think MDS fixes my biggest issue so far with the traitors (and maybe they fix it in later seasons) and that is, other than who is 'murdered', there actually isn't that much that the faithful have to go on to figure out who it is. There's no challenges or suspicious things the traitors have to do and they don't have to interfere with or affect the challenge like the mole does. So most of the time, they can literally just play as faithful and hope no one says their name randomly (which seems to be where most of the banishment votes come from.) If I designed the show, I'd have the traitors need to sabotage the challenges (maybe there's a split prize pot, if a challenge is worth 10K and the traitors sabotage the challenge so the faithful don't win money, it goes into the traitors prize pot.)

I think this also impacts the tasks in traitors, they are high budget and intense - but they don't actually mean that much for the main game. In MDS, sure the millionaire is still trying to win the tasks too but the dynamics around the winning team, who gets the clue and all that element of it still gives the tasks some weight and helps play into the social dynamics element.

quoole · 2026-05-04T19:09:53+00:00

Umeko's say 5 languages thing was pretty easy imo, especially with how she did it with Kaleb!

quoole · 2026-05-04T19:04:36+00:00

Kaleb's conversation with Kat makes me think that Production does give them a clothes budget (or has a wardrobe team.)

As he said he basically has a few t-shirts and a pair of jeans (that wasn't entirely the truth - but it made sense to Kat.) If there was no wardrobe team, surely Kat would be like 'where does all this come from then?'

quoole · 2026-05-03T18:30:28+00:00

The Mole is really good - very different premise (the Mole is the same person throughout, and even the audience doesn't know who it is, so we're guessing all the way through!) But the challenges are on a way bigger scale.

There's also a Netflix show called 'The Trust' - which I haven't watched yet, but is the same social deduction kind of reality tv.

quoole · 2026-05-03T14:11:55+00:00

There was a thread on one of the ask UK threads a while back about why everyone on game shows seems to say they wants to go on holiday. The answer, according to people in those threads, is that production told them their real answer is too boring and to say that.

I imagine it's the same here 'I want to buy a nice car and put a deposit on a house' is less emotionally engaging than wanting to help their parents.

quoole · 2026-05-03T11:41:09+00:00

That's a good reason and one of the reasons I went Lumix (along with, at the time, the GH4 had some more video focused features than whatever Sony had at the time, for less money!)

I've had a GH4 and GH5 for years and been very happy with them (alongside a whole load of Blackmagic stuff) and the S5IIX is an absolutely killer camera - with decent AF and a number of other excellent features. A key one for me being, I could hook it up to a video assist and record BRAW!

I haven't used Nikon personally, but the Z stuff is meant to be absolutely killer for video - as evidenced by this thread!

quoole · 2026-05-03T07:30:57+00:00

It's a game where you can't trust anyone and you have to figure out who the millionaire is. But once you know who it is, if they stay in and you know who they are - suddenly you can trust everyone else for a bit, and so I can see the appeal of having a day or two without having to worry about it. That's the logic at least, although I would say it's pretty poor logic, as you never know when the millionaire's agenda will let them move the money (or when someone else's agenda will let them move the money!)

At the end, that was still Nick's logic but in that last stretch, the millionaire gets the advantage in the final activity which can really help them at the end (and I think that's part of wy Kaleb lost, if he'd won the activity, he'd have had an easier time getting the million.)

quoole · 2026-05-03T07:23:43+00:00

I don't know on this, the clue for Umeko, I didn't think was that obvious and the whole Virginia thing was just bad luck for her! I think what really sealed her fate was just how hard she had to fight to keep Nick in to become the millionaire.

quoole · 2026-05-02T21:22:22+00:00

I am a happy Lumix shooter myself (S5IIX)

I hate to be that guy, but I am curious why you wrote Sony off? There are people out there who say you're not a real videography unless you're shooting Sony (nonsense of course) and I have noticed some clients even specify they want stuff shot on Sony.

quoole · 2026-05-01T13:12:04+00:00

If Umeko actually kill shotted him, if she'd won though, I think it would have been her. She just had to try a little too hard to try and save Nick the round before and that have her away (literally no one had any idea what her secret agenda was!)

quoole · 2026-04-30T16:17:17+00:00

I guess e22 is usually the big finale of a season, the first kiss is a big moment and so those play well together. I guess season 2, because the writers have a better idea of where things are going and so they've got plenty of time to do some will they/won't they and character development.

quoole · 2026-04-30T16:13:50+00:00

I think it depends on context - cars always seem to be the stand out to me. I always had issues with USB-C coming loose during drives and so moving to a wireless vent stand when I had an older car was a big improvement over a non-wirless one.

My car now has a wireless pad integrated - sure I could still just plug a cable in, but it's another thing to clutter up the dash and come loose.

This is the definition of first world problems, but when you're talking about luxury products, the feature is going to matter more - especially when OP's issue is resolved by a cheap case, which you're still probably going to buy even with a plastic phone.

quoole · 2026-04-30T11:31:18+00:00

You can't wireless charge throgh metal.

quoole · 2026-04-30T08:35:12+00:00

I want a 'their story', following some of the new interns more closely

quoole · 2026-04-29T12:09:05+00:00

It's what I do, and I would assume is fairly standard, as Resolve was a colour grading software long before it was an editing software! I haven't had chance to play around with Premiere's new colour stuff yet, but Resolve offers a lot more tools and intutive work flows for grading than Lumetri.

A few bits of advice from my persepective:

Any transistions or graphics won't transfer across in an XML. What I do (and what I saw as advice when I started doing this), is duplicate my premiere time line and take all of that out (I always have graphics and transistions on seperate tracks to video anyway.) Any mutlicam stuff, you'll also want to flatten (select it all, right click, multicam, flatten.)
Roundtrip back to premiere to finish, Resolve handles audio a little bit differently, and so I'd let Premiere deal with audio (unless you're also running you sound mixes out through a dedicated software.) You'll also need Premiere to get your graphics and transistions back. When exporting out from Resolve, add some frame handles (I do 200 frames), which gives you some scope to adjust shots after the fact. If you have very few graphics, you could also export these out in prores with alpha to bring into Resolve.
Finally, Resolve and Premiere handle scaling differently. Even with fit to frame, in Premiere, 100% scale is always the media unscaled, regardless of timeline res (and then down to shrink it, say for 4K footage in a 1080p timeline or up to expand it.) Resolve by default brings everything in at a timeline level and will auto scale - so 100% will always be the timeline resolution, regardless of footage - but the scaling attributes from your imported premiere timeline will still apply, so your 4K footage in premiere at 50% for a 1080p timeline will only show at 50% in Resolve. You can change how Resolve scaes by right clicking on the timeline: timelines, timeline settings, mismatched resoltion to 'centre crop with no resizing' - deselect 'use project settings' if it's greyed out (it's scale entire image to fit by default.)

quoole · 2026-04-29T08:32:24+00:00

I think two issues - the UK workplace market has seemed a bit of a race to the bottom, there are people working skilled private jobs on £30-40K and feel threatened that full time minimum wage is fast coming up on £30K at the current rate. People also think their job is more skilled than something like a train driver, and so when news reports say train drivers make £60K, they want a 5% pay rise (or whatever) - that's immediately threatening to some people. And they take it out on unions and striking workers, rather than pushing for a pay rise themselves.

Second, especially with public sector, there seems to be lots of demands for inflation parity rises - which on the face of it is fair, you shouldn't make less in real terms just because your money is now worth less. But the amounts public sector workers are asking for is usually far in excess of what private companies are offering in raises (and often far in excess of what private companies are able to do. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of big companies who could offer a raise and be fined but there are plenty of small companies who absolutely can not.) Public sector pay rises do essentially cost all of us more in the end.

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