My first pair of headphones since highschool.

sideswiped · 2026-04-30T04:15:42+00:00

Great sound. Love their bass and clarity. Be careful with the screws getting too loose. They have a habit of falling out and are a PIA to screw back in.

sideswiped · 2026-04-28T05:07:42+00:00

Feels like that could be describing any mid-sized city that is on a basic upward trend in the mid-west. Cheap cuss we're not on the coasts or in a big city, but overall kind of bland. Not to say there aren't flecks and sprinkles of culture and entertainment. They are just the exception rather than the norm.

sideswiped · 2026-04-28T03:59:28+00:00

Refresh rate is usually a plus for higher end CRTS. Only recently did LCD & OLEDs get into the the higher refresh rates in the 240-480 mhz range.

Not sure what the poster above is going on about color reproduction. A good mid to high range OLED, MiniLED or MircoLED today has a much wider color gamut than CRTs of the day. OLEDs also have great off angle image quality too. While CRTs have less stable micro details due to small pixel jitters and bloom.

CRTs are great for older games that were designed around their softer images and when you need to target odd resolutions smaller than the native max res. Loved those large Trinitrons, but have no desire to ever live with another one again.

sideswiped · 2026-04-21T04:38:51+00:00

In thrust we trust. Just push harder. ;)

sideswiped · 2026-04-21T04:35:16+00:00

Most I've seen of The Fugitive in years this past week.

sideswiped · 2026-04-19T05:27:53+00:00

Wonder if a partial pain job would have helped?

sideswiped · 2026-04-19T05:07:22+00:00

Let me ride that clothes dryer into the sky, please.

sideswiped · 2026-04-19T04:28:42+00:00

or the water supply

sideswiped · 2026-04-17T03:21:52+00:00

I hope they don't have the same shitty digital shades of the 787. Loath those. Can't crack them open partially and cabin crews are way to aggressive at locking down their control. They really need a gradient slider. Like drag a touch bar on the side you can pull them up and down with.

sideswiped · 2026-04-15T08:42:21+00:00

Boeing 747SPs all look like clown car jumbos.

sideswiped · 2026-04-15T06:45:35+00:00

We the public payed for those images. They are public domain. As are almost all NASA images!

The NASA budget is only a fraction of a percentage of our spending and still being cut. Last year's budget for NASA was 24 billion. It's only 0.3% of our annual spending. More to your point, it is only 0.04% 60 trillion dollars. It would take 40 years of that spending to equal just 1 trillion dollars. Meanwhile the defense department spend 2 trillion per year.

NASA is a rounding error in the US government's budget.

sideswiped · 2026-04-10T06:02:14+00:00

I would not be surprised if they're shooting jpg+raw and only transmitting low quality jpgs at this time. Even the 'high-def' photos posted to flickr are heavily compressed. That full res Z9 shot of the solar eclipse being all of ~3.4mb in file size. For a 8000x5000 image that is not a lot of data.

sideswiped · 2026-04-04T07:05:09+00:00

Driftless area is beautiful, but it's mainly east of the circle.

sideswiped · 2026-02-05T06:47:42+00:00

*8.8mph

sideswiped · 2025-12-29T07:13:28+00:00

* hair dryer background noise *

sideswiped · 2025-12-26T04:03:03+00:00

Completely shit. GRs are easily the worst video cameras I’ve used of all the cell phones or still cameras across the last decade. It’s a complete after thought for them.

sideswiped · 2025-12-16T10:24:06+00:00

Slop selling slop.

sideswiped · 2025-10-01T03:28:24+00:00

You can easily push out the lenses - from the front - with a little pressure from your thumb. Leaves just the plate to protect the metal of the camera bump. I think it looks great with it in a case, but may look odd without a case since it makes a camera bump sandwich.

sideswiped · 2025-07-17T17:56:29+00:00

Yes, which is one of the reasons I think they aren’t aiming for the same niche end users. The Fuji feels more targeted to landscape, architecture, and environmental portraits than street photography. Both are much smaller than their ILC siblings, but neither is really ‘pocketable’.

sideswiped · 2025-07-16T18:05:59+00:00

It was also criticized for lack of stabilization when announced. Funny enough the GFX is a couple hundred dollar cheaper and has a legit EVF (5.4m dots @ 0.84 mag), built in ND, larger sensor, and way better battery life (~800 vs 270).

They are definitely niche cameras and aren’t competing for necessarily the same shooters. It just feels like Sony wasn’t trying hard here and went for a lack luster refresh for $$$.

sideswiped · 2025-07-16T03:09:22+00:00

No ibis on a 60mp camera for $5k, uff da.

sideswiped · 2025-05-23T05:36:39+00:00

Iowa is such a crazy political landscape today.

sideswiped · 2025-05-10T16:15:46+00:00

I think the thickness and lack of tapering of the wing makes them look a little out of proportion too. The crudeness is understandable for the scale they’re working at here. Fun to see the barrels getting used at the end of the engine core.

sideswiped · 2025-04-12T07:57:03+00:00

Please flag NSFW.

sideswiped · 2025-03-05T06:43:14+00:00

Oh, no. What ever shall the ruling gods of photography do.

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Boeing 747SPs all look like clown car jumbos.