RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 day ago:
It reminds me of the Griswold’s neighbors in the Christmas Vacation movie, Elaine and Ponytail
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 1 day ago:
Cheese frisbee!
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 week ago:
Bandcamp is great for music downloads
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 week ago:
It depends, sometimes you can “buy” digital ownership from these places in the form of DRM-free files. If you are able to download the DRM-free file and make a reliable backup of it, then I could call that actual ownership. This is how I approach my music and ebook libraries. I don’t do subscriptions for streaming anything but TV.
- Comment on OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN FOLKS 1 week ago:
Correct, the Nazis are occupying the White House currently. The USA lost the Cold War when orange hitler was elected and continued to kiss the ass of Putin.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 week ago:
You can even buy books directly from publishers. Recently I wanted a hardback copy of a book and it was out of stock, backordered, or absurdly high priced on all the big popular online places. Ended up ordering it for MSRP from Penguin Random House direct.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 weeks ago:
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To get a camera with RTSP or ONVIF (video stream output) support, you look at the specifications of cameras that are available for sale. Web search engines should be helpful for this pursuit.
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To get the surveillance functions of your camera streams (recording, alerts, etc) you install software on the Raspberry Pi that aggregates and records / analyzes the camera feeds. Zoneminder, Shinobi, and Motioneye are some examples of that kind of software.
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- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that hard, and you only need cameras and the raspberry pi.
Pretty much any wifi camera that supports standards like RTSP or ONVIF can be made to work with open source camera stuff on the Pi. Also you can store the videos on the RPi’s storage (USB or SD)
- Comment on ENHANCE 3 weeks ago:
It would be pretty cool to me, and I would prefer not to attach machines to my eyeballs
- Comment on ENHANCE 3 weeks ago:
I would much rather have that in a pair of lightweight glasses than contacts. Put the Zoom button on the glasses arm near the temple, and Go-Go Gadget binoculars
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah WTF is up with that? My car does the same thing with a USB drive full of songs. It will literally play the same “shuffled” sequence over and over every time you drive. I have to take out the drive and change the files on it sometimes to make it actually Shuffle the songs’ order and that’s too much BS
- Comment on Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it. 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck is wrong with y’all?
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 3 weeks ago:
Reminder that the CISA group investigating Salt Typhoon was disbanded by the current nazi administration. Quite disturbing to think how many devices might still be compromised while the investigation has been abandoned.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You can uninstall it from Settings > Apps. Other apps that don’t show the Uninstall option can also be Disabled in there.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Found it present on LineageOS phone (with google play services installed)
Did not find it on GrapheneOS.
- Comment on If driving with your head buried in your phone isn't dangerous enough there's also THIS 4 weeks ago:
Would be ideal if you lived in your car but I wouldn’t trust food to remain stable in transit on that burger pedestal
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nope only 23% of Americans voted for the nazis. 77% of Americans either didn’t vote, voted for Harris (or others), or were ineligible to vote.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
It’s really weird how you keep making this discussion about me as if I am the VR. It doesn’t matter to ME that you are choosing to miss out on something great, so my skin is not part of the equation at all. I’m just here to let people know that you’re wrong and that people can have a cool experience with that technology.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
There’s the douchebag who shows up every time to shit on good technology because it’s not catering to their whims perfectly.
If you want that software, get to fucking work on it then. Make some kind of contribution beyond shitting on things.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
It’s fine if you don’t want one, but my VR headset get used daily and was a great investment. Once you get used to good VR games, the rest of the video games in 2D just begin to pale in comparison. One example is Assetto Corsa (racing sim) which I could not win any races in in 2D standard mode, but when I played in VR my 3D sense of distance allowed me to actually race competitively enough to win for a change. Also it’s just pretty rad to drive racecars in full 3D view, getting the full experience of moving at high speed.
And it’s absolutely not true that there’s “no applications” for VR. You just don’t know about them because you’re against it. In my household the primary applications are gaming and exercise. There are a number of VR games that require the player to physically move a lot, enough to break a sweat on every session.
IMO the only thing wrong with Apple’s Vision Pro is the high price. I spent $1000 on my VR system and that was a lot. So when you get into the triple-thousand dollar ballpark, your market is just too tiny to grow into anything soon.
- Comment on AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint 2 months ago:
AT&T always sucks. Worst ISP I ever had.
They hate building anything that benefits the public. They will always not improve the infrastructure if they can avoid it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ask Siri if she knows who you are. Let another person ask Siri anything. Then ask Siri if it’s doing voice recognition to identify your voice.
There are a lot of companies already doing voice recognition on our audio data, but you don’t hear much about it.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 3 months ago:
It seems like China is putting a lot of efforts into becoming environmentally cleaner in the last few years though. I’m hoping that they’ve finally realized that pollution is bad.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 months ago:
Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.
This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 months ago:
I think my mom still uses the last CRT TV that I had. Gave it to her when I bought my first 720p HD TV, as the old CRT was better than her old TV. Later on I also gave her that HD TV but she still has the CRT too.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 months ago:
Also to break glass, don’t hit the middle of the glass, strike near a bottom corner where it is less likely to flex against the impact. You may be able to take a seatbelt’s end and use the corner of the metal end of the seatbelt to break it if you have nothing else. Corners for breaking
- Comment on New Orleans subdivision on toxic Superfund site being cleared for solar farm 3 months ago:
Holy shit that story is bonkers. It’s like the secret of CHUD but real
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
I see cash businesses all the time that can operate without power or Internet. Festival / market vendors, food trucks, etc. It’s not hard to count money, give change, write down a receipt if needed.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
That would be no problem, unless your electricity is unreliable and you don’t have a UPS. I rarely use the power button on any of my PCs or Macs, except the one old PC that can’t do S3 sleep anymore (crashes on wake).
Are y’all not using sleep mode? Also the Apple M-cpus are extremely power efficient so leaving it on without sleep mode is a perfectly fine option too.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Just like a Raspberry Pi needs a dongle for a power button, except the Mini has one already.