curbstickle
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- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 days ago:
It’s only a matter of time before some brilliant dipshit over there manages to envision Windows as a subscription service aimed solely at businesses
I think at least one M365 plan includes a windows license now.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 days ago:
Like anything else, they have their place. But they’ve been shoved into use cases they dont fit as well.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 3 days ago:
Put on Bluey.
Others to try:
- Frog & Toad
- Wild Kratts
- Tumble Leaf
- Interrupting Chicken
- Shape Island
- Jake & The Neverland Pirates
- Not Quite Narwhal
- Sago Mini Friends
- Doc McStuffins
- Duck & Goose
And dont put peppa back on.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
Yes, a prosecutor presents evidence to convince a jury to go to trial. They have to influence the jury to agree.
Defense’s part comes at the trial.
The expression “a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich” is a nod to the fact that, often, a grand jury votes in the direction the prosecutor wants them to.
Because they usually bring sufficient evidence, and the jury is only deciding if there is sufficient evidence to move forward. This doesnt decide guilt.
There are plenty of things to complain about when it comes to the US “justice” system. Grand jury decisions aren’t remotely the problematic part.
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
What part of my comment said otherwise?
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
Yep, thats how its supposed to work.
Which is why there may be a perfectly reasonable issue as to why it didnt go any further.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 4 days ago:
Did you sand in between? Just curious
Ive done smaller things and with ultra fine grit for sanding between coats, ended up with a gorgeous finish (mailbox, exterior lamps, etc)
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 days ago:
That would be negligence charges, yes, which is what went to the grand jury. The grand jury, for the record here, is a bunch of randomly selected people - not the cops, or a prosecutor, or anything like that. Its a jury. And what this jury decides is not guilt, but whether or not there is enough evidence that supports the charges to bring it to a trial.
And that grand jury decided there was not.
I’m not aware of (and was unable to find) any specifics around what actually happened, so there may be a very good reason why this was the case.
I’m not defending the decision here, just explaining the situation. It was investigated, the police brought someone and evidence to a prosecutor, a prosecutor brought it to court, and a jury decided the charges didn’t fit the evidence to bring forward to a criminal trial. That is all we really know.
- Comment on Home surveillance set up 1 week ago:
Amcrest are great, but not all of them. Learned that with the stupid ASH-21 I bought.
So check the frigate docs for cameras, there is a great list there.
- Comment on Selfhosting DJ sets? (Soundcloud-style) 1 week ago:
You could just use a local NFO for artist/album with jellyfin, thats what I do for everything from stuff friends have made to home movies and fanedits.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 2 weeks ago:
You regularly post interesting (and sometimes funny) content!
Yeah I’ve got nothing either. Kind of one of the reasons I’m on db0 actually.
- Comment on Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they are using a pi 4 for this
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t hitting it locally is the issue. Not an uncommon problem with plex unfortunately, its going out to come back in, so the server and client see it as remote.
Without playback you wouldn’t even be able to see that in the dashboard, which just makes the direction Plex is going so much more problematic.
Like I said, better off using JF.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Remote, yes, they announced you need Plex pass one side or the other for it to work.
Local, no, that shouldn’t happen. Your device isn’t reaching your Plex server locally.
To work around the remote issue, you can VPN to your local network.
But you’re better off in the long haul with Jellyfin as you’re doing now.
- Comment on Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’ll detect it as mass storage media and give it access to the built in audio system.
It won’t. Both will be acting as host, so thats not going to work out.
What car do you have?
Else, I’ll just use a bluetooth speaker I have at home. I don’t need good audio for “turn left/turn right”, just to hear it.
Didn’t you want to use it for your music as well with navidrome?
I’ve had Waze become useless three times in the span of two years because they pushed updates that made the app unstable enough to not be reliable.
CoMaps may be up your alley, uses OSM.
I’ll try the recovery mode for my phone and see if that helps!
Hope that works for you regardless, it was an absolute pain when my wife’s phone update (Samsung) broke android auto and Bluetooth connections. Especially since I just bought the car a few weeks before.
- Comment on Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project 2 weeks ago:
How do you plan to get audio in? Bluetooth? Wired audio input?
In your first post you were calling it a head unit, which would replace everything. Given the picture, you have a more fully integrated android auto compatible system rather than a traditional head unit, so I understand why the other commenter pointed to that - its similar to what I would have suggested, which would be to get a din cover appropriately sized, then cut out for a screen.
So the question becomes how do you want to hear and/or see? That would decide placement requirements. For example, I have a nice spot in the passenger seat I could easily hide it behind a panel under the dash, but the audio input I’d have to bring over to the armrest. So I’d run a cable under the carpet to the aux input, bring it up the side of the armrest and plug it in.
FWIW, your phone may work nicely by rebooting into recovery and wiping the cache partition. That resolved things for my wife and her car, no issues or trouble since.
- Comment on Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’ 2 weeks ago:
There was more actually.
But what it comes down to is “Uhhh… It looked like he was throwing a brick. And that one, let’s see… Yeah she looked like she had a gun. The kid? Yeah let’s go with gun again.”
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry short hand for tiny/mini/micro. Lenovo tiny, dell micro, and HP mini, some generic used, some I grab from work after their desktop life is done.
Great little workhorses
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 2 weeks ago:
My NAS just stores, its my stack of tmm’s that do all the heavy lifting.
Though I use a front end for everything, like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, kavita, etc.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 3 weeks ago:
Not close, it is point blank.
- Comment on Browsing Photos on Samsung TV with TizenOS 3 weeks ago:
My solution was HDMI in as others suggested. Currently a picture slideshow screensaver for Kodi, previously a rooted firestick.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if it is because you added that way, rather than from f-Droid or something.
No idea. If I had a spare still running android (trying out postmarketos on a few devices) I’d like to give it a try. Maybe I’ll spin up a VM.
What apps?
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
No idea. Play Store then update itself via its at store rev? Preinstalled on a ROM? Via adb?
That said, all the link refers to is a few sample permissions (which would not include F-Droid from that list) and only via certain methods being downloaded. Or they have it wrong and its “opened from”.
Its still shitty, but as of now I’m not sure if there is any impact to installing F-Droid, but I can say the method of installation has complied with previous versions of googles “protections” (as in forced limitations) and that appears to continue to be true.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
How did you install aurora store?
I’m curious because ive seen no issues with F-Droid (just had a few updates actually), and the F-Droid team have commented on this sort of approach before, including the method being used for installation.
I don’t use aurora, so I’m not overly familiar.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
Just FYI, no, F-Droid will not be impacted.
Links in this comment explain, they are incorrect about how F-Droid works.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
F-Droid uses Session Installer, which is an “app store” method.
This is not a new issue:
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 3 weeks ago:
That doesnt appear to be true, the restriction seems to be on apps being installed from file managers, web browsers, messaging, etc.
F-droid and the like are not part of that list.
This still isn’t good, but it doesnt stop you from having F-droid manage your messaging apps it would seem.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 4 weeks ago:
For that, I’d highly recommend a power conditioner with outlet controls (and preferably sequencing).
Most are pretty expensive, but you can get something like a surgex squid or a gude expert power control for a few hundred here and there, which will give you great data on power usage as well. You can also grab an older model with serial and/or relay controls, and use a pi or whatever is handy to trigger it. Actually have a setup like that in a few racks for clients (mostly orange pis and a couple of Asus tinker boards).
Hope your trip goes well!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You realize I’m not the same person, right? So maybe change the attitude a bit.
120Hz wasn’t in your original question. For that you’d need to be in direct view LED territory, which is going to be in the $150k+ range, like an FE012I3 (at least with Sharp/NEC).
Sony has a line of Bravia post production OLEDs, the FWD-##A95Ls ( the number is the sizing) which is going to be a phenomenal production quality display. $7k-$10k.
LG and Samsung are all WebOS and Tizen respectively, but the versions are different than the consumer version. So its “smart”, but not in the same way as consumer editions - sampling content and other such things would be a legal nightmare for them. So if you want “smart” but not “consumer smart” you can go that route, but expect about twice the price.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Commercial series displays. Most of those now have the same (well, same base at least) OS on them though.
I’d say Sharp/NEC would be the only “dumb” professional series displays, at least of the major manufacturers.
You’ll be at around $1500-$3000 for a nominal 80" (they make a 75" and an 86").