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WetBeardHairs ,

… I actually wonder if the graphics cards could multiplex across multiple dp to a single display.

WetBeardHairs ,

I started to do it to keep the dog dirt out of my sheets. It’s the first time I have ever done this in my life. I now feel like an adult.

WetBeardHairs ,

“fuck you im gonna die before the ramifications for my actions harm anyone”

WetBeardHairs ,

The reason they moved back is because Excel.

‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond (www.independent.co.uk)

Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House...

WetBeardHairs ,

Please tell me that some random jerk set that up and is pocketing all of the proceeds.

WetBeardHairs , (edited )

The idea that it costs more to put oats in a blender with an enzyme is more expensive to produce than breeding and feeding cows is pretty laughable. Non-dairy is only more expensive because of gigantic subsidies that simply don’t need to exist in the modern era.

Edit: the number of you simping for a gigantic corporation is surprising. Oat water is cheap to make. Milk is not. You buy milk at the grocery store nearly at cost. You buy oat milk in branded containers in the yuppy-vegan-white-women priced section at gouging prices. Starbucks does not have costs like the grocery store lists their prices.

WetBeardHairs ,

Eh… at their economies of scale I think the oat water would be far, far cheaper. They’ve vertically integrated quite a few ingredients - what’s oat or almond milk to add to the list?

WetBeardHairs ,

I completely disagree because of the huge volumes that starbucks uses. They can just buy chobani and get the oat water at cost.

WetBeardHairs ,

Look at the processes to create dairy and non-dairy ingredients.

Dairy can be done on the small scale, but it is typically done on an industrial scale where animals are reared and exploited in an extremely labor, water, energy, and space inefficient process. The outputs are raw milk which must be processed into different milk products and pasteurized then refrigerated and transported.

Compare that to oat milk.
Arable land is sewn and watered. It is tended and then reaped. Oats are processed in a crusher and kiln. They are then crushed again, boiled with enzymes, pasteurized, cooled and transported.

Which one really costs more? Everyone is focusing on price at the store but they aren’t asking which product actually costs more. Dairy costs vastly more than oat milk and it is plain to see. The reason oat milk is priced higher is due to low volumes and grocers knowing they can rip off vegan white women which is their overwhelming demographic. The reason dairy milk is priced lower is due to enormous government subsidies and nearly a century of mechanization and optimization.

Why does this matter for starbucks? Because they can easily vertically integrate to remove the price barrier and instead focus on cost. Oat milk costs are extremely cheap when at larger scales like those of a corporation the size of starbucks. Stop focusing on how expensive it is at the grocery store level - it is not an apples to apples comparison to what huge corporations deal with.

WetBeardHairs ,

Yes: At the grocery store.

No: At multinational commercial quantities.

WetBeardHairs ,

Oh I don’t give a damn about the whole starbucks v ADA bit. I’m just chuffed by the price of oatmilk being out of sync with reality

WetBeardHairs ,

I do the same thing and I am lauded within my family as an excellent gift giver.

WetBeardHairs ,

That makes for bad gift giving imo because then they could’ve just gone out and bought something for themselves.

WetBeardHairs ,

Did anyone find it suspicious that the FBI didn’t identify and publish a direct motive? Do you think the reason for his nutjob behavior was somehow covered up by the FBI because of the administration?

WetBeardHairs ,

Those displays are not televisions - they are for menus at restaurants. They cost a fortune because they are low volume, high reliability devices that come with service contracts and repairable components.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...

WetBeardHairs ,

Dang… mine is on 12.5.5 and the newest they support is 9.4.0

WetBeardHairs ,

Sounds like a good way to get a new tv and move away from roku. They’re really piling on the ads lately and making their os really slow.

WetBeardHairs ,

The downside is those are meant to be ultrabright for viewing in a highly lit restaurant counter with a really slow refresh rate and they tend to cost thousands of dollars. They are simply not meant for use as a display for movies and games.

WetBeardHairs ,

HDMI CEC will let your other devices turn on the monitor and switch inputs as appropriate. You’ll need some kind of AVR to play audio. Plenty of low cost, highly capable solutions out there like the WIIM Amp that lets you use multiple sources such as your PC or a dedicated streaming set top box.

WetBeardHairs , (edited )

Yeah, computer monitors are manufactured to a different spec than television displays at the pixel level. This is usually called chroma subsampling.

Computer monitors typically are 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 which gives nice crisp and legible fonts. Anything less than 4:4:2 gives me a headache (also Windows…).

Television displays are usually 4:2:0. That’s fine for rendering large text that is visible across the room. But trying to edit a word document would be a terrible experience.

I believe they manufacture the television panels with fewer pixel address lines and that reduces the cost. Also, smart TVs sell ads and your usage patterns which are used to subsidize the cost of the tv.

That’s why computer monitors are so much more expensive than televisions.

WetBeardHairs ,

There is no hardware reset switch and in order to perform a software reset you need to get to the menu and to do that, you have to agree to the terms.

WetBeardHairs ,

OK how do I go about getting Roku to refund me for my TVs? That sounds like an excellent approach to take.

WetBeardHairs ,

Bad news sells. Good news goes unnoticed.

WetBeardHairs ,

It just has an absolute ton of calculations to perform on hardware that is not made for it.

WetBeardHairs ,

It ran while simulating a distance of one chunk at a time. Computers could simulate much more because the game was written to let software define just how far from the user to render. Phones rendered hardly anything which let them at least play the game.

WetBeardHairs ,

Minecraft is deceptively hard on cpu and gpus for what the game appears to be. It looks simple, but that simplicity comes at the cost of very high computational loads due to how dynamic and interactive everything is. They add in new features pretty frequently for a game I bought 12 years ago. Those features aren’t free and they stress the system even more. Be happy it is playable at all on a phone - it’s nice that they added in tuning parameters to let your phone be capable of playing it instead of saying you need the newest RTX4090 just to get 30fps

WetBeardHairs ,

If we ever needed a sequal its now.

WetBeardHairs ,

I buy the bulk pack of general purpose gift cards. Some have got flowers on the front. Others say Happy Birthday in gender neutral styling. They’re all blank on the inside. I write messages to people. The pack of 20 cards costs about the same as two of those shitty pre-written gift cards.

WetBeardHairs ,

God damnit they’re going to start making tiktoks into gift cards or some shit.

WetBeardHairs ,

Five guys will let you fuck your burger

This echos my last five guys in restaurant people watching experience.

Are there any immutable distros meant for NAS systems or home servers?

Edit2: OK Per feedback I am going to have a dedicated external NAS and a separate homeserver. The NAS will probably run TrueNAS. The homeserver will use an immutable os like fedora silverblue. I am doing a dedicated NAS because it can be good at doing one thing - serving files and making backups. Then my homeserver can be good...

WetBeardHairs OP ,

I want immutability because I come from a the debian world where everything just works. But I want the benefits of using modern versions of packages.

WetBeardHairs OP ,

It’s mostly for running media servers like jellyfin.

WetBeardHairs OP ,

Oh I like the look of that.

WetBeardHairs OP ,

Honestly I had never built an NAS and installed an OS on it before. I’ve only ever used the junk that ASUSTOR puts out and I want to have control over things. So a good part of the reason I asked on here was to see what other people had done and why.

WetBeardHairs OP ,

Is there a performance impact on the jellyfin server by having the NAS on a separate machine? How long does it take to serve a 20gb rip of a bluray?

WetBeardHairs OP ,

Several comments specifically talked about VMs for the various apps. And frankly I’m not super familiar with the limitations of containerizing apps either. That’s part of why I was looking for an immutable os + flatpacks / snaps - it’s much more similar to a normal linux system just organized in a way to not break shit.

Is anyone else worried about the apple vision pro?

i wouldn’t normally be concerned since any company releasing a VR product with this price tag is obviously going to fail… but it’s apple and somehow through exquisite branding and sleek design they have managed to create something that resonated with “tech reviewers” and rich folk who can afford it....

WetBeardHairs ,

I agree with his take on the apple vr shit, but fuck nazi notch.

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WetBeardHairs ,

Federation of a service is confusing because it is a difficult problem to conceptualize. There’s no way to easily explain how to use federated services to non techies.

For me? That’s fine. I can use federated stuff.

For my mom? Nope. But she needs to get off the internet in general so that’s probably a bad example.

WetBeardHairs ,

A heads up display that could overlay useful information onto the world around you would be amazing.

  • Provide directions.
  • Point out businesses that are hard to find in a crowded city.
  • Give real-time measurements and placements for construction (this is already a thing).
  • Pokemon Go

The problem is that the apple vision is huge and bulky. They need to shrink it down to the size of big nerd eyeglasses. Microsoft did the same thing with their whatever it was called. I played with it a few times at different tech demos. It was garbage from the start because it was heavy, uncomfortable, and the refresh rate was intolerably slow. Apple’s is a slight improvement in a few categories but it still completely misses the point of what AR should be.

WetBeardHairs ,

Honestly I kind of agree with op’s submission. Apple just didn’t have a real plan for what they wanted it to be. It sits in an awkward niche between AR and VR and it sucks at both as a result.

WetBeardHairs ,

Plenty of systems require operation to know if they are functional or not. So it’s pretty easy to think of ways that the aircraft can indicate a malfunction when it’s first leaving the gate with passengers aboard.

That doesn’t mean it is any less shitty.

WetBeardHairs ,

That seems so… odd. It’s like building a working computer out of tens of thousands of usb thumb drives.

WetBeardHairs ,

Yeah and if you do it enough times, the usb drives might assemble into grey goo.

WetBeardHairs ,

That’s only because the US and other first world countries have shied away from mining rare earth elements because it is traditionally a very dirty and polluting industry. So poor and developing countries did it their way… with slavery and incredibly ecologically damaging techniques.

New techniques are being developed in the US that solve those problems. It originally wasn’t worth the effort because we had plenty of lithium to make 18V drill batteries. Since BEVs have proven to be capable and desireable over the last decade, critical material supplies just didn’t keep up and those new techniques were just a twinkle in the eye of some smart people.

If you’d like to learn more about how we can completely avoid the slavery and pollution problems related to getting lithium, take a look at the Salton Sea enhanced geothermal projects. I am personally going to invest a portion of my life savings in that company if given the opportunity.

WetBeardHairs ,

Both are bad. One is objectively more bad.

WetBeardHairs ,

Yeah but it was an unsecure piece of shit for more than the past decade

WetBeardHairs ,

maybe some have both?

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