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This is my use case and setup also. If there's someone in my yard I want to know. If I'm not home it additionally kicks off other automations that make my place look less tempting for an attack.

Edit: it's also very useful to me to keep video logs of my shop and other areas. I can easily go back to see what happened if something goes wrong (stuff falling, me forgetting stuff somewhere, figuring out why there were big car tire tracks across my yard, etc).

To add, reaction control is used in conjunction with reaction wheels. When the wheels saturate, the rockets are used to desaturate them.

Answer to what?

Is this parody, or an actual private conversation you had with the poster?

dkms has worked fine for me in Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu.

I think the backlash has more to do with the comment's tone.

Some of them actively call in on known spammer numbers, like the numbers found on a fraudulent Norton invoice. Often the scammers wait for you to call.

I don't think it's weird at all. Art and culture generally are exercises in communication. Sometimes fine craftsmanship or technical prowess and spectacle is an important part of the message. Sometimes it simply is not. People get excited when their favorite sports team tries a daring play, whether it's on an 8k monster display or their grandma's black and white set from the 70s. More pixels won't make you cry any harder in Titanic.

Stick it on s3, tell cloudfront to serve from the bucket, and let that sucker run almost unattended till aws shuts down.

I credit him with giving me the push to just be what I am, that it's ok to have a garage full of strange machines just to enjoy and learn. That was huge for my young self, who hadn't seen anyone else in tech in their life.

And don't worry, I've got Aussie50's entire channel backed up, myself. I'll post it if it ever goes down.

Fair. It's a bit of a screech for sure. If it weren't so useful for my specific usage patterns, I'd probably try to quiet it.

I remember being transfixed by Aussie50's clever hack of wiring his 12V CPU AUX power connector to an old school mechanical ammeter. Probably not a great idea today due to the intense power transients modern machines draw, but the idea of physical instrumentation on machines has always seemed like a good idea to me, if space is available. I like my gpu's coil whine, I can hear if it's running a misconfigured job. Human brains are amazing multi modal pattern matchers, it's good to let them do so.

Num lock.

Three other options (admittedly less effective, but the upside is no killing).

1. Give them what they want. I have a bottle of cheap corn syrup I use as a truce offering. If I start getting scouts or the beginnings of an incursion I just dump a big glob of the syrup right next to their nest outside. Everyone disappears from my house within a half hour. Usually, they forget about the kitchen for a couple weeks. Then I repeat.

2. Peppermint oil. The ants here will avoid it. If I smear it across an active ant line it interrupts it even.

3. Ant moat. Works great for sugar products and pet dishes. I use 4 shot glasses full of soapy water holding up a small kitchen rack. The rack is perched on 4 small submerged pillars I added to the rack's feet.

Edit: of course an invasive species needs to be dealt with in accordance to the threat to the local ecosystem. I'm just providing options for simple nuisance ants.

I'm actually thankful for the coil whine on my GPU because I can tell if it's still running my compute tasks. I've even started being able to pick up on parameter misconfigurations based on the sound patterns.

I'm not sure what you mean by "conventional", certainly a plain resistive heater drawing 500W emits the same amount of energy as a computer drawing 500W. If you stretch the definition of efficiency, an infrared heater produces a similar subjective improvement to a room's temperature for less energy, as the infrared light skips heating the surrounding air and warms the subject directly. That is one downside to using computers as heaters - they produce almost no infrared, which can be less efficient for a given subjective experience.

When my car is home, it's plugged in always. That way I can pre warm or cool the cabin before I leave, and the car dumps a few more percent into the battery (usually it internally charges to about 80% to save the battery, but if it knows you're leaving soon it bumps it up). Then again my car is 2014 and has a much smaller battery than modern cars.

Every time I use the app I have to force quit it at least once to get it to stop doing whatever backend query it's doing. Doesn't help that their chargers are barely compatible with my car (2014 i3) so the charging fails to start about half the time. The machine itself rejects the charge in about ten seconds so no big deal, but the app isn't built to handle this case and takes multiple minutes to realize something is wrong. So my charging cycle is to initiate via app, plug in, see a failed charge, force quit the app, find the station again, and repeat probably twice. Probably isn't this bad with newer cars, but I love my car otherwise. Made sure to get the one with the extra scooter engine in the back, so I can just drive around on gas if it comes down to it.

Fun. Because it's fun. Because we, as humans, generally like to tell stories, especially about shared culture. Making a tribute of an artifact is another way to appreciate it. It's another take, an amateur singer sharing a moment with their friends, singing a song from fiddler on the roof. I myself love recreating props from movies and games. It connects me to the author and other fans. I appreciate small details of its construction more. I perceive the steps the original craftsperson took. I understand, through a small window, the monumental effort it took to create the original greater creative work. I'm not saying not to create something new. Simply that it's fulfilling to some of us to experience our shared culture by contributing our own point of view.

A new thing is great, not saying it isn't. Certainly, tributes of recent works are not a good commercial strategy. I personally haven't truly appreciated a great work like lotr or Chrono Trigger or Jurassic Park or what have you until I've recreated a small part of it out of love. Of course, this rant is limited to fan derivatives made out of passion. Attempts to deceive are another thing.

I'm sorry if I'm rambling and come off as angry, I'm not and appreciate your point. But I find this suggestion to leave out the tribute part in fan works to kinda be missing the point. For my stuff I'd rather have made it and have it taken down, over not having made it at all.

Perhaps we need a /a for AI content, as well?

Kind of. There is a mitigation in the spec https://github.com/WICG/close-watcher#abuse-analysis

Briefly, the user may need to press back a couple times in order to escape, but the maximum number of presses needed is bounded and is dependent on how much the user interacts with the page. Of note, closing the tab bypasses this API entirely, at least according to that page.

To play devil's advocate:

The idea being that if we prevent people from doing specific math on specific numbers, the more proficient number-discoverers will have greater incentive to discover more of those pleasing numbers, and we all benefit.

... Which to me sounds wishful, given the reality of the system as implemented today.

Perhaps someone can help me understand the appeals to creative sanctity. Does making my own fan fiction cheapen the original work? Why is it immoral to change a fiction to suit my own preferences, as long as original authorship is not implied? I mod my single player video games all the time to enjoy them more. I have no qualms about patching out a tech tree if the grinding isn't too my taste, is this an affront? How about covering my favorite song? Making a custom cover for a special book in my collection? Skipping the scariest part of a horror movie? Singing a new jazz song imitating Armstrong's style? Help me understand.

To be fair, Banjo-Kazooie on the GBA is effectively a completely different game. It bears only a passing resemblance to the N64 games, and is 2-D. The 360 port came ten years later, and the significant effort needed to do so was justified by the game's proven appeal.

Curious to hear your reasoning why.

And for that, sponsorblock.

There's also tube archivist, which is a whole archival front end and back end. Bit more complicated to set up but once you do, you also get a nice web UI of your videos that is similar to YouTube. It even shows comments.

...and then lock the admin UI behind a password so you can't do it yourself :)

Forerunner (Halo) structures and half life 2's Citadel probably harbor the strongest place feelings I've experienced. You almost don't need to tell an explicit story in those places, the walls do enough

One thing to keep in mind re: roaming - devices tend to "stick" with their current AP even though there's a perfectly good same-SSID AP with much better strength available. There are protocols that can orchestrate between APs to "kick" stubborn devices to better APs: 802.11r, 802.11k, and 802.11v.

Back when I rode, I made a little arrangement of LEDs around the speedometer in 3 concentric rings of ~32 lights. The blue LED closest to pointing North would light, the green LED would always point towards my home, and the red LED would point towards my destination (programmable before the trip). That's all I really needed. Basically a small version of a navigation arrow above video game characters. It meant that one glance at the speedometer gave me all critical information in one instant. The brain is really good at intuitively figuring out parallax, so if I was moving, two glances gave me a good idea of distance as well, though I experimented with lighting 1,3,5,7,9 LEDs as the destination got closer.

Or "when the only occupant opens the front door and drops off the network, turn off all lights, arm the alarm, turn off the stereo, and yell at me if the cooktop is drawing power".