the-water-cooler

[dusky plank]

bananas 🍌

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-the-gif-26388467

[gleaming crater]

Lol

Most of what I enjoy with F1 is the fact that it’s 20 strong personalities competing on track and plenty of things happening outside a race, you can follow the sport in its totality pretty easy.

[red rock]

I like the stuff happening outside of the track more

The drama

[gleaming crater]

Totally

[red rock]

Or latte boy shoving the car in the wall

[glacial knot]

ohh, so it's just wrestling, but pollution. got it

[gleaming crater]

Formuladank makes F1 go from a B- to an A+

[gleaming crater]

They’ve pioneered most of the fuel efficiency and hybrid tech

And make em run on some biofuel they all hate lol

[glacial knot]

yea, I know that it's a lot of research as well

mostly making fun of it because I can

[gleaming crater]

My biggest gripe is the sport being slowly taken over by middle eastern countries too hot to even race in

Tho if F1 didn’t race in countries with human rights abuses they wouldn’t race in the US either lol

https://tenor.com/view/baddies-evil-are-we-the-baddies-gif-15999841

[primal laurel]

nobody is innocent, everything sucks, just accept it

[gleaming crater]

Yeah in terms of a sport, there are wildly more questionable things happening in most of them

[gleaming crater]

That’s how I feel about people simping for billionaires

[primal laurel]

especially apple 🤮

[primal laurel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1b3ub91/2024_bahrain_gp_fp3_classification/

what a shitbox alpine have made

[gleaming crater]

I feel bad for Gasly, he seems like a better driver than any car he’s been in

[primal laurel]

yeah, same for ocon

[gleaming crater]

I am not enjoying the noise of this years F2 cars, they make an obnoxious whine now

If they’re smart they’ll EQ it out

[orchid rose]

They haven't done that with George Russell yet and he's been doing that for years

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/george-russell-crying-gif-22546072

[gleaming crater]

We all knew he was a twat when he crashed into bottas and then got out and slapped bottas’ helmet

Gorepedo didn’t once take out max last season I was disappointed

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze did you put out your buckets to catch the rain water yet?

[primal laurel]

Go Sainz lol

[forest edge]

@static schoonera little over 900 after taxes for an LR4 with a fence these days lol

pretty sure when they first came out it was like just a little over 800 and it came with a fence

[static schooner]

I was just trying to look mine up. They are pretty great

[forest edge]

i dunno about shy of a grand great lol

you know the LR5 will be over a grand

they started in the 300 range

maybe even lower initially

[static schooner]

There are a bunch of others with a similar design, but I don't think they're that much cheaper and LR comes out on top. I have no regrets

[forest edge]

the LR3 of mine is still chugging along after over 5 years or so

as long as these LR4 hold true

[static schooner]

I've tried a lot of others over my 25 years of having cats and this is by far the best

[forest edge]

gross you used those rake ones?

[static schooner]

Yep

A few different models

[forest edge]

tried one.. once.. got rid of it. normal litterbox was way easier lol

[static schooner]

Including the one that uses crystals

[forest edge]

speaking of LR.. mine just arrived lol

[static schooner]

The crystals were interesting. They dehydrate the contents, but they just didn't soak up urine effectively

[forest edge]

ok this one is a 3rd iteration of style of box. don't get why they keep changing that

when i get it out of the box gonna inspect it and see if they make these newer ones "cheaper" vs the one's made a year o so ago

[wild jolt]

My cats were too afraid of the rotation to ever use the litter robot 🥲

I tried to tell them it’s ok and to be brave but they just immediately started licking themselves then walked away.

[forest edge]

not seen any afraid of it just curious. thing dosen't move fast enough

yet to see any refuse to use it tho in the long run

[static schooner]

Mine are fascinated by it

Sometimes they don't want to leave it alone to finish the cycle

[wild jolt]

We had other established litter boxes so they just kept using those. We tried moving their other litter boxes closer but eventually gave up and sold it. Would be curious to try it again at some point maybe after getting rid of a box in advance to encourage use

This was like 4 months of trial and error

[wild jolt]

I thought that’s how one of our cats would be because sometimes she just sits in the litter box. She’s old and I wonder if she’s getting some kitty dementia

[static schooner]

It'll start to cycle, she'll get up on the step to watch, it stops, she gets bored, it starts again, rinse, repeat

[forest edge]

do you have ramps for your robc?

[static schooner]

It's Kitty TV

No

[forest edge]

i put this on all of them https://www.litter-robot.com/litter-robot/accessories/litter-robot-4-fence.html

but it stands tall so put ramps on all of mine

not the LR ramps tho lol

i have two older cats that wouldn't even try making that jump over tha fence without the ramp

[static schooner]

I just put a litter catcher mat in front of them. And eventually empty it when I remember

I was afraid that the fence would discourage them from using it

[forest edge]

well the ramps were brought on by a cat that had passed away last year from kidney disease and she would pee with her butt facing out and that pee would go between the globe and the unit. made a real mess

that ramp they made which they should have just included from the get go completely elimiates the possiblity of liquid getting between the globe and unit

I just default to putting that ramp on all of them now for any future mistakes

not ramp.. fence

not sure why i keep typing ramp

[last cedar]

@clear ferry

[forest edge]

I don't think he is amongst the living anymore

[static schooner]

Too much fermented whale meat

[solar zealot]

Maybe he got lost in his huge basement

Someone modified the infinite server maze

[tidal bronze]

As soon as I get home.

[solar zealot]

What even

[primal laurel]

Gasly looking at his car like

[gleaming crater]

Someone was saying Alonso really dodged a bullet… that was going so slow anybody coulda seen it coming

[primal laurel]

Only team left with a renault engine as well

[gleaming crater]

I mean it’s still the Renault factory team lol

[gleaming crater]

Last one I swear lol

[orchid rose]

You beat me to it

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge I should stop talking to you. Middle earth shit weather is rubbing off.

Rain and clouds? What is this????

[clear ferry]

Warum, I only talk about our lord and saviour HP-UX

[primal laurel]

didnt know you were still alive

[tidal bronze]

Lmao, bowing down to the US masters. Good!

[clear ferry]

Als hij dood is, is hij er nog

[clear ferry]

It'll keep me employed for 30 more years or more, can't argue with that

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/goed-bezig-jiskefet-juffrouw-kantoor-office-gif-19083777

[tidal bronze]

Good for you man. I appreciate the fact that you appreciate who puts food on your table.

[clear ferry]

To be fair, most of the HPUX code the last 20 years have been India, so yeah I appreciate India

[tidal bronze]

Paycheck comes from India?

In other words who pays you?

[forest edge]

the begining of the end.. what else? not like you hadn't been told over and over

[clear ferry]

I get my paycheck from a Norwegian company yes

[tidal bronze]

Lmao.

[tidal bronze]

Its ok man. NASDAQ pays. You can be in denial. Thank the US investor when you sit at your dinner table.

[clear ferry]

As long as I don't have a US based manager in my career I'm happy

[tidal bronze]

Good to know we own you for the next 30 years. US manager or not. And yep, you're welcome

[clear ferry]

Own ? No, but you depend on me, yw

[tidal bronze]

Lmao.

Depend.

New words for a Norwegian

Atx needs Depend

I am dying here.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/tentacle-futurama-love-fry-gif-19121237

[primal laurel]

US managers seething when they learn how many holidays we have

[forest edge]

@static schooner unit makes a motor noise right out of the box on the return cycle lol But I was right, they certainly cheapened it up

[clear ferry]

Or have any rights at all

[glacial knot]

Imagine only having left hands D:

[forest edge]

I do like they preadded labels to the buttons not just icons and unless they screwed up I think the newer units ship with the higher fence cause I got two of them

[tidal bronze]

Dude I am about to get depressed, we usually have 10 days of cloud in 365. WTF is this?

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-end-the-end-is-near-simpsons-homer-simpson-end-of-the-world-gif-5236371

[tidal bronze]

This weather is not suited for elites

[forest edge]

the funny thing is.. the article I read earlier about the snow storm had a clip from a LA weatherman and he sounded like he was trying to prevent a kindergarten class from panicking when he was trying to relay what people in LA should expect

it was hard for me to watch.. like just how fucking spoiled are you people? lol

[tidal bronze]

Honestly, this is unacceptable

I might have to finally but an umbrella? Huh?

[forest edge]

move to Texas. a real state

[tidal bronze]

Lands mass not a state.

[forest edge]

I know dirt is hard for you to grasp but I think even you will adjust over time

[winged obsidian]

Skiing in TX sucks.

[dire spear]

" TX sucks" fixed

[winged obsidian]

I admit to having had some good BBQ in TX. In other places too, for the record, including St Louis, Misery.

[forest edge]

so annoying having to deal with something almost costs a grand 2 seconds after you pull it out of the box

st louis is a shithole

crime infested ghetto

[winged obsidian]

I am not going to argue that point at all. I will speak in favor of their BBQ and baseball park, which has a good selection of beer.

[forest edge]

well the BBQ dosen't come from st louis they import it in from the other parts of the state

[winged obsidian]

Deep fried ravioli remains a mystery. It's exactly what you'd expect. Why?

[dire spear]

deep dried mars bars?

[forest edge]

should try a deep fried twinkie.. fav at carnivals here

[dire spear]

actually i have deep fried chicken tenders for lunch. i just made them. mmmm. need to make something to go with them now

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeyou ordering one of those underground storm shelters now?

[tidal bronze]

I am unwell not crazy.

[forest edge]

If it weren't for this channel and dealing with you cali's on a semi regular basis listening to that LA weatherman would have really blew my mind. never in my life heard anyone outside of a daycare talk to others like that lol

[tidal bronze]

When the lounge bartender knows you by first name and goes "that's 2 bottles you don't want to change your flight today do you?" My heart breaks.

[forest edge]

sure he didn't say, "Dude, do you even have a home?"

[tidal bronze]

And then there's this dude at the lounge on teams. Most important person in the world. 🤣

If only he knew what frequent traveller's think of people on meeting at a lounge. 🤣

[tidal bronze]

They always ask🤣

[winged obsidian]

IDK about that weatherman. Where I am, it's mainly telling people not to drive up to the Sierras this weekend. Projection is several feet between now and Sunday. 5'+ at Donner Pass, which is I-80 highest point.

[forest edge]

how do you knwo that guy dosen't want to sell you a condo in florida?

[forest edge]

yea I watched some dude on a news station up north eating up the the extra buisness the storm is driving in lol

[tidal bronze]

People from LA/NY usually don't talk about FL. If they do you know they are not coast people.

[forest edge]

was some hardware store or something

people flooding in to buy crap

[forest edge]

I mean florida is coast people...

[tidal bronze]

You mean swamp?

[forest edge]

other side.. outward not inward

[static schooner]

Not even a little

[forest edge]

doesn't by sq mile florida have more coast line than california? certianly more than NY lol

[tidal bronze]

No matter what "ward" that's not a word you use in conversation if you want to be considered sane.

[forest edge]

you don't use words in the dictionary?

now you are losing me lol

[tidal bronze]

"Florida" you said. Why would we even think of a swamp?

Make sense esse

[forest edge]

just as i said.. sibling fueds lol

[tidal bronze]

You are so deep in the well can't be helped.

[forest edge]

typical brother denial right there

[winged obsidian]

Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_coastline. miles per square mile is an odd metric, but HI wins that one.

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge LA on the left KC on the right.

[forest edge]

face it, California and Texas and Florida all wore the same underwear at some point. you cannot escape it

[winged obsidian]

Middle earth people projecting again...

[forest edge]

ah see.. they could argue that you guys are not real coastliners lol

[prisma briar]

My boss offered to reimburse me for getting in-flight wifi once so I could sit in on a vendor meeting in flight. I politely declined.

[winged obsidian]

Yet another stupid thing brought by Lower Alabama

[ocean oar]

Add it to the list of "cursed units" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkfIXUjkYqE
I like the idea of mi¯¹ as a unit 🙂

[tidal bronze]

Smart man. That's a big no no in frequent flyer world. Most think it's cool to act busy on a team's meeting at the airport. Only if they knew what we thought of them. 🤣

[forest edge]

go to Califronia to party, Texas to make money then onto Flordia to retire.. pretty good slogan lol

[prisma briar]

Whenever I'm at the airport I'm at the bar over-indulging.

Did have to wait before getting my rental when I landed once

[tidal bronze]

Yes sir. That's what airports are for. Not for freaking meetings. Lmao

[winged obsidian]

I'm doing fine right here, and the idea of dying in FL is gross

[primal laurel]

if only frequent flyers knew what normal people think of you 🤣

[winged obsidian]

If you really have power, the meeting is rescheduled to your convenience.

[prisma briar]

There's always a place to get a drink, there's always people in it, and there's a pretty good chance they have good wings too.

[winged obsidian]

As long as someone else pays the airport prices, it's good

[tidal bronze]

Then there's that. Usually if you have less than million miles under your belt, we live in different planets. So sub million milers thoughts really don't count here.

[prisma briar]

I think my food reimbursement limit was like $60/day, work paid for everything but the alcohol. I always had to turn in reciepts so I always got that on a separate check.

[tidal bronze]

$60 is a good amount

But not at airport prices.

[primal laurel]

I think it's the other way around lol

[tidal bronze]

Then there's always the case of sour grapes. I understand 👍

[primal laurel]

It's kind of cringe be proud of polluting the earth

are you elon musk?

or taylor swift

[prisma briar]

There were a couple times I went and bought a bunch of thickass dryaged ribeyes and cooked them in my hotel room and had my company reimburse me.

[tidal bronze]

I don't think he got 4.7 million miles under his belt. Not interested in either of them. This is my life. ♥️

[dire spear]

60 a day is eating very well.

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/eww-disgusted-cringe-yikes-the-office-gif-16426340

[prisma briar]

Yea, it was two sit-down meals a day basically

[tidal bronze]

Where?

[prisma briar]

Virginia Beach

[tidal bronze]

Oh

Ok

[winged obsidian]

Mine's city-specific, ranges up to $75/day. No receipts for up to pretty close to the limit, so the "no alcohol reminbursment" policy is somewhat theoretical.

[dire spear]

id cheat and get nice grocery store food, provided i had a place to prepare it.

[tidal bronze]

Toronto no fish in the house

[prisma briar]

I've flown out there a few times for work.

[winged obsidian]

I've done that. I usually book rooms with some form of kitchen regardless of whether I intend to use it.

[tidal bronze]

That's pretty sweet deal.

[prisma briar]

The hotel I stay at when I go there has pots/pans and induction burners in every room

No oven but you can do a lot with just a burner

[tidal bronze]

Please no. Please. Hotels and pots and pans should not be together

[prisma briar]

They have a dishwasher in the room too

[tidal bronze]

Don't tell me you are an extended stay dude.

[prisma briar]

Nah, it was a normal hotel

[tidal bronze]

Wowza.

If the hotel room got a dishwasher we have a problem.

[dire spear]

my condo had room service (fancy hotel in the bottom)

i never used it

[tidal bronze]

Room service is IT!

2 am kale salad

[dire spear]

they had nice cheesecakes

[prisma briar]

I'd rather wash my dishes myself then have some underpaid housekeeper drag a dirty towel she just wiped the bathroom down with over it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[tidal bronze]

0 sugar? Almond flour?

[prisma briar]

I never actually tried room service there

[tidal bronze]

What's your preferred group? Marriott or IHG?

[dire spear]

mango. all the fat and sugar

[prisma briar]

I just used doordash whenever I wanted food delivered while there, lol. Didn't even consider room service.

[winged obsidian]

I avoid room service now that DoorDash exists.

Usually Hilton or Marriott. IHG mainly for Kimpton.

[prisma briar]

I've definitely stayed at IHG more

[dire spear]

door dash delivers my groceries. but its not worth it unless its $100+

[tidal bronze]

Yep it's not for "dough" people.

[prisma briar]

I don't travel a shit-ton, I'm probably only at a hotel two or three times a year.

[gleaming crater]

Lol Seattle ruined DoorDash and Uber eats

[dire spear]

id like to see uber eats banned

[gleaming crater]

They passed some min wage law for delivery drivers and in retaliation they spiked prices so hard it’s crazy

Stuff is easily double after fees and tip lol

[tidal bronze]

Nooooo

[dire spear]

uber eats (more than door dash) only operates if they can skirt obeying laws. they need to go

[gleaming crater]

The delivery services both added on an extra 5 dollar Seattle fee while jacking up the rates too

And are making sure the wage law fails lol

[dire spear]

the other things is the forced tipping. if you force a tip, its not a tip, its just the price. if you need $20 for delivery, just say so

[prisma briar]

Uber bought out Drizly. :(

[gleaming crater]

I love being asked to tip for an online carry out order

[ocean oar]

My issue is we have maybe five different delivery services to choose from now (UE and DD are two of them), but UE is the only way to ensure hot food.
Food delivery and living right at the arse end of a giant suburb basically ensures nasty cold food every time, but UE has an option to pay more (yay, capitalism) to get your delivery first.

[dire spear]

the mercedes car service was they same.. they owed millions in parking fines and were like 'if we have to pay those we cant operate"... ok and?

[ocean oar]

I hate that this is the case, but I also like hot food.

[prisma briar]

Doordash does the 'pay more for quicker delivery' here too

$2.99 to be the first/only delivery in your order

[gleaming crater]

Lol I did that once and could see them still making other stops on the map

[prisma briar]

There is legitimately an added cost to the company for that so I get charging more, tbh.

Doordash has automatically refunded me before when the driver did other stops first

There's a couple places like 9 miles from me I like, if I order from them with the priority service the food will still be good when it gets here.

[gleaming crater]

I think some drivers are double-apping

[prisma briar]

If I don't it's basically guaranteed crap

[gleaming crater]

I stopped ordering delivery because there are a million fantastic restaurants within 10 min of me

I can just not be lazy and get my own food lol

[prisma briar]

I always one star drivers if I see them going off in random directions while they should be bringing my food. Doordash will adjust tips too if you contact their support, I've had tips removed for drivers that have done stupid stuff.

Like leave drinks directly in front of my storm door so the only way I can not spill it all over is to go out through my garage

Or deliver to my neighbor

[gleaming crater]

Ha I’ve had that with a pile of curry

[prisma briar]

I literally 3D printed hugeass house numbers and put RGB lights in them with wled, yet somehow my neighbors still get my deliveries.

[gleaming crater]

Google will tell people they’re at my house as soon as they hit the property line between the neighbor and I

And lots of dumbos get confused

[prisma briar]

If a delivery driver doesn't know to verify the address independent of Google Maps then they're not suited for delivering food.

[ocean oar]

The other thing I'd like is for them to admit that the delivery instructions are entirely for show, and the drivers definitely aren't reading them.
Mine always reads "down the stairs to the right of the garage, please ring the doorbell".
At least 1/3 times they go down the left side and leave it at the neighbours' door.

[gleaming crater]

When google says “you’re here” you can only see my neighbors door lol

[gleaming crater]

That implies they can read English lol

[prisma briar]

Mine explicitly reads 'Do not ring the doorbell', yet...

[gleaming crater]

They’re trying to grind out as many as possible they DGAF what the notes say lol

[dire spear]

instructions. you cant expect people to read instructions

your lucky they didnt leave it at the curb or in a hedge

[prisma briar]

I actually don't care if they ring my doorbell anymore. I got tired of my dogs going insane and completely disconnected the bell on it, now all it does is ping my phone through HA.

[dire spear]

ha

[gleaming crater]

My real doorbell won’t actuate if we’re in bed

[dire spear]

i just track them on the app and go outside when they are there

[gleaming crater]

I put a dedicated esp relay on mine

[prisma briar]

I have a zbmini on mine

doorbell triggers switch on the zbmini, doorbell actuator is was hooked up to the load on it

[ocean oar]

My cats just run and hide when the doorbell goes off.
And they know when it's the real doorbell. Because I used a royalty-free MP3 of a doorbell that plays on the Sonos speakers, you hear exactly the same noise on TV shows.But absolutely no reaction from the cats if it comes from the TV.

[prisma briar]

Thankfully I get enough notifications on my phone that my dog hasn't put it together that my phone talking to me sometimes means the doorbell is pressed

[gleaming crater]

My dogs learned the phrase “unlock the front door” and now go wild from that

[prisma briar]

Lol, I don't have any voice automation yet. Still haven't seen a system for it I liked.

[gleaming crater]

I have the 15 pro with the action button and re-assigned it to feed into the home assistant assist feature

[prisma briar]

Nice

I had Genie set up for a short time but it was always kind of janky

Then their image broke and they didn't fix it for months so I removed it all

[gleaming crater]

It's about the only place that works nice because it's not trigger word driven and works for the few things I care about to access that quickly

Plus it's using the iphone's text-to-speech and shows you what it's feeding into HA

[prisma briar]

I have widgets added to my home screen for the things I want to hit quickly

And a second home screen for the things I want to hit quickly but not hit accidentally, lol

Somebody left my garage open after taking the trash out yesterday and when I got a ping from HA about it and went to close it two cats ran out.

Not my cats I should add.

[gleaming crater]

I've got some widgets on my watch, the one I use most is a smart play/pause button for whatever mode my main stereo is on

[static schooner]

But can they actually do it? I think you found your local voice assistant 🙂

[gleaming crater]

Lol they wish, they can't even jump as high as a doorknob

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/jurassic-park-opening-the-door-raptor-door-gif-16288765

[gleaming crater]

Can you imagine what kind of hell it would be owning a pet with a thumb?

[tidal bronze]

Why your address is not on gmaps?

[prisma briar]

Make it so when you say something a light lights up over a button on the wall and when the dog presses that button it unlocks the door and dispenses a treat. Add various buttons for the various functions you want.

Eventually get rid of the voice assistant and the lights.

[prisma briar]

The average doordash driver can't read a map

[tidal bronze]

Hmmm

Perhaps it's the area

[gleaming crater]

My dogs would be fat as fuck

[prisma briar]

Google stops people directly in front of my house and is accurate with where it says it is, yet I still regularly have issues with basically everyone but USPS delivering things to neighbors.

[tidal bronze]

You in Seattle right?

[prisma briar]

I'm in Colorado Springs, CO

[tidal bronze]

Oh same same.

That's why. Never ever had issues with any delivery service

[gleaming crater]

Map quality can vary heavily by area

[gleaming crater]

That's my soggy ass lol

[prisma briar]

Amazon are the ones who mess up the most. I've probably had my Amazon packages get delivered to a half dozen different houses in the last year that weren't mine.

But Doordash messes it up sometimes

[tidal bronze]

In a gated community with multiple entrances but only one they can get in with ID check. Yet to encounter a miss on a delivery.

[prisma briar]

lol gated communities

[gleaming crater]

Keepin' out the riff-raff

Lol they're always cysts on the map with the one entrance

[tidal bronze]

This is why I don't need door locks or garage left open reminders. 🤣

[prisma briar]

When I worked at Papa Johns 15 years ago every store had books with codes for every gated community in their delivery area.

[gleaming crater]

My hill is so tall I might as well live in a gated community, I've left my door wide open all night before

[tidal bronze]

Unfortunately, not here. Every guest entry must have a ID scan to pass.

[prisma briar]

There's a non-zero chance one of the residents there has given an ID to a delivery service.

[gleaming crater]

Those gate guys might wave in someone with a pizza topper lol, I had it happen so much when there were still 'rules'

[prisma briar]

Those toppers are magic for getting ignored by cops and parking wherever you want

[gleaming crater]

That too lol

Some crackhead truck had stolen one to get around town basically invisibly

[tidal bronze]

That would be a big no no. Each guest pass expires in 2 hours. Patrol will pick your expired badge.

Like I said we don't like people

[gleaming crater]

Lol how bad is the neighborhood outside your gate

[tidal bronze]

It's what's inside.

[gleaming crater]

Basically the more expensive the neighborhood the tighter they gate it lol, after them riots anyways

[prisma briar]

People would give delivery drivers copies of entry keys to condo towers and locked buildings, lol.

Never saw an ID badge but it wouldn't surprise me

[gleaming crater]

So many apt call boxes would have 0911 as an entry code too

[tidal bronze]

Even Amazon needs an ID to temporary badge to get in

[gleaming crater]

That's cuz I don't trust an amazon delivery driver lol, half of the vans are super beat up around town already

[prisma briar]

Yea but I doubt there's much stopping a permanent resident from getting a second copy of their permanent badge and doing whatever stupidness they want with it

[forest edge]

I had to submit a front and back picture of the unit as well as a video showcasing the noise I heard.. whisker cracking down lol

[gleaming crater]

If they staff the gate tho lol it's too spendy to get around that

[tidal bronze]

3 at the gate. Lmao.

I do like the privacy

No friends or family. ♥️

[forest edge]

I like your privacy too through voyeurism

nothing hotter than seeing an orgy take place where everyone stands 6ft apart

[winged obsidian]

Going to keep it that way

[gleaming crater]

Gotta have someone around to keep people out while you're flying most of the year

[prisma briar]

I delivered to some pretty uppity neighborhoods when delivering pizza, the only gates that we weren't basically able to pass through like they weren't there were private ones at the end of peoples' driveways. And even then a lot of those can be defeated by stepping out and waving a stick in front of a sensor.

[tidal bronze]

Only thing bad about the setup is Amazon overnight deliveries. Answering the gate call at 4AM sucks.

"Amazon is at the gate do you want to let them in ?" 🤪

[prisma briar]

You can opt out of overnight deliveries

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/delivery-its-here-over-the-fence-throw-bad-neighbor-gif-13844488

[prisma briar]

Just choose the next shipping option on the checkout page

[tidal bronze]

I sometimes want them. But forget to message the gate night before.

[gleaming crater]

F that noise lol you have home assistant, you could automate the delivery notice robocalling the gate now

[forest edge]

only had 2 deliveries take place super early am. both was that crap they sell on the grocery part of the store

[gleaming crater]

The mail and packages integration is pretty cool

[prisma briar]

I'm about equally likely to be up for overnight deliveries as I am for daytime deliveries, lol. Last time I had an overnight delivery I saw them walking up and opened my door at 4 AM to some girl in her pajamas delivering me a pack of dog food.

[tidal bronze]

I have Tasker doing most of that. Like front yard lights on gate CID etc. But security needs voice reposnse. 😕

[prisma briar]

Train an AI to use your voice

[forest edge]

https://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64?si=YQW6UGS9CFi__tQh

[tidal bronze]

Rather need to get Amazon delivery status and Twillio to gate desk.

[gleaming crater]

Lol just setup an email forward rule for amazon orders to let them know automatically

[prisma briar]

They should have a security truck just follow the amazon truck making sure they only leave packages instead of calling people at 4 AM

[forest edge]

just forward your amazon stuff to my place.. issue resolved

[gleaming crater]

I'm surprised they don't make em leave it at the gate lol

Some places would'nt even let a pizza guy up and made the resident come get it

[winged obsidian]

"Please deliver by method of chucking it towards home dweller"

[dire spear]

thats common here cause they found the delivery guys checking for open doors

[prisma briar]

There was like a 60 story office building I delivered to a few times at Papa Johns that wouldn't let pizza guys go up, the people working there had to come down. People would be pissed every time.

[gleaming crater]

Lol totally, people hate coming down to get their shit

[prisma briar]

One day the elevators were down and the guy I was supposed to deliver to just canceled.

[gleaming crater]

Ahahahaha

"fuck it"

[tidal bronze]

You really in Toronto?

[dire spear]

there is crime here too.. just not usually with guns 🙂

but plenty of robberies :/

[prisma briar]

how do you rob somebody at spoonpoint?

[dire spear]

used to be the bike theft capital of the world as well

[gleaming crater]

Around here it's all kids joyriding kias with 3d printed guns

[dire spear]

oh my. remined me of an incident. my friend was held up with a pocket knife.. and just toled the guy the f off and kept walking.

[gleaming crater]

Usually the robber isn't prepared for someone to ignore them

Gotta have that BDE tho

[dire spear]

some joy riding here. knew a kid in school that did it, then crashed and killed hi9mself trying to escape cops

[forest edge]

as long as he dosen't order lifter weights

[gleaming crater]

I've seen some bonkers kia cop chase crashes

Those cars don't hold together in an offset collision at high speed

[dire spear]

no cvar does really to be fair

[gleaming crater]

Maybe a volvo lol

[dire spear]

ha

the funny thing is its often well off/ rich kids doing it.

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge I think your ban is kinda the same.

[forest edge]

huh?

[gleaming crater]

Have you seen the videos of saudi princes racing cars and crashing like maniacs?

[dire spear]

no. not of interest. i saw a video of people in la messing around in intersections and was like... nope. idiots

[prisma briar]

Bike theft in Denver is insane. There's huge camps of homeless people with probably thousands of stolen bikes there they try to resell.

[dire spear]

google igor kenk

imagine the stolen car operation in john wick.. except for bikes. thats igor

he got arrested and bike theft dropped by 60%

[prisma briar]

Apparently the police in Denver have been complaining that they're at capacity to store stolen bikes

[gleaming crater]

Looks like any event in belgium

[prisma briar]

Those are just the unregistered ones they can't return

[dire spear]

well its cause noone bothers with recovery. insurance pays out and thats it

[prisma briar]

Which is probably a majority, tbh

People get insurance for a bike?

I never considered bike insurance, lol

[gleaming crater]

Well it's likely the cops didn't give an eff when the bike was stolen either

With them electrics people do for sure

[dire spear]

house content insurance often covers sit

[prisma briar]

Paying a deductable and having rates increase over reporting a bike theft to insurance sounds like a questionable decision

These aren't $5k bikes or anything

[dire spear]

yeah. my bikes are worth reporting though.

[prisma briar]

My bike cost me around $700 but I don't think I'd report it

[dire spear]

i found that out. noone would steal my fancy one of a kind very recognisable race bike.. cause they couldnt sell it

[prisma briar]

But I also only use my bike in the mountains, I don't ride it in city

[gleaming crater]

Lots of the good bikes have gps in em now too

[dire spear]

without igors organised rinng, most thefts are drug runners, or now with ebay, parting them out

[prisma briar]

Yea, the big issue here is drug addicts doing it

[gleaming crater]

Yeah car theft here immediately leaves the country on a boat

If it's not a joyride

[dire spear]

pretty much.

[prisma briar]

That's why you don't buy Kia

Or Hyundai

[gleaming crater]

Lol

[dire spear]

igor would store them past the statute for pawn shops and then ship em out

[gleaming crater]

I've had to park my mini outside, I need to keep my keys in a metal box to block rebroadcast attacks

[dire spear]

im not sure if car thefts are a big thing here

[prisma briar]

I forgot a spare set of keys in my car for like a month, lol. Didn't even realize they were there until I pressed the power button while cleaning my dash off and it turned on.

[gleaming crater]

"free car"

[dire spear]

noone wants a toronto car anyway, its rusted through after 4 years

[prisma briar]

But I also have it parked in a garage

[gleaming crater]

Lol you must salt the roads

Around here we just slide to our death

[dire spear]

HEAViLY

[gleaming crater]

They spray something but it's not salt

[dire spear]

in BC we sand them. cause its too cold for salt

toronto loooves salt.

[prisma briar]

Colorado had to tone back their sand during winter and go back to salt because cars started sliding around on the gravel once the snow melted, lol.

[gleaming crater]

Yeah seattle did sand one year on the hills downtown, it was madness

[dire spear]

in the north we have graders that basicvally make new snow roads, not necessarily matching the real ones. haha

[prisma briar]

It's crazy how many people have issues getting started on a sandy hill

[gleaming crater]

Every time it freezes there are videos of busses sliding down a hill with chains on

[dire spear]

my dad would make fun of the bad drivers "must be from vancouver"

in toronto a saw a guy with an audi R* try to get out of his conto driveway in an unexpected april snow.

just spinning in circles

[prisma briar]

My first car was a rwd ford ranger, that car would get stuck in the snow if you looked at it wrong

But it was always easy to get unstuck

[prisma briar]

I've had pretty good luck not getting stuck with my Altima but the one time I did it was a pita to dig my way out.

[dire spear]

and then theres that

[gleaming crater]

Lol if you didn't have weight in the back it's undrivable

[dire spear]

we get flash floods every few years.

i rode my bike in that... past that ferrari

ha

and my power was out

:/

[prisma briar]

I had studded tires/wheels I ran during winter and normal tires for summer, I kept the unused tires over the rear axle along with a couple bags of sand

[gleaming crater]

https://tenor.com/view/real-housewives-nene-leakes-good-bye-peace-out-bye-felicia-gif-15710250

My son had a ford ranger and put a 150 slab of steel in the back over the axle

[prisma briar]

But I was delivering pizzas in the rocky mountains during winter in that ranger, lol. I got stuck a lot.

[dire spear]

we had a 1981 vw rabbit that never got stuck. maybe cause it weighed nothing and floated?

[prisma briar]

But I can also basically get a car unstuck from anything winter-related now too

[gleaming crater]

I did that with a 1990 nissan fwd sentra, delivered pizza on slab ice

[prisma briar]

I had a 1996 Ford Ranger

[gleaming crater]

It was like too light to slip lol

[dire spear]

i remember we had chains on the rabbit, but they got banned some time in the 80s i think

[prisma briar]

Pretty sure chains are legal here in winter months

Maybe only when there's snow on the ground

[gleaming crater]

Here you get a ticket for not having chains in your car over a mountain pass from like sept-april

[dire spear]

banned here now cause they destroy the road

[prisma briar]

Yea, the mountain roads here that have points that hit 8-12% grade you need chains on

[gleaming crater]

They love ticketing people who don't chain up in required areas lol

[dire spear]

"Only emergency vehicles, farm tractors, or any road vehicles used for snow removal or winter maintenance from October 15 to May 1 may use tire chains"

[gleaming crater]

Learning how to put on chains in a blizzard is a skill

[dire spear]

ha

[dire spear]

my cousins driveway was 30%

[gleaming crater]

I had a cop spin out on a pass in front of me, stop traffic and say "chain up or you're getting towed off this mountain, take the next exit and go back down"

[winged obsidian]

VW Rabbits got banned?

[prisma briar]

Looks like they require commercial vehicles to have chains on most mountain roads here from September to May, and passenger cars require them when conditions call for it.

[dire spear]

ha. yes. vw diesel.

but thats a different topic

😛

[gleaming crater]

There is this show called "highway thru hell" about some candian mountain pass, it's insane the number of drivers that fight having to put chains on

[dire spear]

no chains though.

highway 99 is really bad

even in summer

[prisma briar]

My Altima has an issue with traction control where the anti-slip sensors on the tires can ice over and fail, I've had that happen a few times and kill power to my right side in the snow. Has caused me to spin out twice now. Now I just disable the traction control in snow.

[gleaming crater]

Smort

[dire spear]

in the 80s it wasnt paved mostly and had no guard rails. 500-1000 ft sheer drops

[gleaming crater]

It's crazy how much road fatalities we used to tolerate

[dire spear]

in toronto there is the 401. whihc in the 70s maybe was the deadlist road with over 1 fatality a day

used to have 100 car pile ups

[gleaming crater]

Good lord why would anyone take the road

[dire spear]

but today its relatively safe

[dire spear]

main highway in toronto. 16 or 20 lanes

[gleaming crater]

what the hellfreeway is that

[dire spear]

so the fatailties were mostly about volume

[prisma briar]

Old cars were terrifying. Crumple zones are pretty damn important.

[dire spear]

thats was the main thing. in a pile up, you need safety systems

modern cars save your life

[gleaming crater]

Yeah the dash would splatter your brains on the inside even if the car didn't fold in on you

[dire spear]

old ones actively tried to kill you

[prisma briar]

Maybe everything around us while driving shouldn't be steel and chrome

lol

[gleaming crater]

I still can't belive F1 went as long as it did just killing drivers on the regular

Wasn't till a huge name died in a tragic way did they really get serious about it

[dire spear]

ugh

[gleaming crater]

At least they had the good sense to ban group B rally cars lol

[prisma briar]

Football is way stupider than car racing, imo

Probably than car racing has ever been

[dire spear]

i knew someone who crashed an f1 style car. almost died. broke neck, back, etc

[gleaming crater]

There's no safe way to play it and not have CTE later

[dire spear]

forget the series of car

toyota atlantic maybe

[gleaming crater]

There have been multiple accidents in F1 in just the last 3-4 years that before would have absolutely been fatal and now drivers are walking away

[dire spear]

401 on a light day

:x

[gleaming crater]

#fuckcars

[dire spear]

(can tell it light cause the cars are moving)

hehe

i hear in china thay have way worse roads now

[gleaming crater]

There is a whole effect with induced demand too, you build a bigger capacity road and it'll always get filled

[dire spear]

yup

[prisma briar]

Yea, it's why we need more condensed neighborhoods. Denser housing, denser shops and office buildings.

[dire spear]

here we also have cop induced trafic. where a cop does 90, and everyone refuses to pass them

hehe

[prisma briar]

Colorado is so stupidly spread out it's insane

[gleaming crater]

Yeah it makes transit outrageously expensive and not useful

[dire spear]

stupid road

[prisma briar]

For comparison Minneapolis has 429,954 people at 7,962 people per sq mile, Colorado Springs has 483,956 people at 2451.2 per sq mile

[gleaming crater]

Cue benny hill theme

[dire spear]

i used to ride my bike across that at 3am to get to the airport

even at 3am it was full

[prisma briar]

Toronto has 10,750 people per sq mile, so where I'm at is less than 1/4th the density of Toronto, lol.

[gleaming crater]

I guess seattle is 8791 per sq/mi

[dire spear]

yeah. and in relative terms (for beign so large) we are spread out. cause physically toronto is big

id hate to live in london or tokyo

[gleaming crater]

Or NYC?

[dire spear]

LA seems ok (at least where i was in burbank)

never been to nyc

[gleaming crater]

29,302.66 per sq/mi in nyc

[dire spear]

ew

[prisma briar]

The city I'm in is spread out more than Toronto with 1/6th the population

[dire spear]

yes but denver is a small town

[prisma briar]

I'm talking about Colorado Springs, I'm about 70 miles south of Denver

[dire spear]

ahh

canada liked to shove everyone in 3 cities. its stupid

the GTA is like 10m people

for no reason

we have so much land!

[prisma briar]

Denver metro population is about 3 million

So it's not that small

[dire spear]

oh, thats bigger than i expected

[prisma briar]

Where I'm at is about 500k people

[dire spear]

toronto area is about 10m. vacouver is 3 or 4. montral maybe 4-5. (not the cities proper, but the service area)

and then the whole rest of canada is another 20m

hehe

not even

[prisma briar]

Yea, I was talking about denver and surrounding cities, denver city proper has a ton of commercial and would probably be kind of low compared to the rest of the area.

[gleaming crater]

Some people can't take even close to city density tho and I can respect that

[dire spear]

toronto proper is 3.5m i think

[gleaming crater]

If they wanna live in the sticks that's on them lol

[dire spear]

but its really one continuous city here. for 300km

so we count it all as one

[prisma briar]

I miss living in Denver, lol.

[dire spear]

ha

i dont miss downtown toronto except for the ease of getting nice food

[prisma briar]

The area I'm at is smaller but it's also full of MAGA trumper morons

[dire spear]

i have to have everything delivered here

[prisma briar]

Yea, food is the main thing that's worse down here

[dire spear]

shhh, youll wake them

[gleaming crater]

I'm sorry for your loss (of sanity)

[dire spear]

we had some idiot truckers here. which turned out to be largely americans making trouble.

[gleaming crater]

Ahahaha that dumb convoy

[dire spear]

yeah

horrible people. (objectively, not cause i disagree with x or y)

[prisma briar]

Those people should've all been arrested and tried for invading a foreign nation.

[dire spear]

sopme were

but its hard to deal with crowds like that

the leaders are trying to fight in court now. which is funny. cause 2 of them cited their 1st amendment rights.. the judge was like.. what amendment now?

very similar to the jan 6 people. no understanding of what the laws actually are

[prisma briar]

"You're not in Kansas anymore."

[dire spear]

nope, your in kingston penn

see ya

[gleaming crater]

That is some peak dumbassery

[dire spear]

if you want to protest anything, do it legally and youll be fine.

[prisma briar]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/not_in_Kansas_anymore idiom if anyone is unfamiliar, I imagine it's probably regional

[gleaming crater]

Anyone who ever watched the wizard of oz maybe

[dire spear]

if you want to protest illegally... accept the punishment

[prisma briar]

tbh I assumed that movie was only big in America

It was kind of before the era of global movie exports

[dire spear]

O_o. um its possibly the most watched movie in history

[gleaming crater]

It was also like one of the first huge color movies

[dire spear]

yeah

[gleaming crater]

If you had sisters you've probably seen it 500 times

[dire spear]

hah

[prisma briar]

I saw it once then saw cartoons parody it another dozen times

[gleaming crater]

I actually did the whole sync the movie up with the dark side of the moon

Which was a challenge with a VCR and a walkman cd player

[dire spear]

i saw star wars on an 8mm rental reel. whihc i never understood. my uncle was weird. vcrs and even lasr disc already existed

[prisma briar]

8mm is going to have a better picture than either of those

[dire spear]

impossible, cause a cassett never plays the same speed twice.

[gleaming crater]

There are some laserdisc releases that are the best quality ever produced for some titles

[dire spear]

probably

i miss the days of uncompressed

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge you home on the 15th?

[gleaming crater]

4k bluray is dying too

[prisma briar]

idk if I'd call laserdiscs uncompressed compared to 8mm, laserdiscs still have everything split up into 480 lines

[dire spear]

bluray alwasys sucked though

not enough bandwidth

[dire spear]

errr

[tidal bronze]

Thoughts?

[dire spear]

no?

other than.. do they not have any original ideaS?

[tidal bronze]

Read the book?

[dire spear]

wasnt this a movie in the 90s?

[tidal bronze]

Read the book?

[dire spear]

80s tv show

[prisma briar]

Laserdisc was 240p on disc interlaced to make a 480i image, compared to something like 8mm where your resolution is effectively the film grain I wouldn't call laserdisc lossless. 'Compressed' doesn't make a ton of sense on either because they're both analog.

[dire spear]

no

thats not how it works

[prisma briar]

yes it is

[gleaming crater]

It was analog signal on a disc apparently? trippy

[forest edge]

of april?

[dire spear]

480i is 480 pixels tall. interlacing spreads it over 2 frames.

[dire spear]

it was analogue yes

[prisma briar]

Yea, and each field of the interlaced image is a 240p field with a line skipped between each line when drawn

[tidal bronze]

April? That's light-years away. I am talking about March.

[dire spear]

but at 60fps. so... no

thats not how interlacing works

[forest edge]

of that's right ahead only 14 days away. I dunno.. i live my life one day at a time just like in the movie

[dire spear]

(to be clear, it sucks)

[forest edge]

you gonna be in KC then?

[dire spear]

but its not a reduced res, or upscaled

[prisma briar]

I know how interlacing works, I'm not sure why you're trying to explain it to me. A 480i signal has the same bandwidth as a 240p signal for twice the resolution at half the refresh rate.

But the data stored on disc is going to be in sequence for each field, so each field is stored as a 240 line block that's read in one progressive scan.

[tidal bronze]

I might drive up there from ICT to grab some cooking stuff.

[dire spear]

anyhow. this has nothing to do with compression 🙂

[prisma briar]

One 240 line block is your odd lines, one is your even lines, you alternate which lines you draw to.

[forest edge]

Buzz me on the day in here. I'll probably be around.

we can talk shit about Netham in person..||he hates that||

[dire spear]

this is my literal job. 😛 anyhow. we stopped using interlaced in the early late 90s to 2000s.

[tidal bronze]

More about Mr Dough No Fish

[prisma briar]

We were talking about laserdisc

[dire spear]

all i was saying is i miss uncompressed formats

you never get to see the original anymore

[forest edge]

canadians are boring

[dire spear]

even in the theatre

[gleaming crater]

Oh sure raw video is nuts storage size

[tidal bronze]

Unless they are from Brampton

[prisma briar]

In the world of digital editing what even is the original?

[dire spear]

the original is digital

[gleaming crater]

pixel level storage?

[prisma briar]

The original film? the final composite? the parts used to make the composite?

[dire spear]

there is no film

havent used film, since about 1998

[prisma briar]

whatever, recording.

I'd say footage but I feel like I'd be inviting more pedantism

[dire spear]

youve missed the point

[prisma briar]

"Well technically we use bits and not feet of film now"

[forest edge]

these kids can't even get along with one another lol

[dire spear]

when i output a shot, i see what i made. when it hits tv, its changed with compression

[tidal bronze]

I see love.

[forest edge]

rain drop in your eye.. something i'm sure you are not used too

[gleaming crater]

Most of that compression is the streaming services lol

[dire spear]

broadcast is compressed too

theatrical projectors is compressed

not as bad of course

[prisma briar]

I've always imagined a lot of the compression in things like modern action movies was caused by CGI effects being lossy

[dire spear]

ha no

[gleaming crater]

I think with h.265 or AV1 it hardly matters anymore

[dire spear]

cgi is pristine and perfect (image, not art)

[dire spear]

those are aweful

[tidal bronze]

Dude honestly, when it rained last year I was ecstatic. Started listening to rain sounds to sleep. But WTF is this now? Rain for more than 2 weeks of the year?

[prisma briar]

In the right hands, sure

[dire spear]

i mean strictly the image quality

[forest edge]

so buy a rubber ducky latex suit and make the most of it

[dire spear]

cgi is never the source of any technical image issues

[forest edge]

am curious what that amount of water is going to do to your home's foundation lmao

[gleaming crater]

But at the same filesize those codecs will always be higher quality vs older ones

[winged obsidian]

Rendering in compressed form would make the math interesting

[gleaming crater]

Tho you can probably spot the artifacts the rest of us can't lol

[dire spear]

we render 32 bit colourspace uncompressed (well, zip compressed)

[gleaming crater]

I would agree color is the one area they're drip-feeding the tv upgrades

[tidal bronze]

I miss connecting video sources to red green and blue.

[dire spear]

i spot everything haha especially if its mine

[gleaming crater]

Here's 8bit, no 10bit, no 12bit!

[dire spear]

delivery at home is still mostly 8 bit

some 10

[forest edge]

I actually managed to skip most of that era jumpung from svideo to hdmi lol

[prisma briar]

I was thinking more like CGI effects causing uneven and unnatural loss of info, like how adding a raindrop in post would magnify part of the image behind the drop and shrink part of it, causing some of the detail to be lost and some to be stretched.

[dire spear]

theatres are sometimes 14 bit

[winged obsidian]

Weirdest movie audience ever was when I went on opening day to see Terminator 2 in the theater across from where I worked. My work was about 2 blocks from SGI headquarters. Applause at the weirdest times.

[prisma briar]

But I suppose if the source was high enough resolution compared to the output display that wouldn't matter

[dire spear]

O_o no? not sure what you mean really

[tidal bronze]

Huh? You plowed for 15 years straight?

[forest edge]

better shit to do than stay indoors

[dire spear]

source these says will usually be alexa LF (or now the new ones. 4k

prores raw

cgi is much higher image quality than the source plate in most cases

[forest edge]

when i was younger i preferred watching movies at a theater

local news was boring then too

[gleaming crater]

https://tenor.com/view/sure-grandma-lets-get-you-to-bed-yes-grandma-gif-6683134261581381982

[dire spear]

then we blend it in

[forest edge]

now it's just all crime and shit

[dire spear]

most of the time you cant tell whats cg and whats not, short of the actual art being bad

[tidal bronze]

Still the best way as long as you they offer in seat transducers

[dire spear]

but hilariously sometimes people point to real unedited props as bad cgi

sooo

[gleaming crater]

I mean most 'bad' cgi is shit in the uncanny valley

[forest edge]

I don't like it now. even after they made assign seating and put in those nice pleather seatings etc.. the experince just isn't the same as it use to be

[dire spear]

yeah. its not fair to call it bad, more like used incorrectly.

ive seen some BAD stuff

[gleaming crater]

It's reallllly hard to nail the phyics of how things move perfectly

[dire spear]

(relative to when it was made)

[winged obsidian]

I got tickets for Dune P2 in theater tomorrow. At a single location, it gave me choice of standard, IMAX, 4DX, PX RPX or ScreenX. WTF? Am I supposed to read all your marketing crap first?

[forest edge]

in North KC there still is one of those theaters were the seating is actually a couch, some recliners and a bunch of beanie bags etc.. i'd probably like that more these days lol

[dire spear]

we have simulations, but they only go so far

[prisma briar]

CGI effects often do things like warp and stretch parts of the image as if they're looking through various lenses. If the detail isn't there to be filled into stretched parts it would look awkward, I'd think. I guess that's probably all solved now though.

[dire spear]

thats not how we do it though

[winged obsidian]

There's one near me that also has a decent beer and wine selection plus real food.

[dire spear]

we shoot special plates for that

we dont warp thing (usually)

[forest edge]

yea they have all of that. ours (last time i looked at it) had kind of this hippie decore thing lol

[tidal bronze]

I love it specially Dolby or DBOX Imax with dine-in

[forest edge]

wtf is dbox?

[dire spear]

(im talking main stream big budger here though, not guy in shed doing $400 tv ad spot)

[tidal bronze]

Sub transducer per 2 seats.

[forest edge]

as in it just makes the seat shake?

the only theater I ever been in that had anything in the seats was disney world

[winged obsidian]

I hear you can mail order Hitachi's now

[prisma briar]

Ah, so you just avoid edits that would result in information loss/extrapolating from low-res data?

[dire spear]

usually

sometimes you are stuck

and cant reshoot

[winged obsidian]

4DX has scent effects. Seriously.

[tidal bronze]

Shake? Vibrate below 30hz. I don't want to miss anything I have at home🤣

[dire spear]

https://youtu.be/e75PSP8O8yA?t=84

[forest edge]

it had that.. mist and all that they called it "4D" lol and this was back in like 2003

[dire spear]

(warning gore)

[prisma briar]

Are kickers worth it? I considered adding one but it seemed gimmicky

[forest edge]

if I wanted an ass massage i'd just go to the chinese massage place I have up the street lol

[winged obsidian]

Not going to watch Dune with scent effects. Stillsuits look like they should smell like stale socks.

[dire spear]

ha

smellovision

[tidal bronze]

You will never be the same GTS after a dose of 27hz

[forest edge]

mean i'd be deaf?

low bass was my younger years

[tidal bronze]

Nopes. Cellulose repacked.

[forest edge]

thats a califronian thing lol

we're all natural here in the midwest.. no fake shit

of you mean ass fat

[winged obsidian]

How close to your ass are your ears?

[tidal bronze]

That's a FOX news requirement

[dire spear]

that explains everything

[forest edge]

close enough

[prisma briar]

I went to the minnesota state fair once and they had fried butter on a stick

[dire spear]

and you lived?

[forest edge]

gross

[prisma briar]

Yea, I didn't eat it

[dire spear]

ha

[winged obsidian]

The line is somewhere between deep fried Twinkies and deep fried butter?

[gleaming crater]

That is some peak midwestern whitepeople shit

[forest edge]

deep fried twinkies isn't as bad as it sounds but certianly not worth what they charge for it

[tidal bronze]

AKA @forest edge

[prisma briar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUJjW3I65e4&t=45s

[forest edge]

wouldn't minnesota be closer to a candian thing

[winged obsidian]

Where do you stand on donut burgers?

[forest edge]

we don't get along with iowaians here

so anything north of there is not midwest

[dire spear]

i used to have catalogues for concession food. some of the stuff you could buy was.... weird

but no butter on a stick

[gleaming crater]

Reminds me of that site "This is why you're fat"

https://thisiswhyurfat.wordpress.com/

[tidal bronze]

Why you calling GTS fat? He is just extra fluffy

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-muscles-ripped-strong-rage-gif-16595995

[gleaming crater]

Scroll far enough and they have the donut burger lol

[winged obsidian]

Has any state fair done deep fried donut burgers yet?

[dire spear]

cronut? or is that something else. i forget

[forest edge]

i have not heard of that

[gleaming crater]

They ain't the first to ahve that fat idea lol

[forest edge]

must be a more modren thing

[tidal bronze]

What is this state fair you are referring to?

[finite atlas]

thats one of the most american things possible xd

[dire spear]

might be scottish

[forest edge]

scroll down that site he linked.. you could make yourself a Mike Air Max Burger lol

[winged obsidian]

Maybe I'll head out there and try selling them. Better than going to Texas for money.

[dire spear]

nope, its a texas invention

[forest edge]

state fair here use to be awesome

[dire spear]

one more reason to hate texas

[forest edge]

haven't been in stefan's age tho so no idea what it's like now

[tidal bronze]

"State Fair'? Something for middle earthers to do after 1:45 PM?

[forest edge]

pretty sure cali has one

I vaguely remember hearing about it once

[tidal bronze]

Never heard never been to

[dire spear]

you do know california also has a state fair

[forest edge]

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/concept-fear-businessman-like-ostrich-600nw-156983825.jpg

[tidal bronze]

I have no idea.

[winged obsidian]

More than one. I went to the California Mid-State Fair a few years ago and caught the Hollywood Vampires for $20. No reserved seats - row 5.

[static schooner]

And county fairs. We have one each year in SD

[forest edge]

I don't even get how he can complain about clouds in the sky.. not like he can see them

[tidal bronze]

So one would, make time to go to one of these fairs?

[dire spear]

we have the ex. but its kindqa died off in the last 10-15 years (even before covid)

[static schooner]

They have concerts on many of the days

[dire spear]

make time? dunno about that. more of a "hey, theres a thing, lets go see what the fuss is"

[static schooner]

Food, rides, pigs, goats,

Racing pigs

[dire spear]

ours has an air show at the end

[tidal bronze]

Oh GTS stuff. Now it makes sense.

[forest edge]

yet in your state

go figure

[dire spear]

not sure we have racing pigs here. but i did see chainsaw carving once

[static schooner]

Parts of metro SD are surprisingly rural

[tidal bronze]

Just to show what middle earthers are like.

[tidal bronze]

Central valley 🤣

[static schooner]

Poway, Ramona

[forest edge]

someone has to teach you ostriches about reality

[static schooner]

Lots of horses out there

[forest edge]

or at least try too

[tidal bronze]

Will they bring an almond milk flat white "extra light" on foam with KBBQ seaweed? I am willing to listen

[forest edge]

honestly.. does anyone in this channel know what he is talking about?

almost threw up a little in mouth just reading that

[prisma briar]

What's confusing about it? The almond milk or the flavored seaweed snacks?

[winged obsidian]

flat white "extra light" on foam is an espresso order

[young sigil]

Seaweed is algae. Flavoured algae snacks probably doesn't have the same customer appeal though.

[forest edge]

pretty sure what he stated was what his doctor recommended for a colon cleanse

[prisma briar]

A seaweed a day keeps the proctologist away?

[tidal bronze]

Sounds like you had a colon ordeal at some point in your life. Keeps running back to it.

[forest edge]

your giving me a colon ordeal

[prisma briar]

you're*

[forest edge]

...

[prisma briar]

:D

[forest edge]

lol can't even post hitler memes now..

this godamn sensitive world

[tidal bronze]

Sorry that you are in your monthly colonoscopy age.

[forest edge]

well you are not that far behind pal

infact what you have coming up is something i done already forgot.. but you will be remembering it in your dreams lmao

https://tenor.com/view/donald-duck-push-gif-4931907

[prisma briar]

If it involved your nephew and a 6' rubber tipped stick I don't think what happened was a medical procedure

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge https://open.spotify.com/track/2NnnahjMckA6BxFrc3FlFn?si=z07cLArES3y7QBE_PX3A3A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8Np1lLOgBA2m hope this helps you at your appointments. We'll be thinking of ya ❤️

[forest edge]

those links don't work for me

[gleaming crater]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-boomer-the-office-old-man-michael-scott-gif-15530652

[tidal bronze]

Pay for damn spotify

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/no-bugs-bunny-nope-gif-4095597578532971838

[tidal bronze]

Everything is mot OTA

[forest edge]

my vinyl plays just fine tyvm

[orchid rose]

Internet was invented so we didn't have to pay for music anything smh

[gleaming crater]

Yarrrrr

[dire spear]

you wouldnt download a cheesecake

[prisma briar]

Is it hard finding needles for your 78s?

[tidal bronze]

Oh boy.

[forest edge]

when in doubt, make it yourself

[tidal bronze]

All this time you were bragging about your USB stick with 3.5mm headphone jack. When did this vinyl stuff come in ?

[forest edge]

godamnit the hoops whisker is making me jump through

wtf is going on

[prisma briar]

Wrong chat again?

Or some reference I missed?

[forest edge]

was a joke.. i didn't even like 8track.. waited for cassette and cd's

[forest edge]

you missed

[tidal bronze]

Looks like you are so very excited there buddy. You alright today? Or did you eat more than quarter of the brownie?

[forest edge]

i gotta tear this LR apart once more and record another clip for these bastards

[forest edge]

no i am not alright, read above

this unit came today, and I sent an email about a noise it made today.. yet apparently whisker is having issues just issuing a replacment

even tho i could just return the damn thing

[tidal bronze]

We all know you are not alright just want clarification at what level.

[forest edge]

level: annoyed

pretty much like how you get when the seaweed is unavilable

[forest edge]

hoop number 3 jumped

gonna lose weight dealing with this customer service

[sweet forum]

I am using the openuv api. It gives me 50 calls per day, but if you retrieve the index, that's one call, and if you retrieve the safe exposure time, that's another call, so 25 per day. Was thinking i can calculate the safe exposure time myself. Is that calculation out there on the internet somewhere? I have been searching but have not found anything yet. Thanks.

[static schooner]

Mmmm...transcoding on Apple Silicon

averaging 92fps @ 4K HEVC

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeNew thing this year. send a test kit where you prick your finger and send it off to check like cholesterol etc for the yearly. about as close as I will get for some kind of quest inhome lol

[wet cairn]

I think I get why people like Innoveli now
This is exactly the ridiculous amount of customization options I like to see on my stuff

[forest edge]

I dunno at some point too much is just too much

[wet cairn]

I have noticed that most devices (zigbee, z-wave, and other types) have most of the config stuff hidden when I add them. But this has everything unhidden by default.
How does home assistant decide what to hide and not on new things?

[static schooner]

The integration decides

[forest edge]

holy crap apex charts is indepth lol

[native quarry]

Hello

Is there a way how can I do that?

Hi, i have a German smart meater which allows to revive current power usage an visualization in the Energy board I also have a Balcony Solar facility. I want to visualize if engery goes to the grid if that's happen the current power consumption go to a negativ value

[polar dagger]

@native quarry a german smart meter? 🙂 Which one? Or do you mean the smart meter of your energy distributor? there are many ways to archive it. i would prefer an own smart meter (shelly 3EM eg.)

[native quarry]

Yes, sorry I mean from my energy distributer but I think its produced in Europe

Iskar is the company

Iskra eHZ-MT681-D4A51-K0p

[native quarry]

Yes a own with ZigBee for example would be better but also cones with overheard of installation and additional costd

[young sigil]

You're in the wrong place for support. Please read the channel description.

Try #frontend-archived

[polar dagger]

allready got him in query, thanks @young sigil , but you mean #energy-archived 😄

[young sigil]

Maybe. They were asking about visualisation.

[distant junco]

Look into tasmota/ESPHome SML. You can get a reader for 20 currency or so.

[native quarry]

Hi, sorry

[native quarry]

Hi, thanks i akready have an IRL reader

But got some tips from skybird will try

Thanks a lot

[red rock]

https://twittpr.com/p1xelHer0/status/1763511852237988233

[gleaming crater]

Watching Sky tv turn into Ferrari stans because Lewis Hamilton is moving over is breaking my brain

Does that make hamilton a british colonizer?

[low harness]

...Windows...
I'm having trouble with an upgrade. Each time it downloads it, installs, deletes the download cache and reboots. And the reboot fails so it restores to original version.
So after the third failure I was thinking I should restart before it had installed, so it could at least keep the download.
Nope. Downloading - 0%

But not to worry. The Windows Update troubleshooter ensures me it "made some changes" to my system. So it might work next time.

[forest edge]

I had an issue on a laptop that was kind of like that. I had to go into safe mode and restore to a previous point then the update downloaded normally

not sue what caused the issue but it was a pain in the ass

are awning windows in europe also tilt and turn? not the square ones but the rectangle ones

[solar zealot]

That sounds like something someone who wants to get into my account would say

[glacial knot]

what's the rest of that sentence?

[solar zealot]

no that would ruin my narrative

To increase the security of your account, remove your password or require two steps to sign in.

[glacial knot]

sure, sure

is that about linux users, where no password means no login? 🤔

[solar zealot]

no this is on the microsoft page where you configure all your 2fa options

i suppose this would just lead to a system where they either mail you a one time password or have you use one of those keys instead

not quite sure how that would be more secure if you already have 2fa set up, but it could probably make sense if you do not

[dire spear]

sucurity is always funny/ "we need to collect your name, number, email, birth day... you know, so we can protect your information"

sooo how bout i NOT give you that?

[glacial knot]

we take your privacy serious
followed by 200 vendors they hand my data to

[solar zealot]

i gave up on caring about adding wrong data because it always comes and bites me

only thing i still hate is mandatory security questions

[dire spear]

in other news. canada just ruled they need a warrant to get your ip.

[solar zealot]

like sure i can remember that every birthdate is the unix epoch, but what would be the default color of my first pets parent name be

[solar zealot]

wasnt that the default?

[dire spear]

to get info attached to that ip yet

s

but now they need one to even request the ip

[solar zealot]

good

good

[dire spear]

just a loose end really, cause in most cases the ip is readily available. (if you hacked the gov, they know the ip that hacked them). im not sure which scenarios this really applies to.

[glacial knot]

yea, that sounds odd. Usually some entity has the IP and then asks for data associated with that IP

[dire spear]

yes

[solar zealot]

well they may do an investigation in the opposite way, they know who you are but want to dig what you did

[dire spear]

and youd already need a warrant to get say, discord, to hand over ip and info

[dire spear]

yeah, probably some edge case they have to track or prove connections

[solar zealot]

either way its probably a good thing

[glacial knot]

oh right, might be to get it out of the provider for e.g. copyrighted material uploads.

[solar zealot]

you wouldnt download a car

[dire spear]

the case this stemmed from was i think credit card hacking

[solar zealot]

3d printer people: 😄

[low harness]

Anyone would 100% download a car if they could.

[dire spear]

3dsets.com

already did

😛

[prisma briar]

I 3d printed an RC car

[primal laurel]

3d printed a 3d printer

Checkmate

[cinder belfry]

Can anybody help me with proxmox or is there a discord ?

[inner lava]

This might be a long shot, but does anyone here know more about ceramic SMD capacitors?

Currently repairing a friends laptop and found a blown one, removed it and now the short on a few other caps is gone. But that's where my knowledge ends.

But I don't know how to determine its value, voltage and capacitance. I have similar sized ones from random circuit boards but I bet they're not rated correctly. So I'm wondering now how to find out if "they'd just work (TM)"

[iron granite]

There is a Proxmox Community Forum.

If it is about setting up HA in Proxmox, #installation-archived might be able to help

[prisma briar]

I found this one when I was looking a while ago. I didn't end up really ever talking there but it looks active.

Hmm, that is not the discord server I made an invite for...

https://discord.gg/gUfdjqrp

There we go

[forest edge]

No, we don't want your keto and seaweed

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge made your favorite 😍

Dinner for 2 is ready.

[forest edge]

see above slow poke

[forest edge]

you eat too much seafood lol

and clams.. super barf

never really understood how people could like clam

[tidal bronze]

Best things in life come in a shell

[forest edge]

yea so are the worst.. don't forget the second half of that

[solar zealot]

i thought we are not supposed to talk about how the shells get used

[solar zealot]

without spilling any beans, you are not supposed to eat them

[static schooner]

Beans don't come from shells, silly

[solar zealot]

thats why they didnt spill

😄

[dire spear]

shell is endangered now. all the poor abalones.

[solar zealot]

a ... housing crisis??

[tidal bronze]

2nd half of what?

Ate so much now I am disoriented

[solar zealot]

can we get the leftovers?

[crisp oriole]

Updated my linux desktop

[solar zealot]

what did just happen

and why is this not arch (btw)

[forest edge]

click click click

[crisp oriole]

Because then i have time to play with other stuff than the OS

[solar zealot]

😮 madness!

[crisp oriole]

The how to is on the community post some time now

How to make kde widgets.

I get a lot of negative response that it is to much info on a screen. (While they have windows pcs with scattered desktop items)

[ocean oar]

I have absolutely nothing on my desktop

[hollow glacier]

Same if something is on my desktop it got there without permission or I put it there cuz I don’t want to forget to do something with it

I treat it like my email inbox lol

[young sigil]

As they have no markings and the PCB rarely does, it is difficult to tell. Some ways: Find the service manual (has a parts list), or look up the datasheet for the part it is connected to (they often have recommended values), or guess (is it a decoupling cap on a 5v rail? - use a 0.1uF X7R type).