8k was always going to have issues and likely die.

When it comes to TVs most people don’t like sitting too close. The bigger the TV, the further back you want to sit. Anyone who’s sat in the front seats of a cinema can attest to this.

While the human eye doesn’t have a resolution, we can work out an effective one from our ability to discern angular differences. Combined these, and the ‘optimum’ resolution for a TV is actually just under HD. In the real world, the extra pixels of 4K help, particularly after compression.

Basically HD is good enough for uncompressed video, 4K helps with compression artifacts. 8k offers nothing new.

I’m UK based, and use Hanover Daries

The milk is sourced from a local dairy and delivered in glass bottles. It’s a little bit more expensive, but worth it for the extra quality. As a side bonus, it’s less food miles and supports local business.

My point is that it wasn’t necessarily willful ignorance. During pregnancy, women get an insane amount of information and warnings dumped on them. Filtering out the useless crap from the absolutely critical is not an easy task. That’s also without accounting for hormone induced “baby brain” throwing cognitive processes out of kilter.

It’s terrifyingly easy to make mistakes of this type, even for the intelligent. Saying the baby is better off dead is cruel and victim blaming.

FYI, the milk I drink is still pasteurised.

Most supermarket milk is skimmed, then some cream gets added back and it’s homogenised. That process seems to remove a lot of flavour/texture.

My point was that someone who jumped from supermarket milk to raw milk would likely notice the same flavour improvement. This could then misattribute it to being raw, rather than just better milk.

It’s still a bit behind on voice control, but home assistant can deal with both. Without all the spying.

The current mindset seems to be that the other side wants reciprocal violence, and so not to give it to them. They want to spin it as ICE trying to do their jobs and being mindlessly attacked. The current situation is giving them almost nothing to spin.

At some point it will detonate. Trump and co mean it’s likely either that or folding under their boots. Holding out till the American midterms is unlikely, unless something seriously changes.

The paradox of tolerance disappears when you look at it as a social contract. “I agree to tolerate your weirdness, that doesn’t significantly affect me, if you do the same in turn.” Add in “If you back me when someone breaks the contract, and I will back you in turn.” and you get a very good basis to build on. You end up with a few grey areas, but 95% is obvious.

I can think about ideas without either visualisations or inner monologue. My inner monologue is mainly for mapping ideas to a “transmittable” state. I also have to force visualisations.

The best description I can give is multiple interacting “data streams”. E.g. a cat won’t be an image of a cat, it would be a mapping vaguely akin to how a computer game tracks things, a collection of data on pose, limb length, join angles etc. It doesn’t use actual numbers. It’s akin to how you know the angle of your elbow, without knowing the angle in degrees.

My inner monologue’s main use mapping from this internal data blob into something that I can explain to others.

Don’t underestimate the dangers of being caught in an info bubble.

There are (legitimate) worries about ultra processed food. Extending that to milk, and concluding that unprocessed milk is better is easy and reasonable. Taking that further to raw milk being better then seems equally reasonable. If you don’t get info from outside your bubble then it’s easy to end up where the mum was.

It’s also worth noting that less processed milk can taste considerably better than supermarket milk. I get (pasteurised) milk delivered from a local dairy. It’s significantly better, taste wise. Attributing that difference to being raw would be very easy. It then reinforces the biased information, and makes it look reliable.

You can easily cross calculate between various, inertial frames of reference. The problem is that earth isn’t sitting still in an inertial frame. We spin around the sun, and we orbit the center of our galaxy. We also get nudged about by the pull of other stars.

Tracking a time jump (or technically a time-space jump) would be easy, if you just wanted to be within the solar system. With measurements the earth-moon gap would not be too hard. Hitting a surface exactly would be another story. Miss by a meter and your cut in half by a wall or floor.

It’s not true teleportation, it’s just incredible acceleration. It’s easy to mistake one for the other, if you make the mistake of blinking.

I can also note that their top speed is still limited. They can’t run on water, for example. (Guess how we found THAT one out!)

Or you could realise you are in a group focused on a single bit of software and do a 5 minute investigation into said software.

We are in a forum talking about Home Assistant, an open source piece of software, aimed at patching over the annoyances and games the various companies you are complaining about play.

It lets you control them all from one piece of software, so you don’t need 20 apps on your phone, and the spying they support. It also lets you isolate the devices on their own vlan, cut off from the internet completely. All control then goes through software under our control.

The database it’s talking about is basically a scoring of how nicely the various devices play once you have deloused and neutered them.

It’s a community attempt to fight back against big data etc. This is why you are being down voted hard. You’re interrupting with a rant about the very thing we are fighting.

If you’re trying to fend off the CIA then your worries have merit. My goal is to limit casual data leaks and bypass attacks.

Normal worst case, someone can see when I turn lights on and off. Or mess with my thermostats. There are easier ways to gather that info.

Can you actually back up any of those statements, particularly when we are dealing with things like ZigBee, tasmota, or espHome?

Home assistant is used by a lot of security savvy people. It’s not to their benefit to leak data like that.

Local control also means you can isolate IoT devices from the internet. You can make it so they CAN’T exfiltrate data. You can wrap your insecure IoT devices in a secure wrapper.

The database is for how well devices work in this environment. Will they work fine, or throw a fit and stop working.

I thought that only applied to steam keys?

You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.

A good manager is both a coordinator and a filter. They deal with bs rolling down from above and keep their team running efficiently.

A good manager is worth their weight in gold. A bad manager isn’t worth their weight in bullshit.

Men in sheds is now fairly international. It’s primarily aimed is at retired or disadvantaged men. Most are not gender limiting however. They often do a lot of community outreach stuff too.

For younger demographics, makerspaces (aka hackspaces or hackerspaces) fill a similar role. You don’t need to go in with any particular knowledge, just an attitude of making new friends.

Also, don’t be afraid to use groups as jumping off points. Often members will be involved in other activities that might suit you better.

Even for DIY this might be sensible. I know what my time is worth to me in $. Add in a % correction for semi enjoyable tasks and I have an easy yardstick for what is reasonable.

While I use it on WiFi, I’m fairly sure my brother laser printer has a USB connector.