techphotoguy

Verso, 1 day ago to random

I have a #StreamDeck question: I have a mini with a hardwired USB-A cable. I have varying levels of success getting it to work properly with my USB-C only MacBook Pro.

Have you tried this with a dock or an adapter that makes it work for you? If so please name names!

That said, I am also not averse to completing The Circle of StreamDeck Life, and selling the one I have to finance the one I want (: so if you're in the market for a classic, HMU (:

nyquildotorg, 6 days ago to random

It was so hot and humid that by 11am the Gold Bond Medicated Powder in my pants had turned into Gold Bond Medicated Chowder

chris, 7 days ago to random

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nyquildotorg, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Ok, Cory Doctorow is pissing me off now, lol.

"Break down the steps of training a model and it quickly becomes apparent why it's technically wrong to call this a copyright infringement. First, the act of making transient copies of works – even billions of works – is unequivocally fair use. Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale."

We need some kind of term for arguing via false equivalence.

nyquildotorg, 8 days ago to random

Of course the Metallica track this lady used to scare off a cougar was from the black album...

It's pretty rad that James Hetfield reached out to her, though. I bet he suggested buying 72 Seasons for her future cougar scaring needs.

matthewcassinelli, 8 days ago to random

computers r cool

nyquildotorg, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

Long ago I had this idea for a dumb bit, where I'd start YouTube channel doing 10-minute GIMP tutorials to teach people what I'd learned after using GIMP for a couple decades.

The short version is it'd be one of those screen cast type videos, and every episode the entire 10 minutes would be filled with bullshit like dependency resolution problems preventing GIMP from launching, recompiling the Linux kernel because my graphic tablet stopped working again, and then recompiling the kernel again because the graphics tablet now works, but I can no longer capture sound in my recordings.

nyquildotorg, 14 days ago to random

I keep seeing people talk about all the time ChatGPT is saving them, by not requiring them to learn everything about whatever they're using ChatGPT to write about. 🤦

adron, 15 days ago to random

Gonna eat at Microsoft today.

nyquildotorg, 15 days ago to random

Which orientation on the new iPads has the Apple "right-side up"?

People have been telling me for years that the primary orientation of the iPad is landscape, but that Apple on the back has always suggested to me that that's just not true.

chris, 16 days ago to random

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nyquildotorg, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

A local Mediterranean restaurant offers some of the best fried potatoes I've ever eaten.

There are two options: medium cut potato rounds and large cut potato rounds, and the size describes the diameter of the slices of potato that are then fried.

The larger ones often end up in a super state where half of one is thin and crispy like an American "chip" (a UK crisp) while the other is thick and fluffy like an American fry (UK chip).

They are amazing.

mathowie, 29 days ago to random

❓Did Instagram change their color temperature and exposure handling lately? Any previously edited photo uploaded to Instagram looks totally blasted out after posting. Photos that look ok in drafts get big color shifts and exposure changes after.

It’s been this way for a couple weeks. It’s annoying that a photo app can’t do WYSIWYG editing reliably.

Is it just me? Makes me never want to post to Instagram again.

techphotoguy, 27 days ago to random

But they told me I wasn't just a number!

https://om.co/2024/04/25/ftc-settles-with-ring/

nyquildotorg, 28 days ago to random

I have witnessed multiple offices get nothing done for entire days after someone started a "is a hot dog a sandwich" debate.

I assure you, no matter how well thought out you think your argument is, someone else has already countered it. It's a problem just like the Pluto problem: there's no definition of sandwich that will encapsulate everything you and Tim from accounting both think the definition is, and will one day require a new definition to concretely rule on whether a hot dog is or isn't a sandwich. (Just like with Pluto.)

All I can say for sure is nearly half of the people who've ever had this debate are going to be really angry. (Just like with Pluto.)

csilverman, 1 month ago to random

Curious to see how people interpret this pattern. Is the switch on or off?

(I would have done a poll, but apparently you can't have an image and a poll in the same post.)

glennf, 1 month ago to random

How many things can we monger?
• cheese
• fear
• fish
• scare
• hate

nyquildotorg, 1 month ago to random

Adding a 4th and 5th factor to logins, Gillette-style.

Sarahp, 1 month ago to random

Omg I have to buy a new desk. What’s your favorite home office desk and why? Pics welcome!!

Meyerweb, 1 month ago to random

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and the time an online recipe promises it will take to prepare a meal.

jimmylittle, 1 month ago to random

Why are we still doing this?

chris, 1 month ago to random

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