MisterTea

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by MisterTea 4d ago
Who's selling dumb TV's again, Samsung? Who else? I'll happily pay a thousand bucks to not get screwed by my TV.
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by MisterTea 4d ago
The thing which depresses me the most is all these so-called smart TV's are giant Arm computers that run malicious software. Imagine if we could re-flash your TV with Linux or whatever.
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by MisterTea 4d ago
I feel like all the closed model providers are milking it as they likely know open models on local hardware will one day eat their lunch. We all know it's not a matter of if but when. The company goes bankrupt, the hardware and propert
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by MisterTea 4d ago
Regardless of flux, we still haven't addressed the core issue.
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by MisterTea 4d ago
Presently Xi is focused on growing China and doing a great job of it. But what happens when Xi is gone? Once China reaches its goal and is the worlds manufacturing source, how will it use its influence to obtain resources? We already see Ch
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by MisterTea 4d ago
I am talking about frivolous use of zip ties and over-application. Things like zip tying an extension cord for storage. And over application as in every 2-4 inches on cable bundles. Madness.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
> destroying democracies? Taiwan would like a word.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
I heard a story recently from a friend who mingles with a lot of tech and finance people. One conversation happened after a meeting between a group which deeply bothers him to this day. The conversation basically went like this: "How w
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by MisterTea 6d ago
Ah, they were proprietary then. I thought they were an early standard that lacked a 5th pin.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
There was also the Micro-A which I found on some dev boards. I think the Arduino Due (Arm Cortex M3 chip) used one for the USB host port as well as an Atmel Arm uc board. Also that weird, really small USB connector that was found on some ea
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by MisterTea 6d ago
> Ziptie once coiled, attach label for what format / length. Please god, no more zip ties. Use double sided Velcro strap. You can buy it in a roll and cut to length. Reuse it all you want. Join multiple shorter lengths to make a lon
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by MisterTea 6d ago
If what you wrote here are your own words then I would say that you write well enough to not need an LLM.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
Thanks. I was able to get the same result as you did. Pretty neat trick.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
Thanks for the details but I realized I should have said "Pretend I just installed GIMP and my knowledge of image editing is MS paint." This is what I was after: "move the midpoint slider to about where the peak in the histog
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by MisterTea 6d ago
Can you explain 2 a bit more? I see the Auto input levels but unsure what you mean by "move the midpoint to the median." The result I got for the original mars image was a washed out red image with some yellow around the craters.
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by MisterTea 6d ago
> I really hope the Chinese keep killing everything that gets too big to fail. Be careful what you wish for. What happens when China gets too big to fail?
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by MisterTea 6d ago
This was my biggest takeaway from Japan in terms of home design - the bathroom design. At a small apartment in Tokyo the "bathroom" was in fact three separate spaces: a nook where the washer and sink lived which opened into the li
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by MisterTea 6d ago
> How Do We Defend Against This? How about not using Windows in Industrial production environments. It is one of the biggest failings of the modern industrial automation industry. I am vocal about this with vendors and explain the headac
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by MisterTea 6d ago
They did. Right at the start.
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by MisterTea 7d ago
> You’re right, I shouldn’t expect laws and enforcement. And from the original description it certainly sounds like you are living in an area where there is no enforcement. That is clearly a failure of you local municipality of which you
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by MisterTea 7d ago
Sure. So long as I don't have to pay for it.
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by MisterTea 7d ago
> do you think installing flock cameras isn’t an attempt to deal with it? It's not dealing with it because its lazy passive action where citizens shrug responsibility off to a 3rd party who only cares about making money and not the
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by MisterTea 7d ago
> What else would you suggest proper support when they are harassed by crime this much? How would a flock camera deter a thief from breaking into your garage? It's a false sense of security. I had a guy break into two tenant spaces
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by MisterTea 7d ago
No disrespect but this is pure vibe engineering. Aluminum T-slot? CNC machined parts? CPU? Unnecessary design leading to being way overbuilt with lots of material and energy wasted. My advice would be to take a wood working class where they
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by MisterTea 7d ago
I just told the landscaper don't put any pesticides or herbicides and let nature do its thing. My landscaper just takes care of the front lawn, shrubs and the road verge and is cheap enough to pay for the twice month trim and clean up.
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by MisterTea 8d ago
> 4K editing, software development, local AI models, gaming and the ever-increasing bloated requirements from web browsers and Electron applications have all pushed up memory requirements a lot for general computer use. We assumed RAM wa
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by MisterTea 8d ago
What does superior quality mean in this case?
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by MisterTea 8d ago
> Do humans without lawns consume that much water? Do you assume humans with a lawn consume more? My lawn only consumes what the sky gives it.
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by MisterTea 13d ago
Cygwin on Windows 7 was how I computed until moving to Linux after Windows 7 support ran out. I refuse to use anything after Win 7 -- noting of value was added to the OS other than stupid UI decisions, telemetry, and aggressive updates that
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by MisterTea 13d ago
> In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state. This already applies to the USA where Trump was very

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