[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I say this a lot, but "nomacs" image viewer/editor. I take a lot of time lapse videos and I have directories of like, 50000 identically-sized images each on a smb server over gigabit ethernet and nomacs can open from a directory and quickly cycle through the photos using the arrow keys, without resetting the current pan/zoom setting (important for me), without any trouble. It takes about as long to open the directory of photos as it takes for my samba client to download the directory data.

It also has a lot of cool little quality of life features, including lots of shortcut keys for overlaying metadata and such. It has basic image editing capability as well. The only other image viewer I use is digikam, which is more for organizing personal photos. Otherwise it's all nomacs, baby.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm pretty new to this. I was considering replacing it with something else because it leaks slightly from the valve if it gets moved around at all, but I don't know what this connection is to start with. It goes to a dishwasher.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

Never connect your smart TV to the internet. Just don't do it. Get a third party device or ideally use an old PC with an appropriate HTPC Linux distro or something.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

I live near multiple major Boeing facilities and so a large percentage of the local population works there. Boeing, due to their hiring practices and sort of employee abuse and such, basically create (or attract) a creepy cult of weird psychotic narcissists, especially the white-collar workers. Not everyone that works there is like that, but the ones that work there for 20+ years almost always are. I have numerous relatives and know lots of other people who work there and they are all creepy, balding, extremely self-important and abusive people. Now other people may pipe in and say that they have a very different experience, but that's been mine. Oh, and they all want everyone they come across to know that they work at Boeing. It's a core part of their identity. They are desperate to impress everyone.

My most recent experience with long-term Boeing employees was my psychopath uncle-in-law seemingly tried to murder his wife when she decided to divorce him after 20 years of abuse, mostly because it would have looked bad at work and made it harder for him to make "executive".

Honestly I relish in the lowering status of Boeing and its employees. It's been a long time coming. They make some shitty jets these days, they have shitty business practices, there's something clearly wrong with their corporate culture, and their cult of creeps have been a pain in everyone else's asses for many years.

I guess that's all a long way of saying that Boeing probably doesn't even have to hire anyone to kill whistleblowers. I would not be shocked if a "good employee" took it upon themselves to do it.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have a friend who lives in a Section 8 housing apartment and the dryer vent (that normally sticks out enough to connect a dryer to) is broken off flush with the wall by previous tenants. I believe it's also glued/foam filled into place, so it can't be easily pulled further out or anything. They'd probably get in trouble if they modified anything excessively anyway. No pictures, sorry.

They have a stacked washer/dryer that works, but cannot use them due to no venting. There is no way that the landlord will fix it, as they refused to fix many bigger, more dangerous things until the state forced them to. They are just stuck with the apartment that they have. Also, they currently have a negative income, so I'd have to fix it out of my pocket. Currently they just walk to a laundry place and pay a bunch of money (that they don't have) to wash their things.

Is there some sort of trick that's still safe, like a metal insert that you can put into the vent to extend it? Some way to make it usable without modifying the building?

This is Washington State, USA, so it'd need to pretty much follow laws/code if at all possible.

Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Weird... yt-dlp -f "ba" url

Never need to use one of those horrible malware laden download sites again..

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Yet another job being lost to AI.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I love Linux, but I never expect it to be mainstream or even extremely accessible to typical users. In fact, if it made it to mainstream, it'd probably get ruined somehow by corporate interference, monetization, etc. How you may ask? Well, corporations have a lot of money and influence and I'm sure they could "find a way" if motivated to do so.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

My life saving benlysta is something like $3k/mo before insurance, $1k/mo after, but luckily I get it basically free... For now.

Drug pricing is crazy. They want to recoup their r&d, but almost nobody even pays the full cost. Why not just charge something reasonable...

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

If you are getting actual hardware/sata errors on the host (not sure if that's exactly what's happening from your description), and multiple drives have had a similar problem, I'd suspect the sata cable or controller/mobo. Intel had a lot of weird sata issues on their older chipsets, so I'd also recommend making sure it has the latest bios update. Could you be more specific on what kind of hardware errors are showing up? Like, maybe parts of the logs.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago

The site has plenty of good content, just no way to find it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

My wife and I had a moderately large wedding, but it was motivated mostly by her parents. My point is that there may be other reasons that it's a big wedding. We've been together 23 years so I think things are going okay.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

You're forgetting the 10 minutes of mandatory Windows updates.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have a Rexing Dashcam that I've used for a couple years, and lately it's been behaving badly. It works perfectly fine while on, but when it's time for it to shut down, it often will shut off early, then reboot over and over until its internal battery is totally dead.

Everyone on the net says it's a bad card. Nope. It does mess up the card's partition by quitting in an uncontrolled fashion and by rebooting over and over, but I took the thing apart and the real problem was that the little internal battery is swollen and almost dead.

All the battery does is provide the camera with up to 30 seconds to save the currently captured video and perform a controlled shutdown, and as such, it's quite small. The battery in my V1LG was a 602040 3.7V 450mAh lipo. It was pretty badly swollen (they are supposed to be relatively flat). I've ordered a cheap replacement for $7, which is a lot cheaper than a new dashcam.

Anyway, if your dashcam is behaving oddly at power-down, and you've tried different cards with no success, it may be your battery.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes actually. Knew a guy that talked about it to close friends a lot in the late 90s. He's (she's) openly trans now.

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