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Well now there’s oled so burn in is very much a thing and screensavers are back on TVs at least, except they suck now.

And I would definitely call modern computers stupid but it’s not the computers fault, tbf. A computer is just a thing. It’s the fault of greed mainly. Computers are stupid because they don’t have charming features like screensavers anymore. That’s too expensive. Usability, repairability, user control, etc is sacrificed consistently to shove in advertising and opportunities for upselling. Whenever this isn’t the case it’s almost always a temporary moment before venture capital purchases the company that makes the hardware/software and then they will 100% do that

I don’t know why people think ice using this is strange because many local police departments in the USA have been using this thing for decades for anyone even slightly unruly. It’s supposed to be a last resort mechanical restraint if someone is a true danger but if you watch those youtube bodycam videos you’ll regularly see them throw this out as a threat and use it retributively when someone pisses them off. Of course ice would also use it and would likely use it in even worse ways

Sleep disorder, catch up on work, shitpost, read manga. I try to do productive stuff too like exercise, language study, making stuff, etc but I do have to be contentious of noise as I live with people. Some things are easier than others. Language study is nice because 5am est is 6pm the next day jst so my Japanese language exchange friends are just getting home from work when I’m getting to the end of the night

Thankfully I’ve gotten to the point in life where I can work like 11-7 or 12-8 fairly easily. Brutal for social interaction at my age is the trade off but can’t win them all I guess

I do. It was great.

Many years later Uniqlo released the uniqlock. It was a clock screensaver that had “seasons” which were advertisements for their seasonal clothing releases but it wasn’t really obvious? It was that era where advertising was stupid and weird and “subversive” but it meant we got a cool screensaver that was updated for like 6 years with new content for free. Normally I despise advertising but this was the kind that was up front about it: it was like here’s a thing, check it out, it’s free, no data collection. Simpler times.

Unfortunately it was made in flash and died many years ago when flash was kill. That hasn’t stopped people who were also fans of it from recreating it although unfortunately said site doesn’t work great on mobile and is a website, not a screensaver, but still nice to be able to see it again

The dvd screensaver was just another screensaver at the time. There used to be cool things. Like install windows 95 or 98 and there’s default screensavers that were basically just programmers showing off - the pipes constantly growing into each other, a starfield, a generative maze that you just wander through, etc. then there was a whole thing for people to make screensavers (Uniqlo made one of the coolest ones).

Now computers are stupid and monitors just turn off. To be fair this is probably better for the environment

That’s old dumb usb. USB c also needs a 5.1kohm resistor between cc1 and gnd (or data lines to negotiate fast charging but then its a whole thing)

https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite

Ytlite now, uyou stopped updating awhile ago. There’s also a fork of ytlite (I think ytlite+?) that has some plugins rolled in by default, though you can just roll them in yourself when you build the app. The plus version may be better if you get them prebuilt from an appstore (sketch, imo) instead of sideloading an app you build yourself

I used a pi for HA for years with no issue. Just use a good quality legitimate sd card and make regular backups of your setup

I use a cheap NUC now but that is about processing overhead mainly due to rtsp streams. If you have a setup like mine (10+ cameras, 4k streams) you’ll find it starts to get unusable and chokes after a certain number of streams (iirc like 5-6). This is exacerbated if you bridge the streams to homekit or stuff like that (though not as much if you do something like scrypted external to the pi obviously but then it’s like what do you run that on?)

I think it’s just a byproduct of animation. The simpsons don’t necessarily look like any specific ethnicity either

Wishes to be Asian
Post picture of anime girl, an art style that is highly stylized but somewhat generic in terms of ethnic identity markers

I think she sees the writing on the wall and is gunning to be the leader of whatever populist conservative movement arises post trumpism

Eh. A lot of “traits of serial killers” have extremely weak or no evidence base. AFAIK the constellation of bedwetting, setting fires, and animal abuse is the only real evidence based set of personality traits (which was still extremely weak). And even then it’s widely anecdotally repeated that any of these behaviors counts the way you describe (“he abused animals? That’s a sign of being a serial killer!!”) when the Macdonald triangle was considered a predictor with all three behaviors in conjunction.

But generally even that is considered kind of crap nowadays. predictors in the modern sense are more predictable and less salacious: significant neglect and abuse history, empathy issues, antisocial behavior, impulsivity, and narcissism. But this list is so vague (intentionally so) because it’s less about predicting “serial killers” (which is a foolish game) and more about predicting who is at risk of committing violent crime.