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I didn’t see the /s

Seen these. Pretty creepy but some folks don’t mind.

But you said Amazon has access to my fingerprints? Got proof?

Alcohol is a great solvent and widely used in flavor extracts such as orange and almond concentrating and preserving the essence of flavors.

It’s use can add natural flavors to a great variety of recipes.

Grr! That smug-arse thumbnail. Such a punchable face. I have no idea why it gives me such anxiety… That shade of lifelessness and pale eyes.

I hear the blog is well written. It’s just that thumbnail!

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Yeah, just seconding your internet source recommendation. The price was right.

I use openweathermap and it works great for my needs and it’s free (they switched to an account based service recently but still free for small stuff)

For internal temp sensors, I use my ZigBee thermostat and a window AC unit that has a temp sensor available to Home Assistant.

Nothing fancy for me, yet anyways, but works for my needs.

Me too! I was remembering the Intel incident when they discovered processors didn’t calculate math correctly and turned a batch into keychains. I still have mine somewhere …

Since you can’t use GPU for rendering or recording, a faster CPU couldn’t hurt and is probably your best bet, but it isn’t really thaaaat old. (There being no other hardware bottlenecks of course)

There are, cough cough I think, ways to decrypt and record HDCP protected streams but I’d imagine you’d have to have a render unit and recording unit in your setup. Sort of complicated.

Ah bummer. That’s most of my software tricks. I’d break out my hardware equipment next step, but that’s pricy.

Not terribly off topic, but I’ve been wondering if cage free or free range has had an affect on the spread of bird flu. Our state banned cages long ago, but we still seem hit hard.

We have a local pultry ranch and last I heard they were hit pretty hard, but I think they are free range. I’ve also had a neighbor with a couple chickens in her backyard have to cull one. Oh, and one report of a cat dying. (It’s really bad for pets)

That PC should be able to play a stream just fine. I’d check if there background apps hogging resources and make sure hardware acceleration is active. Scale the resolution down (no point of upscaling 1080p content) and record to a lower resource intensive format, perhaps h.264 vs h 265/HEVC.

I feel like all of us are picturing the same exact shop owner right now, never having met them.

Oh, the stories they can tell.

Edit: Whoa, saw the X post pics. Was not far off! Ha!

While I like to agree with that vision of decentralized social media, even here on lemmy we have our own pitfalls. Echo chambers are unchecked and defederation (even justified) happens.

I don’t assume everyone here is a real person. There was a article recently that AI was training “persuasiveness” using reddit subreddits. I have to believe a similar trial exists on the fediverse least I be caught off guard.

Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reaks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

I know I have some strong biases that lean towards peace, and I’m confused sometimes why a comment of mine in the fediverse gathers double digit upvotes steadily only to plummet to the negatives overnight. I get old reddit botnet vibes on some topics.

I suppose I want to like lemmy, the freedom, these communities, but it is still polarizing and influenceable by [insert tech/political/financial interests]. I don’t trust this enough to recommend to friends and family, but my presence here makes it a fraction more what I want to be.

Those emails have warned me something was pooched in advance many times. I do find them useful.

Sad to see them go, but nice they mention an alternative.

Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn’t easy, but at least make them work for it.

Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.

We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it’s highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.