greybeard

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

PID tuning is an art.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

FYI, there are registry keys you can set to stop it from trying to upgrade. They are strong policy settings that Microsoft completely respects, for now at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My understanding is that 24H2 crashes if you try that. Microsoft is starting to build their OS around the TPM, so that work around is bound to stop being helpful. I decided a few years ago to stop fighting Microsoft and do what they are asking me to do, stop using Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I moved to syncthing a long time ago. I run it on all my computers, my phone, and my NAS. Keeps everything in sync and local. My only worry is the lack of an offsite. If my home burned down, I'd be a little screwed. Otherwise, I've got lots of copies on lots of devices, as well as automatic backups.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

You should learn a little geography. NC is a very wide state. Most of it hasn't been prone to hurricanes. The coast gets hit every few years with a decent one, but it's been over 30 years since one came anywhere close to that far inland with more than the power of a heavy storm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I agree with those that say Inkscape, it's where I've designed all my logos. However, I've been tempted to try using FreeCAD to do it lately. I'm not sure if it can export as SVG, but the thought of have a proper parametric tool for designing logos sounds up my ally. I tend to try to treat Inkscape like one, by liberal use of construction lines, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't like being that precise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the genie is out of the bottle on this one. I can do voice cloning with consumer hardware and available models. That can't be undone, but good legal protections would be nice.

That said, the Johanson case is a bad example because it really didn't sound much like her at all. It was a chipper yound white lady sound, but to my ear sounded nothing like Johanson. It did sound kinda like a character she voiced, but I would not gave confused the two. They cloned the voice of someone they paid to give a similar inflection as the voice from Her. That's far removed from cloning Johanson herself. It is closer to people making music "in the style of".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I've experience it a few times in VR. For a few fleeting seconds, my world is the world being projected onto my eyes. It rarely lasts long, but it is mind bending.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I've been using and reasonably satisfied with A.R.M. https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine

It uses MakeMKV and Handbrake, but streamlines the whole process.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of StumbleUpon. An old way of sharing and finding content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I also think people discount the power of advertising when they think Facebook or Amazon is listening to them. They don't think that maybe why they were talking about xyz was because they saw an ad for it. Then they saw another ad for it after they talked about it and got confused on cause and effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't see it as a status symbol, although I'm certain that is a huge part of it for a lot of people, but fashion part is right. Cars have design styles, motifs, and trends. I don't know the names for most of them, but I can normally place a car in a 3 year range on sight. Make and model are also often very obvious through those same features, even across a larger number of years, slowly transitioning from one "age' of car design to another. I'm not a car person, but I am, in weird ways, a design nerd.

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