llamatron

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[–] llamatron 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nosferatu. Everyone acts their socks off and it's entertaining enough but the drama felt, I don't know, a little overcranked? And I'd call it creepy rather than scary. I enjoyed it though.

And last night I rewatched The Transporter for the first time in years. It pains me to say it's not as good as I remember. I don't think I'd noticed how edited the fights are, sooo many cuts so it all seems so much faster than it is. And I love Jason Statham, his movies are reliably entertaining if a little formulaic, but his acting wasn't great in this, I felt he came off a little wooden at times. I remember at the time finding Matt Schulze's character a bit weird and he still is. What's with stroking the envelope of cash? And had Ric Young had plastic surgery? Super weird looking. Anyway, even with all my complaints it's still good fun.

[–] llamatron 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Englishman here. I can only apologise for the sheer stupidity of my fellow countrymen. Brexit was such an own fucking goal and the morons will never admit it. If Cameron really had to put it to a vote he could have required a super-majority on account of how economically devastating leaving would be. But no, a slim majority is good enough to fuck over us all for generations to come.

And Trump. Good god. The country that sells itself as a beacon of democracy has happily voted in a crook. Someone who fomented an insurrection attempt, hid top secret documents in his shower while foreign agents roamed freely around and lied about it! Like, actual treason. But I'm not sure what's worse, the orange shit head or the people and system that not only have allowed him to get away with it all but have actually fucking promoted it. Fucking depressing.

[–] llamatron 5 points 1 week ago

Peach looks good enough to eat

[–] llamatron 3 points 1 week ago

Yum.

I'm a man of few words.

[–] llamatron 6 points 1 week ago

It's always a grift

[–] llamatron 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's 'defunct' but your spelling is better.

[–] llamatron 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So, a half remembered Radiolab episode or maybe it was 99% Invisible talked about this. If I remember rightly they did consider changing it because it was so much quicker and easier typing in English and Chinese character set takes up a lot of storage which was a big deal in early computers. Until someone figured they could break down all the Chinese characters into a much smaller selection of base shapes. So you could make a character by pressing a small selection of keys. So it meant a much more manageable keyboard. I think it's even resulted in quick Chinese typists being faster than English ones.

[–] llamatron 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] llamatron 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm using a raspberry pi with a 'sonoff universal zigbee 3.0 USB dongle'. But I've no clue what I'm doing. I originally got into it just so I could automate a bedroom light for the wife. Beyond that I've got a couple of lights and contact sensors and the recent attempt at controlling a dehumidifier. Googling and blind luck has got me this far.

I wonder if it helps that the door contact sensor is in the same room as the zigbee dongle? Maybe 20ft away

[–] llamatron 3 points 2 weeks ago

I shall investigate. Thanks for the suggestion

[–] llamatron 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly I can't find a UK Thirdreailty plug. Their website only shows US, doesn't even detect I'm coming from the UK so I'd guess US only. Surprising seeing as the company is based in China.

[–] llamatron 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So how close are we to getting low end large capacity SSDs at affordable prices? I mean, are we ever gonna be able to buy 12TB SSDs for our desktops or home NAS for similar prices to mechanical drives??

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