kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 hours ago

If you have a theater nearby that offers Dolby Vision films you can try out a version of HDR. They use laser projectors so the blacks can really be pure black. When the screen goes dark just before the movie the entire theater will be pitch black except for emergency lighting. It's glorious.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 10 hours ago

I live out in the country with a lot of farms and yeah people do this. I've seen apples, peaches, firewood, and a few other "shelf stable" things.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Voyager's "variable geometry pylons" were designed to allow greater than warp 5 travel without the damage to subspace. It's also entirely possible that Starfleet adapted the borg technology from the Delta Flyer to increase the travel speed of shuttles. The warp scale is logarithmic so even a fraction of a point increase can shave significant portions of time off a trip.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

For sure the quality will be worse than software but typically if I'm away from home I'm watching on an ipad and then you really can't tell the difference.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Thank goodness, now I can defend my home against tyranny and people who look different than me with a pseudo-machine gun, just the way the Founding Fathers intended! (/s just in case)

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

EDIT: I meant QSV Gen 7, which would be intel Gen 11. Kaby Lake and up can still handle HEVC in hardware but they have to use software as well for 4K.

worth mentioning that any intel cpu with an iGPU from generation 7 (kaby lake) and up can handle 4k hevc transcode in hardware. i just upgraded my plex box to an i7 8700K and it works quite well. an old office workstation with like a 9th or 11th gen intel cpu would probably rip through transcodes.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would probably still brew decaf coffee to go with them for the taste and smell.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Also don't hack me plz

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We're having a pretty nasty thunderstorm right now and it barely misses a beat. I swear I'm not a musk shill lol, I just remember 3G hotspots and how much worse this would have been.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately, for me the spot where the signal is strong is ~250 feet up on top of a mountain. We had a cell booster that worked great on 3G but I'm not real keen on spending another $150 on a new repeater that may or may not pick up a signal from our roof. Another fun aspect of being out in the country is that I'm living in a converted pole barn which has a metal "skin" with double layer mylar foil/foam insulation that makes it quite difficult for signals to get inside. There's no mesh so it's not a full Faraday cage but it creates a lot of attenuation.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really miss it. I'm up in the Appalachian mountains tucked between two peaks. There was a plan at one time to utilize the old 800mhz band for some sort of municipal internet (since 800mhz can either punch through the rock or "ride" along the earth, been too long since RF school to remember). But as far as I know nothing ever came of it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The AT&T hotspot is actually data capped, higher ping, and quite slow since we only have HSPA+ (4G) way out here. We used a hotspot while we were on the wait list for Starlink and just knowing there was a data cap made it pretty unpleasant to use. I should have specified that in the original post.

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