batmaniam

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF
carnivorousplants
sorted by: new top controversial old
16
Has anyone collected a torrent of banned/challenged books in the US? (lemmy.world)
 

Pretty much the title. I'd like to add it to the archives.

Get Ready for Trump-flation in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They know they'll win anyway. What's going to be interesting is when they realize being a multi millionare doesn't qualify them as rich enough for that to be true for the level of shit hitting the fan that's coming up.

The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election in c/leftism@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don't disagree they did a bad job. Clearly. Again, I don't even like them in the first place for similar reasons. What I'm saying is there was exactly one way to avoid all of this this week, and we all signed off on it. The democrats didn't make anyone stay home. The democrats didn't make anyone vote for Trump. Individuals can't take the action you described above, but they had an option to stop it from getting worse, and chose not to.

If you think the party is busted fine, I freaking agree. It's not picking evil from the lesser of the two, it's picking who you want to fight.

Again I'll say, the dems didn't do this, we all did. The dysfunction of a party doesn't excuse individuals had a choice, and chose this.

Get Ready for Trump-flation in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't disagree, but a lot of that is uncertainty being resolved (for now). Most economists liked Harris.

The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election in c/leftism@lemmy.world
Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly that's not going to be BMW specific for much longer, they're all taking a page out of that book. 2022 Hyundai, long story on how I managed to kill a single spark plug at 30k miles, but this time last year the part wasn't listed anywhere. It was FORTY DOLLARS for a SINGLE plug from Hyundai. I'm sure there were alternates that would work but I wasn't going to risk it over 40 bucks at that low mileage.

Worshippers of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian themed town builder where you play the bad guys, released in early access on Steam in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

No but it's got a demo for free

Pasta Carbonara in c/gifrecipes@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

So they get cooked using the heat of the pasta itself (/some of the pasta water). You have to be pretty quick to 1) make sure there's enough heat and 2) keep from making scrambled eggs.

Here's a Babbish video with a good walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoHnwOHLiMk&ab_channel=BabishCulinaryUniverse

After all, how far inland could a hurricane go? in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
Ads in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I know youtube has been selective about rollouts, but I use uBlock, sponsor block, and ABP in chrome and have had zero issues.

Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

People who don't want to use the epic store. That was me. I just don't want another launcher, another account. I'll get around to it at some point I'm sure but I didn't buy AW2 and probably would have if it wasn't an exclusive.

They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

No George Clinton was in parliament.

'It explodes': Trump's latest rant against green energy falsely attacks 'hydrogen cars' in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

They meant "no where to put the power", which is true (although it's not a new problem by any stretch and there's a lot going on to address it).

13
Simple average color library for video? (edit: closed, problem wasn't the problem) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by batmaniam@lemmy.world to c/python@programming.dev
2 comments fedilink
 

Hi All,

I'm screening a large media library (20TB) wherein some files got corrupted when I did a transfer via filezilla (by my guess ~10%). The corrupted files display with a green "filter" over every frame (when played via plex and a number of local video players playing the file directly).

I'd like to screen the library, and want to write a script to get an average color reading.

Are there any libraries that would let me return a value AND specify how many frames I want it to take the average of? Because of how consistent and defined the issue is, it's really not necessary to average the whole file.

It would also be great if it automatically skipped non-video files, but I imagine a simple "try/except" would be fine.

My skill level here is best described as "high level hobbyist". I'm familiar with what I need to do iterating over the folder etc, but would prefer not to learn how to pull specific frames from a video container unless I have to.

Thanks for any help!

14
How to screen a 20TB library for corrupted files? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi All,

About a year ago I transferred all my files to a new drive. I used filzezilla which did mostly ok-ish, but I didn't notice that some of the video files were corrupted. Random files will have a green tinge to them (like someone put a green filter over the lens).

It seems random, although if it's a series it's usually the whole series.

I've been replacing them as they come up, but I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas to expedite the process.

Thanks for any help!

5
Random skipping on direct stream? Temp fix. (lemmy.world)
 

I was wondering if anyone bumped into this. I noticed random jumps (1-3seconds) in playback when playing original quality. Definitely not buffering or performance lag, just an actual playback error. Jump was at the same spot anytime I loaded the media and regardless of what time I loaded it to.

Which is curious because on playing the file with a different media player on the box it was on, zero issue what so ever.

Disabling direct stream option (under debug) resolved it, and there doesn't seem to be much of a performance hit, I'm just curious what's going on here.

1
Noob stumbling along. Just looking for some guidance on adding a module to initramfs. (lemmy.world)
 

Running Bookworm, Plasma DE if that's relevant.

Background: I'm learning here. Decent amount of coding and embedded hardware experience but I'm usually missing one or two key concepts with this stuff.

Getting a box running, and wrestling with NVIDIA drivers. I successfully installed the driver (I think), but now lightdm isn't working. From what I read it appears there's a common issue around a race condition where lightdm tries to fire up before the drivers ready, so I need to add the nvidia driver to initramfs.

Can anyone give me some pointers? Specifically while I get the above:

  1. I'm not sure what modules need to be added and if they're named something specific for debian vs other distros
  2. The correct file to modify
  3. The correct format/syntax that needs to be added

I've found lots of examples, just none specific to debian, and screwing around at this level I don't want to bork something enough I need to do a bare install.

Thanks for any help!

12
Not sure where to start. Playback from webclient is great but HTPC program is performs terribly. Same machine, local media. (lemmy.world)
 

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have a pretty beefy PC I use as a server and HTPC. 24 2.5ghz cores, 64gb ram, kind of a crappy video card, debian 11. I just migrated all my stuff over and stress tested it supporting 8 different transcribed streams simultaneously (mix of in/out of local). That worked great.

BUT, the video playback is choppy (as in frame skipping) and out of sync when I'm running the HTPC program. Oddly using the web client on the same machine avoids that issue.

Any thoughts? I'm wondering if it might be that it's an older TV it's plugged into and there's some issue there. Thing is, like I said, the webclient its worlds better. Webclient seems to have some issues but I'm pretty sure that's just due to the TV.

Any pointers are helpful! I'm OK at this stuff but very much learning.

57
Blanking on a term. I remember a protocol/firmware for wireless routers where the idea was to connect as many as possible to create a quasi internet without any ISPs. Help? (lemmy.world)
 

Basically title. I remember reading about it back in like 2018, I even remember a company that would provide crypto based on the amount of traffic you let through. Just curious if that ever saw any growth.

Everything I google keeps bringing up things on the darkweb. The goal of this was explicitly to go "ISP-less". Like they envisioned mesh net covering giant swathes of space.

1
Want to be a mod? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi All,

I mostly grabbed this as a place-holder because this is a community I'll miss from reddit. I'll post some of my bog gardens after I can give them a proper hair cut.

If anyone wants to take on any mod responsibilities now or in the future just reach out. I imagine it'll be a while before there's anything really involved though.

Glad to see there's already some posts :)

view more: next ›