In other words, everyone needs to stop being lazy idiots and start learning how to prepare real food. Buy basic foods, learn to cook. dont freaking add sugar to feed your sugar addiction.
Mmmm, I'll make this nice salad and douse it in this sugar based dressing!
The Pi plays an HD 1080i Mpeg2 stream just fine using a software decoder. And anyone using a mythTV backend is transcoding anyways to keep space consumed down.
You can view videos just fine on it without paying to for a codec. now if you are trying to view an Archaic out of date and not even used anymore video Mpeg2 or VC1 using the hardware acceleration? then you pay. mplayer and VLC plays every single video format under the sun on it just fine.
Come on back when you actually know something about the Raspberry Pi and stop making things up to sound like you know what you are talking about.
It's the only thing that is offered because these companies are cheap assholes.
I only buy the good old stuff you have to give blood samples and anal probings to get. Luckily the guy at costco will let me do two transactions to get two 15 pill packs to last for a while.
Do not waste time with any of the alternate crap as it really is 100% ineffective.
My thermostat doesn't need to talk to anything. a simple programmable thermostat saves exactly the same amount of money that a smart networked one that delays heating by 30 minutes would. Honestly, my neighbor has a NEST and he saves absolutely nothing compared to the identical house I live in next to him with my Stock bryant thermostat that is "programmable" that I set once back when I moved in and have not touched again since.
Exact same houses, and zero savings or comfort gains from his $300 thermostat.
Problem is we already have had wireless Alarm systems for well over 2 decades and are extremely common and we still dont have simple thief boxes to override the door sensors.
Thieves don't CARE about your door sensor, they kick it in, let the alarm wail as it dials the alarm company and make off with your TV set and everything else that is easily snatched before the police even get the phone call that someone is breaking in. 20 minutes later a cop might drive by the house.
They don't need to override anything, they know that unless you are currently there with a shotgun in hand, your iot sensors are not even a bother to them.
I have smartthings and sensors at home for one thing. to let me know I was robbed, so I should head home to board up the window they broke, and to trigger the cameras to record evidence so that my insurance company does not try to pull the "prove you were robbed" bullshit they pulled on me last time.
Hackers are not going to do a home invasion. Stop being a paranoid conspiracy nut who likes spreading fear.
Less than 7% of all burglaries are home invasions (US gov data, go look it up). you have a significantly higher chance of dying in your bathtub, or your car exploding on your way to work than a home invasion.
Lastly, 99% of all home invasions are done by drugged out violent criminals, not highly educated and skilled hackers. That last 1%? done by people you know.
My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
WE don't. what we need is 100% open on all the devices so that as the owner of a device I can use it with whatever I want in whatever way I want. heavy security means I will never ever be able to do that.
All of the IOT (I really hate that acronym) crap needs to talk to a single hub and that when allowed to communicate out needs security. There needs to be absolutely ZERO security on the inside protected network other than what already exists with decent systems like Z Wave or Zigbee where they get a key from the hub they join and only talk to that network. can it be still hacked? yes but not by the typical thief who really would not care to as all he has to do is a smash and grab.
My toaster does not need to tweet or talk to westinghouse's servers. it needs to talk to my HA hub, and from there I can decide if it needs access to post to slashdot that my double cinnamon raisin toast is done.
Yep. Public schools always have a moron that thinks CS is "spreadsheets and word documents" because they are so uneducated themselves, they don't even have a clue as to what CS actually is. Then they give the class to the Coach or PE teacher who has no clue at all and is following the book word for word. When a student asks a question they use the typical teacher cop out answer of "All the answers are in your course material, find it in there." it means they really have no clue at all themselves.
And that is the problem, the BULK of our educators in the United states are horribly uneducated. If you are teaching children and you don't know exactly what CS is, you don't deserve to do anything but be in food service.
I convinced several young students to NOT even look at CS because most companies are Asshole scumbags to their programmers. Also the fact that some moron BSA will find he can save $1.25 this quarter by firing all the programmers and outsourcing to China or India yet again makes job volatility.
I convinced them to chase down Cyber Security or if they really want to program, specalize in embedded systems with a EE degree along with CS so they end up above the typical CS grad applying for the jobs.
General CS is the factory work of the 21'st century. Nobody sane will go into it until it's unionized and a lot of managers forcing 60-80 hour work weeks get their knees broken. Because these asshole companies and managers are not going to change out of the goodness of their own hearts.
First it's a Amazon fire tablet so it's locked down hard and the general public does not have the ability to root and install cyanogenmod on it. It's designed to get people to buy Amazon books, nothing more.
Linux server running PLEX server with 4, 4tb hard drives. several nexus players running PLEX client.
Desktop with BDR drive, ANYDVD, and handbrake to "collect" the content.
Why? because fucking american internet sucks for uncompressed 1080p content with full surround. And when the internet is down, you want to watch a movie...
Knowing how humans work, we will make a UDP broadcast call giving our location with "hello" and a lot of annoying children in different languages saying hello.
This will cause a galactic armada to come here and obliterate us for messing up the last half of the season finale of "glip Glopr the unstoppable".
I do. my daughter is back home and she has to abide by MY rules. It's my house, if she does not like it she can move.
I'm just encouraging the "move" part by requiring a 23 year old to be home at 10pm every night and to pretty much do all the housework every day, etc...
Cue the whiny 20 something babies that will say I am being unfair...
Buddy did this in an RV. he bought one that was fiberglass sides and spent a weekend peeling off the graphics and roller painting on white paint. he then slapped "AT&T" logo stickers around it.
it looks like an AT&T fiber maintenance vehicle. he put mirror tint on all the windows and spent 5 years in works parking lot without problems. put out a couple of orange cones and nobody even questions it.
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The previous pope does.... the current one prefers toilets.
In other words, everyone needs to stop being lazy idiots and start learning how to prepare real food. Buy basic foods, learn to cook. dont freaking add sugar to feed your sugar addiction.
Mmmm, I'll make this nice salad and douse it in this sugar based dressing!
The Pi plays an HD 1080i Mpeg2 stream just fine using a software decoder. And anyone using a mythTV backend is transcoding anyways to keep space consumed down.
" such as Mickey Mouse being used to promote white supremacist propaganda,"
You mean the original use of the mouse in the beginning? Go watch "steamboat willie".....
most places allow you only ONE box. and some stores stopped carrying the 15 pill boxes and only have the 10 pill boxes just to be assholes.
You can view videos just fine on it without paying to for a codec. now if you are trying to view an Archaic out of date and not even used anymore video Mpeg2 or VC1 using the hardware acceleration? then you pay. mplayer and VLC plays every single video format under the sun on it just fine.
Come on back when you actually know something about the Raspberry Pi and stop making things up to sound like you know what you are talking about.
It's the only thing that is offered because these companies are cheap assholes.
I only buy the good old stuff you have to give blood samples and anal probings to get. Luckily the guy at costco will let me do two transactions to get two 15 pill packs to last for a while.
Do not waste time with any of the alternate crap as it really is 100% ineffective.
Hint, even a seasoned expert duck hunter cant shoot down a drone flying erratic.
do you even know how shotguns work? you have to lead the target.
My thermostat doesn't need to talk to anything. a simple programmable thermostat saves exactly the same amount of money that a smart networked one that delays heating by 30 minutes would. Honestly, my neighbor has a NEST and he saves absolutely nothing compared to the identical house I live in next to him with my Stock bryant thermostat that is "programmable" that I set once back when I moved in and have not touched again since.
Exact same houses, and zero savings or comfort gains from his $300 thermostat.
Problem is we already have had wireless Alarm systems for well over 2 decades and are extremely common and we still dont have simple thief boxes to override the door sensors.
Thieves don't CARE about your door sensor, they kick it in, let the alarm wail as it dials the alarm company and make off with your TV set and everything else that is easily snatched before the police even get the phone call that someone is breaking in. 20 minutes later a cop might drive by the house.
They don't need to override anything, they know that unless you are currently there with a shotgun in hand, your iot sensors are not even a bother to them.
I have smartthings and sensors at home for one thing. to let me know I was robbed, so I should head home to board up the window they broke, and to trigger the cameras to record evidence so that my insurance company does not try to pull the "prove you were robbed" bullshit they pulled on me last time.
Hackers are not going to do a home invasion. Stop being a paranoid conspiracy nut who likes spreading fear.
Less than 7% of all burglaries are home invasions (US gov data, go look it up). you have a significantly higher chance of dying in your bathtub, or your car exploding on your way to work than a home invasion.
Lastly, 99% of all home invasions are done by drugged out violent criminals, not highly educated and skilled hackers. That last 1%? done by people you know.
My door sensor does not need 128 bits of encryption. it needs to talk to a hub inside my home unencrypted, and then the link out from there needs to be secure. The problem is all these "experts" dont have a clue at all about all of this and are clamoring that we need heavy security on everything! ZOMG!!!
WE don't. what we need is 100% open on all the devices so that as the owner of a device I can use it with whatever I want in whatever way I want. heavy security means I will never ever be able to do that.
All of the IOT (I really hate that acronym) crap needs to talk to a single hub and that when allowed to communicate out needs security. There needs to be absolutely ZERO security on the inside protected network other than what already exists with decent systems like Z Wave or Zigbee where they get a key from the hub they join and only talk to that network. can it be still hacked? yes but not by the typical thief who really would not care to as all he has to do is a smash and grab.
My toaster does not need to tweet or talk to westinghouse's servers. it needs to talk to my HA hub, and from there I can decide if it needs access to post to slashdot that my double cinnamon raisin toast is done.
Yep. Public schools always have a moron that thinks CS is "spreadsheets and word documents" because they are so uneducated themselves, they don't even have a clue as to what CS actually is. Then they give the class to the Coach or PE teacher who has no clue at all and is following the book word for word. When a student asks a question they use the typical teacher cop out answer of "All the answers are in your course material, find it in there." it means they really have no clue at all themselves.
And that is the problem, the BULK of our educators in the United states are horribly uneducated. If you are teaching children and you don't know exactly what CS is, you don't deserve to do anything but be in food service.
I convinced several young students to NOT even look at CS because most companies are Asshole scumbags to their programmers. Also the fact that some moron BSA will find he can save $1.25 this quarter by firing all the programmers and outsourcing to China or India yet again makes job volatility.
I convinced them to chase down Cyber Security or if they really want to program, specalize in embedded systems with a EE degree along with CS so they end up above the typical CS grad applying for the jobs.
General CS is the factory work of the 21'st century. Nobody sane will go into it until it's unionized and a lot of managers forcing 60-80 hour work weeks get their knees broken. Because these asshole companies and managers are not going to change out of the goodness of their own hearts.
First it's a Amazon fire tablet so it's locked down hard and the general public does not have the ability to root and install cyanogenmod on it. It's designed to get people to buy Amazon books, nothing more.
Sorry but JAWS got himself a nice hottie in Moonraker with his. so your argument is INVALID!
And we need more like him. Pharma companies that outright RAPE people for maximum profits do not deserve to exist.
I want bond villain stainless steel teeth.. Why cant we have those?
When Discovery gutted the show last year it was the writing on the wall...
I'm betting the last shows and next "season" are simply contract fulfillment for Jamie and Adam.
Linux server running PLEX server with 4, 4tb hard drives.
several nexus players running PLEX client.
Desktop with BDR drive, ANYDVD, and handbrake to "collect" the content.
Why? because fucking american internet sucks for uncompressed 1080p content with full surround. And when the internet is down, you want to watch a movie...
You live in the United states... you will never get decent internet service...unless it's a GOOGLE truck.
Knowing how humans work, we will make a UDP broadcast call giving our location with "hello" and a lot of annoying children in different languages saying hello.
This will cause a galactic armada to come here and obliterate us for messing up the last half of the season finale of "glip Glopr the unstoppable".
We all know it had an observer, The Doctor goes back to watch it on a regular basis.
I do. my daughter is back home and she has to abide by MY rules. It's my house, if she does not like it she can move.
I'm just encouraging the "move" part by requiring a 23 year old to be home at 10pm every night and to pretty much do all the housework every day, etc...
Cue the whiny 20 something babies that will say I am being unfair...
Buddy did this in an RV. he bought one that was fiberglass sides and spent a weekend peeling off the graphics and roller painting on white paint. he then slapped "AT&T" logo stickers around it.
it looks like an AT&T fiber maintenance vehicle. he put mirror tint on all the windows and spent 5 years in works parking lot without problems. put out a couple of orange cones and nobody even questions it.