It doesn’t even have to go that far. There is a no way that assault of an elected official is not some kind of high grade felony in Arizona.

Internet Pedantry Alert: That’s the white pages. The yellow pages are for business listings. You could, and still can, opt out of the white pages listings.

Equip a sensor that figures out how much ethylene is in the air inside the fridge?

Or just open the door every once in a while and look…

And the ultimate outcome of that was, at one point Google enacted some kind of API change which necessitated Samsung to push out an update to remain compatible, otherwise all of your Google enabled features such as the calendar syncing, email, etc. would stop working. Samsung claimed to be developing a patch for this, and ultimately pushed out an update to… only some of their models. For the others, their response was literally just, “We recommend you buy a newer refrigerator.”

Yes, this actually happened.

But since that was going on for ten years ago now, information about it on the Internet is a trifle difficult to find because the search results have largely been overshadowed by Samsung’s more recent smart fridge fuckup. Grand.

Never buy a Samsung appliance.

IP Over Avian Carriers.

The space station when it was armed to the teeth. I will remind you that at the beginning of the show they were woefully undersupplied and had a single digit number of torpedoes (I believe six), all of which Sisko fired at the Cardassians in a bluff to make them go away. Once we get to the war against the Jem’hadar and they allow O’Brien to festoon all the surfaces of the station with guns, then we’re really talking.

I have informed my cat. She says “meep.”

That’s a screaming deal for one of those. I’m seeing them listed for about $45 right now.

I could take or leave the big triangular thumb grip hole thingy, but that tail screw sure is boss looking.

Thanks a bunch! I’m glad I’m making somebody’s day, or maybe approximately four people.

For sure. The above wasn’t a complaint, just my observation on the difference in popularity between niche nerd stuff (58 upvotes) and something that’s of widespread general interest (cats).

I don’t think any of us are posting on Lemmy of all places to get famous.

I posted a 5,808 word treatise loaded with professional photography and graphs the other day and got a grand total of 56 upvotes on it. Meanwhile, about a year back I slapped a zero effort picture of my fat-ass cat parked in front a mini split heater unit and it remains to this very day my top rated Lemmy post of all time. Hell, the literal shitpost I made last week about cramming some of my camera junk into a Harbor Freight case attracted more interest and attention than the former.

Widespread exposure of content — especially general interest content — that attracts some arbitrary number of up arrows is not indicative of quality, and it sure as shit doesn’t have anything to do with effort. If it did, the Internet would be a very different place.

In other words: Your boos mean nothing to me. I’ve seen what makes all of you cheer.

…To the manufacturer. The retailer’s not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that’s still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.

If you have more than one toolhead you’re not limited to just ramming different colors of the same material in there, either. You can run otherwise incompatible filaments that even require different temperatures from each other in the same print. Plus the ram-cut-and-purge brigade rarely work well with soft materials like TPU.

Multiple toolheads is the way to go if you actually want to get work done and not just slowly poop out multicolored low poly Pikachus, or whatever.

After accumulating pennies for something like a year (?) I bought this knife with Patreon money.

No, really. I did. If you want to contribute to that you can do so here or via Ko-Fi here.

Here’s a picture I didn’t use in the post, somehow:

I had a copy of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator when I was a kid which repeated an entire chapter somewhere in the middle of the book. I think the one where the Knids are first seen.

I will see your Nerf darts, and raise you airsoft BBs. I still find the cats playing with one every now and again, or pick up a stray one with the vacuum cleaner. I can’t remember firing an airsoft gun inside the house at any time more recently than about 15 years ago. And yet.

The PSVR2 is mildly interesting if paired with the PC adapter, but you couldn’t get me to possession of a Meta Quest even if Facebook paid me $300 to take it off their hands. I don’t even want the fucking thing in my house. I have a similar opinion of the Bytedance/Pico units. The force behind them just isn’t trustworthy, even if they did sell the damn things in the US.

Here’s another vote for sticking with my existing rig until the Steam Frame comes out.

Aperture wide open … Small depth of field is ok.

Be mindful of vignetting around the edges of your lens. Unless you have very expensive glass, it’s likely you can’t get both the center and the edges of your frame in focus at the same time when shooting at a flat surface a short distance away from the lens thanks to our good old friend spherical aberration, and it’s even less likely if you have it wide open. There’s probably no harm in stopping down slightly and taking a longer exposure to compensate for this as much as you can, because your photos aren’t going to move. You might want to take a couple of test shots against a grid background or something to determine just how large the sweet spot of your particular lens is at that distance.

You can avoid this by backing the camera up from the subject some more, too, but I figure if you’re trying to preserve photos by taking further photos of them, you probably want to get as many of your sensor’s pixels across them as possible.

Use a tripod (any old).

I don’t know about yours, but none of my tripods are capable of pointing straight down and truly getting the camera perpendicular to the surface they’re standing on without the center barrel of the tripod itself being right spang in the middle of the frame just below the horizontal centerline. And that’s even if the head on your tripod can tilt down a full 90 degrees at all, and without some part of your camera or lens bonking into it. Even extending the idiot stick won’t help you any, because the mount and pivot head is out at the end of it rather than before the point where it extends from. (Maybe some kind of high dollar, high speed David Attenborough top flight pro rig tripod has a second pivot placed before the extension tube, but I’ve certainly never owned one set up that way.) When I have to do a true top-down shot for one of my myriad reviews, I always wind up hand holding the camera for that very reason.

Other gimcrack ideas involving 2x4s and spirit levels and 1/4-20 screws or mirrors suggest themselves, but the realistic outcome with a normal tripod is that you’ll wind up with your camera not quite square to the table and thus all of your photos-of-photos will wind up keystoned to some degree and this will drive you nuts. Perhaps you’d have better luck and spend less money just propping up one end of the surface you’re putting your subject photos on to get it perpendicular to the lens without getting any of the tripod itself in the shot.

Users with access to a remote shutter release can dispense with the self timer trick (but hey, I don’t knock it — I used to use the 2 second self timer on my camera as a vibration settling delay all the time when I was young and broke) and make their workflow speedier and significantly less annoying.

Penguins are cool. I ride dual sport motorcycles. (And other motorcycles. But definitely those.)