Off-topic: But anybody else have a nasty taste in their mouth from seeing a company named after a Middle Earth entity now? It fucking sucks!
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Saw the first few words and thought there was immediate danger of getting caught in a local wildfire.
Why this alert now, and not a heat warning yesterday, or the last 4 heatwaves that have occurred this year so far? Do we need an alert for pre-emptively avoiding rail travel after the last two derailments?
The oudated 2019 NVIDIA Shield TV Pro is still regarded as the best in class - despite not supporting many modern things like AV1, HDR10+, HDMI 2.1 or Dolby Vision.
I ended up using a Homatics Box R 4k Plus for everything video-related which _does_ support all of the above quite well, but it unfortunately has so many software issues which prevented me from using Steam Remote Play or Moonlight which is why I ended up settling on just using a docked Steam Deck for that use-case.
I switch between the two, which is pretty annoying!
I have tried both Smart TV and Android Streaming Box hardware to run various setups - both of which are theoretically capable - but in practice fall short compared to the Steam Deck experience (which I already had lying around almost gathering dust)
There are many many types of games (platformers) that can achieve and are preferable to play locked at 120 though.
I can get 4K HDR 120Hz running over gigabit Ethernet without visually sacrificing too much on bitrate, but you can squeeze more bitrate at lower fps or 1440p (obviously) if that is your preference. You can also tune these settings per-game with the setup I have which is quite useful.
Hardware wise, I'm using a Steam Deck as the streaming client in a docked setup (ala Nintendo Switch). It seems to handle everything I can throw at it, and it has the bonus of being able to run simpler games without streaming anything.
I have a third-party (UGREEN) dock providing power, USB and gigabit Ethernet, display (though unfortunately no HDMI-CEC to turn the TV on automatically (I worked around this using a janky automation script)). The official dock has HDMI-CEC but costs ~2x as much with less IO. I'll deal with my jank script.
For software, I'm running MoonDeck for game streaming via Sunshine on my gaming PC. The Steam Remote Play streaming is good, but not quite _as_ good, sadly.
Everything else outside of reels is the usual social media fake life facade, and everything amplified to the max for engagement to get it pushed to feeds via "the algorithm" (note: Interactions don't need to be positive to promote it to feeds)
It's just our housing stock being so old and decrepit, where nobody can be bothered updating anything even if it's provided for free by the utility companies, that the majority of houses simply do not have a water meter!
There's a general sentiment that smart meters and metered water will make costs skyrocket or somehow hold you ransom to abrupt and unfair price changes, as if that somehow wasn't the case today...
You have to hoop jump with janky tools[1] that actually let you see and access the icons silently hidden because they overshot the notch.
You get local the document-level atomicity for sync. Multi-document transaction support on server side, KV access, SQL inside JSON docs or even across multiple documents, Full Text Search, and fine-grained/RBAC for document-level synchronization - but the cost is as much lock-in as it is financial. You can't mix and match storage, query or sync without pretty big tradeoffs.
Disclaimer: I have worked on a sync backend for a company in this space for the last 8 years. You can probably find out where if you look, but this comment won't be a sales pitch.
Competition like this has incredible value for communities with poor internet access but reasonable development capabilities. Think about travelling doctors in the lesser developed countries and areas of Africa for instance. Quite often entire villages get medical checkups done, with data being recorded on a tablet. This can be synced once the doctor gets to a town with internet access for follow-up. Of course, projects like the above do not have big budgets. Unfortunately they are priced out of using a lot of tech to solve these problems (my company included in this statement)
On the more enterprise-y side, which is where I mostly sit, a lot of airlines, cruise ships, retail and field-based industry use these technologies, since they are prone to periods of being completely offline or in a P2P mesh only. Cloud databases or even regular replicated databases running in-situ are a non-starter, since there won't be anybody around to administer it. Replication is a difficult problem at the best of times, let alone in periods of comms downtime.
In the major mode, it feels like 90% are gambling, crypto or traditional finance. The remaining 10% are US tech companies getting a bit more for their money over here. Not sure how much longer that last subcategory will last. Most of these jobs will leave you wanting a good scrub in a scalding shower. Even the US ones.
The minor mode are where you'll find roles at UK-based tech companies, non-tech companies requiring programmers, web developers, etc. etc. The scope is vast and the pay is meh... and maybe my sample size is far too small and time-biased here, but I find the people at these places are so much more down to Earth, operate in a wider spectrum of fields and life experiences, and are just way more interesting and varied day-to-day than endless tech hype drudgery.
You wouldn't have guessed, but for the last 7 years, I have not been in a job at a minor mode company... and maybe the greener grass is glistening rather brightly right now!
We have a pretty abysmal tech landscape really given our involvement in computing history. It has all been sold off and gradually moved offshore. Europe has a reasonably heathly and open tech industry, albiet at a smaller scale than US, but of course us British are not allowed to play with them any more!
Sync Gateway still maintains a CouchDB-compatible REST API, and PouchDB _mostly_ works thanks to that, but there are some corner cases and features that PouchDB does not support so YMMV with it. Our native app libraries have used a more performant websocket-based replication protocol for many, many years now, and I'd really love to have the time investigating a PouchDB adapter using this WS protocol instead.
A lot of the wallpapers there come from other sources like Flickr, interfacelift, Reddit, 4chan (for better or for worse, /wg/ isn't too bad), or just direct uploads.
I wouldn't say credit is preserved particularly well at all times, which is a shame, but it is just a reverse image search away usually to find the original.
I cannot comment on the auditory impact, as I have not spent a large amount of time in the near vicinity of one. But surely they're less annoying than a generator or the noise from ICE vehicles we live in daily.
e.g. From https://www.pilledtexts.com/files/nick-land/february.txt
> “This can’t go on,†he said. “It’s too blatantly wrong. It’s insolence.â€
What's old is new again... and again... and again... :)
This project gives full credit to the giant it stands upon.
README.md:
> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.
I run my own single-user instance at https://ublog.fedi.bbrks.me
At some point, I plan on expanding that fedi subdomain into more federated/ActivityPub accounts of mine, like pixelfed for photos.