[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

This soldier won’t see real repercussions for this. At worst he will he courmarshalled and get a dishonorable discharge and nothing else.

Uh... A court martial is typically equivalent to a felony. If you're found guilty it's often associated with prison time and civilian felony statuses.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Step 1: Flee the country

Good luck doing that. It's a bitch to live just about anywhere else you'd actually want to live without citizenship.

Eh, in Trump's case it was best to be running in autopilot... His tweets were him "thinking"

Nothing about their comment outlined that they didn't know how to use it. But that they never did use it.

Nothing about their comment eludes to any fact that they're embarrassed at all. They posted it publicly and directly with not reservation which is the opposite of "embarrassed".

They didn't blame anyone for anything related to the iron itself. But for shallow intentions if they care at all about the clothes that they wear. Which I can understand and agree with to some extent.

You on the other hand... You're a jackass. Lots of insinuations, lots of assumptions. Just to put down some random person on the internet for not wanting a fucking iron that probably was the 20$ special at wally world.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nope. There is an industry standard way of measuring latency, and it’s measured at the halfway point of drawing the image.

No. And if you want to actually provide a link to your "industry standard" feel free to, just make sure that your "standard" actually can be applied to a CRT first.

You can literally focus the CRT to only show one pixel (more accurately beam width) worth of value. And that pixel would be updated many thousands of times a second (literally constant... since it's analog).

If you're going to define latency as "drawing the image" (by any part of the metric) then a CRT can draw a single "pixel" worth of value 1000s of times a second... probably more. Where your standard 60hz panel can only do 1/60th a second... (or even the highest LCDs at 1/365).

If there is a frame to draw and that frame is being processed, then yes. You're right. Measuring at the middle will yield a delay. But this isn't how all games/operations work for devices in all of history. There are many applications where data being sent to the display is literally read from memory nanoseconds prior. CRTs have NO processing delay that LCDs do have.

Further points of failure in your post. CRTs are not all "NTSC" standard (Virtually every computer monitor for instance). There's plenty of CRTs that can push much higher than the NTSC standard specifies.

Here's an example from a bog standard monitor I had a long time ago... https://www.manualslib.com/products/Sony-Trinitron-Cpd-E430-364427.html

800 x 600/155 Hz
1024 x 768/121 Hz
1280 x 1024/91 Hz
1600 x 1200/78 Hz

So on a 60hz LCD will always be 0.016 to do the whole image. Regardless of it's resolution being displayed. Not so on the CRT... Higher performance CRTs can draw more "pixels" per second. and when you lower the amount of lines you want it to display the full frame draw times go down substantially. There's a lot of ways to define these things, that your simplistic view doesn't account for. The reality is though, it's possible if you skip the idea of a "frame" that the time from input to the time of display on the CRT monitor is lower simply because there's no processing occurring here, your limit is physics of the materials you build the monitor out of. Not some chips capability to decode a frame. thus... No latency.

Not frametime. Not FPS. Not Hz. Latency is NONE of those things, otherwise we wouldn't have those other terms and would have strictly used "latency" instead.

And a wonderful example of this is the commodor64 tape loading screens. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Swd2qFZz98U

Those lines/colors are drawn straight from memory without the concept of a frame. There is no latency here. Many scene demos abused this function to achieve really wild affects as well. Your LCD cannot do that, those demos don't function correctly on LCDs...

Lightguns are a perfect example of how this can be leveraged (which is completely impossible on an LCD as well).

Specifically scroll down to the Sega section. https://www.retrorgb.com/yes-you-can-use-lightguns-on-lcds-sometimes.html

By timing the click of the lightgun input to which pixel is currently being drawn by the frame to take that as input for the gun. That requires minimal latency to do. LCDs cant do that.

Ultimately people like you are trying to redefine what latency is that flies in the face of actual history that shows us there is a distinct difference that has historically mattered and even applications of that latency that CANNOT be what you're claiming it to be.

https://yt.saik0.com/watch?v=llGzvCaw62Y#player-container

can you tell me why the LCD on the right is ALWAYS behind? And why it will ALWAYS be the case that it will not work, regardless of how fast the LCD panel is? The reason you're going to come to is that it's processing delay. Which didn't exist on CRTs. That's "LATENCY".

When talking about retro consoles, we’re limited by the hardware feeding the display, and the frame can’t start drawing until the console has transmitted everything.

This is where you're completely wrong. CRTs don't know the concept of a frame. It draws the input that it gets. Period. There's no buffer... there's no where to hold onto anything that is being transmitted. It's literally just spewing electrons at the phosphors.

Edit: typo

Edit2: to expound on the LCD vs CRT thing with light guns. CRTs drawn the "frame" as it's received... so as it gets the voltage it varies that voltage on the electron gun itself, which means that when the Sega console in this case sets the video buffer to the white value for a coordinate and displays it, it knows exactly which pixel is currently being modified. The LCD will take the input, store it in a buffer until it gets the full frame. Then display. The Sega doesn't know when that frame will actually be displayed as there's other shit between it and the display mechanism doing stuff. There is an innate delay that MUST occur on the LCD that simply doesn't on the CRT. That's the latency.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 6 days ago

CRTs do have latency

Only if you're measuring "how long to draw a full image". (which is not latency).

The time it takes for voltage input to equal drawn pixel on the phosphor is much less than the ms scale, which LCD panels simply cannot do.

Latency. Not refresh rate or FPS.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 139 points 3 weeks ago

To me this is even worse though. They're using your electricity and CPU cycles to grab the data they want which lowers their bandwidth bills.

It happening "locally" while still sending all the metadata home is just a slap in the face.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 81 points 1 month ago

It's just a computer... Why not? As long as it cannot be running while the car is driving I don't particularly see an issue.

Would be great if I could fire up a game while waiting in cell parking at the airport for my family that comes into town for example. Gotta remember that this isn't new. We had minivans with built in n64s and shit before.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 93 points 8 months ago

It's grandpa's time to shine.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 75 points 8 months ago

So your source... And the one that got the most upvotes against a written article that is based on articles written by actual scientists... is TikTok ADHD girl who has what qualifications?

Cause you know... https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html which is linked in another comment around the same time this one was created... cites at least 3 separate people who claim that the data is sound.

Your girl even admits we know very little about the core of our planet itself and yet can resoundingly claim that she's right?

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 69 points 10 months ago

They're all uppity that to use cloudflare proxy they have to terminate the ssl connection there. So technically cloudflare can sniff all the traffic. But that's kind of the point of WAFs and Reverse Proxies.

I would argue that the sheer amount of data throughput that Cloudflare has, you'd have to really be on a list to be monitored... and they certainly cannot just log all data willy nilly.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 62 points 10 months ago

If you've lost root credentials you can always bypass them.

https://www.tecmint.com/reset-forgotten-root-password-in-ubuntu/

When your in after this point you can reset the password to something you know then continue from there.

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*arr to handle playlists (lemmy.saik0.com)

So there's a fantastic site called chronolists.com... It's a bit incomplete from the dataset perspective, seems to be missing the "latest" releases (the 2022 Fantastics Beasts for example), and is limited to very particular "universes".

Is there an *arr that does this?

Automatically grab the items you have and populate playlists like "Stargate - Chronological", "Stargate - Airdate", etc...

And as items are added to your library that were missing in the "universe" it fills in the playlists. Playlistarr?

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