brotkel

joined 1 year ago
[–] brotkel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

There’s quite a crowd of eager aurora watchers at Carkeek Beach at 10:30, but no light show yet.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly, even mid-tier phone cameras can take amazing pictures when the naked eye can barely see anything. To me, it looked like barely visible wispy gray-green clouds, but the pictures on my phone are far more vibrant.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I don’t understand is why. This sounds like way more work than spinning up some out-of-the-box framework with oAuth or a Google login and hosting it on Lambda or Azure. What is logging in on a VM box even going to do for the device?

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was on the fence and now I wish I had bought it. I’d still get my money back and I’d have a cool cosplay prop.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's a no-go for Destiny 2. Here’s a useful site to check next time. https://www.protondb.com/app/1085660

[–] brotkel@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how much it affects libraries that I can also walk a block in any direction and find a Little Free Library in one of my neighbor’s front yards. These certainly don’t replace the need for libraries, but I’d also have to pass up a lot of free books on my way to the library if I ever ran out of reading material.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

So happy they brought Steam Powered Giraffe back to do the soundtrack.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A TV show centered around superheroes was a novel concept in 2006. In a post-Marvel vs DC world, not so much.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found out something shocking that could be related to this. AWDL, the proprietary protocol behind AirDrop, will exclusively use channel 6 on 2.4ghz networks and channel 49 (in the US) on 5ghz networks to find any nearby clients, and it’ll look for them about once a second. That means if your WiFi network isn’t broadcasting on those channels, any Apple device that doesn’t have AirDrop disabled will constantly be switching WiFi channels to check for this and switching back. I learned this when trying to get VR streaming over WiFi to a Vision Pro and found very consistent lag spikes once a second until I changed channels on my WiFi router.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scotland was literally willing to leave the UK over this. I wouldn’t be putting money on Joanne to come out on top here.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even if they had a day (which they do, it’s the various holidays for different European cultures) they’d still complain. Like how the only time people mention International Men’s Day is when they say why don’t we have one during International Women’s Day in February. But not in June, which is when International Men’s Day actually happens.

[–] brotkel@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Must have been around Tacoma.

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