My parents bought an Echo Show that they pretty much just ignore nowadays, except to set a timer or tell them the weather every once in a while. All it does all day is sit there and show ads for random stuff. It makes a terrible clock because its too busy showing ads half the time to actually show you the time in a font you can read from across the room. I know you can ask it to tell you the time, but thats so much slower than just looking at a normal clock

Plot Twist: Salmon have a color named after humans. It’s a fleshy reddish pink.

ffmpeg can do that. It’s a command-line utility that can do a ton of media format conversions. Idk what OS you’re on, but you’ll have to download ffmpeg, extract it, then use the ffmpeg executable file.

for Windows file paths it would be something like:

cd path\to\album\folder C:\path\to\ffmpeg.exe -i song.flac -map 0:a -c:a copy song.mp4

to shove a flac file into an mp4 container as is. If, for whatever reason, the program you’re trying to use, still doesn’t like the flac format in the mp4 container, you can convert it to a 320kbps mp3 like:

C:\path\to\ffmpeg.exe -i song.flac -map 0:a -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 320k song.mp4

(320kbps mp3 would probably have the least loss in perceptual quality from FLAC, while still having a wide range of compatibility)

As for converting the whole album at once, if you’re on Windows, idk how to do that. You’d have to look up how to use ForEach in powershell or something like that.

Anyone reading this on a Unix-like in bash would be able to run it in a loop in the album folder like: for file in *.flac; do; ffmpeg -i "$file" -map 0:a -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 320k "${file%.*}.mp4"; done

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Never put your company name in a password. Always use one of your competitors. They should have used ‘BritishMuseum’ or something

if this was their first job, then boy I can’t wait to see where their new art thief careers take them

every linux installation that was ever made was really about trying to break the uptime world record

I think there’s a bit more nuance with this one. I’m all for safety and all that, but the fact that one company, SawStop, owns the patent for the blade stop system that they’re trying to mandate is a pretty big issue. Sure they’ve pledged to not enforce the patent if the mandate goes through, but that’s entirely on their word, nothing in writing. The cost of a saw would go up if they don’t waive the patent enforcement and manufacturers have to pay to license the technology (or some other related patent that the system can’t function without). Also, if the saw manufacturers are also making saw blades, they’d probably end up selling more blades as a result of the blade stop, since iirc, the system shunts a hardened steel block into the path of the blade as soon as it detects an electrical current from your finger (or a hot dog in all the demos lol), which stops and breaks the blade in the process. Dunno if that would make up for lost sales due to higher prices, tho.

None of this would effect table saws that already exist, and higher prices may drive people to buy more used stuff, rather than new stuff.

On top of dealing with the SawStop patent issues, there’s other things that could also help with table saw safety, like designing blade guards that people don’t want to remove cuz they get in the way, that aren’t addressed by this mandate. This NPR article from 2024 kinda talks a bit more about the whole issue around the blade stop mandate.

Not to say that this mandate shouldn’t happen, I’m more concerned about it being implemented in a way that won’t drive people away from buying saws with a blade stop system due to price

Eight Sleep’s products rely on cloud connectivity to control temperature and track biometric data. When AWS went down, users lost access to the app that manages its water-cooled coils, leaving them stuck with whatever setting was last active.

Insane oversight to design the bed (or any product like this, really) such that it can’t be adjusted without the internet.

security of our bottom line!

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this is basically like “we can’t keep our shareholders happy in their quest for infinite return on investment without you overpaying for our services”

Absolutely hate having to log in to a website just to view tracking. Half the time I’m on my phone checking the tracking email and can’t be bothered to log in, just so I can copy and paste the tracking number into USPS or whoever.

id guess a lot went into designing a solar cell that could take being heated to 167F without losing efficiency or breaking. I think most common house solar panels have a temperature coefficient listed on their datasheet that measures how much its ability to generate power decreases per every degree above 77F

for the past few months ive started to think we’re like a couple years away from putting lead back in the gasoline

Its like how Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, said during the Writers and Actors strike in 2023 that their demands were unreasonable and would harm the business and the economy, while he took home 31 Million dollars that year

I’d imagine after being laid off from a big job website, you’d be hesitant to use said big job website to find a new job

the pickles, the cold cuts, and the cheese are not safe at 3AM when I’m in front of the fridge

DRM Ribs. The Salmonella will not die until you pay for Traeger’s $19 a month subscription

Yeah its absolutely wild. Even Louis Rossman has done some videos about the military’s lack of right to repair. Its insane to me that you’d buy a multi-billion dollar jet like the F-35, and legally be unable to repair it without calling in (and paying a hefty service contract for) someone from Lockheed or Pratt and Whitney to troubleshoot it. That can’t be sustainable if you do end up needing to send a ton of these things into combat