This photo was taken after Line 21 subtitles were available (1990s or later). And the TV needs more service than that: vertical linearity and convergence, at least. I can’t judge color decoding in this scene, maybe the tint is just wrong or the red cathode is weak.

Look up how a CRT works. As the beam draws picture fields, it moves downwards across the screen driven by a 59.94Hz sawtooth wave. The generator of this sawtooth wave needs to be synced to the vertical blanking interval between fields. “Vertical hold” refers to how long the oscillator waits before the window in which it can accept the sync pulse. Too soon and the picture scrolls down, too late and the picture scrolls up (however, slightly too late, as long as 1/59.94 seconds is still within the window, is fine and the picture can stabilize after one slow scroll up).

Seeing almost two copies of the picture means V-Hold is very late and the vertical oscillator is running way too slow. About 30-40 Hz, very flickery to the person taking the picture!

Most do but as a higher-frequency (15kHz) oscillator, it has smaller components that don’t drift as much and so the control is a trimmer inside only calibrated as often as a tube needs swapping. On transistor sets, that’s like, never, so they glue the trimmer to avoid misadjustment during transport.

I imagine many Brits are, they’re just unable to pay for cousin reattachment surgery.

That’s insane… Can’t a website owner require bots (at least those who are identifying themselves as such) to prove at least they’re affiliated with a certain domain?

I don’t know what “12,181+181” means (edit: thanks @Thunraz@feddit.org, see Edit 1) but absolutely not 1.2181 × 10¹⁸⁵. That many requests can’t be made within the 39 × 10⁹ bytes of bandwidth − in fact, they exceed the number of atoms on Earth times its age in microseconds (that’s close to 10⁷⁰). Also, “0+57” in another row would be dubious exponential notation, the exponent should be 0 (or omitted) if the mantissa (and thus the value represented) is 0.

MP4 is decent at this, it’s the camera’s fault for writing critical information at the end and not retrying on SD write errors. A bad couple of frames is still preferrable to losing up to 20 minutes (yes, that’s the split size, and it loses 5 seconds in between).

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My camera shat out an MP4 without a moov atom and VLC nor anything else could play it :( Not even when inserted in the middle of a valid file of the same format.

Yes, ffplay can interpret it as rawvideo when asked but so can it /dev/random

Eww, that’s a kitschy video

The bill could be a playable CD too if you don’t care about folding, or add bends around the central square. The widest rectangle that can be cut out of a CD and still retain a bit of the data area is about 108×51 mm, as opposed to approx. 156×66 mm of a $1 bill.

But yeah, NFC or just printing the data is more viable.

I have a 2013 phone running Android 13. Sony Xperia Z, found in e-waste in 2023 in great condition (except for dust in the camera). I used it a lot and even replaced the battery, although that didn’t make much difference, it just kept overheating and discharging like crazy on modern websites. The notification LED broke in a peculiar way (likely shorted driving transistor, burning it out within hours) and so did the vibrator. Recently, I dropped it and the back shattered but I still carry it every day, although now it’s a secondary phone (can’t get some apps running on my primary one although both are degoogled). It has a 32-bit processor, noisy camera and no fingerprint reader, but a 5" 1080p LCD, MHL (HDMI over microUSB), NFC and headphone jack. And a mediocre FM transmitter that can be enabled with custom drivers for the Qualcomm chip. It was covered in Janus Cycle’s video on monoliths.

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What is the problem?

Fuck Excel’s CSV handing. It differs by locale, silently. Imagine the thousands of people every year who patiently wait to import a multi-megabyte CSV from some instrument only to see garbage because their language uses the decimal comma and semicolon separator.

Why trash it? Give it away, maybe someone else will have a router that the printer accepts. If they get it working, they won’t buy a new one and give HP money. (Warn them about the Instant Ink trap though)

You can type “qr url” and have it done in one step. However, unlike your two-step process that most likely just fetches results for the common “qr code” query from cache, this loads their servers unnecessarily. The same can be achieved in Firefox by bookmarking “https://qr.15c.me/qr.html#%s” (or a local copy of tiny-qr.html) and settting its keyword (not to be confused with tags) to “qr”.

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Which command said that? The first one? Those are just the numbers of sound devices, don’t change those!
As in:

Sound device #0 (headphone jack, perhaps): uses snd_hda_intel driver
Sound device #1 (built-in speaker, perhaps): uses snd_hda_intel driver

The sleep timer is set by the number in /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save!

Sound card might go to sleep after some time of inactivity.

Check using cat /proc/asound/modules that you are using standard kernel Intel audio drivers: snd_hda_intel. In that case, try cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save. The number printed is the number of seconds the sound card goes to sleep after the last sound played. Sleeping a sound card can cause pops or buzz and saves very little power, so it’s better to set it to 0 for no sleep.

Thanks. “Public” is not a useful qualifier as it could mean decompiled or leaked.