GreatAlbatross

Hosting NSFW content is an absolute ball-ache, so a lot of instances that are not NSFW focussed do not host it.
In the early days of feddit.uk, we decided to go the path of SFW, to simplify things.
I absolutely salute the lemmy-nsfw admins in taking that load on.
And it makes a lot of sense: If you’re going to deal with the headaches, you might as well focus entirely on them!

Maybe the best way to think about it is not dark, but the absence of more light.
On a DMD projector, we use tiny micromirrors for each pixel which flash thousands of times per frame of video.
The flash/no-flash ratio decides how much light makes it out of the projector. This gives us over a thousand light levels per colour channel, from near dark, to full light.
When the mirrors are not in position, the light output is very low. (1/1000th of the full output, on a projector with a static 1000:1 contrast ratio)

The screen is designed to reflect light well, which means in a non-perfect room, it will have a light floor of the reflected ambient light, plus whatever still makes it through the projector (as Cygnus mentioned, room treatment).

If you do treat a room well enough that the small amount of light that makes it through the projector at all-off is a problem, you can do things like fitting an ND filter to the lens (reducing the full light output, while also reducing the minimum).
Or you can use the dynamic iris fitted to some projectors (which reduces the amount of light being put out based on the overall scene illumination, similar to the way LCD TVs lower the backlight level to “reach” contrast ratios of 100000:1).

I love having a projector in the living room.
I won’t lie, it gets used far less than I’d like.
But it cost me almost nothing, and it’s just fun to have a massive wall of video.

AFAIK, LG still do not require internet access on first startup.
At least on their medium/high end lines (C and G series).
This was a hard requirement for me. Mine has never been on the internet.

Ah, the Season 4 finale of For All Mankind.

And there are plenty of people in russia who think everything that was ever USSR should be russia.

Also, outside of opinion pieces, the FT tends to be fairly central, as it’s generally purchased by people who want information to make financial decisions with.

We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

The temperatures are relative to the 1961-1990 average for that region, from the HadCRUT5 dataset.
Edit: I’m just going to find out if it’s relative to the average, or just lowest value is blue, highest is red.

The footnote detailing this is maybe a little unclear.

Also by Ed Hawkins: The climate stripes

Ah, excellent! Thanks for that, I’ll definitely see if I can do it under ZHA.

And no problem, glad you got off the hub!

Exactly this. When you read about the metaverse in something like Snow Crash, it’s a place built by enthusiasts, very cheap to use, and people have the choice of DIY, or paying someone to do things for them.

In the facebook’s version, everything but connecting costs money, and it’s all done by facebook.

Ah, I meant I didn’t want to feel like I was condescendingly explaining things to people who already knew.

It’s free software, and supports a lot of things.

Homeassistant can be run completely locally. The on an old pc, raspi, or even a virtual machine when you’re trying it out.

Operation wise, you can use a browser, or the app for added functionality (for example, it can log the battery level of your phone)

And with the various sensors and devices you can build up automations.
So, for example, when phone battery is below 20% at 10pm, flash the bedroom light to remind you to charge.

They even have a demo based on a fake house on their website for looking at.

The only physical thing you’d need otherwise is a zigbee dongle (£20-ish).

You’ll need to have a zigbee radio on a HomeAssistant instance (maybe possible with other software).
And on HomeAssistant, run ZHA (or similar) with the zigbee radio.
Sorry if that’s teaching to suck eggs, just wanted to clarify.

If you’re already set up with that, it’s just a case of deleting a bulb from the Hue bridge, and searching for it using the zigbee integration. Once it’s deleted from Hue, it will go into pairing mode. You may need to power cycle the bulb if it does not appear in the search within 10s.

HASS was able to support my white/ambiance bulbs and colour bulbs without any issues. In fact, it responds faster. The only downside is that they don’t so much fade, as jump to a new value. The update frequency is about 2 times per second.

The good news is, most hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee now. I migrated mine a few days ago, and the trickiest part was persuading Hue to delete the bulbs so they could enter pairing mode.

A good place to check is avforums or avsforums. There have been a lot of CEC and ARC issues (on all brands!). And a lot of people discussing the different updates (while laughing at the useful release notes)

I personally found that CEC power on only worked when I had the amp input selected, or used ARC.

Now if electricity was just less than 3x the price of gas, we’d be winning.

If it’s a 5 port TP link switch, it’s important to start it up connected to the upstream router on the first port.

If it does not receive DHCP info (being assigned an IP by your router) when starting up, it will perform DHCP itself, which will cause chaos if your main router is trying to do the same.

It’s funny, I was noticing that. A little bit eternal-september-ish, fewer people willing to gently nudge people to the way it worked, more people not learning.

I always assumed WSS was FUD from the finance industry trying to persuade apes to buy silver instead of GME.

(Like, seriously, who tries to get people who buy and hold to change to silver, notoriously a cyclical metal?)

When you mentioned it was only two people, I got curious.
Turns out, it’s a small company operating out of london, and one of the directors lives two streets away from me.
If it wasn’t weird, I would absolutely take a basket of sympathy cookies or something over.