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NASA is not paying SpaceX enough to design a new engine for this, so they may as well use what they have.

Then you need a very tall screen.

A typical UPS uses sealed lead acid batteries. Those don't vent hydrogen unless something goes really wrong like severe overcharge or a short circuit.

Just make sure it has enough ventilation to keep it from overheating. They are usually around 80% efficient, so it will produce around 40 watts of heat with your load while it's on battery.

Computers and 3D printers use switch mode power supplies. They don't care if the inverter provides a square wave or a sine wave.

Digitizing is the easy part. Even though it's an ancient format, it's still just NTSC composite video and analog audio. You digitize it just like you would a VHS tape.

Yes, they do show up on ebay, but usually not in working condition. Then you have to find someone that can do a restoration. Keep in mind that there may only be one chance to play the tape before it falls apart, so the player needs to be working perfectly.

That tape is old and degrading. If it's not digitized soon, it will be lost.

The Ampex 1" type C video tape recorder needed is rare, but it's not impossible to find one. The NSA could certainly watch the video if they wanted to. The just don't want to go through the effort for a FOIA request.

Well, you found your problem then. You will need to get a decent quality SSD to speed it up. Avoid those cheap QLC SSDs, they are slower than mechanical hard drives once the SLC cache fills up.

All of that AI crap they keep pushing certainly doesn't help the energy consumption though.

I am absolutely not defending them. The cop should have acted professionally and ignored what this guy said. Unfortunately, this is what tends to happen in the US. The cops here can usually get away with anything including murder with nothing more than some paid suspension as a punishment.

They are called computer monitors. There are also commercial sign displays, but the picture quality is usually not very good.

There's no law saying you can't curse at a cop, but the cop decided to charge they guy for breaking some old, obscure law from the 1950's that would not normally have been enforced.

Straight keys are bad enough, imagine how bad of a repetitive strain injury you would get from this.

Transcoding from one lossy codec to another just reduces the quality even more. You can transcode to wave or flac, but that will just increase the file size.

There won't be much of a quality difference between opus and mp4. If the music was uploaded at 44.1K, the mp4 will be higher quality even though the bitrate is slightly lower since the opus would be resampled to 48K.

The ones that want the job for the power are pieces of shit. It's best to not draw their attention to you for no reason.

He probably got charged because he pissed off a cop. Maybe try not cursing at them while they are trying to break up a fight that you are not even a part of.

It sounds like they need to do a lot more work to increase the cycle life.

Companies should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to each customer that gets their data stolen on top of paying for any damages caused by the use of the stolen data. That would put them out of business with a breach this large.

If you don't want to wait for it to rip, you can play it in VLC. It will let you skip anything you want to.