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Ok I have an amount of experience with basically everything going on here so here's what you should do:

First, find the listing and see if they have WiFi listed as an amenity. If they do great, you can complain to Airbnb as a last resort. If they don't you can't, which honestly probably isn't going to change much unless they are turds.

Second, do a few speed tests around the house, especially next to the other duplex unit. On the Airbnb app, send a screenshot of them and say something to the effect of "hey we noticed the Internet is slow, are you having issues too?"

Either they never checked if the downstairs WiFi and there's no signal, or there's a problem with the Internet and they need to call the company. Both are pretty viable. Does your phone say 75% signal or -75db? -75db is not great, but 75% should be ok. If you get faster speeds near the other unit it's likely their WiFi.

The other option is they have issues too. Fixed wireless can run into issues when things change like radar frequencies. They can call the company and get it fixed pretty quick. Even if they aren't paying for the faster speeds the ping shouldn't be anywhere near 600ms. Like, I lived with wireless internet for a long while and it's slow or shouldn't be that painfully slow.

Don't just suffer through, often people don't mention this kind of stuff and if the hosts aren't on top of their tech they don't know it's an issue. There was an issue with the Wi-Fi firmware on a unit I do work for and the guests only mentioned it at the end of their month long stay. They should be willing to work with you especially if they advertise wifi but honestly probably even if they don't. Like, just don't be an ass about it and they'll probably be pretty accommodating.

Yeah newsprint would be a pain in an inkjet depending on exactly what it's like. It might not even be much thinner, it's often a little "fluffy" so it can be printed fast.

If you take it in somewhere and get it spiral / coil bound that's probably your best bet if you don't want to do a binder. You can do it yourself but you basically need a little desktop machine to do the punching which is annoying unless you're doing it regularly.

Traditional hardcover probably won't work for you. That involves printing a bunch of booklets called signatures then sewing them together and it's a whole thing. Basically there's a reason well made hardcover books are expensive.

You could do perfect or tape binding pretty easy though. Essentially you glue all the edges to a backing and then wrap a cover around it. It works ok for low usage, but if you want it to lay flat or hold up to abuse you'll have problems. You can kind of mitigate that by using a gpod spine backing but it's not a perfect solution. If the copy you have isn't already laid out for printing it may be worth it to edit it a bit so the contents are farther from the spine if you do that, but it makes printing a bit more complicated.

So, I've never pirated a book but I do have some printing and binding knowledge, so some of this might be off base.

If the original book isn't fully chungus it's probably printed on a low weight newsprint, a low weight coated paper, or something weird like vellum or scritta. Problem is most of that is going to be specialty and only really available in rolls or large sheets through a distributor.

Most of the thinner stuff you'll be able to find in sheets has become a thing with fountain pen lovers. Look for Tomoe River or Bank paper. They are in the 50gsm range and should be a bit thinner than normal 75ish gsm copy paper. It's going to be way more expensive than normal printer paper but it should be thinner. The other issue is actually getting your printer to reliably print on thinner paper. Home printers, especially inkjets, really don't deal with thin paper particularly well. Lasers usually do better since they tend to use a different paper pickup and path, but they can still have issues.

Your printer should have a thin paper setting to reduce the amount of ink that it uses so you don't get as much bleed. The other thing you'll have to look out for is that those papers will take longer to dry than normal paper, so if your printer has a drying time you'll probably need to set it as high as it will go. You might even want to wait a day before flipping it over for the duplex print. Which you definitely should some that will literally halve the size of the book. It will probably be fine anyway since this is likely a multi day project just given how long it will take to spit 1000 pages out of an inkjet.

Unless you absolutely need to have the whole thing with you all the time, I would consider printing it in volumes. Even if you duplicate sections like an index or glossary or reference section or whatever, you're still probably going to have a lot less trouble and maybe spend less.

It looks like you have an SFX power supply listed, and from what I'm seeing that case can use a regular ATX size one. Unless there's a requirement I'm not noticing, you could spend about half as much and get a pretty much equivalent ATX unit, especially if you drop down to 80+ gold from platinum - you probably won't notice a huge difference unless electricity is extremely expensive where you live.

Personally, I too would look at air coolers instead of an AIO - for the price difference on those two parts you're starting to get close to doing an older used GPU now instead of later. Asus says 130mm clearance which isn't enough for to the biggest of tower coolers, but more than enough space for air without any real thermal compromise - especially on AMD. If you have the stock cooler that came with the APU it's at least worth trying before spending a bunch, you might be surprised - the AMD coolers are pretty ok right now.

Clearly the writer hasn't seen DS9. Morn is the show's best asset, of course he has a figure. Excuse me while I go scour eBay for one.

It might be important to put into context that Jon is warming up the crowd before the taping of the show in this clip. Yeah, he probably misses the mark on exactly what was asked, but what is he supposed to do at that point? He's warming up the crowd. Going out and saying, "journalism and by extension traditional media is dying a slow and painful death at the hands of software companies that don't care about truth or art using dangerously manipulative techniques and the consequences of that are likely dire for the future of society" isn't exactly setting the mood they're going for.

Given the traction this clip is getting it really wouldn't surprise me to see a more nuanced take from him in a while that has had more than almost zero thought put into it.

I continue to contend that Weird Al would put on the greatest Superbowl halftime show of all time.

No one memed on Elon when he shut down his tracker? Or Kylie Jenner for the 3 minute flight?

I would be annoyed but does anyone actually use the show desktop button?

If people make a mistake occasionally or are willfully ignorant that's a user issue. If almost everyone in this thread is talking about how you should push a button every 5 seconds on a machine designed to automate tasks maybe that's a design issue.

Thank you! My God, the amount of holier-than-thou "it's your own fault" in this thread is mildly infuriating in and of itself. Auto save and versioning have been a thing in Word for at least 8 years, probably over a decade but that's the first version mentioned in their docs, and I struggle to think much software I use regularly that doesn't have some form of it. Hell, even the new Notepad on Windows keeps your changes when it's accidentally closed.

I like most open source software but this sort of attitude in the community and what seems like an absolute disdain for any UX concept from the past 20 years makes me very hesitant to recommend it almost anyone outside very specific technical circles.

Kind of? But hot take - their format is actually better for flat content. They seem to want people to use their "spatial video" format which seems like it can be just two videos in a QuickTime or MP4 container. It wouldn't surprise me if you could just use ffmpeg to convert whatever into their format pretty dang quickly. It's actually just MV-HEVC.

Most 3D video right now is one video track with two distorted videos either side by side for flat or 180 content, or top and bottom for most 360 content. It gets encoded and played back as standard flat video and then the player does the splitting and dewarping for the headset (or for flat just correcting the aspect ratio). They don't seem to support doing any of that in their built in player.

Instead, with MV-HEVC, they encode one eye as the "main" video track, and do deltas to get the other eye, giving you way better resolution since you aren't splitting the frame in half, and better efficiency since you aren't encoding essentially the same image twice (theoretically you could have a codec that could couple copy a big chunk of the frame like that but I'm not aware of any that actually do). It also means if you play it back in 2d you just get a normal video instead of a weird distorted mess, and you can swap to the other eye if you player supports multi track video. They also do some clever stuff with captions in 3d too.

It doesn't seem like they support any sort of immersive 3d video (i.e. 180 or 360 degree fov) in their player at all, but I haven't looked at it a ton. I mostly just took a glance at their developer stuff. It seems like a very apple thing to do since 180/360 video is difficult to do right.

I think it's a conflation of the ideas of what copyright should be and actually is. I don't tend to see many people who believe copyright should be abolished in its entirety, and if people write a book or a song they should have some kind of control over that work. But there's a lot of contention over the fact that copyright as it exists now is a bit of a farce, constantly traded and sold and lasting an aeon after the person who created the original work dies.

It seems fairly morally constant to think that something old and part of the zeitgeist should not be under copyright, but that the system needs an overhaul when companies are using your live journal to make a robot call center.

If it has an HDMI output without too much junk on it yes. Sometimes the HDMI output will have the same interface that's on the screen, sometimes it will be clean, and sometimes it shows the interface but you can shut it off so it doesn't matter. You can usually crop out the interface in OBS but you'll lose some resolution doing that. You should be able to plug it into a monitor or TV and check fairly easily.

capture card

Hmm I need to do some research. I'm not really sure what these are for or what they do, but I'll look into it, thanks.

Sorry, probably should have explained. If you have a camera that has an HDMI or other video output they basically convert it to a USB camera.

I'll look into this as well. Seems like people have had focus issues though, based on reviews I saw.

Most of the models they put out don't have autofocus at all, you have to physically turn it to focus. Depending on exactly how your setup works that may or may not be viable - overhead cam like for playing magic probably doesn't move much, but for video conferences where you shift in your chair it might be weird if the room is a bit darker.

If you already have a camera with HDMI output sitting around a capture card can be a great way to get really good image quality for not much money. If 720p is enough I've actually had really good success with these incredibly cheap ones: https://youtu.be/daS5RHVAl2U - I've even seen them at places like Walmart and Target under the Vivitar brand so they're readily available.

If you don't look around locally for used Sony cameras. Because 1080p is only 2 mega pixels and many of the nicer old Sony cameras have clean HDMI output you can get kind of amazing image quality for very cheap. Some newer model mirrorless cameras got updates to run as a webcam directly off the USB port but they're likely out of your budget and some require software. (Edit: make sure you check if the model you're looking at has clean HDMI out - some do, some don't, and some do with some tweaking. This site has a decent bit probably incomplete list: http://wasge.es/clean_output/ )

If you want a more traditional webcam and need autofocus something like the Logitech c920 family is probably your best bet but the constant revisions may have added a software install. Most cameras are including software since realistically they're all basically the same and most of the "features" are added in the software.

If you don't need autofocus, there are a number of companies taking Sony "security camera" sensors and slapping them in boxes with screw mount lenses. ELP and Mokose are examples but there are others. With enough light these generally look pretty dang good. If you pick one up and decide later to upgrade, it can probably live mounted up high just for playing magic, especially since there are a few 4k ones that will probably let you read the tiniest of text on the cards.

You need quotes around the font name. Courier works because it's one word.

Windows phone. Originally Microsoft put out a number of apps as web wrappers, but the mobile YouTube site kind of awful. So Microsoft wrote a YouTube app of their own that was actually kind of great and allowed you to download videos and play audio in the background and basically actually work right. Google threw a fit and basically made Microsoft delete the app.

Windows central still has a bunch of articles from the time up.

https://www.windowscentral.com/search?searchTerm=Phone+YouTube

I have a friend who uses the "beetle mandible" I can confirm that they struggle to pick up anything slightly heavier or less than optimally shaped or slippery.

But really: true. I guess I associate this meme with clowning on him but it doesn't get used that way as much now, and Calvin is probably better because of that.