A few years ago I saw someone just simply checking for a cat head silhouette. Was enough to deter other animals and also worked to recognise if the cat had caught something.

We have a cat flap that detects the RFID chip in her shoulder. It seems to be broken since a few weeks. But our cat (and not the stupid neighbour’s cat) can open it anyways with a little prying with her claw. But luckily that doesn’t work as well when she has an animal in her mouth. So we will probably leave it broken.

Small tangent, I didn’t have the energy to read your whole post, so you might have addressed that. But often it’s cheaper to go with an established multi purpose device instead of building something new.

I used to build and sell Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds that were as cheap as possible and literally just held together by some string. My purpose was to get enough money through the sales to be able to build one for myself. Sure, the building process was fun. But when I crunched the numbers just buying a cheap smartphone and controller was much cheaper and more performant and versatile than the self-built solution.

Just buying a cheap phone or tablet is often the cheaper solution.

Heck, even Valve just bought off the shelve tablet displays and turned the image in software for the Steam Deck.

In capitalist America.

I think we’re experiencing quantum immortality.

You can achieve quantum immortality through this experiment: Play russian roulette with yourself for as many rounds as you like. In the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics a particle takes up every possible position of its wave function in parallel universes. Since you can only experience a universe in which you are alive you will experience those where the particles aligned for you to win russian roulette. Of course everyone else is more likely to experience a universe in which you are dead.

Now, with all the crises happening in the last century it is exceedingly likely that a world ending event happened. Since we cannot experience those universes where they did happen, the universe we do find ourselves in is getting more and more unlikely. More and more ridiculous.

Of course the most ridiculous event was the killing of Harambe, dooming us to the worst timeline possible.

Hetzner (from Germany) offers Nextcloud hosting. I think it comes with their storage boxes.

We have that as well. Somewhere in the cellar. With time we grew too lazy to add any sparkles until we’d drink nothing but tap water. Didn’t even plan for that.

WTF? How have I never heard of this phone before? This sounds too good to be true.

curl -I https://swg-empire.de/pictrs/image/c6d5a936-1566-4154-947d-8926fbe07fe5.jpeg

Hmm, my pictrs doesn’t seem to like HEAD requests. From what I can see every service is configured correctly. Apache is forwarding it correctly to Nginx and Nginx is using the latest configuration from ansible.

But my pictrs does support ranges so I guess everything is ok.

Unlike liquids cats can compress to fit into small spaces. Thus cats are not liquids.

Using AI slop is cheating.

For VR with Oculus (Quest or older?) you can use ALVR. It can be a bit fiddly but it also gets better with each release and it’s been a while since I tried it out. Steam Link might also work. I couldn’t try that because it only works on Quest 2 and upwards and I only have a Quest 1.

Until now, Deckard has been viewed as a long-awaited successor to the Valve Index, which debuted almost six months ago

Time flies…

A common theme I have seen with her is reporting about a new paper about an older hypothesis. Then saying stuff like “this has been known since 2007, and still [field]-scientists are ignoring it, why?” But when you watch a scientist’s video who actually is from that field they will also mention the older papers and go on to list a myriad of reasons why it hasn’t been accepted yet.

And porn sites win again. Most of them which have auto translation also have an option to turn it off.

It would be about random people without their knowledge.

I mean, it kind of has the vibe of Musk"s interview with a right wing leader where they claimed Hitler was a leftist.

Great idea!

Be sure to advertise it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !newcommunities@discuss.online, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca.

No problem. Means I’ll get fried noodles tomorrow.

KDE Plasma has been getting so much more efficient with every release that you can almost recommend it for low-end systems.