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Back to air cooling.. ahh much quieter now.
 

Was going to go GoPro but decided to go with DJI.
Luckily it was available with amazon's no interest payment plan.
Made things a lot easier splitting it into five payments.
 

 
Got a couple of these and some bike mounts.
 
   
 
Then I saw a GoPro5 for $80CAD on kijiji and I thought it could go on the back
of the bike so I could film myself coming and going.
Works perfectly except for the audio sounding very muffled.
 

 
Now I guess I should learn how to edit.
 
And then I added this just for the halibut.
 
 

 
I know, chick magnet right?
Just noticed that the clock is for a sixteen hour cycle. 🕖
 
 

will do, thank you sir
 
*not enough reputation to post there, I don't the reddit

Not trying to give people ideas. Just going to leave this here though..
 

Chi stands (sits) in the way of democracy.
 
 

Bike parts
90’s nos trek system 3 pedals and a tektro v brake

 
 

elCheapo 1 & 2 (8,49€ each):

 
R.I.P Raspberry Pi 

Don't you worry I'm confined to status updates and questionable quality power supply threads both of which I enjoy

Summary
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act called for action against TikTok and their parent company ByteDance. If this bill passes it means that ByteDance will be forced to let go of their beloved TikTok or just remove themselves from the US market.
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My thoughts
I will not be sad if TikTok is removed from the US. I am not sure what specifically the CCP are doing with the data they are presumably taking from the US. Honestly though tiktok is one of the most toxic platforms there is but I think that there is not any better alternative. But at least china won't have my data anymore?
 
 
 
***Update***
The Bill has passed through the house even though there are concerns about it being unconstitutional. You can read more about it here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-passes-in-house-despite-constitutional-concerns/
 
 
Source
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/house-committee-votes-50-0-to-force-tiktok-to-divest-from-chinese-owner/

I stopped using TikTok a little over a year ago and my life is all the better not using that stupid platform.

The mods when I forget to check this site for 3 days

What better way to experience GeForce NOW, than toDAY?

Mods getting ready to deal with my bs every time I log in

You. You have to deal with us.

Dell 2007FPB
20” 1600x1200 lcd

mostly for the Indy but this also has composite and s-video alongside native analog scaling which makes it pretty good for old consoles or the C64
 

few days back got this 1050 ti mini for dirt cheap, i think it was totally justified for the price (36$), i got a decent bargain. It's ok for gaming on a budget.

Summary
 Japanese camera company Nikon announces that they are purchasing  RED Digital Cinema and that it will become a wholly owned subsidiary.
 
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My thoughts
 I did not have this on my 2024 Bingo card by any longshot. That being said, I hope that Nikon does allow for others to use for instance ProRes Raw internally, and to make it easier for other companies to introduce their own raw formats as they see fit. We all know that RED was very lawsuit happy, so let's also hope that Nikon doesn't follow Reds footsteps and tries to sue anyone who even thinks about wanting to do a raw format. 
 
 
Sources
Nikon PR: https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0307_01.html
News Shooter: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/03/06/nikon-acquires-red/
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093109/nikon-acquiring-red-cameras-film-motion-picture-tv

It seems there's always some kind of drama with any major tech company. You can please the masses, but you can't please the asses.

Summary
Epic Games says Apple has taken down its newly reinstated developer account in the EU. In a blog post, Epic partially blames a tweet where they criticized Apple's reason for doing so. Epic says this hinders its plans to launch a competing app marketplace in the EU. The game maker also says that Apple has called them a "threat to their ecosystem." The tweet(s) in question:
 

 
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My thoughts
I really like Apple's products, but they are a very toxic company and very hostile to their developers and users. As a iOS/macOS developer myself, I can say that Apple has made the EU's Digital Markets Acts as horrible for developers as possible by making it an unattractive, expensive, and frustrating experience when trying to use anything other than the App Store to distribute apps.
 
Sources
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/epic-games-dev-account-dead/ 

"Here's a feature that might be useful, but we half-baked it so it's kinda pointless."
*nobody uses it because it's pointless*
"We're removing this feature that nobody likes, though we're not really sure why."