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@mattblaze@federate.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org after all these years I finally have precise coordinates where I can find some quicksand. And it is less than an hour away from some sort of a road? Can’t beat that!
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Mike Gerdts
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Software engineer working for NVIDIA. What I say here is me speaking for me, not my employer. Sometimes while not hacking for work or fun, I try to find fun places to go #hiking.
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@Myotis_cuniculus@flipping.rocks if you need hearing aids and don’t have insurance to cover them, go to Costco. About $1600 for a pair with free appointments, adjustments, and repairs so long as you keep your membership.
If that’s too much, AirPod Pros may be an option if you only have moderate hearing loss.
Halo there!
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@parsingphase@m.phase.org my recent search for "cloud not required" cameras led me to Reolink. My needs were for indoor WiFi, so I went with the E1 Pro. Home Assistant docs were helpful in picking a model. You can stream with the app (anywhere) or with RTSP if on the same network. RTSP streams can be opened with VLC, which is a nice way to get it onto a big screen. Streaming with the app is supposedly end-to-end encrypted, just in case you are worried about others snooping on your birds. :)
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io after a bit of searching I found a map in a screen grab of what I’m sure was a very exciting 5 hour meeting of government officials.
It was much easier to find in this video than I expected. There was a little ask AI button that answered the question “At what point is devils lake discussed?” to which it replied “The discussion about Devil's Lake State Park begins at (1:27:20).”
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@ross@fosstodon.org my experience differs. I’ve had to buy toner for my brother laser printer from time to time. That’s because I bought it 9 years ago and it still works, even though I feed it the cheapest toner I can find on eBay or Amazon.
Unlike all of the inkjets I bought before it, the printer works fine even if I go months without printing. Toner doesn’t dry out and plug the non-existent toner nozzles if you ignore it for too long.
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@parsingphase@m.phase.org I was somewhat surprised to see that pretty much all the cameras support pan and tilt with object tracking. Some have meaningful zoom - particularly the outdoor ones with higher megapixel sensors. This could be useful if you are needing to keep an eye on multiple feeders.
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@thomas@metalhead.club one of the more egregious examples is from a computer parts recycler. After seeing the same post four times this morning I searched for their name and found eight or so accounts that were clearly the same persona with no more than three followers each.
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@deleter@peoplemaking.games same here. Congrats to the lawyers for getting $28 million. I’m pretty sure it’s not worth my time to try to get my $1.