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[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's also 60", which is absurdly large to me lol. Glad I could help, though.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, my bad. Sorry.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have one. It's 4k, which gave me some trouble from an Ubuntu media server, and the refresh rate is ~144, I believe. It cost me something like 300-400 USD.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Try a Spectre t.v. they're made for digital signage. I got one and hooked it up to a media server.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

I wonder if you could make a donation platform for artists that also provides torrents. You would have to tie up the money pending proof of identification from an artist who participated in creating the work, then release a portion to them. I'm just speculating here but it seems like something that could be made.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Absolutely my favorite characters. I really like the lonely mountain comic where they make a dragon dildo.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Now we’ve reached the point where you have a faction of the internet believing Vance actually had sectional relations...

Lol

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I'm not an expert on how accelerometers work, I've generally just used them in robotic and mobile applications.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The most basic way to measure movement is with an accelerometer. It's a little component inside your phone that has a small weight with a known mass connected to springs. When the phone moves or rotates, the weight moves, and the tension on the springs changes. The tension is either constant (you rotated your phone and are now holding it in the new position) or temporary (you moved in a direction and stopped). There are other ways this can be done, but this is the most conceptually simple.

Steps, length of step, distance moved, and heart rate can be estimated from analyzing the movement in various ways.

For example, to detect a step, your phone might see movement slightly up and forward, then down, then a jarring impact. Heart rate can be estimated based on your entered weight in an app, your speed of movement, how long you've been moving, and averages for people of your weight moving in those ways. This is a very inaccurate way to measure your heart rate, however. A better way would be by a sensor located on your wrist, arm, or chest, which is what smart watches often do.

Movement measured by an accelerometer can quickly become inaccurate, because small errors add up over time, so for movement over longer distances, phones generally use GPS (communication with a satellite positioning system) which is accurate to within about 5 meters.

If GPS isn't available, but the phone is connected to multiple cell phone towers, then it's possible to triangulate the position of the phone given the tower locations. If we know the distance and direction to the towers, and the position of the towers, then we can find the location of the phone by basically adding an offset to one of the tower locations.

There are other, more niche ways to measure positions without triangulation or GPS, but they're generally used for autonomous robotics - laser positioning with reflectors, ultra-wide-band positioning with special sensors, or visual positioning with cameras surrounding the region in which the robot will be working.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Assuming that creatives can be replaced by AI (meaning there isn't some soft cap on how good it can get for technical reasons) then creatives will be replaced with AI. The only difference striking makes is whether it happens in 5-10 years or 10-20.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by blackstampede@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I'm planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.

I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn't lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.

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