Wow, that's some really invasive stuff. If a gym ever asked for my account and routing number I would just go somewhere else, but I understand not everybody has that option.
gerowen
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Then I just turn off my regular/real debit card and I'm no worse off than I would have been in the first place.
This is why I use a privacy.com card for just about everything. Anybody gets hacked or tries to pull some shady shit I can just turn off the card and it doesn't affect anybody but them.
It'll bounce back once they see all the money those government contracts generate. We had KBR driving shuttle buses and Taco Bell being ran out of trailers on the FOBs in 2008 Iraq.
But that means the original, "real" you died and the person that comes out the other side is essentially a clone with a copy of your memories.
VGA was originally a proprietary technology developed by IBM, though it was later built upon by VESA and is now publicly documented, so while it wasn't developed by VESA as an open standard from the get-go, it is now considered an open standard that doesn't require any licensing fees to implement. DVI was developed by the "Digital Display Working Group" and also does not require any licensing fees, though there are licensing terms you may have to abide by and there may be some costs associated with testing and validation to ensure you meet those terms and the spec.
H.265 is not a royalty free standard like AV1, VP9, Theora, etc. It's covered by proprietary patents held by groups like MPEG LA so in order for manufacturers to build hardware level support for it into their devices they have to pay whatever the then current royalty fees are to those patent holders.
That's reasonable, people deserve to get paid for their labor. In this situation however, the difference between them is that DisplayPort is a royalty free VESA standard. So while manufacturers have to pay for the materials and such to include it in their devices, they don't have to pay any additional fees to license the standard. HDMI on the other-hand is a "brand" of proprietary connector/interface (kind of like how "Velcro" isn't the actual name of a product, it's a "brand" of hook and pile tape), so not only do manufacturers have to pay for the materials and labor related to physically acquiring and installing the connectors, but they have to pay both per-device and annual licensing fees for rights to use the HDMI product.
"Direct playing" just means the source file is entirely compatible with the client device and doesn't require any transcoding/re-encoding by the server, it doesn't really tell you whether the client is using software or hardware decoding to play it. I'm guessing it's probable that a Jellyfin server could still report "direct playing" even if the client is using software decoding to play it. However, if the client device is something like a smart TV or something with a more locked down OS, and the maintainer/manufacturer removes support for a codec from that device, you may show more transcoding action on your server for things that previously just direct played because smart devices like that may not have support for software decoding, or may not have the horsepower to try even if they still have the codecs installed.
I just set it to downmix to mono in Handbrake and it's been alright. I'll definitely do some reading/comparing to see what this setting is all about though.
It's kinda like MTG resigning and turning against Trump. Sure, I'm glad we finally see eye to eye on something, but it's kinda hard to feel sorry for them when they helped create the very thing they're only just realizing is a problem.
This old burned out building was originally built in 1938 by the WPA program. Many folks in the community, my parents included, went to school here. See at that time instead of having a few larger, centralized schools in Magoffin County, there were many smaller schools tucked away up all these hollers that would only serve that little community's handful of children.
It burned long before my time, but it has been a permanent fixture of the community, one of those things that made it feel comforting and homey just because it has always been here; a reminder of days gone by. And it was a historical and visual landmark. You'd also see kids out here every year taking their senior or prom pictures on its steps.
Well the Parkway Expansion project knocked it down the other day and destroyed it. They've destroyed it to make room for a highway that nobody around here asked for.
This photo was taken by a local man named John Perkins; I found it on his Flickr account.
So I'm re-ripping my DVD copy of MAS*H to re-encode to a new codec, correct some mistakes I made with my original rip, etc. For example, I noticed that, since this was one of the earlier shows I ripped, I completely missed the fact that there's a second "No laugh track" English audio track that I didn't rip the first time around.
Anyway, these discs have been out in my shed for a number of years now and I have noticed a few of them have started de-laminating in spots. This one in particular, disc 1 of season 4, failed to read once so I pulled it out, cleaned it good and put it back in. It has one large bubble between the layers that isn't apparent on the label side so I don't think it's anything to do with the label getting damp or anything. There's also a wide band of what appear to be very tiny little micro bubbles in a complete circle around the disc. If it doesn't get destroyed in the compression, you can see them in the lower portion of the photo. After letting it warm up and cleaning it a bit I tried again and on the second try it slowed down and thrashed around for a few moments when it got to that same section, dropping into kB/s read speeds, but eventually got past it and succeeded in making the ISO.
I guess I'm going to have to make space to keep complete ISOs of shows and movies I particularly like, like this one. Man, those Bluray images are ridiculous though.
Facebook is a cesspool. I run a small "tech news and tips" page that local friends/family follow and where I'll post little tidbits. Today I made a post about "compartmentalizing" your online life and I didn't think and included the word "hack" in the post. It's just comment after comment of crap like this.
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The liquid cheese you get at Mexican restaurants is amazing.