It really is kinda neat if that’s a texture you’re going for. I think it would make a nice pen holder on my office’s desk.

Not the ideal use of ASA, but also not the price of ASA.

I’m not at the house right now, but my phone camera also sees the IR LEDs on my game camera, on my security cameras, and more.

I also have a filter that looks black to the naked eye that only lets IR through (it’s used on my underwater camera strobes for my mirrorless cameras that do have minus-IR filters for triggering remote strobes), and my phone can see light coming through it that my eyes cannot.

What has changed on phone cameras is the crystal lenses let less of the IR that triggered the green sensors, so it tends to have more of a magenta hue these days where it used to look white on older cameras.

It’s also why some outdoor RAW shots on modern phones have a purple-ish tint - especiallyif there’sa lens flare from the sun. They’re picking up extra IR light on the red and blue sensors, but not the green.

I really need to learn it. I bought a 3D scanner (Raptor Pro) that does good scans, but it turned out not to be that useful since I can’t really edit the output meshes in Fusion.

I’ve heated an xacto knife with a torch to do more precise heating in more delicate areas before.

I took this picture of my office’s TV remote with my Samsung phone just now. You can see the IR just fine.

I’ve never heard more openly-racism and homophobia than the guys talking at one of my hometown barbershops.

This is an issue I’m seeing more and more of. People are demanding that others be perfect at all times. We all fuck up and make mistakes. If we write off everyone we’ve ever disagreed with as irredeemably bad, then we’re telling people there’s no point in growing and changing.

When I was a kid in the early 90s in Texas, I thought homosexuality was immoral. I was wrong and I’ve spent the last 30 years preaching for inclusion and tolerance. And that’s the story for most people my age. In the 90s, a Democratic President banned openly gay people from being in the military.

If we want to change society, we have to invite others to our side with open arms, not condemn them.

I’ve accidentally missed things in the scanner, both because the scanner messed up and because sometimes I fuck up. It happens. Just ask to see the receipt and point out the missing items. Problem solved.

If you’re too scared to ask to see a receipt from someone because you think they’re dangerous, then maybe it isn’t worth risking a confrontation between them and the police in the parking lot over a couple dollars’ worth of groceries.

Bigots tip other bigots. They also give them a ton of business.

Remember when Chik-fil-A got caught giving money to organizations trying to have all gay people in Africa killed? Conservatives did a huge nationwide “Buycott” and gave them more money than they lost in the boycott.

Plenty of bigots will flock to them. They’ll probably end up with more business than before.

Yeah. They have you attached a camera to your head that actively maps everything around you in color 3d and sends it to Facebook servers. Anytime I used it I’d take pretty much everything else out of the room. I think if I use it again I may use a deceased relative’s account to really fuck with their data.

The Quest would be fine if it weren’t for Meta. I have a Quest 2, but I stopped using it over privacy concerns.

It worked great wired to my PC for PCVR. The wireless was pretty spotty.

It doesn’t matter from a taxable income standpoint if you don’t give them the money, or if you give it and they donate. They owe the same either way. The only way they would owe the 30 dollars would be if you gave them the 30 bucks and they just kept it. Then it would be 100 dollars in additional income.

The real cheat isn’t on the taxation. It’s that they give to non-profits that align with their goals or list the company as a sponsor. When Bass Pro sponsors a high school fishing event it may be making a donation using that non-taxed income from round-ups and getting tax-free advertising.

I have a degree in GIS and use QGIS almost every day. Of course I know it’s better for many things than Google Earth (though GE is still a better viewer). But even then - it’s only better if you take the time to learn to use it.

I can teach someone to drag a kml into GE in seconds. I can’t teach them QGIS.

I use QGIS for a living. Adding layers and image services is easy for me, but not to someone who doesn’t even know what GIS is. I couldn’t teach someone how to use it in seconds like I can GE, which consists of “Open Google Earth, and click and drag the file into the window”.

And with GE, you don’t have to license the satellite imagery or teach someone how to add web-based tile services to GQIS.

They can also use the draw tool in GE and right-click the drawing and export a file I can open in QGIS or ESRI without them having to know anything about projections or datums.

They’re actually killing the PC version next year, which is actually a problem.

It’s the goto solution for sharing GIS layers for free using a simple platform. Anybody can download Google Earth Pro for free, and we can export KML/KMZ files from ESRI or QGIS that will be viewable over fairly recent satellite imagery without having to pay thousands for software and/or imagery licensing.

I’ve actually managed not to agree with their new privacy policy for over a year now.

It keeps popping up on me. I kill the notification and don’t accept, and it pops up a few days later.

I hate how it was resolved so much.

Dude basically murdered her and in the end when given the chance to go back to her planned life she chooses to stay with him. It’s apparently okay for someone sentence you to death and deceive you into sleeping with them as long as they’re handsome.

What they used to get in trouble for was using an actual engineer’s seal without permission. We’d tell that engineer and they’d go nuclear on the developer. So now they fake a stamp to keep from getting sued.

I don’t get why he pled the fifth.

It’s not like they kicked his lawyer out of the building while trying to manipulate him into saying something they could stretch into justifications to prosecute him, right?