If Bouvet Island ever changes their flag and all the fonts update to reflect that, there is going to be a lot of suddenly-confusing text out there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle

39.37 in (1,000 mm) (M16A4)

I didn’t know until today that it was exactly one meter long, though.

VR will never become mass market until it no longer means wearing a big silly looking thing on your head.

There are various types of HMDs that look more or less like glasses, though those aren’t really VR-oriented.

For myself, I don’t care what it looks like to other people.

But what I want is a monitor replacement. Something that is at least as good as a monitor. Comfort, resolution, clarity, ability to be worn all day, etc. Give me a better monitor, and I will buy that.

Existing headsets aren’t there.

They can provide a wider field of view than a monitor, which is good for filling peripheral view in some games. But they aren’t something that people would use as a general monitor replacement. You don’t want to code or web-browse all day on them.

If it’s not a monitor replacement, then it’s a toy, a specialized accessory for a small number of games. I’m not saying that that isn’t worthwhile to some people. If I were a hardcore flight-simmer, a genre that is a good match for the technology, that might be worth it to me. But it’s definitely not a no-brainer, and it’s something that I’d just pull out on specific occasions to enhance a game.

I have a flightstick, throttle, and pedals, and those are, frankly, probably larger wins for flight-simming, and I rarely wind up pulling those out. They mostly gather dust.

Yeah, some burger places will do a sunny-side up egg, and the yolk running over things is messy…but I really like it, and will always order it if I’m at a burger place that has a sunny-side-up egg option.

I’m hoping that someone can figure out a less-messy way to provide a similar experience. Maybe have some kind of spread that incorporates yolk, or powdered egg yolk that’s mixed in at the last minute or something.

While we’re talking about Austria, if we’re going to a subnational level, check out the Austrian state flags. Over half of them are just a red-and-white horizontal stripe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_and_coats_of_arms_of_the_Austrian_states

Salsburg, Austria:

Tyrol, Austria:

Upper Austria, Austria:

Vienna, Austria:

Voralberg, Austria:

Not to mention the state of Hesse in Germany:

And then Poland:

Monaco:

and Indonesia:

Hmm. That’s a good thought. IIRC fontconfig on Linux can merge different fonts with different priorities, so I think that someone could make a “flag override” font that has extra-wide emojis and has both the ISO code and the flag, even without changing the original font.

🇮🇩 🇲🇨

🇸🇳 🇲🇱

🇳🇿 🇦🇺

🇻🇪 🇪🇨 🇨🇴

🇸🇮 🇸🇰 🇷🇺

🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇭🇷 🇵🇾

🇱🇷 🇺🇸 🇲🇾

🇲🇽 🇮🇹

🇷🇴 🇹🇩

🇧🇭 🇶🇦

🇱🇮 🇭🇹

🇮🇳 🇳🇪

🇧🇴 🇬🇭

🇭🇺 🇹🇯

🇦🇷 🇳🇮 🇸🇻 🇭🇳

🇪🇬 🇮🇶 🇾🇪 🇸🇩 🇸🇾

The whole flag situation isn’t really ideal.

If an instance isn’t defederated with another instance, it can talk to it.

You can see which instances an instance defederates with yourself. For lemmy instances, it’s at /instances. Just check each end.

So, for example, I’m on lemmy.today. http://lemmy.today/instances doesn’t have lemmygrad.ml in its Blocked Instances list (it doesn’t defederate from anything, as a matter of policy, in fact).

https://lemmygrad.ml/instances doesn’t have lemmy.today in its Blocked Instance, so it isn’t defederated on their end either.

Ergo, they can communicate.

Pretty easy to check a pair of Lemmy instances for that.

All that being said, though, if you want to create a series of throwaway accounts to argue with them without them banning you, I think that both you and they are going to be happier if you two stay away from each other. It’s just not worth your time, and I think that the chances of there being a productive outcome for you or them isn’t very high.

Hmm.

There are some software packages that will permit one to create virtual controllers under /dev/event/event* and use physical controllers as inputs to the virtual controller’s inputs, while hiding the original controller. That may be more-involved then you want, but it should permit for that; wouldn’t need to have a trackpad on the virtual controller, or could not pass through events. Haven’t done this recently.

If you’re just talking about in Steam, Steam Input apparently sounds like it has an option to disable controller trackpads at the Steam Input layer, from a quick search.

I mean, it’s the hiring company’s job to vet you, not yours. The requirements are to provide you with some guidelines to avoid having you waste time. If you think you can do the job, I’d go ahead and apply. They’re gonna try and get the best fit candidate from those that apply, regardless. If they had more-specific requirements, like knowledge of some specific software package, they could have included it in the job requirements. I wouldn’t over-analyze it.

If you’re concerned about it, every place I’ve ever interviewed at has had someone who is supposed to take questions from the candidate at the end of the interview. You can probably ask them there if there’s a specific set of things on Linux that it’d be useful to know.

EDIT: And as someone who has done plenty of software development work, if someone just put down “Linux proficiency” and expected it to be interpreted without additional context as having some specific background in software development, I’d be surprised. But my larger point is that I don’t think that I’d fret about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_based_on_Dune

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There are a number of Dune games.

Navies do goodwill visits to other countries. I remember when — in friendlier times — a Russian missile cruiser, the Varyag, stopped in San Francisco and did tours.

kagis

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/russian-warship-makes-rare-s-f-appearance-3260994.php

Russian warship makes rare S.F. appearance

The ship is the cruiser Varyag, a sleek gray vessel that is the flagship of Russia’s Pacific fleet.

Members of the public can tour the Varyag from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. The ship sails Friday for Vladivostok.

EDIT: Here’s one that we did last year:

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3821669/navy-to-set-sail-on-goodwill-mission-in-latin-america-caribbean/

Navy to Set Sail on Goodwill Mission in Latin America, Caribbean

As part of the Continuing Promise deployments, U.S. personnel extend medical and veterinary services to local communities, conduct subject-matter exchanges and engineering projects, and host community events and band performances.

U.S. Navy medical personnel, construction experts, and musicians will deploy this year alongside Army veterinarians and professionals in the State Department-led Women, Peace and Security program to continue the tradition of extending goodwill.

Smith noted that the U.S. has delivered on that promise by working closely with partner countries to deliver more than 600,000 medical treatments, over 7,000 surgeries, and countless constructions projects and community engagements since the Continuing Promise mission began in 2007.

I don’t think that the right question is to ask about the XReal One or One Pro, any more than it would be to ask about a monitor, because they aren’t storing an image and projecting it into 3D. There’s an accessory, the Beam or Beam Pro, that does the 3D projections.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Xreal/comments/14vdrps/maximum_input_resolution_of_the_beam/

From Xreal’s tech support:

Although Beam does not set a limit, the final display size is determined by the glasses. The resolution of the XREAL Air is 2*1920*1080p. The spatial screen changes in proportion.

I’m sure that there is some limit, if due to memory constraints, if nothing else. And USB-C bandwidth will limit what you can be pushing relative to the framerate. He might mean that it’s not really a practical limitation, though.

This guy apparently ran 4k input:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Xreal/comments/15tke6a/display_4k_or1440p_with_xreal_air_beam/

The challenge is the physical limits of AR glasses’ bird bath optics. Past a certain screen size or zoom, you will get the borders, and it will look like you’re looking out a rectangle window.

But you can “explore” 4K video with your 1080p glasses with 3DoF. Just don’t expect an IMAX experience with huge FoV. So, in one of my videos, I test this with my Mini PC that was connected to my 4K TV in 4K resolution and simply hot swapped over to my XREAL Beam setup. Windows was still in 4K and my Shadow PC session was still in 4K running Diablo 4.

I didn’t turn up a straightforward specification with a couple searches, though. You’re probably going to want to be looking for the input resolution to the Beam.

EDIT: It sounds like they also have some software package, Nebula, which can act like a Beam and have the PC do the projection.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Xreal/comments/16kvw4f/do_i_need_beam_if_i_want_to_use_the_airs_mainly/

I’m planning to buy AR glasses for remote work as a software developer. Do I need beam to pin the displays in place without them following my head?

Hi. If your computer is compatible then the Nebula app can allow you to do it without the Beam. I’d test that first. The Beam’s image is a bit more stable though. Some care (I don’t), others are very sensitive to it. So, YMMV

I could believe that with Nebula, there isn’t a software-imposed limitation short of whatever your desktop can handle, but I don’t see a hard statement on the matter.

Might contact Xreal directly.

I’m not sure how actually practical compared to fun screensavers were in the CRT era, but in theory, their practical side is at least somewhat back.

The original idea was that you don’t want the same phosphors to be illuminated all the time, or that breaks them down a bit more than those that aren’t, and reduces their brightness; you get burn-in.

LCD displays aren’t really affected by this. The LCD elements don’t decay from being in on or off mode, and the backlight, which does decay, (usually) covers the whole screen, so the whole screen decays evenly.

But OLED displays do have the ability to get burn-in again, since the LED elements are per pixel, and the LEDs decay with power-on time.

See also: https://github.com/lropero/starry-night

Looks like this guy did some others:

https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css

Video of this is crazy.

searches YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dEL7vnQ6HEM

Yeah, there are people hanging in the rigging afterwards.

EDIT: Multiple of the shots on the ship’s Wikipedia page have people lined up in the rigging when entering/leaving port, so it might be something that they do on that ship as kind of a show for the people in the port, not sure.

I know that US aircraft carriers at least sometimes have people lined up evenly at railings all the way around facing outwards when doing the entering/leaving port, have seen pictures of that. So might be something of a tradition spanning navies.

EDIT2: Yes, it is, and apparently the standing at the railing derives from what the Mexican seamen were doing in the rigging:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_the_rail

Manning the rail is a method of saluting (or rendering honors) used by naval vessels. The custom evolved from that of “manning the yards”, which dates from the days of sail. On sailing ships, crew stood evenly spaced on all the yards (the spars holding the sails) and gave three cheers to honor distinguished persons. Today, the crew are stationed along the rails and superstructure of a ship when honors are rendered.

The United States Navy prescribes manning the rail as a possible honor to render to the President of the United States and for the heads of state of foreign nations. A similar but less formal ceremony is to have the crew “at quarters” when the ship is entering or leaving port.[1] Manning the rail is also the traditional way to honor the USS Arizona Memorial when it is passed by all U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine vessels. More recently, as foreign military vessels are entering Pearl Harbor for joint military exercises, foreign sailors have participated in the traditional manning the rails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(sailing)#Manning_the_yards

When coming into port, especially during the Tall Ships’ Races many modern square riggers will ‘man the yards’. All the crew not required on deck to handle the ship will go aloft and spread out along the yards. This manoeuvre was originally used to display the whole crew to the harbour authorities and the other ships present, to show that the ship’s guns were not manned and hence her intentions were peaceful.

A number of navies have a tall ship — a large, old-style sailing ship — that they use for training. I believe that they also use them for ceremonies and maybe recruiting and stuff. Kind of a prestige thing, if they can scrape together the funds to have one.

The US has the USCGC Eagle for the Coast Guard and the USS Constitution — the oldest commissioned warship afloat — for the Navy.

According to its Wikipedia page, the Cuauhtémoc does have an auxillary motor, so it’s not completely reliant on wind.

• This is the ARM Cuauhtémoc.

• The injured people were on the ship. The Brooklyn Bridge appears to be okay and has been reopened.

EDIT: As of this writing, there appear to be differing numbers from differing sources. The original article title when I submitted this had 20 injured; it’s been changed to 19. An article on the New York Post lists 23. The Wikipedia article originally listed 23 injured with 3 critically-injured (though someone apparently just vandalized it and some other Wikipedia in-the-news articles to jack it up to 35).

EDIT2: Now the Post article is saying that two are dead.