Always cook your popcorn al dente!
Ooh! ooh! Is this the one where it tells you to cook your popcorn al dente?
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I remember the multiple sessions with colleagues on helping them uninstall the OneNote 2016 'app' and finding and installing the actual proper OneNote 2016 application. Biggest easy-to-identify-which-version difference between the two was that in the 'app' version you can't email a OneNote page to the attendees.
The only reason i started looking into this is that i installed a couple of Roku devices. And it turned out that the Roku Media Player is very limited in what it can play when streaming. Sure, i can install a media server like Kodi onto the tv directly, but then I'd have to do that on every tv i want to watch stuff. So, i thought, Media Servers allow uPnP. Well the Roku played some more stuff than before, but now i would not be able to fast forward :D
So i remuxed MP4 into MKV. Fast Forwarding works, but now Roku doesn't show the subtitles. Apparently not possible at all w Roku and MKV.
Sigh :D
For me, the biggest issue I had with audio/video sync is that the original dvd was copied using variable framerate. Once i set the extraction to constant frame rate, that problem went away. The out-of-syncness happened on all mediaplayers, so i know it was not a system / infra issue.
I'm just running into limited bandwidth now. Am using those power internet adapters for some of the streaming devices - they work, but sometimes the network in the home gets crowded.
While i could run some of this stuff combined - i have Pi4s running NextPVR, OpenMediaVault and some plane trackers. Another one runs Moode / is used for tinkering; and a Pi3b waiting for some repurposing. I have a telescope and goto-mount that i can attach this to, to control it remotely :D
The pandemic, you know...
I got it running Handbrake, an external cd drive, the red/white housing with fan, but using a 3A power supply. I had to disable the switch to not limit the current to the USB ports and the thing runs like a champ :-)
Currenty ripping my Blakes 7 set - alongside a iMac from 2007. The thing converts twice as many fps as the iMac :D
Gonna see what a Pi4 does, over the weekend, perhaps.
The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee I drive used to use 3G, which has been switched off here in the US, so no more connected stuff. Bought the car in 2018, never used the connected stuff anyways. It did phone home to the mothership with some OTA updates, which also could have been installed via USB instead.
"We sent in the robot, armed with guns. Upon entering the premises, we lost contact with the robot, which switched over into its automation mode, and due to a glitch in the programming, fired indiscriminately into the group of hostages. We're looking at additional training for the operators to not have this happen anymore." - spox, SFPD
@imanidiot - "Probably not. The Corona program catching returning film capsules from spy sats needed the cargo aircraft (They also used C-119s, C-123s and some other aircraft beside Hercs iirc) "
Some nice reading material - https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/corona/StarCatchersWeb.pdf
The National Museum of the US Airforce in Dayton, OH has a nice exhibit about this as well.