Tap water is fine most places, but bring a filter bottle if you think you might need it.

I remember being annoyed that the standard camera app required microphone permission and that caused me some hassle once. It obviously needs file permissions in order to save pictures. But, I don’t remember it requiring network permissions or anything else especially alarming.

It shouldn’t need microphone permission for taking still photos, or for shooting videos without sound. I joke that Charlie Chaplin was able to make silent movies 100 years ago, but the technology for doing that now seems to have been lost.

What other permissions does it want? What Android version? When I encountered this, it was on my old phone that ran Android 6 at the time (later Android 7).

I remember the junkbuster proxy from before this stuff was done with browser extensions. Is it time for that approach to make a comeback?

Animato – Fashionation by MIke Jittlov. Shot on 16mm film before music videos were a thing. Music: “I Know A Place” sung by Petula Clark. 3 minutes approx.

Terrible but watchable transfer with awful sound, especially near the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1siHLicEYc

Also, a much fancier one, “Midichlorian Rhapsody”, a Star Wars parody of Bohemian Rhapsody. Home studio music production with one guy playing almost all of the instruments, sync’d to video clips from Star Wars movies. Recaps the whole stupid prequel series in 6 minutes. Brilliant, absolutely pro level performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvlTVgeivU

It’s kind of dodgy selling something that you were given, without prior arrangement. Obviously it’s legal but that’s not what you’re asking, I think.

I recently gave someone a leftover, non-driveable car worth maybe $2K on the basis that he liked the car and he wanted to get it running and drive it. But to bypass potential awkwardness if the repair project didn’t work out, I explicitly told him that it was fine with me if he sold it and kept the money. That seemed like a good way to handle it.

I’ve received a few smaller gift items from people online. I wouldn’t sell them but could see regifting them.

most likely is false?

I think the idea is that the info is probably true, but has high enough likelihood of being false that you better check anyway, if it’s something that matters. There’s a whole topic in machine learning called “probable approximate correctness” that tries to make that notion precise. Les Valiant’s book of a similar title introduced the concept and looks very good. I have it but haven’t read it yet.

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If you check into it, let us know what you find out! I have too much going on right now.

I think it’s supposed to guess what command you want from context, but I didn’t check carefully.

Embark, “Emacs Mini-Buffer Actions Rooted in Keymaps”, https://github.com/oantolin/embark

I had heard the name but didn’t know what it was.

Oh, they do. Maybe you should take a closer look at their construction.

Do you mean they try to make the lights small, or that they like button tops? Which ones like button tops? If you mean small lights, the program doesn’t sound successful.

If you want a short light, try the FFL Z1 that is to be released soon.

https://www.firefly-outdoor.com/collections/ffl-flashlights/products/z1-artemis

That light is 92mm long, which is 65mm+27mm (27mm of stuff beyond the battery). Compare to the Fenix E16 that I linked above, which is 51mm=34mm+17mm. The Z1 is 10mm longer than an extended (and thickened) 18650 E16 would be. Plus add a 1mm or 2mm penalty to the Z1 for requiring a flat top which the E16 doesn’t (its recommended cell is a protected button top 16340 with USB charging). They aren’t making an effort.

Added: I’d say though that if you’re willing to use an 18650 or 21700 light, you’re really not after a small light (that’s why 16340 and other small sizes exist). So trying to minimize an 18650 light’s size by limiting battery interoperability is yet more foolishness. I had always thought the purpose of flat tops was to facilitate welding tabs for multi-cell packs, and none of these flashlights make use of that.

Hmm, another reason to require flat tops might be to prevent the use of protected cells, which afaik are all button tops. The protection tends to limit current, which gets in the way of lumenitis. Ugh.

Don’t assume, it’s easy to find photos of the batteries online. What do you see?

Wurkkos 21700 are available in both varieties: https://wurkkos.com/products/21700-rechargeable-battery-5000mah

But, that doesn’t say what they actually ship in lights. Photos of that might exist but it’s not super obvious where to look. I can say I’ve bought around 4 Wurkkos 18650 lights, one Fenix 18650 light, and one Wurkkos 18350 light, and ALL came with button tops.

Sure, if you want to crush your driver. The flashlight is made for flat top batteries.

Yeah I’d be a bit careful and gentle in testing. Though come to think of it, my D4v2 has already crushed the terminals of some FLAT TOP 18650’s, so maybe I better not even try button tops.

I’m tbh getting tired of “enthusiast” lights, which appears to have become a synonym for lumenitis. I just want a sane non-enthusiast light with Anduril, if that isn’t a contradiction in terms. Sane = among other things, no thermally unsustainable modes, no gratuitous battery incompatibility, and no excess mass added to the light just for heat sinking.

As long as they list the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, I’m good. The Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 will of course burn in Hades forever.

DIY doesn’t necessarily mean your own network, but at minimum, all the privacy-protecting software (cryptography etc.) has to be running on hardware that you control and operate. As soon as someone else is running it for you, they become a point of failure and a place to pressure.

And many enthusiast lights are built as compact as possible considering their performance

Hard for me to see that. D4v2+flat top 18650: 95mm long. With 18350 it would be 65mm. Sofirn SC13A, 18350, takes button tops AND has a USB charger inside: 64.6mm. Fenix E16: uses 16340, 51mm long(!), unfortunately discontinued. I’d like something like that with Anduril tbh.

It doesn’t seem to me that any enthuisiast Anduril lights have seen real effort to make the lights small. They just don’t like button tops.

Added: hmm, this person claims to be using Wurkkos 21700’s in an Emisar D4K. All Wurkkos 18650’s that I’ve gotten so far have been button tops, so I expect the 21700’s are similar. So maybe there’s some hope. I do seem to remember that button top 18650’s don’t fit in my D4v2 but maybe I’ll try again to confirm.

I’m using an old Thinkpad right now, but would be ok with a no-keyboard laptop plus a separate keyboard, whether wired or Bluetooth. Framework has always seemed kind of meh to me despite the good intentions.

Wasn’t able to view it in the browser. Had to download it to look at it. 130MB or whatever it was sounded like some kind of documentary, not a 2 minute promo due to the ridiculous bit rate.

This is pretty lame, 2 minute video at 9+ megabits, doesn’t say much in-browser player doesn’t work for me, 131MB download. Downvote.

Hoom papa, hoom papa, hoom papa mow mow… my heart’s on fire, for Gojira.

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

And I mean, yes, vocal performances were around way before recording equipment.

Hmm, I saw the requirement of unprotected flat tops as wanting high current batteries for more power = more lumens, but yeah, the button top itself is a separate issue. I had thought maybe flat tops enabled more contact area between the spring and the battery, but looking at some springs it doesn’t seem that way.

Still, many “enthusiast” lights are chonkers already, so why insist on flat tops? For that matter, all 21700 lights are chonkers by almost by definition (people wanting compact lights use smaller batteries).

Flood vs throw is because the usual desire for more lumens comes from wanting more reach. Thus the idea of a dedicated thrower, at least for accompanying a floody headlamp.

The standardization of “standardized” battery sizes tbh seems pretty poor. I’d expect all 18650’s to be 65mm long, and so on. But they vary considerably.