PSA: Eclipse Glasses from Canadian Tire
https://lemmy.world/post/13728877
PSA: Eclipse Glasses from Canadian Tire - Lemmy.World
Just a warning to anyone interested in the coming eclipse. Avoid the glasses
sold at Canadian Tire. I just bought two pairs of eclipse glasses at Canadian
Tire. I decided to test them right after I got outside and immediately noticed
an issue. Both glasses have a hazy appearance around the sun. With proper
eclipse glasses the sun should appear crisp and not too bright. You should be
able to distinctly see the edge of the sun and even see detail on the surface.
There should be no haze of any kind. If you see any kind of haze, immediately
take off the glasses and throw them out. I knew the glasses from Canadian Tire
were suspect because they had “NASA APPROVED” on the sides, which is why I
bought them. I wanted to test them. There is no such thing as “NASA APPROVED”.
NASA doesn’t approve or certify anything. If you see that, it’s a massive red
flag. One very good trusted source for where to buy eclipse glasses is the
American Astronomical Society which has a list of trusted vendors. I myself
bought a bulk quantity from solareyewear.ca [http://solareyewear.ca] and have
tested the glasses to be working properly.
https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters
[https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters] Unfortunately, there will
be a massive amount of scams going around with eclipse glasses and shady people
trying to make a quick buck. Don’t risk it and make sure your glasses will
protect your eyes. If someone tries to convince you that their glasses are
genuine because they have ISO-12312-2 printed on them, it doesn’t matter. I
could print that on a pair of toilet paper rolls taped together, but that
doesn’t mean it’ll protect your eyes. Here are some resources to check out:
https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
[https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses]
https://opto.ca/eye-health-library/solar-eclipse-safety
[https://opto.ca/eye-health-library/solar-eclipse-safety]
PopSci doesn't understand difference between "far side" and "dark side" of the moon
https://lemmy.world/post/6100645
PopSci doesn't understand difference between "far side" and "dark side" of the moon - Lemmy.world
I find it hard to believe that Popular Science would make such a mistake, but
the author has reinforced the mistake by starting the article with “The dark
side of the moon, despite its name, is a perfect vantage point for observing the
universe.” But all the quotes from scientists correctly say “far side of the
moon”. I know this isn’t really “science news” but I couldn’t find any other
community to share this.
OpenSubtitles Hostility - Lemmy.world
So this isn’t meant to be a post bashing the devs/owner of OpenSubtitles. This
is meant simply as awareness. A few months ago I signed up for the VIP tier at
OST ($5/mo for 1000 downloads a day) for a bit to populate my catalogue of
videos with subtitles as my father uses my Jellyfin server and he’s lost a lot
of his hearing. I also wanted to support the development a bit. At first the
service seemed to be downloading a bit, but then it stopped. I waited a few days
and it would download at most one or two a day (despite a few thousand videos
not having any subtitles). I look around online and found that OST had changed
their API and the Jellyfin plugin still needed to catch-up with a newer release.
No big deal, so I just waited. Then the update released which specifically
stated that the changes to the API calls were made. I waited a few days,
nothing. I uninstalled the OST plugin and reinstalled, still nothing. So I
figured something was wrong either on my end or the server-side, but I didn’t
want to bother getting into it. I’ve been planning to rebuild my Jellyfin server
with newer hardware with HW acceleration for decoding and encoding. I sent an
email to OST support explaining what I’ve been seeing and asked if I could get a
refund. The person who responded asked for logs so that they could help
troubleshoot. So I obliged. Email response from OpenSubtitles support confirming
there was an issue
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9a222337-3bc1-4e6e-87f5-c6f42ece9f5a.png] They
said it wasn’t much help and to get even more logs. Which I provided again.
Screenshot of user CeeBee providing logs via email to OpenSubtitles support
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7b91d5c9-88eb-4dbe-90a6-da205797681b.png] I
even removed over 14 thousand “[query]” lines to make the logs more readable.
They said there wasn’t anything there that was useful, and asked me to try
again. I indicated that Jellyfin has a scheduled job that checks for missing
subtitles and pulls as needed once a day. But I said that at this point I’m just
looking for the refund. A while passes by but then I get a notification that the
subscription is going to be renewed again, so I cancelled before that happened
and reached out again about the refund. At this point it was more about the
principle of the matter as I originally just asked for a refund and that got
side-stepped into a support request. Then I got this as a response: Email
response from OpenSubtitles support being aggressive and accusatory
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/06424767-c977-4126-a87a-1b17dfd5c3cc.png]
Which resulted in this: Email response from OpenSubtitles support saying "I'm
tired of you" and deleted my account
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8379ff70-2753-44a5-9e5f-d24d1eef7ca7.png] I
waited over two weeks to write this post. I wanted to wait and see if somebody
replied back to me with even just an apology or something. If they had
originally told me that doing refunds is hassle for them I would have let it go.
But telling me off and then deleting my account is just… special. I was
astonished at the response and cannot fathom that being the response from any
company taking payments for a service. And I’m not holding a grudge of any kind
and I get it, I used to do IT support and some days can be tough dealing with
annoying emails. But in my defence all I asked for was a refund because
something wasn’t working. In any case, I just wanted to bring this to the
attention of the Self-hosting community so that others can make more informed
decisions. To be clear, I’m not advocating anyone to pull support. In face I
think they should have more support as it’s an invaluable service. Despite the
treatment I still plan on getting the VIP subscription again at some point after
I rebuild my Jellyfin server. But I also don’t think that customers should be
treated like this.
"Best" remote desktop solution? - Lemmy.world
I have two systems right next to each other. One of them doesn’t have a monitor
attached and it’s not simple to do so. They are both on the same 1Gbps LAN. I’m
currently using FreeRDP/xRDP to remote into the other system, but the latency is
just terrible. I’m able to deal with it, but in some circumstances (like if
dynamic ads or videos autoplay on websites) the latency just skyrockets to a a
frame very few seconds. The remote system is Kubuntu 20.04 using X.org
[http://X.org] and not Wayland. I have just about every window decoration turned
off or down. And just about every setting I can find to increase performance.
The connection settings are the best they can be (I’ve looked through so many
guides and posts about increasing performance), and they have helped a bit, but
it’s still far from ideal. I’ve even tried VNC and AnyDesk and they’re both just
as bad, which is odd because I’ve connected to my brother’s system in another
part of the country on many occasions, and even when he loads up a Youtube video
the connection and latency is buttery smooth. Does anyone here have any
recommendations or suggestions on what I can use or do to improve the connection
quality?
