There was a recent forum thread with users claiming the Pinebook Pro is somewhat usable with Jitsi Meet; and the Pinebook Pro has a more powerful CPU in it than the Pinebook which has the same chip as the Pinetab.
Maybe going with a refurbished Surface or similar would be a better option; talking to an elderly relative is an use case that hardly calls for open hardware.
The Elgato Cam Link is worth checking out if you're serious about this - it's an HDMI video capture device which presents itself on the computer end as a UVC compatible USB webcam and will accept the HDMI streams DSLRs usually send. They're expensive though.
There are other similar devices on the market too but not sure how good they are for this situation.
Elgato sells other capture cards (eg. HD60), which still seem available.
I recently bought a raspberry pi hi quality camera (and lens) to tinker with, and was able to connect it to my mac via pi->hdmi->capture-card to make a nice webcam view with the bokeh effect.
the total cost of this example does add up, but still cheaper than a DSLR setup.
If you use the usb gadget mode of the raspberry pi to present the PI as a USB WebCam, you can forego the HDMI-connection, and thus the need for the HDMI capture card.
I've been trying to get a FPV drone camera feed into my Windows 10 computer so OpenCV can muck around with it.
OpenCV easily recognizes Webcams, but sucks at picking up 'video adapter' kinda stuff. (That is, I'm going to be using an RCA to USB dongle, such as EasyCap.)
If you can 'trick' OpenCV into thinking a webcam is attached at the USB, everything is golden.
Can you describe this raspberry pi method of 'presenting' the device as a USB WebCam? That sounds promising...
edit: Forgot to mention OpenCV is part of a c++ 64bit program I'm writing.
capture cards are devices primarily intended for game streamers to give your computer an hdmi input to stream/record games from a game console, but are also useful for other purposes such as turning your dslr into an expensive webcam.
I used it for a few calls but the latency was too high for me personally. I work remotely so I'm interested in the DSLR DoF for video calls, but it seems the best is still a Capture card.
I use it with a T6s, along with CamTwist. It looks like it's bad latency and resolution initially but but you have to open the Preferences in CamTwist and increase FPS to 30 and size to 1920x1080.
> The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE.
I went to a Jesuit university and was required to take a certain number of credits in religious courses, so I looked over the catalogue and chose the most interesting and less mainstream options, like classes on Yoga and Buddhism. One of the classes I chose was about the history of the Old Testament from an archaeological perspective, which sounded very Indiana Jones and turned out to be quite interesting. The professor was an archaeologist and had dug at some of the sites we studied in the course. The only thing I remember from that class was the story how the Bedouin were shopping the scrolls before the location of the caves were exposed and the Western archaeologist (who couldn't immediately travel to the site and wanted to obtain the scrolls at any cost) offered to pay them per piece. This is very likely how many of the scrolls were torn into tiny pieces, as Bedouin were looking to maximize their payout. I didn't find any reference to this in the linked wiki and I certainly don't know how true the story is (IIRC this story wasn't in our official class texts either), but it's something to consider that we could have a more-intact set of scrolls today had it not been for a terrible decision made in haste.
It is extremely difficult to do archeology in many countries in the middle-east, even pre-war.
Turkey, for example refuses most requests for digs. It is generally understood that they don't want excessive religious historical context placed on their country as it doesn't mesh well with their current national identity.
Can you elaborate on Turkey being unwilling to conduct historical research on its soil?
Are you an archeologist/historian?
I ask because I'm generally interested in history. I've read speculations that the region called Anatolia has had a shift in 14th century in language/culture/etc.
It might have well been a mistranslation. Stating that you're so desperate to buy that you'll accept "the tiniest bits you can find" could sound like a reasonable thing to say to transmit urgency; then a translator approximates to "he will pay for every small piece" and you're screwed.
I had been doing scrum in the last 10 years, poker and online sticks out so much that I didn’t realised that it has to do anything with scrum before I clicked.
Yes, that's correct. Custom shortcuts isn't implemented yet. I will enable it after I add the different drawing shapes. Thanks for bringing this up. This helps me in prioritizing features.
Are you sure this was a Roland SC? This sounded pretty close to just plain old Adlib. Of course any sound font would sound better than fm synth. What would be helpful is to have the track played on an MT32 or a Sound Canvas to do a proper comparison.
That's the thing about these old games: they were totally made for how the MT32 and later the Sound Canvas sounded to the point where they would even chose an instrument that would otherwise not be fitting, but which sounded good on the original device.
Unfortunately for me, all of this happened way before I had money on my own or could convince my parents to shell out the considerable sum these devices would have cost, so I really don't know how these games were intended to sound.
Which makes me really sad as a huge video game music fan/nerd.
As mentioned in my previous comments, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better) than our counterparts like Wappalyzer:
1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them).
2. Ability to follow sites (and know what techs websites started using/ditched).
3. Very lightweight compared to our counterparts, and arguably better UI ;)
4. More accurate data. BuiltWith can be very inaccurate as you might've already noticed. Wappalyzer is fairly accurate, but limited in technologies. WhatRuns is trying to be the best of both worlds.
Totally. We just ran into this issue. Running npm install inside a linux vm resulted in an endless loop, because the nfs mapping created path names that exceeded the length limit.
NPM 3 tries, not entirely without success, to flatten the tree under node_modules/; I've had good results using it to resolve the kind of path length issues (in this case, with NTFS directories mounted in a VM) that you describe. Might be worth a look in your case as well.
The GBT is 94 miles, right? I think the Swiss achieve these costs through economies of scale. There are tunnels throughout the country so they can achieve greater efficiencies at 5-10x of those in specific metro areas in the US.
I remember when they were debating a tunnel under Tysons Corner in Virginia, the largest office park in the Washington-Baltimore area, the estimate came in at $800 miles for 4 miles and was considered cost-prohibitive. It'd be great to bundle a number of these projects together to achieve the efficiencies of scale.
FWIW, a surprising amount of the base tunnel was blasted by dynamite, as the geology didn't allow use of TBMs everywhere. (And they hit more cases where they had to blast it than they expected.)
Construction is expensive. Even the bargain priced tunnel is about $65.000 a foot or $200.000 per meter. And unlike the bridges it just handles one vehicle width in each direction.
Why Germany? The Gotthard Basis Tunnel is in Switzerland and worker pay in Switzerland is considerably higher in Switzerland than in Germany and also probably the US
while i'm sure the issue with the costs here and there isn't labor/salary, googled out of curiosity - for welder in US it is $30-50K/year avg, in Germany - the government mandated minimum in non-East Germany is something like 14euro/hour, in the East - 11 euro/hour.
I also would be very surprised if the Germany/Switzerland were "outsourcing" the job to Chinese companies like the US does with big infrastructure projects. I mean everybody who ever dealt with outsourcing up close knows what in reality it is completely opposite to "cost savings", instead it is a way to "digest" even more money than it would be otherwise.
You have to remember that tunnel jobs are almost always run by a municipality which means that they're almost always union. I would imagine it is similar in Switzerland.
Tunneling is a niche industry and commands a high price.
