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Can we talk a bit about how it still feels very much illegal, as a male-passing person, to buy fem clothes and gear?
Even for the sex shop I don't pass at all, which makes things all the more confusing. Here am I, an actual trans person too afraid to speak out; whilst in the shop window are a bunch of dvd's of "hottest trans chicks ever, you wouldn't believe her dick!".
The shop owner must be thinking I am buying it for my hypothetical girlfriend to have a fun night with; no I'm actually buying it for myself, to use on my own!
I present bigender at the very most, for my own protection. But secretly I wish it wasn't needed...
Girly back supporter thing kind…
Even for the sex shop I don't pass at all, which makes things all the more confusing. Here am I, an actual trans person too afraid to speak out; whilst in the shop window are a bunch of dvd's of "hottest trans chicks ever, you wouldn't believe her dick!".
The shop owner must be thinking I am buying it for my hypothetical girlfriend to have a fun night with; no I'm actually buying it for myself, to use on my own!
I present bigender at the very most, for my own protection. But secretly I wish it wasn't needed...
Girly back supporter thing kind…
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Time to repair my typewriter. It's printhead was not moving smoothly past 50% of the paper, which turned out to be a guidebar screw that had just come loose. Not even snapped off; i just rescrewed it back to place.
The whole thing looks cheap, feels cheap. It's litterally held together by two screws! But on the other hand, that makes it easy to repair I guess?
I envy folks who have these ifixit toolkits tho. I have to do it all with one flat-head screwdriver... not such a big deal today, but one spring had come loose; and the process of reattaching it back took the better part of an hour.
The typewriter, with the top re…
An image of a dislodged metal g…
Image of the (brown, single-sid…
That one damn spring
The whole thing looks cheap, feels cheap. It's litterally held together by two screws! But on the other hand, that makes it easy to repair I guess?
I envy folks who have these ifixit toolkits tho. I have to do it all with one flat-head screwdriver... not such a big deal today, but one spring had come loose; and the process of reattaching it back took the better part of an hour.
The typewriter, with the top re…
An image of a dislodged metal g…
Image of the (brown, single-sid…
That one damn spring
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@marcamos yay for total equity of my website's shitty theme!
In all seriouslyness tho, good tool
It's a screenshot of the colour…
A screenshot of the website, wh…
A screenshot of the website, wh…
In all seriouslyness tho, good tool
It's a screenshot of the colour…
A screenshot of the website, wh…
A screenshot of the website, wh…
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Ok, I got myself whilst thrifting one of these wakeup lights. Was not exactly the kind of oldschool indestructable beauty of a bed alarm I was looking for, but thought it'd be worth a try.
Was waken up by it this morning, and genuinly impressed. No sudden wakeup shock, but not an alarm-so-soft-it-gives-you-anxiety-you've-missed-it either. I don't even have to look at the alarm; i can gently start waking up through my eyelids, and when it comes time my ears get fooled by the birdchirps until they don't.
I still gotto see if I will wake up as smoothly every time. But for now, call me impressed!
A philips "wake-up light" alarm…
The same alarm, this early morn…
Was waken up by it this morning, and genuinly impressed. No sudden wakeup shock, but not an alarm-so-soft-it-gives-you-anxiety-you've-missed-it either. I don't even have to look at the alarm; i can gently start waking up through my eyelids, and when it comes time my ears get fooled by the birdchirps until they don't.
I still gotto see if I will wake up as smoothly every time. But for now, call me impressed!
A philips "wake-up light" alarm…
The same alarm, this early morn…
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According to the document I shared earlier (and other info I found online), the main role of the equalizing pulses is to make sure the vertical sync pulse of odd-line fields trigger at the same time as the even-line fields, despite the horizontal triggers being half a phase late.
The problem is that with the horizontal and vertical syncs embedded in one signal, the TV detects a vertical sync when the horizontal sync's vsync integrator goes beyond a thrashhold. Hence, it's imperative that that thrashhold gets hit at exactly the same time both fields, which requires both to be discharged at the same time despite the capacitor in odd fields holding half a charge.
According to this logic, one would need 6 short blanks to discharge a half-charge capacitor fully.
Of course, the reason this peeked my interest is the potential to replace the 0-½ interlace pattern of traditional television with a 0-⅓-⅔ pattern, potentially increasing vertical resolution by 33%.
If my logic is correct this would require to increase the amount of short blanks from 6 to 8. This is assuming that one full syncless line accumulates 12 units of charge, and the maximum retardement we'd face would be 8/12th of a line.
The way to accomplish this would be to sacrifice one scanline for creating an extra half-line sync pulse. Yes, this would imply 287 and not 288 active scanlines, and would mean that our effective active resolution would be 1440x861 and not 1440x864. Details, details!
Then we can just shift the first blanking line post-equalizing pulse ⅓ and ⅔ instead of ½, and we'd get a 3-field interlacing sequence instead of a 2-field interlacing.
Interestingly, the implication is that if a digital system ain't aware of what the heck's going on, it'll show the first field correctly and then interpret both of the second fields as one odd-line field.
One small note on my research: i have no heck the idea what i'm talking about. The role of the equalizing pulses is ill-explained on wikipedia and the internet in general. But the clue of their role I found actually on the wikipedia page for the old British 405-line system which *lacked* them. It said they needed to be synthesized for integrator-type sync seperation systems (by the broadcaster or by the set) and was not needed for other types of sync seperation. So I googled "integrator+equalizing pulses analog video" and got what I needed.
I find in general info on non-525/625 video systems lacking, I'd love to know more about 35p, 180p, 441i, and other early video standards even if I'm never gonna find signals to test them with. Also did you know France had a monochrome 819i50 system at some point?
Oh well...
An image of the role of the syn…
The same image with some modifi…
The problem is that with the horizontal and vertical syncs embedded in one signal, the TV detects a vertical sync when the horizontal sync's vsync integrator goes beyond a thrashhold. Hence, it's imperative that that thrashhold gets hit at exactly the same time both fields, which requires both to be discharged at the same time despite the capacitor in odd fields holding half a charge.
According to this logic, one would need 6 short blanks to discharge a half-charge capacitor fully.
Of course, the reason this peeked my interest is the potential to replace the 0-½ interlace pattern of traditional television with a 0-⅓-⅔ pattern, potentially increasing vertical resolution by 33%.
If my logic is correct this would require to increase the amount of short blanks from 6 to 8. This is assuming that one full syncless line accumulates 12 units of charge, and the maximum retardement we'd face would be 8/12th of a line.
The way to accomplish this would be to sacrifice one scanline for creating an extra half-line sync pulse. Yes, this would imply 287 and not 288 active scanlines, and would mean that our effective active resolution would be 1440x861 and not 1440x864. Details, details!
Then we can just shift the first blanking line post-equalizing pulse ⅓ and ⅔ instead of ½, and we'd get a 3-field interlacing sequence instead of a 2-field interlacing.
Interestingly, the implication is that if a digital system ain't aware of what the heck's going on, it'll show the first field correctly and then interpret both of the second fields as one odd-line field.
One small note on my research: i have no heck the idea what i'm talking about. The role of the equalizing pulses is ill-explained on wikipedia and the internet in general. But the clue of their role I found actually on the wikipedia page for the old British 405-line system which *lacked* them. It said they needed to be synthesized for integrator-type sync seperation systems (by the broadcaster or by the set) and was not needed for other types of sync seperation. So I googled "integrator+equalizing pulses analog video" and got what I needed.
I find in general info on non-525/625 video systems lacking, I'd love to know more about 35p, 180p, 441i, and other early video standards even if I'm never gonna find signals to test them with. Also did you know France had a monochrome 819i50 system at some point?
Oh well...
An image of the role of the syn…
The same image with some modifi…
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Litterally the first time in my life I found the actual info I needed in one of these stupid powerpoint presentations!
Oh well...
http://ggn.dronacharya.info/ECE2Dept/Downloads/QuestionBank/VSem/AWP/Section-D/Lecture_16.pdf
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For this pride month...
...yeah, I quickly needed to check the gamma for my camera, but none of the test patterns pleased me. So I made my own test pattern.
It's very busy (too many ideas) and not very professional (cause it's me) but have fun!
It's a video test pattern. Lots…
...yeah, I quickly needed to check the gamma for my camera, but none of the test patterns pleased me. So I made my own test pattern.
It's very busy (too many ideas) and not very professional (cause it's me) but have fun!
It's a video test pattern. Lots…
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Tried out "vegetarian cheese" today... not bad, not bad.
Bit too young for my taste but I definitly don't have the budget for old cheese right now and in fact, this is cheaper than any cheese; which is partially the reason I took it. Also, just curiosity.
I do like how hard they try to avoid saying "cheese" on the package; even tho I know it's for kinda a dumb reason.
A package of "plantaardige plak…
Bit too young for my taste but I definitly don't have the budget for old cheese right now and in fact, this is cheaper than any cheese; which is partially the reason I took it. Also, just curiosity.
I do like how hard they try to avoid saying "cheese" on the package; even tho I know it's for kinda a dumb reason.
A package of "plantaardige plak…
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The thing is already gaining pretty serious "early video editor" swagger... It can open it's own files, juggle around with (my own proprietary of course) edit lists, mark clips for deletion that it'll just skip in playback, easily-ish move around the whole clip; and now I slowly gotto think about the whole other side of the package, which is gonna be the tool to assemble these clips back together. Not bad of a progress for a few evenings work and about 300-ish lines of code!
The same video editor, with muc…
The same video editor, with muc…
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My PC is too potato to render video
Normal peopls:
Me:
A screenshot of an ugly video e…
Normal peopls:
- Get a better PC
- Use an older video editing package
- Downrender to a lower resolution
Me:
- Implement my own crappy video editor
A screenshot of an ugly video e…
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re: Also no that wasn't me, i only reblog 'artistic nudity' :bluefox_blush:, gross kink mention
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