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Re:Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights? on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:01PM (#42361858)
+1 for twinkly lights. I've had some WS2801s that are about a decade old from Aliexpress for ages. This time lighting the tree, discovered quite a few scorch marks and melted insulation. Twinkly lights were 66% off locally, so gave 'em a go. They're still RGB, but blend into the tree a fair bit better. The LED spatial mapping stuff kinda works - it's not perfect, but gives you enough to be able to have decent fades top to bottom and side to side.

I have no intention of swapping to Twinkly for my normal accent lighting around the house - btf-lighting.com + WLED is still your friend for that.

Re:A tool that increased my typing speed on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:11PM (#24761597)
Yeah, I think this was probably the only thing. My hands felt slightly less tired after a lot of typing. I was about the same speed as qwerty, which was already decently fast.
Re:China's role in the U.S. fentanyl epidemic on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:58PM (#22338893)
Yes, but it's much more plausible that a fucked healthcare system does it on its own.
it could be as simple as Huawei refusing to install a backdoor for them.
Re:What Is Color Management? on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:38PM (#22101914)
They have to calibrate for ambient light still. At least, that's true for radiology.
Re:What's the best modern terminal emulator for Windows? on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:20PM (#22057484)
I've been running RoyalTS as of late - integrated Keepass into itself pretty nicely. I'm a bit sceptical of their credential handling internally, but it lets you use a keepass file.

I've used Mobaxterm in the past, and it was decent. Royal TS is just a little nicer. Windows Terminal is coming along quite nicely too.

Re:FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:34PM (#21642406)
We're having absolute misery with their support at present. Panorama's not been logging data for 45 days now. They've just completely missed the last two teleconfs.