The common standard for the height of the center of a fire hydrants outlet is about 18 inches from the ground. The radius from that center point to the bottom of the outlet is 2.5 inches which is where body of the coupler will be, plus some room for the 3-4” handles attached to either side of the coupler body to be able to turn to thread the coupler onto the outlet. So that’s about 11” of clearance wiggle room you have for snow you’d need plus a few extra inches of some extra room added for your hands/arms or the fact that over time hydrants can kinda “sink” into the ground diminishing the clearance further.

If your local fire department uses a 4 way hydrant valve to connect to the hydrant for uninterruptible in-line boosting like this one

Then that’s a bunch of extra clearance you’ll need.

And then there’s just the fact that the less snow there is, the easier it is for them to just clear away themselves.

8” isn’t an exact number as much as it is a ballpark for when snowfall around a hydrant goes from being a minor pain in the ass to becoming a potential safety issue.

Because if your house catches fire with you in it, you want the firemen to be inside your house putting the fire out with an established water supply, not outside pissing away time digging the hydrant out of the snow/ice.

I like Mastodon but it can’t compete with X. The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. Its greatest benefits are also its biggest barriers to mainstream appeal.

Bluesky says it’s decentralized, but at the end of the day it’s an American company.

They just aren’t the right tools for this particular job. What this “W social” wants to be is “European Twitter”.

I mean we know where they are, the problem is digging them out takes a bunch of time you don’t have.

I’m assuming they want to compete with X/Twitter.

This storm will be blanketing very populated areas with an amount of snow they don’t often see.

If you’re in a location that will get a significant amount of snow, 8” or more, find the fire hydrant closest to your house and clear an area around it to at least a couple feet.

You probably didn’t think of it because you’re not a lobotomized degenerate.

I’m not misremembering anything. I have the x900h in my living room right now. It cannot do native 4k/120hz, to this day. It can do Native 4k OR it can do 120hz but not both. If you enable 120hz, the horizontal resolution is cut in half to only 1080 pixels. This couldn’t be fixed with a driver update because it’s a consequence of Sony cheaping out on the processor. It is physically not capable of it.

VRR was added in a firmware update, but again due to Sony’s poor choice in hardware components if you enable VRR it disables local dimming entirely. Being an LED panel, without local dimming the picture is significantly degraded. It’s a truly terrible TV for anything but casual Netflix watching, given its price point. If it was half the price they sold it for that’d be a different story.

At the time, you could have bought a Samsung Q70T instead for the same price which actually had native 4k/120hz.

No I know what you mean. I’m not talking about the “Trumotion” 120hz motion smoothing technology.

The first generation of Sony Bravia TVs that advertised native 4k/120hz, specifically to coincide with the release of the PS5, couldn’t actually do native 4k/120hz. It wasn’t until their following generations that were finally able to, in a post-launch firmware update.

This is good news as far as I’m concerned. I was burned by an expensive Bravia TV with a lack of promised feature support, poor quality control, zero customer support, and unfixable hardware design flaws that made several prominent features permanently unusable.

TCL on the other hand might have always been a budget brand, but their TVs are very well made considering their price point. They are much more competently made TVs with a level of quality control that blows Sony out of the water. If they commit to making the Bravia series at its current price point, as opposed to just turning the Bravia line into budget TVs, I’m reasonably confident they can deliver.

Sony TVs are absolute garbage devices designed by actual morons, with the worst customer support in the industry.

Back when the PS5 came out, they advertised their Bravia TVs specifically for its support for the PS5 and its feature set. I spent something like $1,200 for a Bravia x900H which at the time was very highly reviewed. When the PS5 released shortly after, we had to wait months for Sony to actually release drivers to support the PS5 features promised like VRR and 4k/120hz, and when they finally did the monkeys paw finger curled. If you turn VRR on, it disables local dimming. This is important because those panels look like dogshit without local dimming. So right off the bat you have to choose between a smooth picture, and a good looking picture.

As for 4k/120, they cheaped out on the MediaTek processor so it can’t actually do native 4k/120. Turning it on halves the horizontal resolution to 1080, and then it crudely upscales it back up causing a now infamous blurry mess to the picture.

Those are just the problems that affect everyone due to design flaws and false advertising. But on a more luck-of-the-draw level, when I bought mine brand new, it had significant backlight bleed. I was upgrading from a $150 Costco LCD and I swear to you the picture on the Sony was actually worse. 25% of the screen was permanently tinted blue the bleed was so bad. No problem I thought, I just bought the thing brand new, these things happen with LED panels from time to time, I’ll call Sony and RMA the thing. But after a week of arguing with Sony’s outsourced support, they refused to honor the warranty. According to them backlight bleed is expected and no matter how bad it is, they don’t cover it under warranty. So whether or not your Sony TV is even functional as a TV is simply luck of the draw.

Their early “4k/120s” weren’t even actually 4k/120. Enabling 120hz refresh rates on early Bravias would cut horizontal resolution in half, and then crudely attempt to upscale it.

I agree, and a big part of that is that everything they’ve added over the years just feels bolted-on.

I tried to give it a shot a little while back and tried to do one of the things that was initially promised you could do, be a trader. Pretty standard space game fare. Only to find out it’s a pretty pointless and broken experience because the way you do interstellar trade in that game is by putting goods in your pockets and walking through portals that exist in every single space station. You never even get in your ship lol.

The game still just feels like a tech demonstration of a bunch of disparate systems that fail to integrate with eachother in any meaningful way. They’ve made the puddle much wider over the years but their outright refusal to make it any deeper is absolutely nuts.

Which part of the roadmap is what you wanted?

The OP’s scenario is doing this while parked. While you’re driving it wouldn’t matter so much because there are only so many words somebody can hear when you pass them at 24-45mph

A simple low traffic website doesn’t even need anything close to symmetric fiber. Your run-of-the-mill shitty cable internet usually gives you 15-30mbps. Thats more than enough unless your site is really popping off.

From what I’ve gleaned from the history of this project, the original creator of the game sold the IP to a publisher in order to secure money and resources for further development, where they promptly started interfering with development to the point that it was delayed and ultimately cancelled.

The creator bought the rights back from them and released it into Early Access so that they can fund its development.

I personally have nothing against early access games after playing other EA games like Factorio, Rimworld, and Satisfactory that were known for being incredible experiences long before they launched into 1.0.

No if you download the local copies back then delete them from OneDrive, OneDrive will delete the local copies you restored to your computer.

It’s also important to note that the users aren’t “Using OneDrive” intentionally, so they aren’t even aware that there are steps they’d need to reverse.

The issue isn’t the users at all. The issue is that Microsoft has a software that takes files off your computer without permission and puts them on their computers. And then make sure it’s obtuse to safely get them back.

Oh no it’s far worse than that. Essentially what happens is One Drive takes over your entire home holder, and then makes the copy in OneDrive the original. People try to disable OneDrive and then delete the copies in the cloud, only to find out OneDrive will then delete the local copies from your computer.