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Hearts of iron 5 too much divisions1/31/2024 ![]() There will be less trust and more abuse.”Ī tech developer and administrator proclaimed, “The ‘metaverse’ is straight up cyberpunk dystopian nonsense. It is a less intuitive, less useful form of connection. It is better to have transparent human governance to keep networks administrators in check than to put faith in a novel, opaque, unstable, misunderstood and inexplicable technology that promises to do things in the human sphere that no technology has ever done before.”Ī globally respected internet sociologist and best-selling author wrote, “The ‘metaverse’ is a bad idea being pushed by industry so of course it will have a presence, but it will not be adopted. Secondly and more subtly, blockchain and decentralisation technologies are a waste of time in the face of extant administration. Firstly, obviously and almost trivially – the commercial interest of the platform operator is blatantly clear. In a nutshell, any metaverse by Facebook will die for the same twofold reasons as the libra cryptocurrency by Facebook. “If we haven’t got digital identity sorted out already (now, after 25 years), then we will find ‘digital life’ much harder to sort out and it will take much longer. There is an oversimplification or outright overlooking of risk because digital seems cool and antiestablishment.There is overreach in digital, a personification of really mundane digital things, like IDs.Unilateral tech-driven analysis shuns decades of social science, humanitarian studies, political science, etc.A lot of work is based on false intuitions of what things like identity really are, at heart.Digital assumptions/presumptions tend to be erroneous.Most people underestimate what it takes to convert analogue life to digital.The reasons are multifaceted, but some themes are clear and are important for metaverse: I have been involved in digital identity since the dawn of e-commerce (1995) and I have seen how weirdly this field has evolved. It’s not something that should be designed or rushed by commercial interests but rather may need to be allowed to evolve ecologically. I actually agree that metaverse, as advanced virtual reality, should be important. It is not well enough defined for us to make predictions about a ‘fully immersive’ experience being more important by 2040. Steve Wilson, founder at Lockstep Consulting and a VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research focused on digital identity and privacy, said, “The metaverse is mostly hype. Mark Nottingham, senior principal engineer at Fastly and a longtime leader in the Internet Engineering Task Force with expertise in internet and web standards Its proponents are focused on capturing a future market, not building new shared space without any single owner. The ‘metaverse’ is a marketing confection with no basis in reality as of yet. If it plays any role in future online life, based on what we see today the metaverse is likely to be 3D Facebook, more or less – a platform that a big tech company uses to monetise attention, in a winner-take-all marketplace.” As a result, what little that is emerging is lacks novelty we’ve seen it before (e.g., Second Life). There are no current efforts at interoperability, common standards, open governance or any other sign of creating what is being marketed – a peer of the web as a public, open space. ![]() Mark Nottingham, senior principal engineer at Fastly and a longtime leader in the Internet Engineering Task Force with expertise in internet and web standards, commented, “The ‘metaverse’ is a marketing confection with no basis in reality as of yet. This is proof, they say, that fuller immersion will remain uncommon. Many noted that while quite a few fairly-immersive augmented and/or virtual spaces already exist, those spaces have not attracted a large percentage of the public’s time and attention. ![]() Many expect that there will be meaningful upgrades in gaming, entertainment and business/education communications realms by 2040, and a notable share agree that XR will progress steadily as interactive technologies continue to gradually mature. Some said the buzz about extended reality (XR) is mostly what one called “typical tech hype.” A share of them said they expect this cluster of technologies is likely to make a few expected but fairly minor ripples in the stream of overall tech development. Nearly half of these expert respondents said much-more-immersive virtual settings will not have significantly broader influence in people’s daily lives by 2040.
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Meru tantra free download1/31/2024 Meru is also listed in the Suprabhedāgama, which describes a list of 13 temple types. Meru is found in another list in the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra, chapter 63, where it is listed in the group named Nāgara, containing 20 different prāsādas (temples/buildings). Meru is found in another list in the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra, chapter 60, where it is mentioned in a list of thirty-six Prāsādas (temples) having activities of the townsmen entailing Sādhārās. The Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra is an 11th-century encyclopedia dealing with various topics from the Vāstuśāstra. As the last name mentioned in this group, Meru is also known as Prāsādarāja. The Sāndhāra group contains twenty-five out of a sixty-four total prāsādas (temples) classified under four groups in this chapter. Meru (मेरु) refers to a type of temple ( prāsāda) classified under the group named Sāndhāra, according to Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra chapter 56. This Tantra is, further, one which is well known and esteemed, though perhaps more highly so amongst that portion of the Indian public which favours "reformed" Hinduism than amongst some Tantrikas, to whom, as I have been told, certain of its provisions appear to display unnecessary timidity.Meru in Vastushastra glossary Source: Wisdom Library: Vāstu-śāstra A desire to attempt to do it greater justice has in part prompted its selection as the first for publication. An inaccurate version rendered in imperfect English was published in Calcutta by a Bengali editor some twelve years ago, preceded by an Introduction which displayed insufficient knowledge in respect of what it somewhat quaintly described as "the mystical and superficially technical passages" of this Tantra. The present translation is, in fact, the first published in Europe of any Indian Tantra. ![]() Yet of all the forms of Hindu Shastra, the Tantra is that which is least known and understood, a circumstance in part due to the difficulties of its subject-matter and to the fact that the key to much of its terminology and method rest with the initiate. To the Tantra we must therefore look if we would understand aright both ritual, yoga, and sadhana of all kinds, as also the general principles of which these practices are but the objective expression. Shiva says: "For the benefit of men of the Kali age, men bereft of energy and dependent for existence on the food they eat, the Kaula doctrine, O auspicious one! is given" (Chap. The Indian Tantras, which are numerous, constitute the Scripture (Shastra) of the Kaliyuga, and as such are the voluminous source of present and practical orthodox "Hinduism." The Tantra Shastra is, in fact, and whatever be its historical origin, a development of the Vaidika Karmakanda, promulgated to meet the needs of that age. ![]() ![]() The themes covered include: sacred places, spatiality and symbolism mental journeys and cosmic topography, illustrated with Sricakra and Sricakrapuja pilgrimage sites in the Siwalik Region where landscape has played special role to awaken human mind Pavagadh, where landscape helps to make the power of the Mother Goddess spatial circulation in ritualscape of the matrikas in Kathmandu Valley scenario at the Kamakhya Pitha sacredscape and spatial structure of be-headed goddess at Rajarappa sacred geography and formation of Vindhyachal goddess territory Hindu Goddesses in Kashi: Spatial Patterns and Symbolic Orders the ten Mahavidyas’ Yatra in making the goddess spirit invoked role of Durga in the present sacredscape of Varanasi issue of images and performances related to the river goddess Ganga, and representation of Green Tara in the wall paintings of Alchi. This anthology fulfils that gap substantially, through the essays by scholars from religious studies, geography, anthropology and cultural studies. Of course, there are books on the thematic or disciplinary-packed orientation, however rarely any interdisciplinary book that narrates many perspectives and facets around sacred geography of goddesses is published. In view of appreciating the path in this direction paved by David Kinsley (1939-2000, both on 25 April), this anthology is a memorial tribute to him by his students, friends, associates and admirers, including an essay that critically and rationally examined his contributions and their relevance today. This book consists of fifteen essays that deal with links between ecology and shamanism, landscape and nature spirit, emphasising web of meanings imbued in the cultural tradition of portraying landscape as temple and territory as archetypal representation of the cosmos.
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Year walk hints1/31/2024 ![]() Check them out to find answers or ask your own to get the exact game help you need. It will provide you with both subtle hints to. B - Ron (Pyjamas) In year 4 and after, WL the four torches in the room. We have 3 questions and 2 answers for Year Walk. Twelve Minutes walkthrough and guide This walkthrough will explain how to complete the Twelve Minutes in order to achieve some of its endings. ![]() One is on the left side at the front of the screen, one is on the right midway back, and the third is above the door at the top of the stairs. Daniel can be presumed to either go on and murder Stina, as he did originally, or spare her by obeying his own dying wish and killing himself. In year 4 and after, shoot the three spider webs in the room. The guide presents the main quests, side quests, optional witcher contracts, and treasure hunting quests in great detail. The player can then replay the game, using new clues given by images in the journal, to solve a previously unsolvable puzzle that is revealed to have been left by the author of the journal, who successfully went back in time to attempt to prevent Daniel murdering Stina, left the box for Daniel, containing a newspaper clipping regarding Daniel's execution for his crime of murdering Stina, as well as a letter telling him that ""you know what to do"", before the player is shown an image of a knife that the author had also left, before the ending card is shown. This guide for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt offers a complete walkthrough of all main and side quests in the game, as well as an extensive world atlas with maps of all visited locations. The journal, written by a modern-day man obsessed with Swedish folklore, investigates the meaning behind the year walk, before the journal alludes to him having done the year walk himself. If the player uses the hints given after the credits to access the Journal component of the PC Game/iOS companion app, the full story is revealed: that the protagonist, now given the name Daniel, was actually the one to murder Stina after she took another man's hand in marriage. At the end of his walk, the Player is given a glimpse into his future, with the words ""I don't love you anymore"" flashing on screen before the screen cuts to the body of Stina, who dies from a knife wound before the credits roll. Throughout his walk, the player will encounter and overcome supernatural beings, overcoming them through the completion of puzzles. The player then returns home, and awakens at night to begin his walk. Year Walk begins with the unnamed protagonist visiting his lover, Stina, who hints that she has been proposed to, and warns the player about the dangers of year walking, saying that her cousin had died while engaging in the activity. Game Cheats - Year Walk Arsgang Supernatural Beings Edition
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Smartthings adding smartapp from github1/31/2024 ![]() Add a new device with Add Device -> Scan nearby and then start the search on the Spruce controller.Remove the Spruce Controller from the app, from the Spruce Device, go to Edit -> Delete Device.The smartapp code Spruce Scheduler SST must be copied/imported into your IDE account and published following the instructions above.The device handler code Spruce Controller SST must be copied/imported into your IDE account and published following the instructions above.Go to My Device Handlers then +Create New Device Handler.Select icon to the left of old smartapps to open and edit.Select Delete (scroll down to bottom) to remove.Select icon to the left of old devices to open and edit.Log in with your SmartThings app password.Copy and Paste Go to the SmartThings web IDE and copy and paste the code directly in. You may Update from Repo anytime to get the latest code. This is done by repeating the Update from Repo button in the Device Handler and SmartApps pages of the SmartThings IDE at / Your SmartThings account will keep track of changes in the code, but will need to be told to “update”. The steps outlined in the links above use Github to “pull” the code into your account. Substitutethis PlaidSystems information below in place of the konnected information in the video and instructions listed below: The instructions and video are from, Spruce is in no way affiliated with Konnected Import from GITįollow the instructions from the following link to import the Device Handlers and Smartapp into your SmartThings account. If you are unsure of Github, you may find it simpler to copy and paste the code in place. Connecting to Github is the preferred method because it is very easy to update if there are any changes made to the software but also requires a free Github account. You may connect with Github, or may copy and paste the text into your account manually. There are 2 options to import code into SmartThings. Import the Device Handlers and SmartApp into your account Individual zones can be used in automations.Schedules can be setup using the classic Spruce Scheduler.The new Spruce Controller device looks and works like the version listed under the brand “Spruce Irrigation”.Importing this code into the SmartThings IDE will bring back functionality as listed below: Update Spruce Scheduler to work with updated device.Update Spruce Controller to ST published device, but with minor update to facilitate scheduler.The Spruce Scheduler is also no longer visible for new installs in the app. ![]() The migration to the newest Samsung app has caused the Gen1 Spruce Controller device tile to break. These Device Handlers and Schedule will work with the new Samsung SmartThings APP but are not officially supported and may stop functioning at anytime due to changes in Samsung SmartThings infrastructure. See SmartThings 2020 Spruce Controller Gen1 for details and instructions about the SmartThings published device which requires no custom code and can be added from the app. Spruce Controller has been published to “brands” in the new SmartThings app, this page is only for custom code applications.
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Reiboot for android1/31/2024 This link is to the /r/Soldering Tool Guide, feel free to crosspost soldering issues between subs! TOOL GUIDES HOW TO USE GOOGLE GLUE BASIC TOOL GUIDE BLD TOOL GUIDE SOLDERING TOOL GUIDE
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Plex windows app1/31/2024 ![]() NOTE: PLEX FOR WINDOWS IS CURRENTLY NOT COMPATIBLE WITH GOOGLE CHROMECAST. ![]() ![]() tv/), so that things can be investigated and resolved to benefit all users. IMPORTANT: In cases where you have trouble, we're interested in assisting through our forums ( plex. Please note, some features are only available to Plex Pass subscribers. Movie Extras and Music Videos: Access trailers, extras, and music videos from your libraries. Top Movies: View top movies by genre, director, and actor. Related Movies and TV shows: Easily find similar movies based on selections in your library. Rotten Tomatoes: See how your movie collection ranks with ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. Plex Mix: Kick off a playlist of similar and related tracks from your collection at any time. Security: Enjoy your media away from home, knowing connection is securely encrypted. Mobile Sync: Sync media to your phone or tablet for offline viewing. Camera Upload: Automatically upload your photos from your device to your Plex Media Server. Plex Home: Use customized, managed accounts, and restrict content those users can access. Enables you to queue online videos from sites like Vimeo and YouTube and then Watch Later on any device Other features include: Accessibility: Connect to your Plex Media Server wherever you are, whenever you want. Gives you access to a wide range of online channels such as TED Talks, Revision3, and TWiT. Lets you browse, fling, and control your media on most Plex apps. Plex Pass feature: Online Trailers and Extras for the movies in your collection. Plex Pass feature: Sync media to your favorite cloud provider including Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, so you can stream media even when your server is offline. Plex Pass feature: Sync media to your phone or tablet for offline viewing. Makes sharing your media with friends and family simple and easy. Automatically converts your media on-the-fly to play on any device. Here are some ways that Plex makes your media experience awesome: Makes your media beautiful with artwork, descriptions, and more. Unlock unlimited streaming to your Windows device with a Plex Pass subscription that includes many other premium features (available at tv/plexpass) -OR- a small one-time in-app purchase. Playing media from your Plex Media Server on the device running this app is limited (one minute for music and video, watermark on photos) until the app is unlocked. Fling unlimited photos and videos from your Plex Media Server (available for free at tv/downloads) and the Camera Roll on your phone or tablet to other supported Plex apps, such as Roku, Android TV, Fire TV, Xbox One, and other apps. Unlimited playback of on-device video and photos. Getting up and running is fast and simple, so get started now. Parental controls, premium music features, music videos, trailers and extras, and powerful management tools are also part of our premium offering. With an optional premium Plex Pass subscription, you can even sync videos, music, and photos to your smartphones and tablets to enjoy while offline. Plex also makes your media look beautiful with rich descriptions, artwork, and other related information. With the free Plex Media Server (download for free at tv/downloads) software on your home computer and Plex for Windows, you can enjoy all of your personal media on your Windows device and easily share it with friends and family. ![]() Plex organizes all of your video, music, and photo collections, and gives you instant access to them on all of your devices.
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Free landr1/31/2024 ![]() How else to explain that Rover, the name of vehicles that were all but unsellable a generation ago, is swimming in investment today while haughty Jaguar finds itself on a short leash? ![]() A new look and attitude buy more second chances than they probably should. In JLR’s favor: Buying a car is an emotional affair. If the products don’t deliver, it doesn’t matter how clever your messaging, how smooth the lattes in your boutique dealerships - people will figure that out, too. Get them right and the public perception will follow. It’s fair to view highly publicized “rebranding” campaigns skeptically. Rover will keep building internal combustion-powered Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports using the current MLA architecture as long as demand lasts. ![]() They will probably have the lowest starting price. They’re family vehicles, offering more room and less extravagant luxury - at lower prices - than Range Rover.ĭefenders will have to carry the flag for off-road capability. Many brands covet that heritage, but it’s reasonable to expect the Discovery family to have few pretensions of off-road capability. Downplaying the original name and badge is a risky distancing from the ready-for-anything image Land Rover has cultivated. Official information about them ends at the names, and the fact that the Land Rover badge will appear somewhere to establish a link between the new EVs and eight decades of rugged rock climbers. The EMA should also be the basis of EVs for the Discovery and Defender brands. Given that prices for the current gasoline-powered Range Rover can top $200,000, the sky’s the limit on pricing. First out of the chute will presumably be a Range Rover high-luxury SUV dealers will start taking orders for it later this year. JLR’s new Electrified Modular Architecture will underpin several midsize electric SUVs, with production beginning in 2025. Morphing into a boutique brand of ultraluxury electric cars may not be the answer, but I haven’t heard any better suggestions. Repeated attempts to expand Jaguar downward to compete with cars like the BMW 5-series and 3-series have failed. For Jag’s sake, I hope they cost more, not less, than the Grand Tourer. JLR says it will cover 430 miles on a charge, though that projection is likely based on a more generous test procedure than U.S. Deliveries of the Grand Tourer will begin in 2025. Called JEA - presumably Jaguar Electric Architecture - look for it as the basis of the two other electric Jaguars JLR promises. The Grand Tourer will be based on a new architecture that will underpin only Jaguars. The first electric Jag will be a four-door Grand Tourer, a European term open to wide interpretation: The only requirements are that it be fast and luxurious, a road-tripper for the 1%. Converting an English engine plant to produce EV drivetrains.Converting the Halewood, England, assembly plant to EVs.Two new all-electric vehicle architectures: one for Jag, one for several midsize Rover SUVs.Is JLR writing a new chapter in “How to Turn a Large Fortune into a Small One in the Auto Industry"? Tata plans to invest about $19 billion over the next five years to convert them to electric vehicles and create a new “House of Brands approach to accelerate delivery of modern luxury vision.” JLR’s been up and down since then, but Tata proved a good steward of the brands, expanding their model lines and improving quality, technology and design.
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Pinball arcade ps4 free tables1/31/2024 ![]() In some ways, these tables look too pristine - much better than you’re likely to see them in actual arcades. This simulation is so detailed that there’s a “Call Attendant” option in case your ball ever gets stuck. The ball physics, flipper strength, and even plunger mechanics are exactly how you’d remember them from the arcades. Skill ShotsThe PC version of Pinball Arcade looks good, but the PS4 looks downright stunning with nearly photo-realistic detail and flawless frame rate. The downside is that the assortment leans towards newer boards with lots of bells and whistles, and neglects vintage classics from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. New tables are being added all the time based on public demand. Make sure you do what I do and toggle the in-game room light to low so you can really enjoy its amazing light effects. For my money, though, the most spectacular continues to be Medieval Madness. Or buy both, since they’re both worth it.Play There’s a wide assortment of memorable tables ranging from licensed tie-ins like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twilight Zone, and Elvira and The Party Monsters to milestones for the genre like Black Hole, the first pinball game to charge 50 cents and feature an extra inverted playing field. Just decide if you want real tables or some less realistic made up tables. Pinball Arcade: Season 2 on PlayStation®4 recreates the greatest pinball machines of all time, featuring 20 licensed tables from Bally®, Williams®, Stern® and Gottlieb®. In that situation, both TPA and ZP2 are excellent games. If TPA ever gets patched, it’s a harder decision, especially if you haven’t already paid for any tables. Free import of old tables, cross-buy on new ones (as long as you buy the PS3 version, and not the PS4 one, otherwise it’s bizarrely not cross-buy), and you can actually play the bloody thing without having to use the wrong buttons. Pinball Arcade: Season 2 on PlayStation4 recreates the greatest pinball machines of all time, featuring 20 licensed tables from Bally, Williams, Stern and Gottlieb. So sadly, Zen Pinball will have to satisfy my PS4 Pinball needs for now. Or get them for half price _if_ you happen to have bought the entire set of season 1 tables. They say they’ll add support for using R2/L2 instead.Īlso, the cross-buy thing doesn’t extend from the PS3/Vita versions to the PS4 versions of the tables. ![]() Having to use R1/L1 for the flippers is just horrible. You don’t need to know how to go about certain tasks to have a bit of fun, but each table has detailed instructions on how to perform various tasks.Īs much as I love the game on the PS3/Vita, the PS4 version is basically unplayable, at least until it gets an update. Each has a particular set of goals for you to achieve, and it’s through completing these that you’ll earn the bigger bonus scores. Part of what helps to make pinball compelling is just how complex the tables can be. I’m not a pinball connoisseur, so I’ll admit this is something of an unknown to me, but I felt the only thing missing was the occasional bobble of the ball off the table from bouncing off an element, which I noticed several times when playing on the real Monster Bash machine but not in the game, and not discernibly on the real Tales table. Luck naturally plays a part after the ball has left the flipper and it veers off up the table, but it’s on your reflexes to deal with what happens after. With no perceptible lag and a rock solid 1080p60 frame rate, it’s all down to your reflexes to hit the ball at the right point to hit it sweetly up the ramp or spot the right moment to jog the table (with a quick flick of the left stick) in the right direction to alter its course. The PS3 lacks the lustre that the PS4 has, where each bulb casts its own, more vibrant light source, as in this quick comparison shot.Īnd the ball physics feel similarly impeccable. The lighting effects are quite easily an improvement over the PS3, but are only really telling when going between platforms in quick succession or with side-by-side comparisons. Set the room lighting to “dark” in the settings to really show things off, but whatever the settings, you’re in for a real treat as each table’s increasingly complex set of lights and parts gets under way during play. I find that some of the textures could be higher in resolution, but this is a fairly minor quibble when you have the impressive lighting system. ![]() As someone who’s not overly familiar with pinball, outside of the handful of videogames I’ve played, it really highlighted the attention to detail that has gone into each table’s recreation. I was able to compare two of those more modern tables, Monster Bash and Tales of the Arabian Nights, to their real life counterparts.
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Kanso 2 processor1/31/2024 ![]() It was good but still would fall off with quick movements, however that has continued to get better. After 3 weeks I started trying to wear just with safety hair clip. I wore it from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep (except for time to let my hair dry after shower). I even got an extra headband which Cochlear delivered in 2 days so I could hand wash one and wear the other. Initially it was an huge issue but my AuD told me to wear the headband as much as possible for 3 weeks so my skin flap could flatten. I love that ap.Īs far as processor staying on my head. Now I use the copilot for word practice, especially choosing which word is correct vs two similar words. I am still not 100% and there are sounds and music that still doesn’t sound right (like between radio stations) but I believe it will keep getting better. You have to put it the hearing rehab work. ![]() ![]() I watched YouTube with the captions turned on over and over. I stayed up for hours on that ap and kept getting more and more words that night. I was using an app called Word Hunt as my Cochlear Copilot access wasn’t working yet. 4 days after activation I was able to comprehend my first word. Now I am 12 weeks post-op and about 8 weeks since getting my Kanso2 activated. They were okay, definitely better than nothing but not great. Initially went with CROS hearing aides as CI was not approved by insurance yet because with 100% hearing in other ear, “I wasn’t deaf enough”. I suffered complete sudden single sided hearing loss in my left ear over night 4 years ago this week. |