Live Stream from the Namib Desert • Hacker News Board

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by oblosys » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

I was kind of expecting to hear Toto in the background. https://maxsiedentopf.com/toto-forever/

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by matthew-craig » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

Interestingly, I see that the watering hole is available on Google street view: 24°04'29.7"S 15°53'14.7"E

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by genmon » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:26 PM UTC

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #3

awesome, would be nice to stream this to a screen on the wall in my home office ... even with low volume sound. project for the weekend :)

I have regularly done just that! a projector on a big wall, and a portal to the namib desert... 100% recommend

see my other post with the full-viewport waterhole, that was what I used to get rid of YouTube chrome.

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by forinti » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #3

awesome, would be nice to stream this to a screen on the wall in my home office ... even with low volume sound. project for the weekend :)

How about time shifted so you are at the same time of day as the video? That would be nice.

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by danielfalbo » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:33 PM UTC

Do you know when you look for a restaurant on google maps and you see a "Popular times" map of people density throughout the day + live updates like "Less busy than usual"? Would be fun to build such a thing for this

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by darthcircuit » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

fishstamp82 wrote: post #18

nxor wrote: post #15

Less youtube is my next big thing. My screen time is too high.

I had this problem for a long time, the only thing that worked was installing an ad on that removes recommendations. The only thing I use youtube for today is intentionally following ASL (starcraft broodwar) in korea. The ad-on makes the home screen completely white/empty, meaning I just get reminded constantly ohh, yeah I am not supposed to use youtube unless there is something particular I want to watch.

You can do this without addons. I turned off recommendations and history, so I get nothing in my feed and YouTube wont even give me a queue of shorts to scroll through. I have to be very intentional on YouTube now and it has cut my usage down a ton.

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by tamimio » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

Speaking of Namib Desert, yesterday I was in a nature museum and saw the Namib beetle, the fog collector beetle!

https://imgur.com/a/UbIefte

I love nature, and I am seriously thinking of changing careers completely away from technology and getting into a nature-related field, or at least something to use my technology background but spend most of the day with animals and in nature. I just don't know the whats and hows of that change yet. I would definitely take a job even if it's not paying that much in that direction if I found one in a heartbeat!

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by nullwarp » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

darthcircuit wrote: post #26

fishstamp82 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this problem for a long time, the only thing that worked was installing an ad on that removes recommendations. The only thing I use youtube for today is intentionally following ASL (starcraft broodwar) in korea. The ad-on makes the home screen completely white/empty, meaning I just get reminded constantly ohh, yeah I am not supposed to use youtube unless there is something particular I want to watch.

You can do this without addons. I turned off recommendations and history, so I get nothing in my feed and YouTube wont even give me a queue of shorts to scroll through. I have to be very intentional on YouTube now and it has cut my usage down a ton.

I have had this set for a while now and anytime I see someone elses youtube page I am horrified.

Probably the first setting I would recommend for anyone to enable.

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by dj_gitmo » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:54 PM UTC

fishstamp82 wrote: post #18

nxor wrote: post #15

Less youtube is my next big thing. My screen time is too high.

I had this problem for a long time, the only thing that worked was installing an ad on that removes recommendations. The only thing I use youtube for today is intentionally following ASL (starcraft broodwar) in korea. The ad-on makes the home screen completely white/empty, meaning I just get reminded constantly ohh, yeah I am not supposed to use youtube unless there is something particular I want to watch.

I'm in the exact same boat. I spend too much time on YT and only thing I really want it for is ASL. I'll probably try the plugin.

Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert

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Post by Jhsto » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 2:59 PM UTC

darthcircuit wrote: post #26

fishstamp82 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this problem for a long time, the only thing that worked was installing an ad on that removes recommendations. The only thing I use youtube for today is intentionally following ASL (starcraft broodwar) in korea. The ad-on makes the home screen completely white/empty, meaning I just get reminded constantly ohh, yeah I am not supposed to use youtube unless there is something particular I want to watch.

You can do this without addons. I turned off recommendations and history, so I get nothing in my feed and YouTube wont even give me a queue of shorts to scroll through. I have to be very intentional on YouTube now and it has cut my usage down a ton.

Where you do this?