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Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #251

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There is this, but I haven't tried it: https://apps.apple.com/app/epoccam-webcam-for-mac-pc/id44913...

Looking at the reviews, I see multiple people saying that the developer required paid users to write a review in order to unlock the ability to use the front camera. I think it goes without saying that is an incredibly scummy practice.

No need to write -- just click on a star rating. I clicked 3 stars for that reason. But it functionally is phenomenal. Will honestly probably change it and write an actual review...

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #180

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A few friends switch to bidets a while ago and wont look back. Personally I just jump in the shower if it's that bad.

I find bidets as or more useful if it's not that bad. You're often talking about just one or two square of toilet paper (literally, not figuratively). Try cleaning your hands with paper instead of water some day, and see how that works out for you. It's the same thing.

It's utterly amazing that American society is so unhygienic that we still don't have bidets or washlets in common use.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #180

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I find bidets as or more useful if it's not that bad. You're often talking about just one or two square of toilet paper (literally, not figuratively). Try cleaning your hands with paper instead of water some day, and see how that works out for you. It's the same thing.

Feces comes in all manner of consistencies and textures. There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. I'm sure you've had brown streaks inside the bowl that could not be removed in N flushes, but a simple toilet brush made quick work of the matter. To use your handwashing analogy, try removing cri…

>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object.

You've obviously never used a proper washlet.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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Also bidets, nintendo switches, instant yeast, powdered milk, etc. I actually snagged some wine yeast on amazon and I'm on my third loaf of bread. Bidet was the best "waste of money" I have spent in a long time. My TP usage has been slashed.

Be careful with all that baking, there's a reason bakers get fat in old age!

I've been finding I actually need to pace the baking. Otherwise, I'd end up with way too many carbs in the house.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #170

I don't understand how Amazon has not shut this down. I went to buy one a month ago and it was already at this piratical price. Don't they actively prevent price gougers when they find them?

Allowing the price to move up with market demand will encourage increases in production. It just takes some time, especially in a pandemic, for the production to catch up.

Which might be fine for things like web cams but for critically and immediately needed sanitation products, it proves a fatal flaw in markets. The reward for quickly buying up commodities and reselling them at enormous markup always out weighs stockpiling them for years and potentially never selling them at the same mark up.

Not to mention destructive hysterical hoarding. There is someone in this thread who noticed an extreme shortage in webcams so when only two were left in a shop, he bought both.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #77

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Sourdough starter isn't some nasty poisonous culture lol. It's perfectly safe and every grocery store and bakery have huge tubs of it. If you're really concerned just go to your grocery store bakery, ask for some starter, and feed it.

Never even heard of "sourdough starter". I use them small dry-yeast packets from Lidl. The point is that human shit and saliva are the surest way start right kind of fermentation of moonshine and hooch if approved products are not available. E-coli and other critters die anyways in the anaerobic process or in the oven. BTW. My "local bakery" is probably in Estonia. In another country that is. Wider Helsinki area is u…

Starters from wild yeast has been how bread was made for thousands of years prior to the introduction of commercial yeast relatively recently. (And, of course, sourdough starters are still used to make sourdough bread.)

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #127

After bars and restaurants closed down here, some 3 weeks ago, various alcoholic drinks have become very scarce. People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before - was going to pick up a couple of bottles of wine, but walked out with cheap vodka.

> People are just hoarding wines and beers like never before Are they? Or are all the people who used to go to the now shutdown bars and restaurants, where their beers and wines were supplied by the bars/restaurants, and therefore, commercial supply houses, now drinking at home instead, and so there is much more purchasing on the retail side, resulting in shortages because the retail side was not ready for a substant…

This is what is occurring, and the transition isn't necessarily easy. For example, there's no easy to way to take say 30% of all beer consumed (from kegs) and just on-demand convert that to canned.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #180

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I find bidets as or more useful if it's not that bad. You're often talking about just one or two square of toilet paper (literally, not figuratively). Try cleaning your hands with paper instead of water some day, and see how that works out for you. It's the same thing.

Feces comes in all manner of consistencies and textures. There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. I'm sure you've had brown streaks inside the bowl that could not be removed in N flushes, but a simple toilet brush made quick work of the matter. To use your handwashing analogy, try removing cri…

Dude, my basic bidet has a knob with 9 levels of pressure, but after 3 it's basically sandblasting your anus to the point it physically hurts and does damage. You can get mostly everything off, but you can still use toilet paper for clean up on the nasty ones, which shouldn't be all the time. You just reduce your TP usage by a lot and have more flexibility. Also, just wait 30 seconds after use then wipe once or twice and you are dry, ta da! Best $70 we've spent; if you don't like it, don't use it, but I guarantee it's worth the experiment if you don't have one or haven't really tried one. The bidets I refer to are the washlet type, not those weird separate sink looking ones.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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A few friends switch to bidets a while ago and wont look back. Personally I just jump in the shower if it's that bad.

I'm particularly hairy down there (not trying to be gross), so I often worry a bidet would just make a mess a wet mess.

Don't worry about it dude, just get one. You can always just not use it once its installed, they are like $70 and take 15 to install yourself, but trust me, it's a game changer and worth the cost even just to try it a few times.

Re: Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams

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post #151

It's incredibly annoying that you can't use your APPLE iPhone camera as a webcam for your APPLE Macbook, but instead are forced to use the atrociously terrible cam that comes with the Macbook. I've tried workarounds using the excellent OSB, but there's currently no software that let's you reroute video on a Mac (like Loopback does for audio) EDIT: I stand corrected, as user wolfhumble points out below, EpocCam seems…

I have many bad things to say about MS Teams, but it does allow you to join a meeting multiple times on multiple devices using the same user account - so you can watch a screenshare on your desktop. machine but use the microphone or camera on your phone.

I've noticed that it does this in meetings, but not in a direct chat with another person (I don't think group chats either). What I usually do in that case is create a meeting so that I can do that.
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