Also Chromebooks. Seems like everyone is grabbing them for their kids since that's what schools have been using. Just getting a couple of them for my kids involved paying half again as much as the same ones were going for a month ago, and two involuntary canceled orders. Fingers crossed that Best Buy won't cancel again on the ones that I'm supposed to pick up on Friday.
Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you use the IP webcam address in programs like teams, zoom, skype? I resorted to buying a magewell hdmi-2-usb converter. Better quality, I can focus and zoom from further away (no huge nose) and depending on your gear you have automatic background blurring (aperture+sensor size) http://www.magewell.com/products/usb-capture-hdmi-gen-2
See the thread above about DroidCam (also on the Play Store). The Windows client loads a virtual camera driver that connects to the stream. You may be able to use it with other IP cameras, I haven't tried that yet.
Another plus of DroidCam is that it supports streaming the video over USB so no WiFi is necessary.
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There is this, but I haven't tried it: https://apps.apple.com/app/epoccam-webcam-for-mac-pc/id44913...
any equivalent for android?
I've been using DroidCam for my Windows desktop for the last few days. Works super well, although my phone seems to get hot after about an hour of using it.
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#325And standing desks. I've been trying to source some for my business (to retail) and all of the cheaper models are sold out. The models we have been able to source are a harder sell at their price point. https://www.elementrelocations.com.au/work-from-home
See if there are any office furniture liquidation companies in your region. I got mine at one near by at a nice discount.
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There's been an article floating around that posits that the same thing is happening with toilet paper: plenty of "institutional" product is available (since many businesses are closed), but not "home" product (since people are not only hoarding but also using the restroom at home more).
Why hasn't this institutional supply been redirected to the consumer market? Same question regarding all the food normally sold to restaurants and companies that are now closed.
Institutional supply has different packaging, both in sizes and for example required customer information. For flour it’s often entirely different mills, resellers and delivery modes: most consumers cannot reasonably buy a 25kg bag of flour - let alone a delivery by truck intended to be pumped straight into your flour silo. What would you reasonably do with half a kilo of dried yeast?
Repacking is entirely infeasible for a lot of products - re-canning 2.5kg of canned tomato concentrate is a bit of a mess.
So supply chains will adapt, but that takes time. Some things may be out of stock for a while - I would not expect any substantial quantities of italian brand pasta to show up on the German market for quite a bit. We’ll probably have to rely on German pasta (different flour, often with egg unlike Italian)
We’ll not starve, but we’ll have to live without some stuff we’ve learned to expect as part of our regular diet.
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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…
Realistically your country isn't really known for having any good bread though.
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> You will also need a USB a-a cable that I didn't know existed or was legal. They exist, but are not allowed by the USB standard. The basic premise of the classic USB standard is that the A side provides the 5V power, while the B side consumes that 5V power. With an A to A cable, you are shorting both power supplies together. (USB-C changes that to resistors; IIRC, the side with the pull-up resistors will initially…
Yeah, the a-a cable needed is a male-male, but the wyze camera is accepting power via it in this case. The normal power for it via micro usb is disconnected. I don't use wyze normally, not sure what the type a female port is for. It's a hack on top of a hack that functions reasonably, and helps with supply chain issues.
It's for attaching the hub to control other Wzye devices, like motion sensors. The hub is pretty small and fills in the indentation to be flush with the rest of the back of the camera.
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#329I 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?
Prices need to be allowed to fluctuate so price signals can indicate to suppliers to increase supply. Preventing this will lead to shortages[1][2], as history has repeatedly demonstrated.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls#Criticism
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Opposition_to_la...
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#330And standing desks. I've been trying to source some for my business (to retail) and all of the cheaper models are sold out. The models we have been able to source are a harder sell at their price point. https://www.elementrelocations.com.au/work-from-home
Just an idea, would it be possible to use plumbing pipes or construction scaffolding instead?
If you google "Ikea Standing desk," you will get a plethora of results.
I even did a lightning talk on my Ikea standing desk once. It's fun and relatively easy to build.
(Don't forget a pad to stand on)