There are two modern ways to capture HDMI video into a computer using OBS. Both require a video capture card.

A PCIe video capture device allows you to capture and record video and audio from a device and save it to your computer through HDMI.

Besides a PCIe capture card, you can also use a USB video capture card. A USB video capture card is more portable, but you can only use one in each USB port.

#Linux #PCIe #USB #video #capture #card #Avermedia #Elgato #Blackmagic #Decklink #Mirabox

💻 Is it time to repair or replace your office computers? 🤔

Small business owners often face this critical decision, and making the wrong choice can cost time, money, and productivity. In our latest blog post, we break down the key factors to consider.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated and 1 added apps:

* VpnHood! CLIENT: a new variant of the existing one, but without proprietary parts – so no Anti-Features anymore! Please switch before we remove the "old one" 😉 And thanks, Trudy, for making this possible!

RB status: 411 apps (33.4%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @twynn I poke my head into my socials and this is the kind of wild stuff I love to read. I had a friend tell me the Male playstation 5 text to speech reminded him of the Toshiba male voice, the one Rommix posted a sample of. But this installer with both a female and male voice? It literarly sounds like it, but just with worse pronunciation. So I guess Sony must have either licensed or just acquired Toshiba's speech tech. Here's how the US playstation 5 tts sounds like
in reply to Pitermach

They're definitely the same voices, although sounding 22K instead of 11K on the male voice which is wild, wish we had that on Windows. I also notice how they can go at fast rates, if you try to use the SAPI5 voices' rate set to 100 it seriously glitches out when reading words, almost like it's removing the spaces between them. Still the DLL from 2012 is interesting to me, they kept developing them far beyond the last version I officially used. The first time I encountered these Toshiba voices was probably early high school or late middle school, so I'd say 2006-2007. At the time, I had gotten a Celeron-based Toshiba Satelite, and it came with them preinstalled. What's funny is that I think among the utilities you could have one where it read the time using one of the Toshiba voices hourly, and the voice sounded really good for simpler tasks like that, but once I got to use it for screen reading and at faster rates, all of my hopes for it evaporated. xD
Also, at the time I of course had Windows XP, but installing this version from 2012 actually gives you the proper DLL and compatibility for 64-bit Windows, although by 2012 this would have been fairly standard as it's post-Vista days.
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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, straight from the ionosphere, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54…

#photography

We would also like to #welcome all people joining us today! If you are switching over from #Twitter, #X, #Facebook, #Instagram: welcome into a truly federated social network.

While you've made the switch, consider also moving away from that other big corporation named #Google: a great alternative is #OpenStreetMap . There are many apps (such as @organicmaps or #osmand)

There are also a lot of maps about a specific topic. You can find a collection of them on mapcomplete.org

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#OpenStreetMap is also 100% crowdsourced and 100% reusable by anyone.

mapcomplete.org allows people to contribute back data by filling out the questions asked when an item is selected. So, feel free to help out!

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📣 ✍️ New #webdev blog post!

This one is special to me, partly because it took some time to cook 😅 , partly because I talk a bit about #ux (which is not my main field), and partly because it features an experiment: after talking about #webpush and #pwa with #django, I'm asking my dear readers (you 😉) to visit a small demo website and tell me how it went!

You can give feedback here, or on Lemmy, Lobsters, etc. I'll update the post with the links!

So here it is: david.guillot.me/en/posts/tech…

Enjoy! 😸🔔

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MapComplete has seen a few improvements in the past few weeks. A few highlights:

- opticians now have a question if eye exams are done in the the shop
- A new theme for scouting is available: mapcomplete.org/scouting - it uses the NSI to pick a relevant icon
- toilets can now be rated
- One can mark if a mapcomplete.org/drinking_water point has (ice)cold, ambient temperature or hot water
- Charging stations have a 'charge point' layer
- and a lot of bugfixes!

Test it on mapcomplete.org!

I made another little controller for @mixxx. This one lights up the LEDs on my Obinskit Anne Pro 2 computer keyboard to match their actions in the Mixxx UI. Ie. the play/pause buttons ('d' and 'l') light up in the track color when their decks are playing, hot cues reflect whatever color are set in Mixxx, and the crossfader ('g' and 'h') set their illumination based on how much of each channel is in the mix. There's a demo of it here:

urbanists.video/w/6sZQsBdeEBFU…

Source: codeberg.org/SamWhited/mixxx-o…

In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts

openculture.com/2025/01/in-189…

Danielle Smith is betraying Canadians. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-trump-da… #cdnpoli #polcan
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Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox accessibleandroid.com/google-l…
in reply to Molly White

This is not to downplay the extent to which Trump is grifting his devotees and crypto traders looking to make a buck on memecoin speculation. But it is important that we accurately report on his cons and don’t contribute to misleading crypto hype for the sake of large numbers.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USpol

“Cynicism comes with hidden taxes. Every time we default to assuming the worst, we pay in missed opportunities, reduced social trust, and diminished creative capacity. These costs compound over time, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy in which cynical expectations shape cynical realities.” joanwestenberg.com/we-dont-nee…
in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

Chvilku mi to trvalo, ale dosel jsem k zaveru, ze s clankem striktne nesouhlasim. Cynismus ma svoje misto a nedaval bych rovnitko mezi cynik = debil, ac mnoho cynickych postoju je v zasade jenom fakticka manifestace debila.

Zadany stav v clanku me prijde mnohem nebezpecnejsi. Defensivni pozitivne-skepticke postoje se rychle zvrhnou v sanewashing. Viz treba media ve vztahu k Trumpovi a jeho kampani (vs cynicke postoje proti-trumpovskych republikanu).

in reply to Martin Wenisch

Já jsem si z toho odnesl hlavně ten postřeh, že cynismus člověka oslabuje takovým tím postojem „stejně to nebude fungovat“. A s tím souhlasím, nebo aspoň pro mě je to užitečná korekce kurzu. Na druhou stranu úvahy typu „pět důvodů, proč bude Trumpova vláda dobrá pro EU“, taky vůbec nepovažuju za šťastné.
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Weird tech mystery of the day.

I am running a Bookwyrm instance, which receives a post request to /inbox about twice a minute, from mastodon.sdf.org. The user it is posted as no longer exists, and every time this happens, SDF returns a 404, which is then logged here. Any idea what is going on? The two IP addresses the requests come from belong to mastodon.sdf.org, so I am assuming they are not forged.

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„Blue Monday“ Tag der Einsamkeit – Besonders betroffen sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen. Zusammenhalt wächst dort, wo Angebote ohne Schwellen erreichbar sind.
religion.orf.at/stories/322848…

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 20. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion

Sharing passwords can be risky - but it doesn’t have to be 🔐

Learn the safest ways to share passwords securely and protect your sensitive information here 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-share-passwo… #PasswordProtection

#OnlineSafety #Encrypted

Head up, #maker #3DPrinter fans. The just-announced BambuLab lockdown on our printers is on it way - but you can still enroll your printer (with the usual caveats) to run rootable firmware.

Read BambuLab's post here: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…

Buuuuuuut,

You can still go through the opt-out procedure (or just not upgrade your printer)

bambulab.com/en-us/third-party…

Or, y'know, you could get the keys... hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-… ;)

And I'd recommend X1 Plus firmware :) github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus

#OwnIt #RightToRepair