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  1. Comment on Original ‘Looney Tunes’ no longer available on Max in ~tv

    Lainesc
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    That’s what it sounds like to me: Or at least that’s the way it was publicly presented.

    That’s what it sounds like to me:

    “We all love HBO, and it’s a brand that has been built over five decades” to stand for “edgy, groundbreaking entertainment for adults,” Perrette said. “But it’s not exactly where parents would most eagerly drop off their kids. And yet Warner Bros. Discovery has some of the best-known kids’ characters, animation and brands in the industry. Not surprisingly, the category has not met his true potential on HBO Max.”

    Or at least that’s the way it was publicly presented.

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  2. Comment on TRMNL - Open source e-ink "companion" device in ~tech

    Lainesc
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    I'm using a 7" Inky Impression with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. It takes ~5-10 seconds to process the image before the screen starts to refresh. The core of the script is this function: from PIL import...

    I'm using a 7" Inky Impression with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. It takes ~5-10 seconds to process the image before the screen starts to refresh. The core of the script is this function:

    from PIL import Image
from inky.auto import auto

def display_image(image_file_path):
    inky = auto()
    image = resize_image(Image.open(image_file_path), inky.resolution)

    inky.set_image(image, saturation=1)
    inky.show()

    And resize_image is copied from this old (now removed) function in Pillow. I found the photos looked terrible until I added saturation=1. It's not as good as a real photo print or a good LCD screen, but it's certainly not bad. With a few feet of distance, the dithering is much less noticeable.

    I'd love to get a bigger one, but yeah, I'm not paying that much. I wish e-ink weren't so expensive.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on TRMNL - Open source e-ink "companion" device in ~tech

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    I hope they release a color e-ink version of this. I have a color e-ink display hooked up to a Raspberry Pi as a digital picture frame, and it works really well. But it’s a bit annoying to add...

    I hope they release a color e-ink version of this. I have a color e-ink display hooked up to a Raspberry Pi as a digital picture frame, and it works really well. But it’s a bit annoying to add photos to it and it requires things like manually updating the OS (and fixing scripts that break during updates). This seems like it would be a much more user friendly option.

    2 votes