Cool. Novelty domains for well established dot coms. Now go build a startup that you expect to build up and still own yourself 10 years from now using a .xyz domain.
It is why I don't use .xyz, but there are others that are cheap, e.g. .top. Moreover, one can always get additional domains later for the public image.
Just do a web search for "office furniture liquidator" and include your nearest big city.
You are probably going to want the least flashy of the results, as all that flash comes at an expense ;)
I know that there are at least 2 good ones in Chicago and another that sells used hotel furniture (which I am not sure that I would willingly go into, but apparently there is a market for such things...).
These places are very much business-focused; it's not like walking into an IKEA. You'll probably have to get buzzed in through many doors and then sign in, where you'll be asked for both your name and business. If you don't have a business they aren't going to throw you out or anything, but probably ask you to write something like "<First Name><Last Name> LLC" so they can put you in their system. You probably have to get escorted to the sales floor but are free to wander around. You have to pay in full for what you want, up front, but will get issued an invoice and bill of sale as if you are a business (from their point of view, they aren't selling anything to you, they are selling to the business you are representing).
There is an awesome one in Wilmington DE, its the goto for startups. Very sketchy warehouse off of 12th street (if you pass the prison, you’ve gone too far). But lots of clean stuff, like the last of office stuff from DuPont clearing out all their locations.
I'm not sure if that is the case, but if it were that's not really my problem :)
This is the place I generally use, but simply because it is most convenient for where I live (it's about 3 blocks south of I-290 at the Cicero Ave exit)
I don’t think this is really true. Kitchen supply is an example with stores that are open to regular people and there are still deals compared to consumer cookware.
If you go to a restaurant equipment liquidator you can find some good heavy-duty pots and pans, they likely won't be "attractive" as restaurant kitchens don't care about that. Be aware that most of the cooking equipment and appliances won't be usable in your home kitchen because your electrical circuits won't be adequate.
You can pick up beverage glasses and cups, plates, silverware.
There is of course quite a range between totally illiquid and totally liquid.
My best finds for second hand goods were found by intentionally searching obscure marketplaces. Telling a few ppl on HN probably wouldn’t make much of a difference, making a viral TikTok video about it might.
Do people actually like the air train? I've never heard anyone say they'd prefer it over a subway that actually went to JFK. (and the increased cost/inability to use OMNY is ridiculous)
I find it very silly that tourists need to buy a MetroCard just for the transfer from the AirTrain to the metro, and then never need it again afterwards because of OMNY.
Definitely, my wife went to JFK this week and instead of taking the A to Howard Beach she went to Atlantic for the LIRR to Jamaica and AirTram from there.
In terms of camera settings, I think the main ones were switching the file format to XAVC and turning off the display icons so they don't show when I'm on video. Might be worth going through https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00245829 and trying a bunch of these, even though the page is not exactly for the same camera.
After that just plug it in and it's recognized as a USB camera. One other thing I ran into was the camera kept losing settings after being turned off. Turns out there is an internal battery that got discharged after years of non-use. I think I used a micro USB cable with a running camera to get it juiced up.
I tried this approach and the latency was through the roof, easily a second or so off, making it effectively useless for video conferencing. Switched to an HDMI grabber so I could get something that was actually realtime.
You need to dial in the fps. It's a little bit of work to try different parameters and might not work for every camera. But with most cameras I was able to get the latency below 300ms which should work for most use cases.
Not sure this would work with every camera. My particular model does not support remote shooting over USB. Newer models of the same camera do and Sony even provides software to go the USB route.
The native Sony software will only support 720p resolution. So gphoto2 still offers better resolution.
"Shooting over USB" is not a requirement to use this. The camera only needs to be able to output the preview stream via USB, which works with most cameras.
> The Surface Laptop Studio starts at $1,600 in its base configuration, which includes a Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage, and integrated graphics. Pre-orders start today, with a launch next week to line up with the release of Windows 11.
Seems like pretty low specs for that price point, no?
The XPS - and most other laptops - lacks the professional grade pen digitizer though as well as the 120hz display. Pretty sure that makes up for quite a lot of this price difference.
It gets significantly more expensive ($3,099) if you opt for 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. I assume there's quite a lot of material cost for the parts which don't change (GPU, Screen, Battery, et al).
This is myth. Russian systems are suffering from malware just like others. And probably more, because it's easier for local criminals to target local companies. It might be true for a very tiny fraction of malware, but that's definitely an exception, rather than rule.
Of course if there are state-sponsored hackers (I'm not really aware if those exist, but I allow this possibility), they will target whatever their management points at. And with corruption it's pretty possible that some local business could be targeted as a part of some financial wars.
But majority of hackers are just some guys with some IT knowledge and zero morale. They'll buy some exploits and tools on black markets, duct tape them into something and release in the wild, waiting for profits (or police). They'll rob banks or babushkas, they don't care.
It is not myth for ransomware. Many documented cases. It's essential to the survival of these groups; local cops more likely to leave them alone if they leave local businesses alone.
> It's essential to the survival of these groups; local cops more likely to leave them alone if they leave local businesses alone.
Which is a huge misconception outsiders have about this scene. They are Russian-speaking, not Russian, just like English speaking gangs are not necessarily English. These groups may (and often do) consist of nationals of different exUSSR countries, sometimes without even knowing each other personally. They might not even be a single group, just some individuals doing different parts of the scheme. (including "press releases" and "interviews" they sometimes do)
It has been the case long before all this ransomware fad. Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and partially Lithuania had world's top CC theft gangs for a couple decades, and they always been of mixed origin. They mostly steal EU and US cards because it offers better reward/risk ratio, compared to the home countries which are poor. But nothing stopped them from stealing CCs in Russia or Ukraine either, certainly not some mythical cops (who couldn't care less in reality); in fact, skimmers are widespread in those countries as well.
Ransomware groups are the same as CC thieves, it's just a different scheme; they probably avoid home countries for the same reason (same risk, less reward). The state can't possibly have too much influence on them, it just triggers the bullshit detector for anyone who lives in any former Soviet republic and knows about this stuff at least superficially.
It's specifically because Russian prosecutors couldn't care less if there are no Russian victims. By doing this they know there is next to zero chance of criminal proceedings.
