OK - so the 367 Collins Street Melbourne falcons are nesting again this year - and I was watching the live stream in Brave… But I don’t want it full screen, and I don’t want all those browser widgets around it (even cluttering up in “cinema mode”) - then I remembered I wrote a shell script to fire up MPV with the feeds :
“CAM1” is the South facing camera, not much action on the North facing one…
There’s also a live stream of peregrine falcons nesting at a Charles Sturt University campus in Orange (rural /regional town in New South Wales). They haven’t laid any eggs yet (the Collins St pair are brooding 4 eggs).
It worries poultry keepers and preservers of threatened bird species. Predators like @daniel.m.tripp 's falcons are especially threatened.
Aust has vaccinated 5000 fairy penguins.
Yep - I’d actually kinda forgotten about bird flu! And peregrine falcons live almost exclusively on other birds - so they’re more susceptible… mostly pigeons, and starlings, but also sometimes I’ve seen them bring back rainbow lorikeets (those three are pretty much “feral” - the rainbow lorikeets are Australian, but they’re invasive, their native range pretty much further north)…
What I love about using MPV - it has almost no inferface! What?
The minimal interface it presents to the user - goes away when you’re not using it!
You can drag an mpv window or feed by clicking ANYWHERE on the feed window - i.e. even the content display…
If your feed is a 4:3 or a 19:9 ratio - resizing? It will ALWAYS resize to the native ratio!
It’s just one of the best OSS and Linux apps I’ve ever used… Took me a while to drop VLC - but I no longer use VLC… MPV does everything I need, using less and doing more… Just a huge shining example of KISS!
That script launches mpv in 1024x576 - but I can resize it to another “wide screen” 16:9 ratio - but it will always be 16:9…
I’ve never actually used, or tried to, mpv on MS Windows… But it behaves exactly like on Linux, in MacOS… it’s just beautiful in its elegant simplicity…
Last time I had the man flu, I died 3 times. I mean, I came back, of course. But it was horrible, the worst thing ever. I couldn’t do chores for a whole week. I don’t know how I survived.
Respiratory diseases like flu and covid do indeed have a high fatality among the elderly.
You have 2 options… vaccination or avoidance. Both have their own risks.
It’s a common “thing” that men can tend to perhaps make a cold or flu seem more serious, than a woman might… It’s not universal, it’s mostly a tongue-in-cheek thing… That’s how I see it anyway - it could well be true that men suffer more with flu that women, but I suspect not…
Vaccination is still less risky than dying from the contagion…
Its just a joke, theory is that when men are ill we complain more where women just get on with life. Hence my comment about its duration and how serious it is. Humour does not work internationally
England and America are two countries separated by a common language …
Its always difficult to know the correct method. I worked in IT in a hospital every year we were offered flu vaccines which I got and every year I was away ill the 2 days afterwards. (Read holiday) with covid again the injection as we wanted to still holiday abroad and you needed the certificate. I continue each year to have both covid and flu jabs but me wife refuses luckly neither of us get sick so jab or not makes no difference to us. But her daughter who has the jabs, uses the barrier masks washes 7 times in different jells after, before, during everything and every year gets covid …
I actually got covid last year - my 2nd time… But it was mild… The intent of the vaccine is not to curtail any possible chance of infection, it’s to lessen the likelihood of it being life threatening when succumbing…
Yes, the vaccine is not an infection barrier like a mask.
I have pneumonia vaccine … that is the main thing you need to prevent… pneumonia is deadly.
I dont have specific flu vaccines.
We use masks in places where cross infection is likely.
