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There exist air conditioners with power outage recovery, and they’ve been around for decades. It’s usually labelled “automatic restart” on the spec sheet. This was already a solved problem before the Internet Of Shitty Things, and it seems that in your case some rat bastard went around and deliberately unsolved it.

Whoever that person is, we need to find him and give him a smart kick up the rear.

Walking into this in the first Watch_Dogs. (NSFW. Very much so.)

If you take the time to interact with all the hackables and scan all the people in this area you’ll have revealed to you the incredible depths of depravity and cruelty going on here. It is incredibly fucked up. It was at this very moment in my first and only playthrough that I decided that no, fuck that. Aiden Pierce was now going to be murdering a lot of very specific people.

“Business must proceed.”

And right before that, GLaDOS also says, “Well, this is the part where he kills us.” Then the caption. Then the achievement pop. Then Wheatley says, “Hello! This is the part where I kill you.”

He then fails to kill you.

Here’s another dumb strategy that I used to use back in the day when I was A) skint, and B) using a consumer grade camera that didn’t have all the zooty bells and whistles like remote shutter compatibility.

For long-ish shots where you don’t want the camera to vibrate, you can use the self timer as if you were going to take a group photo. Just, minus the group. Set it to whatever its shortest interval is (as I recall my crusty old Powershot A70 could go down as low as two seconds) and that ought to be plenty enough time for your fingers to be off the camera body and any vibrations in the tripod, etc. to settle down.

There is an extra special cubicle in hell reserved specifically for whoever is responsible for the Canon Connect app. So these days I use this remote release and it ought to work with your camera body as well. Not, notably, any of the wireless ones. The plug-in one works on time 100% of the time and isn’t yet another battery to have to fiddle with, never experiences mystery interference or connection issues, and most importantly is only $9. Me personally, I never need to be far enough away from my camera that the length of the cable ever becomes a concern. It’s around three feet long.

Well you see, they built that house entirely out of old computer cases nailed together.

No, I’m wrong. It’s the Mid-Atlantic ridge.

And we gained a pretty damn good idea during World War 2 and the Cold War when we were trying to map parts of the ocean floor for submarine warfare purposes, and discovered the mid ocean fault points. Especially the true extent of the Mariana Trench, Mid-Atlantic Ridge which is spang in the middle of the Atlantic between the jigsaw puzzle coastlines of Africa and South America.

Needless to say we weren’t to keen to blab to our enemies just how much we knew about the seafloor, and neither were they. What with submarine warfare being a Big Deal in the Cold War, and all.

Edit to add some additional detail now that I’m not pecking on my phone: Alfred Wegener proposed his almost-modern theory of continental drift in 1912, as well as the hypothesis of Pangea, the prehistoric supercontinent from the time when all the current major landmasses were together. You’re right that there was not a solid explanation for the mechanism by which this proposed action ought to occur. But even by the 1940s scientists were proposing that continental drift happened by way of the continents floating on convection currents of magma underneath and predicted there would be expansion joints in between them in the middle of the oceans.

Hey c’mon! Get serious!

Powah wave! Kickbat! Kickbat! Kickbat! Burn-u knuckle!

(Let’s add the announcer from the original Metal Slug games while we’re at it. “Rawket Lawnchair!!!”)

Indeed, these are arranged roughly in ascending order of the importance of color. The locks picture works, and the one with the glass manages to still be an interesting shape although otherwise you’d never know it was green. The orange blinker and sign don’t tell you much about themselves at all without their color, and the bridge girder full of stickers is flat out boring. If it weren’t for the color standing out, you’d probably never even notice that kite was in the tree at all from the ground — I took that one at a 432mm focal length according to the image data, so it was quite far overhead.

As an aside, I wonder how many of those locks were shackled there in youthful exuberance now symbolize nothing, and are the only thing remaining of a parade of evaporated romances.

Probably most of them. The bridge was positively festooned with them.

Hm? Oh, not this. Stuff like this.

Why doɇs this pɇrson fɇel the neɇd to randomly decoratɇ the letter Ɇ?

Probably. I haven’t tried. I don’t shoot in raw because I can’t be arsed. You can set it to keep a raw version of every exposure, and you can also instruct the HDR mode to keep the three base images in addition to the one it composites together.

It does give you a rather pleasing retro experience with a “BUSY” message in the viewfinder for about two seconds after each HDR shot while it compiles. It makes you feel like you’re right back in 2004 with your Powershot A70, whose cycle time when set to its maximum quality allowed you to grow a beard between exposures.

In that case, might I interest you in…

It did prompt me to actually save it and straight-facedly post a picture of a parking lot to the Internet, so I guess there is that.

Zoom in anywhere, but they’re most visible on patches of flat color and low density detail.

I haven’t found any AI generators cheerfully stamping out images with low-alpha channel argyle pattern penguins in them… yet. I figure busting a sketchy eBay cutlery seller with “product” photos festooned with surreptitious marching penguins is probably more likely.

You have no idea how complicated the script I wrote is that makes them all march in and line up like that.

They already do. You can also get Heelys in adult sizes, in case anyone was wondering.

Allow me to introduce you all to Angle Grinder Man.

Oh, one other point of order on that as well: Obviously even if it’s not all bullshit (spoiler: it’s all bullshit), Revelation is supposed to be a prophecy of the end of times which obviously hasn’t happened yet. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed if it did, what with the sounding of the seven trumpets, the worldwide earthquake, the 200 million horsemen slaying a third of mankind, etc.

So even if it’s all somehow inerrantly true, the Devil hasn’t killed anyone yet.