Thanks.

See the other top level comments.

I don’t think that picture is from a brown widow. I get Steatoda vibes. And the South Africans call them false button spiders, just like the US calls them false widows.

Yes, that would be my 2nd guess. And it’s very close.

Oh you’re in for a fun spider fact now!

In German (and probably more European languages) we have a spider called the “Tarantel” (Lycosa tarantula) which is one of the largest wolf spiders (and just general largest spider) in Europe.

So the entire family of tarantulas (in English) got their name from a wolf spider initially. Probably named by European explorers that didn’t know any better

I was told there is a good bit of variance in the species that can make them difficult to identify further, but they are common to SoCal.

That’s all correct. Wolf spiders are the second biggest family of spiders after the jumping spiders. And they are pretty much common in every part of the world that has spiders.

And while they are incredibly diverse within their family, the family itself is quite easy to identify (with only a few other families being false postives, like the aptly named false wolf spiders).

That said, while the OP’s picture isn’t good enough for an ID, you can rule out a lot of what it isn’t and that includes wolf spiders. Their legs are usually more stumpy and don’t reach the proportions of the front legs shown in the picture.

It’s a pirate spider, arrrr! Mimetus puritanus

https://bugguide.net/node/view/4856

From the general shape and leg proportion I’d guess something in Tetragnathidae. Though that doesn’t really fit with jumping.

But a better picture would be needed for a proper ID.

I personally use ffmpeg on the command line, but I think there are some apps that add an UI for easier use.

Plex media server can also do some pre-set conversions. Either way you probably want to do that on a computer, it take a couple of hours to convert a movie even on my i9 CPU.

If it’s in an uncompressed encode you could trancode it to HEVC or AV1, which should cut the size by 1/3. Though some older phone might not be able to play AV1.

Alternativly you could convert it to a lower resolution.

A male Latrodectus juvenile.

In Arizona that narrows it to brown widow or one of the black widows (western or southern).

Just judging from your deleted post title it should be quite obvious. Do you need to an explaination of the what the words “to annoy” or “to mock” mean?

Extensive use of emojis and abbreviations is a good indicator.

You don’t need a knife for that.

I thought this is just a sort of “seal” to make sure your the first to open the bottle. I just rip them off.

What if Dutch and Norwegian dykes and canals were combined

I’m really not sure how lesbians are going to help.

Yeah, that’s not a showerthought. That’s something you remembered in the shower.

I payed about $350 for my 20TB drives, which at the rate offered here would pay of in less then 3 months. Add some overhead in for a NAS and some extra drives for a raid and it still easily pays of in half a year.

Shitty deal.

That’s literally the first account I blocked on lemmy.

bot@lemmit.online