circuitfarmer

corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites

Is that not all of them right now?

I’ve actively been trying to have as much as possible in AV1, and before that, h265. A lot of my older material is still in h264.

That said, I generally have the following patterns:

• 720p media at feature length should be about 1 GB, if not less.

• 1080p media at feature length in h265 should be between 1.5-2GB. Ideally more towards 1.5GB. The same 1080p media in AV1 should be about 30% smaller.

I simply don’t see the need to encode at higher bitrates to have larger file sizes than that. I don’t see significant difference at 1080p.

I have for more than a year. I’ve never had a single problem, but I’m on an all AMD system.

I’ve been impressed with Budgie, especially on older hardware, as an alternative to Gnome. Hoping things keep going well.

Sub-50 quid though? Am I shopping in the wrong places?

There are later model M keyboards for cheap, but they’re almost always the rubber dome versions.

Computers are so fast now, we should just write everything in BASIC anyway

Fuck this channel.

I had a similar conundrum: what to use on a Thinkpad X60s, which is a Core Duo machine. I tried Arch 32, but after trying Debian, I stuck with the latter.

I usually only use it as a dumb terminal via SSH, but Debian was just sort of… easier.

I love that it isn’t all soft corners everywhere, but the pill-shaped buttons and selections seem out of place. I hope they can be made more square.

Here’s the thing: some distros are aimed at gamers and have some useful gaming stuff in their default setup. But at the end of the day, if you’re comfortable installing stuff on your own, you can game on any Linux distro. It frankly doesn’t matter.

So, yes, if you want to game on Debian because you can avoid bloat, by all means do it.

Ugh, fine, have an upvote.

Very interesting. My rig is still on Pop mostly because I’ve just never had issues with it. I use the Liquorix kernel for a little added spice.

On my laptop I’ve been playing with NixOS lately (used to run Arch btw). I love it so far, but haven’t explored it for gaming.

Foobar2000, which is a Windows application but available as a snap using wine.

I really want to use DeaDBeeF because it is Linux native and has similar customization features (I like big album art, for example), but sadly its library management leaves a lot to be desired compared to Foobar’s. I don’t want to have to generate a playlist every time I want to listen to an album, nor do I want to have to clear that playlist when I’m done.

I haven’t found any other player with even remotely similar customization available.

Fallacious question. In real life there can be no good options. That doesn’t mean we should support one for being less bad.

Seems to be that way. I agree with your insinuation that “they aren’t trying to sell as many ads as Google and Facebook – yet”. I don’t see any special ethics beyond keeping their brand loyalty afloat.

Exactly. Not sure why it would be on me for refuting a statement.

Apple doesn’t rely on selling or advertising your data as a business segment.

That was a claim offered without evidence.

Hey there ya go! Providing a source for the argument you made first! Thanks.

So you don’t have a source either? ;)

Because Apple doesn’t rely on selling or advertising your data as a business segment.

I find this very hard to believe.

I love this. Anything that keeps me in the terminal and out of the browser is a blessing from Tux himself.