Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on New to android ROMs and degoogling and I have questions. 7 hours ago:
It’s pretty much Graphene and Lineage now.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 day ago:
To add, you could always capture via the output video too, regardless of the DRM nonsense. Once it leaves the device in a format a display can present it, any device that can utilize that signal can record it.
There’s always a million ways to skin the cat.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 day ago:
Only enough to make the average user comply.
Again, enough friction.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 3 days ago:
I’ve seen shops that only take cash, with an ATM in the store.
I kind of get it for small shops. Even just reconciling the register every day is way easier with just cash.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 3 days ago:
In the early days of CC you were charged per transaction.
Then you weren’t.
Now they’re doing it again.
I’ve seen it vary by card and vendor many times.
- Comment on Has cosmetic surgery gotten a bit out of hand lately? 3 days ago:
Wow, now it requires cosmetic surgery to use different lighting too?
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 4 days ago:
It takes very little knowledge or effort for a home cooked meal to cost 1/4 of, and taste better than, 90% of restaurants.
And after a few years of cooking that number rises to 98%+ of restaurants.
You can’t pay me to eat at a chain of any kind any more. At this point I have to go to a specialty place (where the entrees are $50 to $100) to eat better than I do at home.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 4 days ago:
That’s not uniquely Russian.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 5 days ago:
Knew there was a reason I liked Finns…
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 5 days ago:
Wow. Off to searching for articles in Nature! Hello rabbit hole…
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 5 days ago:
Non-tonal simply means the denotation isn’t carried by tone.
John McWhorter has a few courses in The Great Courses catalog about language - its pretty fascinating stuff. He covers things like tonal languages, and how even for a linguist like himself, they’re tough to learn.
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 6 days ago:
Or you’ve hacked into their calls!
- Comment on What is the best alternative to a "smart" cell phone today? 6 days ago:
Define how you mean “best”.
I don’t have a best alternative, as my use-case is an Android phone running Lineage.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 1 week ago:
But do we have some real stats around it?
Because like OP, I’ve heard it my entire life and have never heard of someone drowning in the tub without being drugged up or really ill.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 week ago:
I’ve used it a couple times, what a dumpster fire of an app.
Walked away years ago and refused to use it since.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 week ago:
Haha haha haha haha haha
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
BINGO
The fines aren’t even the expensive part, it’s the increase in insurance.
As a former… assertive driver as a young adult, my insurance increased to insane levels. That got me to re-think my driving and turned me into the person everyone cusses for driving like grandpa.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
You can’t pay to not lose your license, that’s not how it works at all.
You should go sit in criminal court for a day.
The reality is many jurisdictions just don’t enforce such things very well - there are many cases around the country of people getting their 3rd, 4th, 5th DUI and not losing their license or worse as the law us defined.
And those are often as not, not “rich people”.
Frankly judges see so much worse crime in their courts constantly that I think they’re hesistant to jail someone who is a mostly functional member of society compared to 90% of everyone else coming through their court.
Then there’s also the plea-bargaining process: prosecuting attorneys are directed to plea-bargain pretty much all cases to expedite the case load - courts are largely overwhelmed. I’ve seen guys in chains accused of multiple violent assault felonies (like assaulted multiple people in one go) plea bargain down to a fucking misdemeanor.
Again, go sit in criminal court for a day and you’ll see what I mean - it’s eye opening.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
Some places don’t enforce this very well.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
But it would be offset by the massive and recurring income from installing and maintaining the devices by a third party.
Let’s see who the companies providing these services are owned by.
Like when ticket cameras in vans became a thing 25 years ago: 80% of the “ticket” went to the camera van company. I say “ticket” because in many US jurisdictions only a police officer can issue a ticket, so these were unenforceable as tickets.
States had to update their laws to add “civil fees” as a thing just for such cameras.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 1 week ago:
I’ve been in IT since it was called something else.
90% of the work I do is to enable other people to do their job.
Before IT, these people did their work on paper, which took more people, and more time, but they still did their work, and my job didn’t exist.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
I love eggs.
I’m having eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, spam and eggs!
- Comment on No judgement here. Have fun with life yall 1 week ago:
The photo is square, so I’m already sceptical!
- Comment on Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her? 2 weeks ago:
As evidenced by the question in this post, there are.
- Comment on I now have the only Volvo 240 in the world that plays Toto’s Africa as the open door chime! - 8 bit universe 2 weeks ago:
But… Why? Haha
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Which is weird, because since ~2006 all checks are treated the same as debut card transactions after the first check is processed, since both sides nownhave full routing info.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 2 weeks ago:
I don’t save the original as I’m converying largely to save space anyway.
Some movies at 6+ gb, after converting to a 1gb file they look the same on a 65" TV. Since most of this is DVD source, I’m not really losing any quality (DVD is 720*480).
Even if I sources were Blu-Ray I’d still convert, but I’d target a larger screen size, just in case.
I don’t think Jellyfin can choose a different source file for different devices, it just doesn’t really make sense. Transcoding when needed really takes so little I don’t even notice it. I’ve run multiple video conversions (4+) while streaming, and syncing my media folder to the NAS and never have a glitch. And my hardware is old.
You could setup a movie library using the “Shows” type, which will support multiple versions of the same movie under a single poster/name in the library. It would take a little manual work to name the movies so you’d know which was “mobile friendly”.
You could also just create 2 movie libraries, one for large screens and one for mobile. You just keep the actual files in 2 different folders, so when you create a library it only uses that folder as a source.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 2 weeks ago:
To your point, there can be a little groundwork to get cpu transcoding to work right with Jellyfin on Linux. It’s a little easier on Windows.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, GPU may not be required.
I use a 2019 SFF desktop (no dedicated GPU) for Jellyfin, and transcoding for my 65" TV hardly increases cpu.
If you can figure out why it’s transcoding and fix that, it makes a big difference. Mine transcoses because of subtitles and there’s no fixing it (the Tizen Jellyfin app is the problem - I’m just glad to have the app at all).
The key is to know what formats, aspect ratio, etc, your TV handles natively and save files in that version. Fortunately my TV handles MKV natively but Jellyfin on Samsung doesn’t respect the Display Aspect Ratio flag, so I have to hard convert everything to square pixels in the proper aspect ratio (16:9,4:3, 3.5:3,etc) based on the original source. It’s a little extra work but scripting ffmpeg solves it. Future devices will surely handle square pixels and forced aspect ratio fine.
- Comment on LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV 3 weeks ago:
Right?
I think the last TV I bought was 5 years ago, a 65", 4k, for about $650.
And I didn’t shop, I was tired and sick, just needed a replacement and didn’t care.