I chose a synth (draconic lizard bot basically) because a) lizards and dragons are neat, and b) robots are neat. And so I thought "why not both?" found synths, and said "yep that's me."
I, too, have only been using Handbrake because idk what else to use, so I've been limited to SVT-AV1 for encoding. I'd need to watch through stuff at length, but at speed 6 and quality 40 I personally don't notice anything super off in my 1080p Blu-ray rip of The Last Wish (and got it down to an incredible 1.5GB). I definitely didn't catch anything at speed 6 and quality 30 - it won't be as small, and it'll still take a while, but at that I personally saw like. no problems whatsoever.
Might need to watch out for any film grain though, idk how much that mucks with the process but there are settings to denoise and reapply on playback. I haven't experimented with them too much because a) handbrake, and b) was trying to find good settings on a movie without grain to start.
I mostly saw problems when I used AOM-AV1 for encoding, at speed 7 and 6000kbps. That was purely because real-time encoding was why I needed that and it just wasn't quite perfect for 1080p60 Splatoon clips, mostly also as a test for "if Twitch turned AV1 on tomorrow what could I get at their current limits." SVT instantly got overloaded for real time at any real-time speed for some reason.
Yeah, hardware encoding is very new, but you can get an Intel Arc 700-series card and get it via QuickSync for pretty cheap if you have a spare x16 slot and really, really need it right now. Only those, Nvidia's 4000 series, and AMD's 7000 series support encode. 3000 and 6000 series for each company support hardware decode, though.
Just need to get phones on the hardware decode train! Qualcomm and Apple, step up your game!
What settings have you been using? I haven't noticed any issues so long as I'm not concerned with real-time encoding. And yeah, GPU encoding is generally worse than software, it's just usually way faster.
EDIT: for reference I've been using speed 6 and an RF between 40 and 30, and even in fast-paced scenes like ones in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" I can't notice anything super off. With my real-time recordings best I can do is speed 7 and 6000kbps (maybe higher bitrate), which isn't quite enough for the 1080p60 fast, colorful gameplay of Splatoon 3 - but even then, I'd need a decently higher bitrate with either x264 or x265, especially GPU encoded.
IDK his exact settings, but a fur I follow on Mastodon has been able to get 4K Blu-ray rips encoded to AV1 down to a handful of gigabytes, and he reports no noticeable quality problems at speed 6 RF 30.
I love this, it looks super good!
but I also feel pain because I am the one getting splatted here. cries in hydra main
that's it that's the post.
JK, but seriously though. AV1 is incredible and I NEED support for hardware decoding to accelerate and fast. I just shoved an 18GB Blu-ray movie into 5 gigs with room for improvement. I can get stream worthy 1080p60 video at 6000kbps when I need at least double that if I use x264. Even at a ok encode speed, the 1080 6000kbps video on YouTube looks pretty good all things considered - sure my super high bitrate x264 video looks clearer, but it's also at least double the file size on my disk.
I could probably real-time CPU encode my streams with AV1. I could definitely do it even better with hardware encoding.
AV1 is black magic. It feels wrong.
Framework has been and likely always will be for the crowd that values repairability and reusability over any price/performance ratio. Being able to shove any GPU you could want (that's beem built for this) into that special slot is very neat, and pretty useful for the people who want to be able to upgrade their GPU separately from the rest of their system.
It's like getting the LEGO bricks from PC building into a laptop form factor - you can choose your IO, RAM and SSD, even your CPU. And now your choice of dedicated GPU. For a specific person, that's worth it.
If space is at a premium, or you routinely travel and wanna game, having a capable laptop that you can upgrade each individual part as needed becomes pretty darn tempting. If I had need for a laptop and had that routine travel thing, I'd honestly think about it myself. I could upgrade whatever part I want whenever I need to, and I can make old mainboards run home stuff or whatever. Turn an old one into a media player, or as a small PC for some other use.
I've been eyeing a Lenovo P11 Pro Gen 2 or whatever to replace my HP x2 Chromebook I got a couple years ago. Just don't need the productivity of ChromeOS anymore, a straightforward media consumption device that I can also use for pen note taking for TTRPGs is all I really need these days, and it looks like it'll fit the bill.
also because OneNote for Android isn't available for ChromeOS (at least it hasn't been afaik) and the app I've been using, Squid, is just kinda ok at the task.
Picked up a Motorola Edge+ (2022) somewhat a month-ish ago after giving a Galaxy S23 a go for almost a month before. I just prefer Moto's experience more, even if updates are sparse and camera quality isn't as great.
Sure, it's notably bigger that what I've long-term used before (Xiaomi Mi 9 and the 2020 Motorola Edge), but the screen is pretty good and even though the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 is meh foe battery life, I'm not too intense on it and it charges pretty quick when I need a top-off.
The Galaxy S23 just wasn't my cup of tea. OneUI's launcher wasn't tunable the way I wanted, using a custom launcher to get my experience back broke gestures (as expected, but still), and it wasn't meaningfully smaller width-wise than the Mi 9, which I went back to for a while after I gave my fiancé my Moto Edge (2020).
It's also pretty damn hard to pass up a brand-new last-gen flagship for $500 plus manufacturer accidental protection 24 months and an extra year extended warranty.
I was way too obsessed with whatever they were doing with that kitty competition or whatever when I was a kid. I borderline religiously watched it, that's how dedicated I was.
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Mmhm. Suuure they will. I see no way in which this power could be abused at all. Clearly this is a harmless ability to snoop in on people without their consent.
Attached: 2 images So I've noticed new behavior on Masto the last few days that I don't think I'd seen before. It looks like some posts get automatically visually collapsed, even if there's no CW. As best as I can tell, this applies to posts that either have a lot of hashtags or @-mention other us...
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Is it possible to turn off the post auto-collapse glitch-soc provides by default, so people who want it can opt-in to it? It's personally pretty annoying to expand every post, and while there is a way to disable it there seems to be the occasional problem where it resets that flag.
As mentioned in that post, it's not great if getting more creative types is a goal - auto-collapse includes images, not just text. Sharing art, commission open status, etc. would be pretty hampered if every post gets hard collapses.
Seriously, follow hashtags! If friends start to join boost their early posts so other people can find them too. You take the place of the algorithm on Mastodon, so you're ultimately responsible for curating your experience.
Though I will say, don't use the offical app. It lacks a federated timeline still, which is weird. If you like that UI though, Moshidon is a fork that adds some customization and the federated timeline, which is a neat way to see what's goin on.
ljdawson has also created a community on lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy) to discuss development, features, etc. Just a r/RedditSync has operated.
I'm excited to get the experience of Sync here on Fedi! Sync has been how I've experienced Reddit for years now, and I can't wait to see how this project goes.
Yeah, synths are definitely on the edge of what'd be considered furry. They're usually draconic or reptile-adjacent in style (from the many I've seen), but there's no hard and fast rule to what a synth looks like.
All part of the fun!
Honestly, to nobody's surprise. At least for the people who don't have a blind hate for GLAAD and/or queer people, this will be a nice thing to pull up as proof of how hostile Twitter has gotten.
Been blocking way more people in the last few months than ever before.
ah yeah, the EU sadly doesn't get as many deals as we do in the States :/ 6800's still a steal though! I love mine though I should've double checked dimensions. It barely fits in my current case xD
I run the 6800 now, and while I can't comment on Linux, ROCm, etc. it's a totally solid card for 1440p - though I don't play the latest AAA titles, I finally get good frames at higher graphical settings in Planet Coaster. The 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT, and 6950XT are all in vaguely the same region of performance, mostly because they all have 16GB VRAM so it's all down to the number of CUs and clock rates.
If you do need every drop of power, you can snag an XFX 6950XT for ~$630 before tax if your case is big enough and power supply capable enough. I'd really only consider the 6950 if you're playing the latest AAA titles on ultrawide 1440p or 4K, though. Otherwise, you can grab either 6800 for up to a hundred less than the linked 6950, get plenty of VRAM and solid raster performance for a long while. The 6000 series has gotten the classic AMD Fine WineTM treatment, they aged pretty good all things considered.
Thing is, why "non-commercial" apps? Why aren't the people making accessibility tools - in lieu of the company who should be doing that work anyways - allowed to make money? And, y'know, that exempts the pricing model (ok) but will NSFW content still be barred? We don't even 100% know how the NSFW API block works other than Reddit claims it'll be porn only, but I don't trust 'em to not pull a Tunblr and just say "if it's under the NSFW filter it's blocked from any API access."
What they did is something, but it's still not enough. What apps qualify? Are they allowed to make money so working on this app can be, like, their job (and not free volunteer work like happens often), and if so how do they define "non-commercial" so that happens? What features does it need to have to be "accessibility focused" - a lot of the 3rd party clients are customizable enough where people who are hard of vision can make the text plenty large so they can read, is that enough or are they considering the need for screenreader support too?
They're just so damn vague about all of this and whatever they answered yesterday was barely clarifying at all & just reiterated years-old promises that they've bareky made progress on. IMO, Reddit needs to walk the changes back until they can roll out the festures they're talking about & come to an agreement with app devs on a reasonable price (for the apps not deemed accessibility focused) and what they're allowed to do to monetize to afford that.
Fifteen business days now isn't enough time to get ready for these huge changes unless the plan is to shut down your app, like many app devs are going to do. Especially with how much seems to still be unknown or unclear.
About what everyone expected, tbh. I hope it bites Reddit in the ass if they end up shooting for an IPO.
And that they're indeed in violation of the ADA, as someone brought up. Hopefully someone somewhere raises hell with that.
Bust out your bingo card and let's find out how many spaces spez fills. Blackout, anyone?
Gotta say, if Reddit is really gearing up for an IPO this feels like the kind of behavior investors would be really suspicious of. Especially since Christian (Apollo dev) was well within his rights as a Canadian to record the conversation, and release it as evidence that he's being slandered and nothing spez is saying can be trusted.
Can't wait to see how potential investors in a public company would handle him as CEO. Have a gut feeling he'd get ousted before long because he's clearly incapable of talking to legal and shutting up.
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Sync is has been the way I've experienced and used Reddit for a long while now, and it's such a shame that LJ has no choice but to axe the app for good. I know Reddit isn't gonna back down on the change, but damn it sucks we're losing so many great apps.
I hope some of the 3rd party app devs give Fediverse apps a go, it'd be nice to have more alternatives for anything Fedi.