Eldritch

Traditionally, being a consumer of mainstream media wasn’t the disability that it has become currently. Not that it was ever totally accurate or great. It’s just managed to get far worse. But so many people out of cultural and social inertia still are.

20 years ago blanket calling out the msm would have safely gotten you dismissed. Today it’s just par for the course as they’ve all been captured by fascists oligarchs.

Shield user since 2015. Literally just started down this myself. Got this yesterday but was too wiped out last night to set it up. Figured if I can spend less than a hundred dollars For a fourth generation i7 which is capable of decoding AV1. But I can’t buy a set top box that will do the same for even close to $100. It was worth a try.

The downside is you lose some power efficiency having a full-blown PC. The upside is configurability and usability. The shield was decent for emulation, but it still can’t compete with a full-blown PC. The one other small negative is casting. I’m not aware currently of any great method of casting media to a PC. There’s probably something that exists. I just don’t know of it yet. But I plan to evaluate a few immutable Linux distributions, including Bazite. With waydroid on top for any Android applications, I find that I just can’t get along without yet.

I already mentioned client support. Stating that I was degoogling my clients and moving to htpc so codec support was largely a non issue in my particular case.

TBF, if you’re just downloading content. Even h265 can be rare still depending. Release groups sloooooooooowly change formats and workflows. And even then. Older content rarely gets new encodes.

Encoding these days is simple. I can do HQ 2 pass encodes of my DVD on a 6th gen i7 in just a little longer than it takes to watch. Yes 1080p can take over 3-4 hours for a movie. But I have a couple of old ewaste systems I can let churn overnight. I’m not concerned about real time re-encoding. I’m using av1 for quality and space saving.

Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.

All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.

No one wants him near power. But only people like him seek power. So it’s more of a sampling error. The majority don’t have the time/energy/resources or desire to seek power. We just want to live our lives. While complaining that there’s never anyone like us to vote for. Simultaneously being held back by the dumbest most hateful quarter of us.

Yes, I have a single machine where most of my storage is. I host my jellyfin server there, as well as all the home directories for all the users of my systems. Login to any system in the house and you always have the same desktop and data. If I want to replace a system, reinstall or distro hop. It’s just a few lines to copy into fstab and a few apps/flatpaks to download at most.

Av1 is better than h256 by quite a bit in many cases. Unfortunately, support is still very spotty if you’re running anything other than a home theater pc. But I’m moving to Av1/opus since, I’m actively de-googling/droiding. And moving to htpc.

What a joke. Seriously though, fuck ICE and their fascist paymasters

Indeed

This is a great idea, unless you want to game or worry about upgradability. If you want to watch videos, write, code, browse the web or just have a server. They’re fantastic. If you want to add in a GPU. Often you’ll be extremely limited to the rare low profile ones. If you are lucky enough to be able to use regular profile ones, you’ll often still be size limited due to component placement on the board or case internals. You could get a different case, but that often requires adapters too. Oh and you’ll need a new power supply, with more adapters.

If your application for the system goes anywhere near a GPU, such as a Jellyfin Server, spend the extra to get regular consumer parts.

Right wing fascists marching in the streets. Pulling Americans from their homes in the middle of the night. Kidnappings and disappearing. Nope not violence.

Resisting any of that? So much for the tolerant left.

I believe they are intended to be piefed and lemmy.

Definitely, the benevolence of corporations is not indefinite. No matter how good the times start out or manage to be, it always goes downhill.

Oh, same here. And if you like that video, the others are generally about the same level. She’s not generally doing reverse engineering and security analysis on her streams, much more general stuff. But she definitely comes off as knowing what she’s talking about.

There is a British YouTuber though that has done a number of streams etc. on cracking game DRMs for old video games however. And he’s generally interesting too.

Iirc she does reverse engineering and security analysis by day. If you like programming, computers, etc she’s got plenty great videos on the subjects.

Strictly speaking, nothing really. But competition is good. Federation is better.

Funny enough, a YouTuber I watch sometimes put out a good video on this recently.

I suppose that depends where you are from. In the US almost no average person could tell you what the totenkoph is. Let alone ID it. Everyone could ID a swastika. Though not tell the difference between Sanskrit or Nazi.

I had to look it up to remind myself even. I’m most familiar with it as a piece of iconography the neo folk group Death In June has used several times.

None of these fucking posers have the chops to actually report on the boar wars.

First, how is that worse than the likely alternative? Is there anyone in the race besides the Republicans that even stands a remote chance? And trust a random website and random people on the Internet. Or Bernie Sanders who has built a name and reputation for himself. I think I’m going to side with Bernie here.