SnailMagnitude

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[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

I'm glad they trademarked history to be honest.

Of course artifacts need a vacation from time to time but they always come back home.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I have a few Ubuntu boxen as it makes life easy, but suspect my gentoo box won't be infected anytime soon...the real pita with be if they end up forcing us to build web browsers from source to avoid the cluterfuck.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 36 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world's landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo's.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I'm not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

Afaiu it was them that passed it to humans just prior to the deluge.

Thankfully Noah invented wine to balance things out.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Personally I've found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.

 

Appreciating the marketing of a new food place that's popped up a few blocks from McDonald's.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

Are you sure on that?

Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Manichaeists, Monasticism etc might want a word.

Maybe also bear in mind it's perhaps the industrial revolution and massive scale animal abuse that's led to the average pleb expecting daily meat instead of daily bread.

 

Just started playing with this, not a practical solution for the moment as more concept stuff but it's pretty cool.

I put a 38mb flac in and a 309K stereo tsac file popped out that sounds pretty good for a 5 min song, that's like 100,000 songs on a 32gb stick.

But beyond the impressive level of squishing this seems like the sort of black magic that will be well beyond EQ and easy effects stuff....hey google clean up Portishead and then chop and screw it please.

On the off chance ffmpeg and qemu was not just him getting lucky, this kinda tech worth keeping an eye methinks

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn't give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don't go to masses anymore.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I don't think that's mediation.

I can get into 'the zone' swimming and cycling, but that's great fun. Meditation is exhausting, hard work and often leaves me more pissed off than when I started.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a really simple system meant to 'just work' and provides an idiot sheet you can copy and paste from for those who don't ever want to RTFM

as long as the system isn't doing anything important Arch is great for noobs fucking around, it's high grade spoonfeeding and doing what you are told.

Power users use RHEL, Ubuntu, Gentoo. Governments, armies, tech giants and that kinda stuff, Arch is more for newbies karma farming on r/unixporn for lolz

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

I think bcachefs is what I'm looking for, but I'm gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.

 

I have a pi4 running on an ssd over usb3 with a usb3 dock that has 2x2TB drives for storage.

At the moment I have mainly music on one and mainly video on the other, with important stuff on both and elsewhere.

Is it sensible to combine 2x2TB hdd's via usb3 dock into a 4TB filesystem/pool/volume/thing......and if so can I have tiered storage so if one drive fails the other will have a mirror of important stuff?

 

The bass player in Zbigniew Namysłowski is fucking awesome, first time in a while I've really heard the bass stand out all they way through tunes.

Getting knee deep into Mingus at the moment but

curious for bass heavy recommendations?

 

I did not know about this.

I like H R Giger, I like Debbie Harry.

How did it take 'till 2024 for me to stumble upon this?

 

Just say no

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz to c/mycology@mander.xyz
 

Seen many puffballs in this area, but never like this. Today they were everywhere.

 

 

Been wanting to get my hands on one of these for a long time.

Found three big ones, which was nice 🙂

 

Transcoding anything >720p is painful.

I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android.

What's a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere?

Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265

Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu's a thing?

 

Dog for scale

 

Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

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