HarriPotero @ HarriPotero @lemmy.world

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In my part of the BBS-world telnet is the only option. I'm a C64 guy, and a TCP stack is memory hungry enough for 64k of RAM.

But yes, encrypt when available.

BBSes are making a comeback. This time over telnet. They're just as great as they used to be.

I've played Rebel Inc, so I know how to do it.

Don't bribe too many people. Build infrastructure and social programmes. Train local forces to destroy all insurrections.

In my experience it takes more funding than you have to keep the population at ease.

Sounds like you have short attention span.

You'll get at least one frame of added latency in the very best case when using original hardware on an LCD. Combine that with a TV that does its own processing and emulation and you'll have some noticeable input lag. And yes, I know most TVs have a game mode.

Interlacing when doing sprite multiplexing looks shittier on an LCD, too. Unless you do blending at the cost of an additional frame of latency.

My car is in the shop for some tricky troubleshooting.

I've been doing my weekly grocery shopping with my foldable bike and dog trailer. I live in a rural area, so it's a bit of a trip. I don't particularly enjoy it, especially the hauling the load home. It would probably be bearable with a bit of electric assist on the bike.

The experience is pretty similar.

The main selling point for me is that jellyfin is free open source software and completely self-hosted.

I don't remember the tipping point even I left Plex, but I recall them injecting some live channels I had no interest in on the default screen. They do track everything you watch, so at the end of the day you and your data is the real product that they're dealing with

Edit: I think the tipping point was even their password database leaked. Also, I was frustrated that I couldn't watch content on my local network just because my internet was down.

I recall the fairphone 2 being touted as an open platform with support for ubuntu touch, phosh and more. There's not a word of that with the current lineup.

Ubuntu touch supports it decently

I pirate metric shitloads of movies and series. I don't pirate music or games (much).

I watch maybe 5-10% of what I download. That's probably true for the games I buy as well.

The reason is part convenience. I probably listen to royalty free 95% music of the time, but for the other occasions Spotify has anything and everything I want to listen to. I can't beat that library.

I game on Linux, the Switch and old retro computers. The old retro computers have all pirated games on them, but for Linux and Switch I buy my stuff on the Nintendo shop and Steam. They have everything and it just works.

The video streaming services of today have also taught me that they will pull licenses. When Netflix had a big library I stuck mostly to that, but today it feels like all the good content has been pulled and they mostly just have Netflix originals. So Hollywood has taught me that If I want to watch something, I shouldn't rely on it being available on my streaming service of choice in the future. I'm not going to subscribe to a dozen streaming services just for the odd chance that I want to watch something particular. I'm going to have my own plex server with everything I might want to watch.

The one show that would make me consider getting a second streaming subscription just to support it is Futurama. But of course, Hulu is not available in my region.. so, yarr.

Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more; that’s what copying’s for. Copying is not theft. If I copy yours you have it too. One for me and one for you. That’s what copies can do. If I steal your bicycle you have to take the bus, but if I just copy it there’s one for each of us! Making more of a thing, that is what we call “copying”. Sharing ideas with everyone. That’s why copying is FUN!

How's that working out?

c/demoscene

Finland. I've been driving for a bit over 20 years. I got my first automatic two years ago. At first I had to focus hard not to look for the clutch when braking - especially if slamming the brakes.

I had to focus a bit when I drove a manual rental van about a year back, but I'm sure it'd come back to muscle memory if I daily drove one for a week or two.

The post refers to a RISC-V emulator for C64. The Linux kernel booted is RISC-V, so you'd be vim for the same.

Haven't heard anything, just from memory of my own testing. Looking back at my notes I see a 40-50% speed up with VideoToolbox compared to x265 on M1, but at a lot crappier quality.

I haven't tested in quite a while, though. I wrote off doing encoding on the M1, as my AMD cards are a lot faster (and produce better results).

It's hard to beat a GPU in HEVC encoding performance. SoC:s have comparable performance to dGPU:s in that regard. A used zen/zen2 laptop might be a cheap and tiny workhorse for the purpose. I have a zen/vega10 matebook 2020 that does 1080p at around 2.5-3x real-time at high quality presets. No doubt it could do 4k at faster presets.

With the hardware in my arsenal I've found that AMD>Intel>nVidia, at least quality wise. VideoToolbox on Mac is down there with nVidia, and Apple silicon being pretty slow at it compared to software x265 on the same machine.

I wish my browser had UPS

I usually use audacious for streaming audio, but with its playlist feature I'd be surprised if it didn't remember the spot in a file.

I missed the MK3 part on my first read-through, but yes - the MK3 is still bangarang as-is.

I'm still sporting my original Prusa i3 from 2014, before they had any MK-notations. Must be the first batch actually sold through Prusa Research and not just through his workshops. I've dropped the 2.75mm filament and upgraded it to a MK2-style extruder. I've also made a rack-and-pinion setup to fold up/down a microtrigger on the extruder itself which I use for mechanical Z-probing.