SmoothLiquidation @ SmoothLiquidation @lemmy.world

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I live in a town in the west that is a population of about 13,000 but is well within the Seattle metropolitan area.

All of the new build in the city is apartment buildings with commerce on the street level. Sure there are miles and miles of suburbs around the city but downtown is all mixed use for new builds.

No sir, I don’t like it.

This is it. AI is a tool just like anything else. Before AI people would complain that a photo was ‘shopped and before that it was that the models in magazines were airbrushed.

All of these are tools that are at an artist’s fingertips and a good artist can do something great with if they put the time into it.

Yes, lazy people can create crap with it if they want but you really can’t be blaming the tool for what stupid humans do with it.

The option to run one cable to the monitor, or reversely charge your laptop with one docking cable.

Maybe you could use this to daisy chain monitors and power them all.

I understand how the public key encryption works when you are messaging person to person. Does anyone know how it works with group chats?

Do you have international markets nearby you can go to?

I forget a password I created yesterday but I remember that 7 digit number as if my life depended on it.

When the mafia finally catches my bass.

It can be forked by anyone, but what is already out there will always be there.

And how does this hurt all of us who use it for open source projects?

Hey, it’s today now too!

I like cake.

Oats, butter, sugar, and sugar? Probably just a granola bar.

I love to say “before the turn of the century” when referring to stuff like 1997.

In Spaceage you can.

The original post said “name a place in Britain”

Dublin is in Ireland, not Great Britain. There was a whole kerfuffle about it.

I feel like there is a real possibility of a federation schism where a bunch of server admins get together and defederate with the rest of the servers. In that case you either need two accounts on both side of the schism or just be blind to whatever is happening over there.

I’m not sure what you were trying, but this works for me:

Never use hardware encoding. That is intended for real time transcoding. There are not many settings that work since it is just sending the file to the video card and letting it do its thing.

Slower is better. If you set the software encoder to very slow it will produce an output that is very high quality per megabyte. I generally don’t care if it takes twice as long to encode it as to watch it. I queue it up and let it run over night.

Choose the right codec. I like 10 bit HEVC, because I know it will work on the clients I play it from. When you rip a DVD using MakeMKV, the video will be MPEG-2, it was designed in the 1990’s and converting the file to a modern codec will save a lot of space. I don’t reencode 4K UHD rips much since I don’t want to mess with losing the hdr or other color features that I like in watching those files.

Audio tracks: I will rip out audio for languages I don’t speak, or desctiptive audio track, but go out of my way to label things like director commentaries. I don’t reencode the audio tracks at all, you won’t save much disk space by messing with them compared to the video tracks.

A few months back I got adblocker notifications while using UBlock Origin. I did the update and refresh and it would work again.