Creat

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago

Appreciate the heads up. I'm reasonably sure I've already uninstalled it anyway, but I'll check tomorrow to make sure.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago

You can secure boot most distros these days. It's not new either. Depends on who it what their anchor is, and if it's more limited than just secure boot being active.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does Canadian tire even have 38 million accounts? That number seems really wild to me...

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

Compressing it with handbrake will probably not look worse. MPEG2 used in DVD is notoriously inefficient by today's standards. Depending on the codec selected, it'll be a fraction of the size with no visible differences.

Unless you mean to keep the DVD structure and playability in DVD players (including menus and everything), but I don't think handbrake can do that.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you just want file sync, the obvious option is SyncThing. It's established and highly regarded.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but my search data doesn't leave my house. Also since my IP changed multiple times a week (not quite daily, but close), I prefer this to using someone else's instance. There is some obfuscation to be gained by searching through a public insurance as well, but my insurance is still used by multiple people, not just me.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

searxng (self hosted). But I understand not everyone can host something. There are public instances out there as well.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago

While this is great to hear, it kind of stood out to me that the saving per vehicle is only about half the "incentives" per vehicle. So these have to get a lot cheaper before the incentives aren't mandatory anymore.

Once real mass production is the norm, this will probably happen automatically over time. The initial investment difference is still eye watering.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As unfortunate as that is, most of these seem to have dwindling user numbers since the emergence of LLMs. Users just don't ask on boards when they can ask an AI (and get a potentially wrong or unhelpful response).

SO in particular had it's question volume drop by I think like 90% or something in recent months/years. I don't remember the exact numbers, but search the net or associated communities here for details. Shouldn't be hard to find.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wasn't this many days ago already, or did it happen again? I remember reading this like 3 or 4 days ago as well.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure I don't own, let alone have played, any of their titles in the past. Guess I'll keep just doing that?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also don't have any of those issues at home. Relative screen size is comparable (probably bigger at home, in terms of viewing angle). No annoying people at all. Snacks cost supermarket-prices. I also don't have to travel there and back at specific times, can pause to pee, good stuff!

Movies may be a few weeks or months later, but who cares. If anything I got a backlog to still watch anyway. I can no longer see any advantage to going to a cinema.

 

I've noticed for a while that when playing a linked video directly in the app, it doesn't respect the global auto-rotate setting of the screen. Only today did I notice that there's a "lock rotation" button at the top of the player, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to do the opposite of that it's showing: when I see the little lock it's unlocked, and then it's just the rotation icon it's actually locked. For context, my phone's rotation is always locked, but the video always rotates on me.

In general my suggestion for the behavior for playing video would be to rotate and lock it to the "correct" orientation for it's aspect ratio. It makes no sense to play a portrait video in landscape, neither does the other way around. Rotating the phone should probably still be able to flip it 180°.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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