Scholars_Mate

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[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

All video codecs are lossy, meaning you will lose some quality. AV1 and H.265 are modern video codecs with the best quality to bitrate ratios, meaning you can get better quality for the same bitrate, or the same quality with a lower bitrate. The downside the these codecs is that they are very complex and computational expensive to do in software. You'll want to make sure your GPU supports hardware encoding for the codecs you intend to record with. The reason most people will recommend AV1 over H.265 is that AV1 is royalty free. With H.265, companies have to pay a royalty to use H.265. Because of this, most companies (Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, etc.) want to use AV1 going forward, meaning in the near future, it will probably be the dominant codec.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then which Apple phone are you talking about? The iPhone 15 is pretty much the same size as the Pixel 8. The iPhone SE is the only small phone Apple seems to make, and from what I can tell from a quick search, they aren't selling a lot of them.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The iPhone 15 is 147.6 height x 71.6 width x 7.8 depth (mm).
The Pixel 8 is 150.5 height x 70.8 width x 8.9 depth (mm)

I would call that pretty much the same size.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

No they don't? The iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini were the worst performing phones out of their lineup. Small phones are dead because hardly anyone buys them.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Texas does have anti-SLAPP laws passed and they are among the strongest in the nation. Unfortunately, the courts have ruled that they cannot be used in federal courts.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then Linus responded pretty poorly (and ended up stepping down as CEO and is now a chief creative something or other iirc)

Linus didn't step down in response to this. I don't remember the exact timelines, but he either stepped down before this, or was in already in the process of transitioning to the new CEO when this happened.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Micay stepped down as lead developer and foundation director. I'm not sure what role he has with the project currently, but it seems like he plans on leaving the project entirely, long term. I haven't heard of any controversy since then. They've been hard at work and actually added support for Android Auto last month.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is great to hear! The lack of Android Auto support was pretty much the only thing stopping me from considering a Pixel+GrapheneOS. My Galaxy S10 still has some life left in it, but I'll probably consider replacing it with the Pixel 9 or 8a whenever those come out next year.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Trine series is pretty fun. It's a 2.5d puzzle platformer game. There are some combat bits, but most of the game is puzzles. I'd recommend the second one.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

He killed four of his classmates and wounded seven others. 15 years old is old enough to know how terrible the impact of his actions would be. There is certainly more that we as a society could have done to help him with his mental illness, but that does not erase his agency and make him not responsible for his crimes. He has more than earned his punishment.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

USB 2 is 480 Mb/s, not 480 MB/s. 480 Mb/s is 60 MB/s, so the 500 MB/s from PCIe 2.0 x1 is quite a bit faster and is about the limit of what a SATA 3 interface could do. Also, sequential throughput isn't nearly as important as most people think. Random IO, which NVMe drives excel at, will make a far more noticeable impact on real world performance.

[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using PhotoPrism for the past couple of days and have really liked it.

I was considering Immich, but the rapid development cycle turned me off of it for now. I don't want to have to deal with keeping up with patch notes and potential breaking changes. Immich also seems more focused on photo backups from your phone, which isn't quite what I wanted. PhotoPrism just let me upload all my existing photos on the web ui.

I'd say give both a try. Both provide a docker-compose file, so you should be able to bring them up fairly quick.

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