kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just curious, do you know how many trees were MOLESTED to create that air you're breathing?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

If you have a theater nearby that offers Dolby Vision films you can try out a version of HDR. They use laser projectors so the blacks can really be pure black. When the screen goes dark just before the movie the entire theater will be pitch black except for emergency lighting. It's glorious.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

For sure the quality will be worse than software but typically if I'm away from home I'm watching on an ipad and then you really can't tell the difference.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank goodness, now I can defend my home against tyranny and people who look different than me with a pseudo-machine gun, just the way the Founding Fathers intended! (/s just in case)

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

EDIT: I meant QSV Gen 7, which would be intel Gen 11. Kaby Lake and up can still handle HEVC in hardware but they have to use software as well for 4K.

worth mentioning that any intel cpu with an iGPU from generation 7 (kaby lake) and up can handle 4k hevc transcode in hardware. i just upgraded my plex box to an i7 8700K and it works quite well. an old office workstation with like a 9th or 11th gen intel cpu would probably rip through transcodes.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would probably still brew decaf coffee to go with them for the taste and smell.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Caveat: I am not a programmer, just an enthusiast. Windows programs typically package all of the dependency libraries up with each individual program in the form of DLLs (dynamic link library). If two programs both require the same dependency they just both have a local copy in their directory.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I can (anecdotally) confirm the overclocking sensitivity. Although it seems to be more that this game just REALLY pushes hardware if you let it which is naturally gonna draw out overclocking instabilities.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

i can't find the article for the life of me but i read an interview with a dev who basically said that the UE5 engine is fine unless you try to crank all of the visual bells and whistles on at the same time. Now imagine being a dev team trying to convince marketing not to use all of the features they paid for? Can we blame Epic and Nvidia?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

This was my first thought too lmao. "How considerate of them to recreate the experience of not being able to play it smoothly until half a decade after it comes out"

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 69 points 1 month ago (5 children)

IF you're going to do this, make sure use some sort of sealed package (like the box in the photo). You used to be able to slap these things on like a sheet of plywood and just send it as is but now if the package isn't sealed and is obvious misuse the post office can just throw it in the dumpster. If its a sealed package then the post office has to deliver it and the permit holder has to pay the charges. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22525/html/updt_001.htm

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

This is a very good point. We're supposed to be seeing how he becomes the Kirk we know.

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