Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.

Exactly, this is about compression. Just imagine a full HD image, 1920x1080, with 8 bits of colors for each of the 3 RGB channels. That would lead to 1920x1080x8x3 = 49 766 400 bits, or roughly 50Mb (or roughly 6MB). This is uncompressed. Now imagine a video, at 24 frames per second (typical for movies), that’s almost 1200 Mb/second. For a 1h30 movie, that would be an immense amount of storage, just compute it :)

To solve this, movies are compressed (encoded). There are two types, lossless (where the information is exact and no quality loss is resulted) and lossy (where quality is degraded). It is common to use lossy compression because it is what leads to the most storage savings. For a given compression algorithms, the less bandwidth you allow the algorithm, the more it has to sacrifice video quality to meet your requirements. And this is what bitrate is referring to.

Of note: different compression algorithms are more or less effective at storing data within the same file size. AV1 for instance, will allow for significantly higher video quality than h264, at the same file size (or bitrate).

To be fair, resolution is not enough to measure quality. The bitrate plays a huge role. You can have a high resolution video looking worse than a lower resolution one if the lower one has a higher bitrate. In general, many videos online claim to be 1080p but still look like garbage because of the low bitrate (e.g. like on YouTube or so). If you go for a high bitrate video, you should be able to tell pretty easily, the hair, the fabric, the skin details, the grass, everything can be noticeably sharper and crisper.

Edit: so yeah, I agree with you, because often they are both of low bitrate…

ChatGPT is already free, even GPT-4o since recently.

Granted, you do need an account which requires a phone number, but there are no financial costs.

I don’t know if the content is of particular interest to everyone, but I did want to follow the topic as it was a source of disagreement between FUTO and Rossman and I wanted to see whether they had come to terms.

Do you have a copy of the now deleted/removed video, or are you referring to a videoviseo which is now publicly available? If it is now publicly available, is it at the same link as my edited original post or something else? Thanks!

I have this one sitting on my digital shelf, should probably play it!

Perhaps it would be worth checking with the [email protected] community and see if they have any advice? They are more likely to have dealt with such situations, by nature.

The Witcher 3. It’s not far from being 10, but got a very nice graphics update for free and has 2 DLC. The game and the DLC and the free graphics update and a very recent mod kit, all for around 10-15 USD right now on GOG . it’s a steal! I highly recommend it. It became my favorite game of all time, very fast. And it will offer around 100h, and it will also offer replayability. What is there not to like?

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I’m trying to open your link but I get a Lemmy page saying this link does not exist. Is it a voyager app thing?

How much responsibility would a service like Signal have, if they were to inadvertently host a private group for pirated content? I believe signal groups can have up to 1000 members, and these members can be pretty anonymous given the need to only share an ephemeral username which can not be linked to a phone number or any other identity? Can they claim plausible deniability and not do anything?

Both AMD and Nvidia GPUs work well. There is mainly a philosophy difference where AMD GPUs work particularly well with open source drivers whereas Nvidia still mostly depends on its proprietary drivers (though they work fine on Linux too).

Phoronix is a reputable website when it comes to benchmarking on Linux. Here is a previous benchmark with Nvidia GPUs, as an example:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx4080-rtx4090-linux/2

Of note: when people complain about nvidia on Linux, you need to determine whether they complain about open source or proprietary drivers.

I have been running Nvidia GPUs on Linux for years and have had no issue with the proprietary drivers, both for an old and recent GPU. Of course YMMV.

Edit: my personal recommendation though would be to stick with AMD which offers more memory and bandwidth compared to similarly priced Nvidia GPUs (Nvidia uses 8GB for many of its GPUs which is quire disappointing these days). And with open source drivers it may be easier to get issues fixed and find support.

Is that the limiting factor for the UI responsiveness? Or are you talking about the fact that the parsing and metadata querying takes days?

Have you just installed jellyfin? The scraping for metadata for me took days literally. And the difficult time is that during the scraping, the interface is very slow.

You can monitor the scraping/parsing progress in settings > dashboard > libraries. The libraries have a sort of circular progress bar with a percentage symbol (only visible in this view) when parsing is ongoing.

You may want to change the following setting in that case: Settings > dashboard > playback > resume > Maximum resume percentage.

It will set the threshold of what is considered played (in percentage of video length). Default is 90%. Try lowering it?

Are there any instructions to follow?

Its not a research paper, it calls itself a technical report. And even that seems a bit too ambitious. At a quick glance, its just a list of testimonies and quotes regarding various aspects of what some people think make a great software engineer. Though I do see citations at the end.

If you login, why would it matter? You are logged in, they have identified you.

Edit: sure they may not know exactly where you are, but they know you are you and can keep aggregating data on you as you browse Facebook at least, if not more?

It’s pretty new but if you are interested in degoogling and looking for ways to use android auto, there is apparently a working solution with GrapheneOS but I have not tested so can not verify it.

https://grapheneos.org/features#android-auto

Edit: typo

Is your family unhappy because you use Linux and Lemmy?

Can you elaborate on why it is a bad security practice? It’s the first time I’m reading about it and I’d like to read more about it. Thanks!