SmoothLiquidation

@SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet Time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one that has a normal handle, but you lift for a half flush and push down for a full one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack overflow is almost dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that is already a problem, if you ask a question you have to be ready for the answer to be a mismatch of version conflicts.

  But that is ok. ChatGPT is a tool that can either help you or hurt you. I like to think of it like a power hammer. If you are doing a roofing job, it can help you get things done faster compared to a manual hammer, but you still need to know how to build a roof to get started.

  ChatGPT is great at helping you organize your thoughts or finding an answer to some error message buried in some log file, but you still need to know what questions to ask and you need to be ready for it to give you a stupid answer and how to get around that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Testing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No sir, I don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Good Night's Rest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the mafia finally catches my bass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is you have to pick SOME server to host your account. You are right that most communities are accessible from most servers, but that is where it becomes confusing for someone who just wants to look at memes for a specific fan base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what that Star Trek server did.

  The problem with that is that you need to make a user on one of those servers. Do you make it on the politics one, or the games one? What happens 3 months later when you realize the server you picked on a whim is full of assholes and gets defederated?

  Do you think an average user at that point would move their subscriptions to a new account or will they get annoyed at the concept?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1080p is fine, but I really like the colors of HDR. I am NOT a fan of the higher refresh rate for movies though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people assume they know what classic trek is about without even watching it. Hence the surprise when they realize that it’s “woke”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hotness aside, I actually prefer the taste of pretty much any pepper over jalapeños.