Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 days ago:
Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 week ago:
I didn’t ask for this 😭
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 week ago:
Nah don’t worry I’ve got a decent VPN and that’s fine with me.
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 1 week ago:
I’ve been cucked.
- Comment on Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - Aftermath 1 week ago:
Well, I know what studio they are closing next.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
I’m paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer… That’s how they get you 😭. Now I’d have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.
I do not recommend getting a family plan.
- Comment on Lead 2 weeks ago:
…and microplastics in mine
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
That’s more or less what I’m saying yes, I do like the original film grain look of movies, and often attempts to remove it removed detail, making things look smudgy.
As for if no codec is designed for this, Blu-Rays preserve film grain, often very well, and they use x265. Granted they do this partially by brute force by having a bit rate of 30mbps+, but I’ve found that you can quite easily reduce that but rate to 12mbps and still preserve most film grain reasonably well. Especially if you use h265, the CPU version (NVENC is nowhere near as good with grain).
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
I tried AV1, but it seems to work really poorly for compressing film grain which is my main usecase (movies).
I realise you can add fake film grain, but that’s not really my thing.
For now, I’ll likely stick with x265.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 weeks ago:
The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That’s why I’ve not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 3 weeks ago:
Not if they end up banning VPNs, which is already something being discussed. If that happens, I might genuinely leave the country.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 3 weeks ago:
Dude. I just bought a used 6A last week.
- Comment on back in those days... 4 weeks ago:
We lost one 😭
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- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 4 weeks ago:
No idea why they were collecting identification then.
Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 4 weeks ago:
The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a “Are you 18: Yes / No”, more like “we will check using ID and photos of you”.
It’s the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 weeks ago:
LLMs are like Trump government appointees:
- They hallucinate like they’re on drugs
- They repeat whatever they’ve seen on the internet
- They are easily maniuplated
- They have never thought about a single thing in their lives
Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 weeks ago:
As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it’s a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.
Ultimately, it’s a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you’re winning.
Here’s where I got some.
serverpartdeals.com/…/manufacturer-recertified-dr…
I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.
All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s
The best I could find was this, but that’s not amazing either.
What I do is look at backblaze’s drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don’t get a lemon.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 weeks ago:
I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were refurbished. Usually a refurbished drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.
- Comment on Hard day at the office 1 month ago:
Imma have my 1-1 performance review on this.
- Comment on Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update 1 month ago:
Yep. Pretty sure that was deliberate on Musk’s (or his cronies) part.
Imagine working at X and being told by your boss “I’d like you to make the bot more racist please.” “Can you convince it that conspiracy theories are real?”
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 1 month ago:
I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.
To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.
However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.
Give it a go and see how you get on!
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 1 month ago:
Been using them for years.
It’s completely free, open source and has:
- Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
- Easily file transfers
- Cross-copy paste
- Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
- Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vide versa)
- Experimental web browser client.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 1 month ago:
If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.
And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 2 months ago:
Woah woah woah. That’s going too far.
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- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 months ago:
I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won’t discuss here I won’t be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 months ago:
The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.
Sadly for me, this doesn’t really work for some relatives as
- They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant
- Some are so tech un-savvy that even installing a new app by themselves is too much.
All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.
- Comment on Some things just refuse to die 2 months ago:
Another one: An old metal USB stick that stayed on my key chain for 15 years. It went through the washing machine at least once.
It still works, though it is dead slow.
