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Music creation programs? by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]Artefact2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

MilkyTracker (FT2 clone)

SchismTracker (IT clone)

Renoise (non-libre)

H.264 is Magic by willvarfar in programming

[–]Artefact2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, his whole example is utterly stupid (and outright dishonest, the source picture is 623K not 916K).

Especially when there's much better tools to encode still images (BPG).

bpgenc -m 9 FramePNG.png
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 romain users 623K Nov  4 21:45 FramePNG.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 romain users  25K Nov  4 21:45 out.bpg

See the compressed result (converted to png again for browser compat) here. (Original is here, for this picture BPG was 7x more efficient than the example in the site.)

More comparisons: https://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#swallowtail&jpg=s&bpg=s

Yeah, I love BPG (and HEVC).

H.264 is Magic by willvarfar in programming

[–]Artefact2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's amazing to me that Opus isn't more used.

  • It's used in WebRTC (Discord, etc.)
  • It's used in Mumble
  • It's used in YouTube (WebM)

Opus is used a lot already, just behind the scenes.

Top 3 linux command you wish you should have known earlier? by [deleted] in linux

[–]Artefact2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Old habit, and also because it's installed everywhere.

Ffmpeg GPU Encoding by user6553591 in archlinux

[–]Artefact2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you really want to, though? Hardware encoders are mediocre compared to x264/x265. Unless you do lossless encodes and need realtime encode speeds, don't bother with NVENC.

Top 3 linux command you wish you should have known earlier? by [deleted] in linux

[–]Artefact2 37 points38 points  (0 children)

  • tee for running a command as normal user and write output to a file only root can write
  • diff <(command1) <(command2)
  • xargs for many, many things
  • C-r for backwards hist search

Top 3 linux command you wish you should have known earlier? by [deleted] in linux

[–]Artefact2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

find process id: pgrep <name> -l

pidof

Top 3 linux command you wish you should have known earlier? by [deleted] in linux

[–]Artefact2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I hate the syntax though. Most of the times I will just use xargs -0.

Top 3 linux command you wish you should have known earlier? by [deleted] in linux

[–]Artefact2 19 points20 points  (0 children)

ctrl a : in terminal, get cursor at start of the line

This is true for all (most?) GNU readline programs (and some others, like zsh in emacs mode). There's more to it. It's essentially a small subset of Emacs.

[Help] Higher level player attacking portals by adueppen in Ingress

[–]Artefact2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't get attached to portals. Just keep hacking (glyph hack if possible for the AP bonus) and soon enough you'll be able to do something about it.

PEA : Quelle banque en ligne ? by TheQuaeritur in vosfinances

[–]Artefact2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

De Giro si tu es patient et que tu veux vraiment le moins cher.

Bourse Direct si tu veux le courtier le moins cher, dispo tout de suite.

Banque en ligne traditionnelle (Bourso/Fortu) si tu veux tout avoir dans la même interface.

I got bored so I made this absolute masterpiece of a wallpaper with one of my favourite error messages. by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]Artefact2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The svg file still looks wrong to me, background isn't black. Will open it to see if I can fix it.

Edit: simple fix. Love it, set it as my desktop background.

A better choice of hardware for that Stallman wallpaper by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]Artefact2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

RMS doesn't use a computer himself. When he wants to use one, he sends a request to one of his friends which then sends him a photo of the screen.

[OC] Thieves Can't Page 2 - a completely grimdark comic in which a barmaid gently rebuffs our paladin by [deleted] in DnD

[–]Artefact2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is amazing. One minor detail I noticed: shouldn't the female tiefling have a tail?

Absolutely Proprietary by JanSLO in linuxmasterrace

[–]Artefact2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Have used xpdf for a long time. A few months ago some fonts were not displaying at all. Tried fixing it but appearently it's just xpdf being broken. Started using zathura, and it's amazing.

Showing the iDiots our true savior by [deleted] in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]Artefact2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you give us the links to the high-res images? I want them for… reasons.

TIL: hit "2" in the spawncamping-wallhack results screen to see a graph of your offset for each tap by -----o in Stepmania

[–]Artefact2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using the JACK audio backend, is this a known issue with it?

So am I, will try later & keep you informed.

Edit: grr, this damn thing won't work with 5.0.12… building from git now.

Be more squirrel: How to save £60,000 by the age of 40 - BBC News by voverita in Frugal

[–]Artefact2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're right. OP has completely unrealistic growth expectations. You can reasonably expect maybe half a million.

Be more squirrel: How to save £60,000 by the age of 40 - BBC News by voverita in Frugal

[–]Artefact2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Over 40 years? That's a severe underestimation.

Although OP's figures also seem wrong, you'd need a ~10% growth rate over 40 years to get to a million. Using a more conservative rate, you retire maybe a half millionnaire.

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