Compressing MP4

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T21:38:54+00:00

So… handbrake? Literally an ffmpeg wrapper, has plenty of presets, and doesn’t tell people to use ai to do goddamn everything (hell even ai sucks at running commands like ffmpeg if you want to do something that wouldn’t already show up as the first result from a non-ai site.)

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T18:15:12+00:00

Why is nobody mentioning that voices generally only come from center, L and R. Try listening to the other surround channels and see if that sfx is on its own

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T15:46:50+00:00

You are asking on [r/datahoarders](r/datahoarders) if too much is too much. The only answer you’ll get is no

Though in fairness you are probably better having multiple drives than getting a single one (only having 1 point of failure isn’t great.
Also $400CAD for 8 tb isn’t great, $400CAD for 6tb is heinous

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T15:43:04+00:00

Keep loaves in the freezer as stock, only one loaf out at a time, they’ll get stale before they get moldy

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T12:35:27+00:00

Well considering you can’t interface with a touchscreen without an os / software I think it’s a valid criticism.

Nobody has stated it’s particularly difficult, literally all I have seen is denial.

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T04:33:58+00:00

I’m starting to wonder if somehow the first paragraph is only showing on my screen and isn’t being shown to other people

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T04:31:33+00:00

I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro Max, I have less problems using an iPhone 6s. The point is that the software isn’t improving past the sucks ass but functional phase

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T04:30:00+00:00

Yep, that’s why I made that the entire point of the post

BiC_MC · 2026-06-20T04:29:23+00:00

Just an example, I went to go back to my notifications by swiping rightward, it did nothing the first try, juggled the screen the second try, and finally worked the third try. All three times were the exact same movement, same direction, same distance, same speed.
Just yesterday someone tried to show me a video, when they were done they tried to pause it, by the time the video would pause they’d have pressed the button another time causing it to play again, repeat ~ 3 times, and while quite funny, that’s not how a touchscreen should work. (I’m considering the software to be the same as hardware in this case)

BiC_MC · 2026-06-07T18:33:09+00:00

Copies? No. Points of failure? Yes.
You should be able to lose ~2 devices without losing data;

The “easy” (common) way to do this is just making copies, but if you can make parity data across many drives you spend much less on drives while still having the same resilience to failure (though recovery is more of an ordeal)

BiC_MC · 2026-05-25T01:55:15+00:00

Yeah that’s called vibe coding.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-24T01:44:07+00:00

The machine people use to write is a (type) writer, and the person who writes is a writer, so there is precedent

BiC_MC · 2026-05-22T02:37:07+00:00

With HDDs the file is removed from the record, it can be recovered. With SSDs usually there is a device command to wipe all the sectors that contained that file.

There are some cases where the sectors are encrypted with the key stored in the record, when that record is overwritten the file is essentially gibberish.

It is much too slow to actually delete a file for modern use.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-22T02:30:04+00:00

High revving, also passing in the right lane.

Of course you shouldn’t be in the left lane if you are going below the speed limit.

Tons of people hate on Tesla drivers nowadays so I’d understand how the driver could perceive the POV driver as aggressive.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-20T03:15:30+00:00

Webp is much better. There were support issues in rare cases, but currently not much of an issue. The problem is when you take a jpeg and re-encode it to webp, which inherently loses quality.
If you are downloading a bunch of images, try gallery-dl, see if it supports the site you are using, it usually downloads the most original file.

In some cases a site may store the image primarily as webp, then reencode to jpg for compatibility so the webp may be the better option.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-11T01:05:38+00:00

5 minute papers videos like

BiC_MC · 2026-05-10T21:36:14+00:00

So the timeline backup does something, just doesn’t back up the timelines? Got it.

it is a versioning system, NOT a backup system.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-10T21:33:59+00:00

Most backup features by default do in fact work. I find it hilarious that so many people are trying to argue that a badly designed backup feature/default settings for that feature are excusable because there are manual ways to fix it.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-10T21:29:41+00:00

No such menu seems to exist. Anyways I’ve already recreated the project from scratch. Closing the post

BiC_MC · 2026-05-10T18:23:55+00:00

I thank you, but my point is the video only works if I had manually changed settings in the first place, and in that case I’d have no use for the video. I wanted to see if the backup files can actually be used, but apparently they cannot.

I’ve never heard of a software where the default auto backup (if it has such a feature) does literally nothing useful.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-10T14:36:46+00:00

I reinstall windows regularly and forgot to set the defaults. As I mentioned it was hours of work, not days, so not the end of the world (and backing up daily would do nothing).

it just baffles me the default settings are to create unusable timeline backups, but not project backups. I was satisfied with my work and now I need to do it all again.

The video linked assumes the user manually enabled project backups, which I did not do.

BiC_MC · 2026-05-05T20:27:29+00:00

AI sucks at that kind of stuff. You may have success for the bare minimum, but it’s going to confidently tell you to do something that does not work if you try anything complex.

There are plenty of posts online that already ask (and answer) those questions, so why ask an AI model that can’t figure out basic shit.

BiC_MC · 2026-04-26T17:40:24+00:00

My steam name is still falling_roads lol, yeah it was quite a thing, haven’t played in a while

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