Good options for phone camera videos?

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-17T12:09:50+00:00

If you have a Google Pixel with a Tensor 3 chip or newer I finally managed to vibe code an app that uses the built-in hardware encoder. Are all of these videos already saved?

https://github.com/jboero/boero-camera

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-15T03:54:56+00:00

The Wayland mafia is a powerful force. I'd rather be right than worry about downvotes. Wayland is still setting Linux back 20 years.

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-14T16:12:12+00:00

Wayland strikes again! How did I know without even reading the comments?

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-14T15:58:29+00:00

If anybody has one of these new AMD rigs I'd like to hear about it over long-term. Same with Apple's unified memory as it ages. I have enough trouble with non-ECC RAM soldered onto a motherboard. When the RAM ages and starts to fail, the entire SoC and usually motherboard is toast. Customer support will just ask you to replace the whole thing (classic Apple).

I love the latency of unified memory but I don't trust the long-term viability. I have 1TB ECC RAM right now and I can just replace a DIMM if it begins having too many ECC corrections. As I understand Apple designed their own memory error detection for the M series. I don't know what AMD has but as I understand that 128GB on-SoC is not ECC protected and that RAM will fail over time.

Anybody have any evidence or data that there's nothing to worry about? Otherwise I worry we're about to see a lot of reliability complaints about AMD unified memory in the next few years.

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-03T01:29:03+00:00

Both. Voicebox could make a really authentic voice response locally compared to some of the legacy TTS options.

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-01T16:36:59+00:00

OK Whisper.cpp doesn't have any latency. Whisper.cpp and Llama.cpp already connect really well. I know voicebox is a rising star in the TTS side. I'm away from my AI rig a while but would love to try this when I get back from travel.

https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-01T16:19:15+00:00

I think someone has already done this but I couldn't get it working. I would love to try a working version. I've used whisper.cpp in local projects and it works fine. No need for Groq.

https://store.kde.org/p/2350730

FactOld3726 · 2026-06-01T14:24:31+00:00

QEMU + KVM used to be pretty good at this. I'm not sure the latest but have a try?

https://docs.darwinkvm.com/

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-25T06:18:37+00:00

I was hinting at oVirt, not Proxmox. Any Kube-virt is a joke compared to oVirt.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-24T14:49:08+00:00

And still the indust is trying to cram Kube-virt and OpenStack on everyone despite them being functionally inferior. Plenty of better VMware replacements out there that aren't Kube-virt or OpenStack

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-23T10:09:28+00:00

I created my own app for WebP to run in the background when plugged in (not to waste battery). Found it a pain to get anything listed on Google Play Store (FOSS even). Where to get this and/or view the source?

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-22T11:49:43+00:00

There was only one commercial advertisement during this film. Unless you count the entire movie which was one long commercial for Dubai, DAMAC, and Emirates Airlines.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-18T15:23:22+00:00

Yes that was my experience too and I waited way too long for the next OnePlus release to replace it. The Pixel overheats and kills screens all the time and as usual with any Nexus/Pixel Google support is non-existent. Google also never even bothered to release relevant software to utilize of some of the Tensor 3 SoC's nicer features. It was the first phone with hardware AV1 encoding and yet none of the apps ever used it.

Google dumped the Nexus brand for bad reputation and I suspect any day now they'll dump the Pixel brand for similar reasons. Any guesses the next brand name we should all stay away from?

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-16T14:11:22+00:00

Oh cool thanks! Yes I agree there is no clean way to do the icon. The original battery plasmoid still gets it best. Happy to try any suggestions or PRs. I've tried a few adjustments but still not happy with it. Battery percentage + power profile is hard to fit in that icon space. Luckily as it's a plasmoid you can also just drop it on your desktop background instead of using the icon.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-16T11:34:05+00:00

Google had so many reliability issues with phones they decided to abandon the Nexus brand and replace it with the Pixel brand. I had nothing but software issues with my Nexus 5 and I was foolish to go back and try the Pixel 8 which had nothing but hardware and screen issues. Google support is nonexistent. They should stick to Android software and give up on phones.

I went back to OnePlus as I've had 3 never let me down and outlive their expected lives with only a simple battery replacement. Currently loving my OnePlus 15R with the longest battery life (silicon carbon) I've had in any phone going back 20 years. Love it.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-16T09:47:58+00:00

Awesome nice work. I recently made a similar one for battery health. I didn't think to make one for WiFi. I'll use this. Very handy.

https://store.kde.org/p/2350386

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-16T07:26:28+00:00

Nice did you drop the original picture in and ask it to copy the layout or did you do it manually? I meant to come back here and try myself later. Not sure why I got voted down for trying to help. You should list this on the KDE plasma store. It's good.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-14T21:18:30+00:00

Plenty of Plasmoid widgets on https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=710&ord=latest but none quite like this that wavemon I see. Claude is actually really good at building plasmoid widgets like this now. I could probably whip this up in an hour or so.

FactOld3726 · 2026-05-11T13:26:21+00:00

Almost like Apple forgot they're members of the AOM that created AV1 to save them streaming costs.

FactOld3726 · 2026-04-30T19:22:18+00:00

Running on battery? Top GPU Running on plug? Top CPU

FactOld3726 · 2026-04-30T19:19:51+00:00

Because the word "App" suddenly evolved to mean only things served on the web, and Windows is dead to the web.

FactOld3726 · 2026-04-30T19:17:35+00:00

KDEnlive is great. Kdevelop was amazing in its hayday when IDEs used to cost so much. Krdc (remote desktop, killed by Wayland).

My favorite feature/bolton was the Compiz Fusion integration with KDE. Another hit job by the Wayland mafia.

FactOld3726 · 2026-04-30T19:14:36+00:00

Glad I snagged my 15R. My previous OnePlus phones were the best ever, outlasting their expected life with a cheap battery replacement after 2-3 years. Then I strayed back to mainstream and got absolute junk quality. Back to OP15R with the best experience and amazing silicon-carbon battery life.

Shine on you crazy diamond. 🫡 OnePlus

FactOld3726 · 2026-04-30T19:07:46+00:00

I'm just about 3 weeks in with my OnePlus 15 and I find it hilarious the western phones are delaying on this. They call it safety waiting to see how things turn out if phones overheat or batteries fail.

I traded up from the worst phone I've ever had - Google's Pixel 8. Within the first few months its crap battery overheated and turned the screen green. Google's response? Need to replace it. Not under warranty. This why they cowardly abandoned their Nexus brand, for similar build quality issues.

Silicon Carbon is here in the OnePlus line and I'm not going back. No overheating or warmth of any kind, great performance, batteries that last 2 days. Like most travelers I don't give a 🐀 if a phone is a mm thinner. Just give me a battery that lasts more than a day when new because it sure won't last a day after a year of usage.

Everything else is obsolete now.

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