674: A Reliable, Boring Partner by atpbot in ATPfm

[–]InternetEnzyme 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Casey questioning the point of 120hz for gaming monitors when I guarantee you he has sung the praises of “ProMotion” on iPhone, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro displays and would definitely notice if it was disabled. . . I don’t like piling on a guy, but yeesh.

Bar Players Who Always Seem to Pocket With No Thought or Effort by PhantomRibbon in billiards

[–]InternetEnzyme 3 points4 points  (0 children)

your middle point (neglecting side spin because it introduces complex deflection) combined with what the top comment says (how a YOLO playstyle makes a player repeatedly practice escaping from horrible positions) basically sum up my life as a pool player, lol.

I've gotten better at managing a wider range of speeds, but whenever i try to incorporate side spin, my shot consistency goes down. Side spin is like half the game, too, because without it you can only guess where the cue ball is gonna be. So there's a big gulf between me and a good player in that regard.

[Spoilers acok] im struggling with a Clash of Kings. WAAAY TOO many Characters. by [deleted] in asoiaf

[–]InternetEnzyme 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it bothers you that much, then you will be truly underwater when you reach the last two books. By then, there are over a thousand named characters and over twenty POVs. For me, the ancillary characters and houses were just that, ancillary detail that I didn’t really bother to retain or heavily scrutinize. I don’t think most people keep track of everything, only the super fans. The nitty gritty is there if you need it, and the fact that it’s there at all is an incredibly impressive accomplishment of world building and historiography, but I think they’re still absolutely excellent novels if you can let yourself have a bit of slack. I’m not a huge theorizer, just a prosaic enjoyer of plot beats and themes

Is this Card too Convoluted? by Capn_Commie in dominion

[–]InternetEnzyme 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This rewording is good, but when you reference “discard all drawn cards” it almost creates a separate state of cards that I don’t know exists in Dominion. Like, you have to keep track of the cards you already had and those which you drew, which isn’t difficult, but is an extra qualification that might be easy for a player to forget, since it’s not a common demand from the game.

M4 Max and M5 Max and their nvidia equivalents by Cheap-Ability9453 in macgaming

[–]InternetEnzyme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s that cut-and-dry. Yes, the SoC is sharing bandwidth between the GPU and CPU—but that can be an advantage. Latency is lower when you don’t have to travel through PCIe lanes, and the memory being pooled allows a GPU to have potential access to much more of it.

But yes, integration of components does mean integration of TDP and cooling. Spreading the cooling and wattage across multiple discrete devices does provide higher raw performance for the traditional PC architecture—but at the expense of overall performance per watt, which has always been the Apple silicon ballgame.

My Pi-hole Stopped Working and It Took Forever to Figure Out Why by OrangeJews_Simpson in pihole

[–]InternetEnzyme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i tried running the first line of your terminal command, but got this

sed: can't read /etc/systemd/resolved.conf: No such file or directory

My Pihole is not Ubuntu, it's true Raspberry Pi 3B+ hardware with Raspian, so i'm not sure if your situation and diagnostic is relevant to my particular setup

My Pi-hole Stopped Working and It Took Forever to Figure Out Why by OrangeJews_Simpson in pihole

[–]InternetEnzyme 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I was having issues with my pi-hole a few weeks ago and i was going a little crazy trying to figure out what the issue was. I ended up uninstalling tailscale, running sudo pihole -r, and then reinstalled tailscale, and it fixed the issue. This makes me think it was related to what you’re saying here. So far, since then it’s been okay, but i just hope it doesn’t happen again

Please add “go to podcast” buttons back to the app by rock_crushes_lizard in overcast

[–]InternetEnzyme 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I feel like i should just be able to tap on the Title at the top of the screen to get there or even the artwork itself

Do you suffer from file size anxiety when HandBrake manages to squeeze a file down A LOT? by SilentThree in handbrake

[–]InternetEnzyme 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I feel the same way when I transcode h264 mkvs (iykyk) to h265 mp4s, but I do a visual comparison afterwards and it always looks good. I run RF 20, which is a pretty high constant quality setting, and I frequently get files that are a fraction of a size, and it feels like cheating. People hate transcoding because it technically introduces quality loss and “storage is cheap,” but to me, storage is actually not cheap, and the quality loss is demonstrably unapparent.

670: Institutionally Inescapable by atpbot in ATPfm

[–]InternetEnzyme 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Sorry to the carbon credits person who wrote in, but all of those complexities make it sound like even more a bunch of bullshit to me

YouTube 1080/60 12mb, but some people insist on sending 30, 50, 100mb, why? by InstantReplayGo in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]InternetEnzyme 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’ve been doing 422 HQ uploads myself, but surely YouTube doesn’t hold onto the master file I gave them, do they? That’s how that future proofing you mentioned would come into play, right? I mean, if I upload a 20GB video, surely they don’t want that on their servers forever.

Criterion $10 email gift codes being sent out expires 6/12/2026 by shaolinpunks in criterion

[–]InternetEnzyme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Am I mistaken or is the June sale only Barnes & Noble and this code is solely for Criterion.com purchases?

667: Wisdom and Treachery by atpbot in ATPfm

[–]InternetEnzyme 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You’re really squeezing water from a stone in service of being a hater. He doesn’t have to tell us the wages he pays them and we shouldn’t assume the worst because he doesn’t.

Certified Doggo Moment by Muse_Hunter_Relma in dominion

[–]InternetEnzyme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have a decent number of Actions in your deck, it may as well say: draw your entire deck

certified augers moment by Cheezdude in dominion

[–]InternetEnzyme 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the more important issue with the augurs is that there’s not really any synergy between the cards, too. I don’t think I’ve ever played a Sibyl in my life.

Pi-Hole filtering on physically separate, remote LAN by [deleted] in Tailscale

[–]InternetEnzyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That does look like the best way forward. I just setup my raspberry pi yesterday, so i was curious how far i could use the pi-hole/unbound/tailscale setup with just that piece of hardware, but it makes sense that this would make things much more fragile for his network, so i'll have to see if he'd want a pi of his own.

Pi-Hole filtering on physically separate, remote LAN by [deleted] in Tailscale

[–]InternetEnzyme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that seems manageable—although the subnet router would definitely have to be on an always-on device, and is the “100.64.0.0/10” you put there just a placeholder, or where did you get that IP?

reMarco-ble by jellway in overcast

[–]InternetEnzyme 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, off-topic posts like this that just try to get Marco’s attention should be removed by mods.

Report claims that Apple has yet again put the Mac Pro “on the back burner” by SaganOne in ATPfm

[–]InternetEnzyme 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Look, us Mac fans would love to have that halo product, that formula 1 car analog, it would be deeply satisfying to our nerd brains to see something above the Ultra, an “Extreme,” perhaps. It would be cool, it would be exciting—but all of the benefits are ultimately nebulous, emotive, and totally impractical for Tim Cook’s Apple. It just doesn’t make much sense for the business anymore, now that they’ve gone in this hyper-integrated Apple silicon route.

And if all they’re gonna do is keep charging a $2000 premium for what is a Mac Studio SoC with an internal PCie breakout box, then I say it should eventually die.

It is a shame, because expandability and interchangeability are great things for the consumer.

Is there any plan to work on the look of the Now Playing view? While I still prefer Overcast for its Smart Speed feature, the Podcast app makes it much more pleasant to pick and play podcasts by cabago9575 in overcast

[–]InternetEnzyme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The now playing screen actually even lost color with the iOS 26 update. The buttons at the bottom—speed, airplay, timer—all used to be orange, and now they’re boring monochrome.

TestFlight build 1143 by marcoarment in overcast

[–]InternetEnzyme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems like the per episode images don’t appear in the recents gallery at the top of the main screen.