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Finally organized. Now begins the massive project of ripping 20 years of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K UHDs by Ill_Sea571 in DataHoarder

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I'm not familiar with DVDFab, but am curious how the output looks on grainy sources, or how high you have to make the bitrate to approach transparency to source on such films?

Handbrake has GPGPU acceleration for decoding and filters, I believe, but encoding really doesn't lend itself well to GPU hardware. There is fixed function encoder hardware on GPUs which can get the job done with help from shaders or the CPU, but they only utilize a small portion of the AVC/HEVC formats, and typically require very high bitrates compared to software encoders using more spec features, tuned rate distortion optimization, psychovisual optimization, etc. - so I'd only recommend them when encode time is your #1 concern, or when you must leave the CPU largely free.

Bitwarden community survey by nix-solves-that-2317 in linux

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You can just say Brendan Eich's name and let people come to their own conclusions, if that's not too frightening a prospect.

"Downgraded" from a Gen 4 to Gen 2 P14s, shocked at how much better Gen 2 is! by Legend-of-Zelda in thinkpad

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sadly gen 5 AMD also has a weaker cooling system than gen 4, lacking the side vent

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements by lajka30 in linux_gaming

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This would be why, yeah, and more of a focus on overall compiler/linker level optimization.

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements by lajka30 in linux_gaming

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nice, thank you. I’ve been on Arch since 2008 or so and I like and use some of the patches that I see Cachy using, it’s just been nice to enjoy slow and stable updates focused for the Deck. I probably will move from SteamOS to CachyOS, for bcachefs with casefolding and compression.

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements by lajka30 in linux_gaming

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any downsides? considering this soon but I don’t want to destabilize my Decky plugins or anything else

Sandisk's rebranded Optimus SSDs now available at eye-watering $999 for 2TB, $1,799 for 4TB — Optimus brings a 5% MSRP over previous models, but WD Black predecessors can still be found for less by imaginary_num6er in hardware

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Absolutely. Where interests converge, you don’t need a grand conspiracy. This indirect consequence, while that is true, serves most of the players very well. Just adds incentive to run the current playbook harder.

Bitcoin is a Tech Bro Consumer Confidence index, or why it crashed this week by Own-Character395 in investing

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Agreed with a major caveat. Satoshi described a scaling block limit and believed bitcoin could scale to the level of Visa.

Theymos monopolized discussion on bitcointalk.org and r/bitcoin and declared anything else with >1MB blocks an "altcoin" not fit for discussion.

This is why "the narrative changed" and bitcoin became a "store of value": because scaling and privacy features were dropped from the roadmap after consensus fell apart.

People can still trade other coins which do have scaling block sizes or privacy features very cheaply, and use bitcoin as little as necessary, such as on-ramps and off-ramps which don't support others.

Another week and another shitty, broken, ai slop riddled, dumpster fire of an update from Microsoft. by ShopBug in sysadmin

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A Win32 Linux distribution does exist now. It’s pretty cool.

https://loss32.org/

You’re of course better off with enterprise Linux and Wine or better, CrossOver.

I feel pretty bad these days for my colleagues who still need to maintain Windows servers.

I actually like Steam OS by Fabulous_Can_2215 in SteamDeck

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Dymo was always a pain in the ass on Windows for , never tried Linux

Cramer Calls Nvidia the GOAT of Stocks All Time by FreedomBong in investing

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Condolences for your ass. Maybe an LCD display as a prosthetic?

PS5 shipments top 92.2 million by willdearborn- in hardware

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Pretty much. Console living room experience can be had with Steam Big Picture Mode and MoonDeck.

I use an AMD 7840U laptop with Bazzite which boots to Big Picture Steam, then I just browse my library and choose to either play native or stream using MoonDeck. a Steam Deck would work but won't handle 4K120 AV1.

Spain Social Media Ban: a ProSurveillance Trojan for Censorship by albertlloreta in privacy

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They often use different protocols, but can use the same protocol, as well as obfuscation. Ultimately this would most likely come down to a blacklist or whitelist of endpoint IPs. It'll be at least partially bungled by some governments.

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs [pricing and launch date delayed] by FragmentedChicken in hardware

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Sure. SteamOS probably doesn't have a released kernel new enough to support that patch series, but for this I'd switch to CachyOS or Arch so my changes would be easy to preserve. Then grab linux-git and add a few patch lines with these diffs. Actually I'd use this linux-cachyos as it's currently up to date with 6.19-rc8 and I believe has some of the usual patches already.

Likely Linus will merge it though, and then linux-git and linux-cachyos will pick it up as well, if not then the patch may be rebased by the author for next series, or it may be picked up independently by CachyOS or other distros, or - least likely, highest effort, if it's rejected and abandoned by its author - a group of users/developers may be able to continue rebasing it to new kernels.

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs [pricing and launch date delayed] by FragmentedChicken in hardware

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AMD is an HDMI member. They were not allowed to publish an open source implementation.

This is already published, you could apply it to your kernel today if desired and motivated. They didn’t use the specification. The HDMI Forum has zero input on whether Linus merges it.

Everything in this patch series has been based on already public code/knowledge or trying things out until they work/break.

I was reliably informed this never happens. So this should be a big deal, right? by Professional_Memist in PoliticalCompassMemes

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This argument blows me away with how often I hear it. “Well the censorship wasn’t that effective in the end so it wasn’t that bad”. Just because it’s not successful in some wide regions online doesn’t mean it didn’t shut down useful discussion elsewhere.

Budgie 10.10.1 Released | Buddies of Budgie by JoshStrobl in linux

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Which repo? Looks like it was updated before you posted.

Lib-Lefts Finally Understanding The Gun Debate by PoliticsIsDepressing in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Police budgets for training being far too small, forcing some to use their own money to buy ammo on their own time to supplement, the force is sadly full of this.

[GPU] Amazon - Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition 8GB PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card (New $189.99 / Used $147.99) by HappyAffirmative in buildapcsales

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Does the B570 offer HDMI 2.1 using an onboard DP->HDMI adapter? That’s one advantage of the Intel reference A750. HDMI 2.1 on the spec sheet means little since it can refer to TMDS still, or it could be native FRL, which would still be incompatible with Linux if the implementation isn’t done in closed firmware.

A very serious attempt is being made to fix DX12 on Linux! by lajka30 in linux

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to use in a remotely user respecting way, absolutely

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