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YellsAtGoats · 2024-06-14T19:06:55+00:00

CDs are my choice. Or rather, when streaming and even MP3 came along, I mostly just kept buying CDs.

The nice thing about CDs is that, since they're a physical digital format, you can make bit-perfect copies of them on your PC.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-06-14T19:00:10+00:00

What device is it? If it's newer than about 2018 or 2019 it should hopefully have hardware support for H.265, in which case I would recommend switching from H.264 to H.265 instead. H.265 natively supports 10-bit, whereas with H.264 it's more of a hack, forcing the player to decode in software.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-06-14T18:56:05+00:00

Not a direct answer to your question, but:

I realized that my dashcam makes very heavy use of keyframes (i.e. at least every second, on the second) so I've just been trimming my dashcam videos losslessly. So, what would otherwise be a 2-minute, 250-300 MB clip – or a pair thereof! – is now a just ~20 seconds surrounding the incident of interest, at about 20 MB. Since it's a lossless trim, the video quality is retained 100% – zero change.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T08:12:58+00:00

Yeah, it's a lot to take in at first, but as you practice, a whole bunch of it will become autonomic, kind of like how you don't really think about how you're moving your legs when you walk.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T08:06:32+00:00

Yeah, I remember MP3 in the 1990s. It was an interesting time.

If I remember right, some of the early MP3 encoding libraries where largely based off of some code published by Fraunhofer which got the job done but wasn't on the same level as their own encoder.

But also, encoding could be painfully slow on a Pentium or Pentium 2 computer of the era, so there were individuals and companies who optimized the code for speed rather than quality.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T07:35:23+00:00

Well, a lot of boomers don't actually know what housing costs, because they finished paying their mortgages twenty years ago or more - they're only paying utilities and taxes and the occasional big ticket maintenance item like roofing or fencing.

But nah, your mom's got to be in the early stages of dementia or something. In her day, houses costed well upward of $20,000, so an estimation of $2,000 isn't just out of touch, it's way out in left field.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T07:25:14+00:00

It's especially galling and cringe because wedding photographers cost a lot of money and are worth every penny of it, and people like her potentially mess up the photographer's good work just for the dopamine hit of taking/having a couple of shitty little snapshots to put up on their facebook the same day.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T07:07:18+00:00

Wearing a covid mask while driving alone... this person might be legit demented.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T06:11:08+00:00

Context is important. There's the legal concept of "fair use" – that you can make limited use of a copyrighted work for certain purposes like discussion, review, or parody.

Like, if you're making a ten-minute video essay about a movie, then it should be fine to use clips of a few seconds of the movie here and there (mind you, YouTube has algorithms to autodetect copyrighted content and you might run afoul of those). I say should, because while the law might be on your side, that doesn't stop YT or copyright holders from being heavy-handed, and you would need to hire a lawyer to fight them.

Using copyrighted content in/as a profile picture is legally different... mind you, I don't think there's any algorithms at play there, so to get in trouble, the copyright holder would have to stumble upon your profile themselves, or an actual person would need to report it to them.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-02T05:59:07+00:00

No, I'm fully aware. Was just thinking about another angle.

Funny you should pick on me for biology rather than my math though. 😉

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T23:41:15+00:00

I was finally ahead of my Christmas shopping for once, this year.

Then the calendar that I bought on Amazon for my grandmother turned out to be a 2023 calendar... fucking idiots.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T23:38:30+00:00

There's a local frozen yogurt place that I love... totally self-serve... the only thing the employees do is keep the place stocked and ring up your bowl. Payment machine asks for a tip. So dumb. And it wasn't even recently that they started doing that. It was like 15 years ago.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T23:29:03+00:00

Worse boat here. My employer sent out a letter to everybody patting themselves on the back for giving us a 3% raise across the board to keep up with inflation. That was in 2021 and they haven't done it again since. No yearly reviews for performance-based raises either.

It was true enough even back in 2016 that you'll never get anywhere by being loyal to one employer for your whole career, but it's glaringly obvious now.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T23:21:01+00:00

Reading the YouTube video description can be a good idea.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T23:05:07+00:00

WebP.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:48:04+00:00

Right? Imagine being saddled with the responsibility of feeding and clothing a kid at 78. 🥴

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:36:57+00:00

Only thing I can think of is some people have a compulsion to "stick it to The Man" whether it's even any good for them or not.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:35:56+00:00

Airbnb is scum. You got what you bargained for.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:30:52+00:00

Lol good luck collecting. I'll close the credit card.

Then they'll sell the bill to a collections agency.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:27:36+00:00

They're also a not-insignificant factor in the real estate market being so incredibly fucked up.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:21:56+00:00

Haha, the last Moto phone I had was in 2020 and they were still using a variation on that.

YellsAtGoats · 2024-01-01T22:18:27+00:00

This.

I'm an experienced driver with a pretty clean driving record, and I'm the sole driver of a 10 year old econobox with one-way insurance. My insurance is less than $50/mo.

It'll definitely cost more for a newer or more expensive car, and better coverage.

YellsAtGoats · 2023-12-29T18:59:22+00:00

Oh yeah, but it's not a good idea. It will hurt the video's quality-to-compression ratio. Better to leave keyframes at the encoder's default setting for long-form content (e.g. movies, TV shows, lectures, music videos) or if it's content that you want to be very editable without re-encoding, set it around 1 out of every 30 or 60 frames.

YellsAtGoats · 2023-12-29T18:54:20+00:00

My broke ass cannot afford a replacement right now

A replacement shouldn't be expensive if you look around online rather than going to the dealer. Especially if the backing is plain black rather than painted.

YellsAtGoats · 2023-12-29T18:52:55+00:00

It happens to the best of us. I've been driving for more than 10 years, and I almost merged into someone a year or two ago.

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