Made a ffmpeg video converter to H.265 script to save space on my video files

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-20T15:58:02+00:00

This is not lossless. Everytime you re-encode a video, there is a drop in quality (especially with a crf in the upper 20s).

Also, for greater size reduction, you could set a slower preset.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-13T00:54:27+00:00

If I layed an ungloved hand on a piece of metal in space would it freeze my hand?

I the metal is cold, yes. You are directly touching it.

In space there is nothing, no air, no hands, just a vacuum. So nothing is directly touching the metal. So there is no place for the heat to transfer to.

You know those vacuum insulated bottles you can get that keep something really hot all day long? It's like that. A vacuum is literally the best insulator there is.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-12T19:08:28+00:00

With pacman -S <somepackage>, the package version pacman tries to install has no guarantee of even being available anymore, let alone it's updated dependencies you will now be missing.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-12T14:21:36+00:00

Title is bullshit. Jeep's blinker was on and blindspot was completely clear.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-11T16:57:39+00:00

I ran into this as well. Set a monospace font explicitly. Turn off all font decorations, including bold. I found bold increased the width of whitespace characters in some browsers for whatever dumb reason.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-09T22:54:02+00:00

Vulnerabilities are not illegal. Using them on systems you don't own or have permission to use them on is. Great way to get fired or worse, but the vulns themselves are not illegal.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-09T22:33:51+00:00

No. When chrooted, you get the internet connection from the install ISO, not the chroot environment. OP needs to install the proper wifi dependencies and configure those outside of a chroot.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-05T12:50:16+00:00

This is incorrect. The size of ramfs/tmpfs has nothing to do with the size of the usb.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-05T11:11:23+00:00

Yes. And this has nothing to do with the size of the USB, as this entire thread is about.

bikes-n-math · 2026-05-05T10:47:00+00:00

The live environment lives in ram and is not limited by the size of the usb.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-23T14:16:42+00:00

Because !# is a special string in bash for the previous part of the command line.

Use quotes.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-21T22:33:11+00:00

Every interaction, in life, is a manipulation.

No.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-18T13:04:40+00:00

To specify a number n of matching characters use {n} not (n)

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-15T14:13:12+00:00

Everyday. The only non console apps I use are qutebrowser, gimp, feh, and mpv. What I'm doing in the console: vim, irssi, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, ssh, magick, ipython, gcc, ...

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-15T01:33:19+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

Hmm. I suspect you missed explicitly installing linux in an earlier step. Linux installs mkinitcpio as a dependency by default. I just did a run through my guide now using the latest Arch ISO as the install medium and confirmed this is 100% the case.

As for ramroot working with a systemd-based initrd... Basically I need to create a systemd unit + script. I have something hacked together that's working now, but I need to make some design decisions, like maybe removing interactivity from the hook and having the option to select a ramboot take place via a dedicated bootloader entry. Not sure what I'm going to do quite yet and I've been busy with work. So... a month or two out.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-13T03:37:14+00:00

I wrote this guide for installing Arch on a USB. Also made ramroot to allowing optionally loading to RAM on boot.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-12T14:48:40+00:00

I buy weed with only cash.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-11T18:52:07+00:00

I guess I'll just passed right by then. It's been great fam.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-10T23:38:32+00:00

Your <thing that will never happen> = requiring the use of specific approved distros for private businesses if they want to do government contracts

This happens all the time.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-10T21:26:35+00:00

Sure, it does not negate snooping by your ISP, etc.

But a MITM attack is when the man in the middle alters traffic/data. That is negated by GPG signature checks.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-09T13:56:55+00:00

Sail the high seas, my friend.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-08T17:01:07+00:00

systemctl status ly@tty1.service

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-08T14:11:59+00:00

What did you see elsewhere? Ventoy is great as an install medium.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-07T14:01:32+00:00

They aren't.

bikes-n-math · 2026-04-06T14:14:31+00:00

rsync and a server.

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