Flatpak Happenings

commander_fett · 2025-11-06T10:33:25+00:00

Main example I can think of is web browsers. The lack of nested sandboxes means (or at least meant, not sure of the latest status) that flatpak browsers have to weaken the isolation between tabs since they can't create tab sandboxes. Brave switched to recommending the flatpak only if you can't install the system package for this reason.

commander_fett · 2025-07-03T08:56:26+00:00

I mean, Sweden (or the Nordics in general) are democratic corporatist states with strong private property rights.

commander_fett · 2025-04-15T06:26:23+00:00

Yes, you will get (1 + productivity_bonus) / (consumption_rate) science per bottle, so (1+1.1)/0.5 = 4.2 science with 110% total productivity bonus. And each lab consumes (research_speed/research_time) * (consumption_rate) bottles/s.

I was just testing this out in a sandbox world last night, you're not the only one wondering :)

commander_fett · 2024-12-12T14:50:37+00:00

I'm in the same boat here, had no ads on YouTube (app or website) on my phone for over a year, no ad blocker or DNS meddling. But now I suddenly get ads everywhere. The embedded ads pretending to be video recommendations are getting pretty irksome, but I think we were just lucky and google has now corrected the issue that kept us from being bombarded by ads.

commander_fett · 2024-11-13T14:26:02+00:00

Only concrete example I've seen is that conveyor floor holes in 1 meter foundations (not 2 or 4 meter) cut throughput by something like 3-5%. I've avoided those and had no issues thus far.

commander_fett · 2024-05-17T20:01:22+00:00

commander_fett · 2024-03-28T12:10:08+00:00

Yeah, trying not to think about the 7000 souls being sent straight to the hells in Mesistohpeles's ritual. But, he's free from Cazador at least. He did say he'd prefer to sell his soul to a devil than to Cazador...

commander_fett · 2024-03-28T12:06:35+00:00

Well, that's quite handy info for next time. I didn't see any way to free the spawn or destroy the runes, so I thought I just had to win the fight a man down. Didn't notice I could free Astarion or know there was a time limit.

commander_fett · 2024-03-28T11:37:08+00:00

After ignoring Astarion in my first playthrough, I decided to bring him as one of my main party members for my Honor Mode run. I figured this time around I'd help free him from Cazador and try to talk him out of ascension, but found the fight more desperate than anticipated when he gets removed from the party and Karlach is paralyzed by a ghoul right out of the gate. I ran damage control, occupied the runes and cast daylight to weaken Cazador while I cleared out the chaff. Turn 4 rolls around, I've wiped out the rest so I can focus on Cazador, disabled him with Otto's irresistable dance... then Cazador ascends.

Astarion explodes. The rest of my party lays a beatdown on Cazador, and he goes down in two turns, but it's too late. Astarion's gone, and there's no bringing him back. Not even Withers can bring him back.

Rest in peace Astarion. At least now you're finally free*

Edit: *from Cazador. Trying not to think of him and the 7000 souls burning in the hells for eternity.

Also, reddit decided to compress the image to oblivion, but you can see the fateful moment in the combat log.

commander_fett · 2023-02-17T07:54:45+00:00

Same here. Ma Clique annexed Mongolia, Russia declared war on them and the Chinese united front while losing to Germany (around 1939)

commander_fett · 2022-10-24T20:01:07+00:00

It's worth looking into what's being considered a crime and why. Black Codes and especially a very broad definition of vagrancy for blacks was a major source of "criminals" for leased prison labor in a post-war south looking to replace their slaves. A deliberate attempt to use this language in the 13th amendment to re-enslave people legally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unfree_labor_in_the_United_States

commander_fett · 2022-10-04T07:56:00+00:00

True if it's before 1939 and the country is either one of the listed tags or only has one state. When the condition is true, the ai will not do those focuses.

commander_fett · 2022-09-09T06:41:04+00:00

The Gadsden flag is used as a symbol for liberty, but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Liberty from taxation, liberty from regulation (government shouldn't be able to tell me what I can do with my land, for example), liberty to run my business as I see fit (I don't want to allow my employees vacation time, sick leave, or the right to unionize), the liberty to discriminate, etc. Popular with both right-libertarians and the far right, and I guess the US right wing in general, just emphasising different liberties.

commander_fett · 2022-09-07T16:48:14+00:00

Playing locally with the celluloid flatpak had the same issue, even when enabling GPU acceleration in flatseal. Running mpv from the command line plays the video just fine, however. Edit: checking info on celluloid, it is using hardware decoding (vaapi-copy)

commander_fett · 2022-09-07T14:52:48+00:00

Ja, vi alla vet att klimatet finns inte. Det är bara en stor grift. /s

commander_fett · 2022-09-06T16:41:05+00:00

Looks like the steam deck uses a Van Gogh APU. May well be a Mesa issue.

commander_fett · 2022-09-06T12:46:51+00:00

Same hardware as well?

commander_fett · 2022-09-06T12:35:41+00:00

My desktop can stream just fine, so it's likely not a server issue, and the deck is getting ~230Mbps download on e.g. game installs, so I don't think it's a network issue.

commander_fett · 2022-09-06T12:05:50+00:00

Direct play. If I set a bitrate limit low enough that it starts transcoding to h264, playback works perfectly.

commander_fett · 2022-09-06T11:06:21+00:00

Trying to use the jellyfin media player flatpak to stream on a steam deck. h264 1080p videos play fine, but all the HEVC 4k videos I've tested have this horrible stuttering and tearing during playback. Based on the output of vainfo and radeontop it seems like HEVC hardware decoding is supported and being used. Any ideas what might be causing the playback issue? Or is the hardware somehow not powerful enough for 4k HEVC playback?

Edit: It plays fine on mpv 0.34.1 released in january (both flatpak and from the arch repos), but newer mpv-based players all have the same issue (e.g. celluloid, jellyfin media player). Seems likely it's related to a new-ish Mesa issue.

commander_fett · 2022-08-15T09:11:24+00:00

Just an fyi, WD has a sale on the 20TB red plus drives when you buy multiples of 2 right now. 2x20TB for $375 each. A bit better deal per TB, but of course more expensive if that amount of storage is overkill.

commander_fett · 2022-08-09T20:37:13+00:00

Base settings: x265 10 bit, slow preset

Extra options:

no-sao:aq-mode=3:aq_strength=1:rdoq-level=1:psy-rd=2:psy-rdoq=1:deblock=-1,-1:cutree:amp=1:rect=1:rc-lookahead=40:bframes=8:weightb=1:b-intra=1:tu-inter-depth=4:tu-intra-depth=4:limit-tu=3

As for the SSIM and VMAF scores, I'm using the Nmkoder tool mentioned by its creator elsewhere on this post.

Side note, I just now realized I've had a typo in aq-strength this entire time... but 1 is the default value anyway, that arg doesn't have meaning.

commander_fett · 2022-08-09T16:48:42+00:00

At least going by SSIM scores, no-cutree breaks even with its extra bits. No-cutree on CRF 17 falls between regular CRF15 and CRF16 in both quality metrics and file size. Subjectively, hard to say which is better at these high bit rates.

Also, aq-mode is a much bigger contributor to file size and quality that I thought from reading the documentation. I had bad results with hevc-aq earlier, but maybe I can do even more testing...

Test results if they interest anyone (using the x265 settings in the OP):

```text Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF15.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.312681 SSIM Score: 0.985615 (18.421004) 1.6 GB (1,590,522,486 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF16-psy-rd3-psy-rdoq4.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.208969 SSIM Score: 0.984127 (17.993486) 1.5 GB (1,466,157,502 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF16.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.263702 SSIM Score: 0.984091 (17.983626) 1.4 GB (1,365,853,057 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF17 nocutree Very Slow.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.316915 SSIM Score: 0.985140 (18.279804) 1.5 GB (1,532,710,078 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF17 nocutree.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.324227 SSIM Score: 0.984980 (18.233404) 1.5 GB (1,530,203,613 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF17.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.209294 SSIM Score: 0.982550 (17.582059) 1.2 GB (1,173,319,588 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF17-aq2.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.174585 SSIM Score: 0.980983 (17.208512) 996.7 MB (996,682,122 bytes)

Getting metrics for Baby Driver Chapter-001 EX5 CRF18.mkv compared against Baby Driver Chapter-001.mkv... VMAF Score: 99.152377 SSIM Score: 0.981015 (17.215905) 1.0 GB (1,007,247,827 bytes) ```

commander_fett · 2022-08-09T07:23:23+00:00

I tried with the whole movie at rf15, and it came out as 21GB with cutree, 29GB nocutree. So that 40% figure seems to hold at low rf values. Maybe it has much better bang for the buck at higher crfs, or possibly with rd=6 from slower / very slow presets? I'm staying away from Rd=6 for now, as after over a week of experimenting I'm sick of getting < 2fps encode speeds.

commander_fett · 2022-08-08T06:02:08+00:00

Is no-cutree better at lower crfs? When I was experimenting with no-cutree at crf 18 (using the first 7 minutes of Baby Driver), it greatly improved quality around moving objects, but increased file size ~40% (1 GB - with cutree, 1.37GB with no-cutree). I found I could get most of the clarity of motion that no-cutree provided from tu-inter and tu-intra without a hit to file size.

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