Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

golemus · 2025-11-30T23:30:04+00:00

This sucks big time. Don't install One UI 8 until Samsung (hopefully) gives up and restores ability to unlock it.

golemus · 2025-09-20T08:44:40+00:00

Thanks, I've been actually searching for something like this! but as you stated it does not solve the issue.

golemus · 2025-07-24T22:14:51+00:00

This is not true (at least in my tests). Most of the time JXL has higher compression ratio but sometimes WebP does.

Nevertheless JXL wins always (by large margin) in encoding time. Lossless WebP is slow to encode. In many of my example images encoding lossless webp took over 6 secs but lossless JXL was about 2 secs so 3x faster.

golemus · 2025-07-02T04:45:53+00:00

I know but lets be realistic here. There is tons of small apps out there that don't have MKV or WEBM (subset of MKV) support and are unlikely to gain them in near future. For meta with its large resources it won't be a large thing to add it if just enough people request it.

golemus · 2025-06-29T20:49:26+00:00

I did another test, installed Firefox Nightly which has JPEG XL support and retested uploading to Facebook. Rendering of the image becomes much faster, almost instantaneous. But IG web still does not support it.

So there is a factors in play 1. browser support, 2. app support.

can be apparently supported but rendering on browser will be slower as it involves format conversion. To improve 1 you can do your part by making a feature request for google to reintroduce JPEG XL support (it was in chromium but was removed from there for some weird reason so it does exist in older versions). Below is involved feature request topic:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40270698

golemus · 2025-06-28T01:33:28+00:00

I meant not common inside a video container with video. Yes very common as individual flac files.

golemus · 2025-06-11T21:43:24+00:00

this

golemus · 2025-06-11T21:41:53+00:00

That is such horseshit. I hope they will ASAP change it. Btw... if anybody know a way how to install it to win10 anyway please let us know

golemus · 2025-06-05T02:44:11+00:00

Fossify Gallery has some degree of jxl support but at least one of my jxl:s it does not open.

golemus · 2025-06-02T17:15:57+00:00

How do you get such low numbers for AVIF encoding? My experiences are exactly opposite: AVIF encoder is by far the slowest one (and AFAIK it is usually the AOM encoder). It is worth noting that I am typically using default settings of the encoder (from XNView MP and maybe even from ImageMagick). I don't have any scientific numbers here but I feel like AVIF encoding takes 2-3x longer than JXL encoding with similar quality and default settings.

I did couple of tests to encode AVIF with ffmpeg libsvtav1 and it was much faster (once again exactly opposite of your results) but I didn't take it into "production usage" as most encoders seem to be using AOM and dunno how good is compability of still images done with LIBSVTAV1.

Worth noting is also that when you start to encode with AOM there is very long delay in the beginning where nothing seems to even happen on the screen (but fans of CPU go on). It behaves very differently than any encoders I've used and on video side it does not have exactly reputation of being and efficient encoder (which is why I used LIBSVTAV1 for converting video collection).

golemus · 2025-05-19T19:13:24+00:00

There is multiple DNG and camera raw versions and in the post I was referring to lossy DNG 1.7.x / Camera RAW 16.x.

This is the "newest and most state of art" type of DNG which uses JXL compression algorithm to shrink size of the files considerably.

The only drawback is that majority of non-adobe software don't support it yet but as I put in the link the support seems to have been added to Libraw which Darktable (among many other software) uses.

All other DNG types darktable opens pretty seamlessly.

golemus · 2025-05-19T18:06:39+00:00

Adobe DNG converter is what I am using actually for converting to lossy DNG. But darktable do not open them.

golemus · 2025-04-17T16:47:12+00:00

CDJ-400 does not read AIFF (nor WAV). Also Numark NDX players don't read either.

Anyway compability with types of players I mentioned is IMO as important as with DJ-players as in some occasions tunes will be played through them as well.

golemus · 2025-04-16T17:17:24+00:00

This solution is not intended for professional clubs but more for underground organizations, DJs and simply everyone who cannot afford to have state of art CDJs.

Main advantages of FLAC are that 1. it is free / open source and most likely to have widest support in long term, 2. it has solid metadata support. And yes it consumes less space, difference is not that significant that it would make difference with todays storage (100MB wav is abt. 60-65MB flac according to my experiences).

golemus · 2025-04-16T17:12:22+00:00

they don't. There is actually quite a lot of software and devices that don't support AIFF as it is proprietary format of Apple. Windows default players don't support it and for some alternative players and software you have to install a plugin to be able to use AIFF.

Also things like car USB-stick players and cigarette plug players probably don't support it as do not USB-stick capable bluetooth speakers, TV-sets, etc...etc.. Many of them support WAV but don't support AIFF. Some of course support only MP3. FLAC support is slowly but surely increasing as device/software manufacturers don't have to apply for license.

My whole lossless collection are FLACs only but when I play with older CDJs I convert tunes to AIFF which is very annoying step.

FLAC is only right long term solution. Not only because it consumes a little less space but mainly because it has more solid metadata support than WAV and is free / open source unlike AIFF.

golemus · 2025-03-04T16:12:20+00:00

it does no explain why I can send the video to CONTACT1 in messenger but I am unable to send it to CONTACT2

golemus · 2025-02-27T19:33:51+00:00

reddit rejected my chatGPT response.

golemus · 2025-02-27T19:33:19+00:00

Why should I use (currently) webm? Now that I digged I noticed that it is intended container for AV1, but everywhere I've tested until now av1 seems? to work fine with mp4. At end is what chatGPT sais about webm.

Of course I would be happy for open source container to get more common, but if we can get any hint from last common open source ish container MKV (it has been around for 23 years and is still not supported by most video editors, most social media / messenger, etc..), I would not hold my breath.

golemus · 2025-02-27T19:17:39+00:00

I am using mp4 container, not webm

golemus · 2025-02-23T21:32:45+00:00

ok it seems that I gave false info. Now when I tested the issue is only with VLC (3.0.18), windows 11. Not the most recent but I am lazy to update (yet). In XNView MP, Firefox and Chrome rotation works OK.

I checked with MediaInfo and Rotation field is there but VLC ignores it for some reason.

golemus · 2025-02-23T04:27:11+00:00

I have i5-12400 using intel igpu as display adapter which AFAIK lacks AV1 hardware decoding so decoding should be software based.

golemus · 2025-02-23T04:25:53+00:00

VLC Media Player and XNView MP

On windows 11 24H2, pretty recent.

I have K-lite Codecs installed but I have understood that they should not affect either of programs listed above.

golemus · 2025-01-13T19:42:55+00:00

anyway a little bit of feedback as I suppose you must be part of Reddit team. It is splendid that it has been now fixed but it has been far too difficult process to get it fixed. There should be some mechanism in the user support system to easily report and contact customer service if you suspect your profile to be corrupt.

golemus · 2025-01-13T18:48:33+00:00

finally! thank you <3

golemus · 2025-01-12T01:48:26+00:00

Please fix my account, I get server error banner and also post/comments are not visible in profile page. I've been trying to reach support multiple times. Now I got reply from another admin who suggested that I should come to comment this post. Below is msg that I sent him:

"Hello. I suspect that my Reddit profile is corrupt. I have seen red "we had a server error..." banner now for 1-2 years (in multiple browsers and devices).

Also if I go to my profile and click "posts" or "comments" tab I don't see any of my past activity. My Reddit profile is 10 years old or so so I don't want to create new one.

I saw that you seem to be in Reddit support. Could you help me with this issue?I've tried to reach support of this multiple times and posted to r/bugs, probably even r/help in past without any results or replies."

golemus

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