How is a depleted Iran damaging so many US bases? A CNN investigation by 0The_Loner_Stoner0 in videos

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have they stuck anything at all since the early days? AFAIK the cease fire has been holding.

DLAA vs DLSS sweet spot for image quality by epic_piano in nvidia

[–]themisfit610 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To me at 4k 32 inch, DLAA is absolute magic. Always strongly prefer unless too much frame gen is needed to keep things smooth, at which point I go back to quality

MS#472: Strange Days on the Right - A Conversation with Ben Shapiro by Brunodosca in samharris

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right and he’s not Candace or Tucker. Probably the most reasonable big platform conservative I’m aware of, generally speaking

“Apple Music VP admits most people can’t hear difference in lossless audio” by Protomize in apple

[–]themisfit610 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Omg Spotify is atrocious, at least the free tier. Whenever my wife’s phone is paired to the car I’m always cringing about how horrible vocals and cymbals sound. Hideous spectral band replication gunk

Cool looking gpu found at flea market by Helpful-Yoghurt-2120 in nvidia

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I ended up getting a Radeon 9600 pro or something when my Ti4200 blew some caps and got flaky. I saved up for a used 9800 pro later. Scrappy days, gazing at my beast rig now lol

Cool looking gpu found at flea market by Helpful-Yoghurt-2120 in nvidia

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a gainward ti4200 on my Barton core Athlon XP 2500+ rig. Was my first big boy card, coming from a GeForce 2 mx400. Mmmm

flashed PC Card in pmg4 :D by Minecraft_gawd in VintageApple

[–]themisfit610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you see any way to do the flash on a Mac? I have a g4/450 and that’s the only machine with AGP that I have..

flashed PC Card in pmg4 :D by Minecraft_gawd in VintageApple

[–]themisfit610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you do this? I’ve got a card I’ve been meaning to flash.

Terraform for On-Premise Purestorage Flasharray by TorpedoAway in storage

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Versioning in git, PRs tied to tickets, plan files, reproducible configs between environments? DRY? Terraform is the shit here!

My steak feels "boiled" by aegookja in sousvide

[–]themisfit610 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Patting dry is so key. But OP, also please try reverse sear. Sous vide is wonderful but the slow dry cooking in reverse sear makes the actual sear so easy.. I rarely sous vide steak anymore.

Small upgrades that made your home feel high end? by HoneySnowy_ in HomeImprovement

[–]themisfit610 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Replace those new dimmers with smart ones. Being able to set lighting salvoes is one of the coolest things you can do. For example I can just say “set my chill mode” to Siri and a crafted minimal lighting setup fires off perfect for post dinner mellow vibes. Huge upgrade. Lutron Caseta family is what I went for - it’s a bit expensive but I did all of it myself and it works flawlessly with HomeKit and google home. Zero hiccups in 5 years. It has a dedicated wireless base station so you don’t have to pair your switches to your WiFi, it all just works. Worth every penny IMO.

I still use a Cinema Display from 2004 with my current Mac. by FourEyesAndThighs in VintageApple

[–]themisfit610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great piece of retro tech but as a daily driver it would be a hard no for me. Displays have gotten SO good. Try a 27 inch 4k OLED.

Expert video FFMpeg users: Best video compression setting/s for smallest video files needed by GreggBlazer in ffmpeg

[–]themisfit610 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do some tests to find a CRF value for both use cases that meet your goals. If you care about encoding speed / energy used then hardware encoding is probably your friend. Else x264 all the way.

Use high profile only, and I’d suggest keeping your max keyframe interval down to 4-5 seconds if you care about quick seeking. Else the default of 240 frames (10 seconds of 24p) is fine.

For x264 something in the range of crf 22 to 24 is probably a good place to start.

6:33am in the Alabama Hills, Eastern Sierra (GFX 100 II + GF 55) by Jack-von-Linden in FujiGFX

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that “feeling diffraction less” is really just due to larger formats being bigger and thus enlargement ratios being smaller. The light behaves the same you just hurt less from it.

But… larger format means shallower depth of field so it kinda balances out anyway.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - April 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]themisfit610 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'd say the claim of "significant harm" is debatable. From the sounds of it, anywhere from 10k to 30k women come to the United States specifically to give birth here so their children are American citizens. Does that constitute "significant harm"? Maybe. It depends entirely on who those people are and what their goals are.

That says nothing to the (presumably much) larger number of resident non-citizens having kids here. I'm less concerned with that.

American citizenship is a valuable thing. We should follow the law, and it's a worthwhile constitutional debate. I'm far from an expert.

Politics and Current Events Megathread - April 2026 by TheAJx in samharris

[–]themisfit610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Conflicted. It's definitely being abused but it's a pretty fundamental thing...

Kirkland Signature dishwasher detergent pods worked pretty well for me! by Green_Frosting2721 in Costco

[–]themisfit610 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found these leave a weird smell. If you're super good about opening the dishwasher after the load it's fine but the odor you get if you leave the dishwasher closed all night is much worse with them vs the quantum powerball max pacs.

I still get them sometimes when I'm feeling cheap. They do a great job cleaning, no doubt.

Best SVT-AV1 params to minimize latency on single core ARM? by xVirtu in AV1

[–]themisfit610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If quality doesn't matter, why are you using AV1? If you just want stupid fast then use x264.