kasabali (u/kasabali)

kasabali commented on FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons github.com/FFmpeg/asm-les... · Posted by u/flykespice

harry8 · 8 days ago

Yeah power. But less so. My phone or laptop battery lasts shorter between charges. I’m not buying more phones or laptops to take up the slack. Powering the screen dominates battery usage between charges. It isn’t nothing, sure.

I’m in no way defending electron. It’s just not taking back the power and machines saved by ffmpeg. Which is a happy accident that’s nice. Restart your electron hate all you want.

kasabali · 4 days ago

> I’m not buying more phones or laptops to take up the slack

I don't know about you, but everyone else sure does. Minimum requirements (even though not told explicitly anymore) has been constantly increasing.

kasabali commented on Good EU regulations actuallygoodregulations.e... · Posted by u/saubeidl

kehvyn · 4 days ago

The USA version is just the letters ADA in gigantic font.

Europe still hasn't caught up to ADA. I don't know any other really good laws that are unique to the US, but I'm sure they exist.

kasabali · 4 days ago

I, too, was so happy and relieved when some troll sued MIT and Berkeley over their freely available video courses.

Such a great law.

kasabali commented on FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons github.com/FFmpeg/asm-les... · Posted by u/flykespice

harry8 · 9 days ago

They run on machines that are designed to have unused computer capacity. Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones. Responsiveness is the key.

Ffmpeg runs on a load of server farms for all your favourite streaming services and the bajillion more you’ve never heard of. Saving compute there saves machines and power.

Your point is well taken but there is a distinction that matters some.

kasabali · 9 days ago

Saving compute in consumer facing devices saves machines and power, too.

kasabali commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks

officeplant · 15 days ago

Those single memory channel shitboxes aren't even fast enough to be usable during big windows updates let alone used in production.

kasabali · 13 days ago

not to even mention the "cooling" solutions they have

kasabali commented on Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie' zdnet.com/article/debian-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

zozbot234 · 14 days ago

If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway? Regardless, you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace. It should install cleanly once you add the Bookworm repos, and you'd be fully supported for quite some time thanks to LTS. It would technically be a FrankenDebian, but one that might be quite acceptable nonetheless.

kasabali · 14 days ago

> If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway

Unfortunately, nouveau is very limited and barely works (when it works).

kasabali commented on Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie' zdnet.com/article/debian-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

themafia · 14 days ago

Yea gotta get rid of the 32bit x86 code that's been around forever.

So we can add support for RISC-V which has a fraction of x86 installed base and still doesn't have an appreciable hardware standard that allows for broad compatibility between chips.

Seems highly illogical to me.

kasabali · 14 days ago

> Seems highly illogical to me

That's classic linux distributions

kasabali commented on The History of Windows XP abortretry.fail/p/the-his... · Posted by u/achairapart

anonymars · 16 days ago

Vista was an enhancement of XP. We got search in the start menu and made it a first class part of the OS with the indexer

WDM made graphics driver crashes not take down the OS plus no more window tearing

Shadow copies gave you file history (time machine without another drive)

No more running with full admin privileges all the time. Bitlocker was introduced

Yes, compatibility issues affected people to various degrees, and yes it required good hardware to run well. Intel's onboard graphics / 5400 rpm drives we're not kind to it. And there were too many editions

With good hardware Vista was peak Windows. I could go back to Vista but I couldn't go back to XP, there's too much we take for granted now

kasabali · 16 days ago

XP has had shadow copies. File history tab in explorer was first available in Server 2003, but AFAIK there was a hack to enable it in XP, too.

kasabali commented on Debian 13 “Trixie” debian.org/News/2025/2025... · Posted by u/ducktective

Paianni · 17 days ago

I suppose 'power-users' can put up with 'small-button' GUIs but I do think a general purpose GUI needs to be easy to use for people who aren't used to controlling mice and keyboards all the time.

kasabali · 17 days ago

Being able to use mouse and keyboard makes you a power user in 2025?

kasabali commented on Debian 13 “Trixie” debian.org/News/2025/2025... · Posted by u/ducktective

creatonez · 17 days ago

This was written 11 years before that debug log was added. Extremely loose connection. Things do actually change over the course of 11 years, believe it or not.

kasabali · 17 days ago

It's their modus operandi and it haven't changed, believe or not.

> it is definitely our intention to gently push the distributions in the same direction so that they stop supporting deviating solutions for these things where there's really no point at all in doing so. [1]

> Distros may deviate from this by patching this downstream, but by shipping this as secure default I do hope to gently push everybody in the same direction.

> start pushing people gently to define GPT partition type UUIDs for missing archs > Let's generate a single gcc `#warning` message asking people to define partition type UUIDs for their architectures if they are missing. [3]

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...

[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-Ma...

[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d42e4fa258701ff5e0...

kasabali commented on Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions of Dollars" in Infrastructure Costs phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-S... · Posted by u/breve

integralid · 18 days ago

There's entire 40 minute video linked (I didn't watch it yet).

kasabali · 17 days ago

filler video