Is it just me or is that website completely unusable on mobile without Reader view?
Readit Newsverwalt commented on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates audioholics.com/news/a-re... · Posted by u/speckx
As with all compressed media, resolution takes a backseat to quality of mastering / compression.
I've yet to see a poorly mastered Blu-Ray, and only watched a couple Blu-Ray 4k discs, but online streams at 1080p or 4k are sometimes rather bitstarved so...
With DVDs, some, perhaps many look just fine on a larger screen, but there are some whose mastering is very poor, and those will look really bad on a larger screen. My copy of Forest Gump features closeups where the characters face translates around on their head. But most of the other DVDs I've watched are fine. Yes, Blu-Ray would be better, but not so much that its worth rebuying.
I myself saw "Road House" on Thursday, 4K stream. A lot of dark scenes, perfect for OLED. But also very vulnerable to bitrate related quality problems. And it was fine.
But other examples, like the first season of "Reacher", look like shit in 4K. Many artifacts resulting in skintones that get pushed into green or red. Super weird.
Good encoding comes a long way, and not all services go the extra mile.
verwalt commented on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates audioholics.com/news/a-re... · Posted by u/speckx
I never got this. Yes, higher res looks better but I watch movies/shows for the story.
I mean, I totally get your side, but DVD is 1/24 the resolution of 4K and actual 4K with HDR on an OLED is simply another dimension of immersion for me.
verwalt commented on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates audioholics.com/news/a-re... · Posted by u/speckx
My wife has churned through a few video services, netflix, amazon, disney, etc.
I've seen her frustration as series come and go from the catalogs, and the lack of things that we can watch together. So recently I've gone back to DVDs.
Many local shops sell used DVDs for €1 each, and I recently discovered a store in Helsinki which is lined with DVDs basically from floor to ceiling - a little more expensive, but not much. It was fun spending an hour browsing around looking for things I remembered or wanted to see for the first time.
Sure DVDs won't last forever, but I think having TV shows, and films, on disk is going to keep me going for the next 10+ years quite happily. Maybe after that I'll switch to something else, but I struggle to imagine it.
Now rip them to a Plex server and have something like your own streaming service.
And by ripping I of course mean "create a private backup".
> Nothing has competed with Apple laptops since the M1 dropped.
That's not remotely true.
It might be exaggerated, and the Apple Silicon MacBooks still fall behind as soon as gaming or other GPU-centered tasks come up.
But having a super thin laptop that does 4K Video editing and has an really good battery life doing it, is amazing.
What they can do with 30W from the wall is simply amazing. Not even talking about the Pro/Max Chips that can decode and encode several ProRes Streams at once.
But again, some people don't just edit hi res video.
What's the difference between Android TV and Google TV? Android TV (on my Nvidia Shield) added "recommendations", which are really just ads for streaming service content you may or may not have, but are otherwise associated with things in the ecosystem. Maybe a harbinger of things to come. Like Amazon Prime Video pre-roll ads for Prime content being replaced by regular ads.
I love my shield TV Pro, but I might `adb shell pm uninstall` the shit out of it, so I can launch my apps in peace.
The Update that replaces the old launcher was the biggest middle finger I ever saw. And it's a 200€+ device. This isn't your average 20€ Amazon Fire crap.
There’s either a mistake or this is a bad metric, perhaps.
Currently the most powerful AMD iGPU is Radeon 780M (found 7840U/HS and 8700G CPUs). Judging by Notebookcheck‘s results, M2 Max GPU has up 2× the fps in Borderlands, 2.5× the fps in Witcher 3, and 3× the fps in Shadow of The Tomb Raider.
As for the benchmarks, the M2 Max GPU has 4–6× the fps in GFXBench, compared to Radeon 780M. And the RDNA3-based 780M has twice the raw compute performance, compared to Steam Deck’s RDNA2 GPU.
Unfortunately, GPUs in handhelds are always severely underpowered.
The biggest problem of the M2 Max: the games you mentioned are 3 of like 10 that run on it (might be more, I am exaggerating a bit).
I wish Asahi would move forward much faster and I could game on it, but at this point, gaming on a Mac isn't really a thing.
Source: I have one from work that I really want to be able to play. Whisky, Crossover, Parallels, I tried them all.
verwalt commented on My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage blog.jgc.org/2024/01/my-d... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
I'm running the last(?) Intel MBP from 2019 for rust and web development and haven't found any reason to upgrade.
Interesting observation: my remote junior colleague has a M2 Pro MBP with more memory than me. We're running the same OSX and node versions. Spinning up a development environment in a project using vite and a Java DB process running inside docker is about 3x faster on my old Intel than on their M2 Pro. The problem isn't anything trivial, and I'm struggling to help them figure it out over Zoom.
Not saying it isn't fixable, but I suspect there are still ARM potholes you trip on.
Docker on macOS is just a shitshow.
It's always using a VM so I am guessing Rosetta is involved and a x86 emulation ist happening. (Again, this is a guess!)
If docker is a priority, Asahi Linux might be a great option, but this will of course create new problems, as it's far from done, and switching to Linux is a project on its own.
I for myself use a Debian ARM64 VM in UTM to have the most control over the VM and then just use docker in there. Works much better than I anticipated.
verwalt commented on In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com/2023/12/23/i... · Posted by u/Vinnl
If this is on macOS, what about ⌘ ^ SPC to get the emoji picker?
Nothing happens.
But sometimes, it "works" but there's no opening animation and it instantly runs the closing animation of the pop up and it's gone again.
It's really weird.
Sometimes fn+E does work, but it writes an unwanted "e".
I know translating is hard, but it's kind of unsettling here.