Amir

Amir, 9 months ago

Mp3s from YT are garbage quality, it’s double transcoding from YT’s already low quality input.

Amir, 9 months ago

Well if you save the opus or aac it’s only single lossy compression, not double unless the uploader used a lossy file as their input. But if that was the case, ripping mp3 would be triple lossy compression…

Amir, 9 months ago

IIRC Lemmy uses a massive amount of storage

Amir, 9 months ago

Baldurs Gate ;)

Amir, 9 months ago

Hahahahaha

Amir, 9 months ago

You’re an experienced player but create a new account to get matched against noobs. Since the game is free, there’s no cost to doing so.

Amir, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

How is this getting upvoted, zram is a ram compression technique of a few % and has nothing to do with preloading strategies

Edit: mb, apparently its behaviour now also includes general purpose cache. Back in the day, I remembered that it would only help for low ram devices to make better usage of existing ram.

Amir, 9 months ago

Which is DRM free…

Amir, 9 months ago

This is why I don’t trust using proprietary apps from small startups no matter how reliable the startup might seem.

Amir, 9 months ago

I made one at !tft but there’s so little interest in Riot Games even that I think it’s not worth it

Amir, 9 months ago

Honestly, the crunch on the colouring gives it an interesting stylization

Amir, 9 months ago

It actually is someone’s job at the moment; NLNet gave a grant to Dessalines and Nutomic to work on it IIRC

Amir, 9 months ago

It actually looks perfectly fine on Sync for Lemmy so I assume this is only a front-end problem. There are alternative front-ends that you could try.

Amir, 9 months ago

thanks for the free info and the free comics

Amir, 10 months ago

In theory you can use memory to precompute almost everything as an acceleration technique. For example, imagine you’re asked to do integer division (in some range, let’s say 0 to 100) without hardware acceleration. Now you could precompute all 0 to 100 by 0 to 100 division options (10000 total), and store the result of all of them in memory. The next time you’re asked to divide these numbers, you can look up the answer in memory instead of having to do the computation.

This is always a tradeoff using many heuristics and guesses for what’s worth precomputing and what’s a waste. Then there are also systems used (by for example Chrome) where the app looks at available RAM and stores more precomputations if the PC has more RAM.

But no, this is not why Firefox works fine. There was a rewrite of Firefox’s rendering engine a few years ago, search for “Firefox Quantum” if you want to know more. They shifted to heavy GPU acceleration, which brought it on par with if not above Chrome’s rendering performance.

The big issue with Firefox is that the Android app still feels unpolished, and people like to use one browser across devices for password/bookmark sync etc. They simply don’t have the manpower to compete with Android Chrome, which has the entirety of Google behind it. It’s basically their flagship product combining Search Engine, Android OS, Chromium and Material Design all at once.

Amir, 9 months ago

Finding one specific tab using their collection system is much more annoying than Chrome’s tab groups for organization, with nice drag-and-drop animations for each group.

Pull to refresh bugs out on some pages and triggers when trying to scroll up, so I have to keep it disabled, meaning reloading a page is super difficult.

There’s a problem with multi-line text boxes where my text goes in the next line when I try to type inside of an existing paragraph.

And these are just 3 random annoyances I find with Firefox. I’ve used it for two years after they brought quantum to Android, and now switched back to Chrome. Firefox Mobile is usable but nowhere near the level of polish as Chrome, and it adds up for an app I use multiple hours every day for years.

I use AdGuard DNS so I don’t have ads in either browser.

Amir, 10 months ago

I need an anime adaptation of this series lol

Amir, 10 months ago

Since NVIDIA shit the bed this gen for everything under $599 4070, these seem like decent options at their respective price points

Amir, 10 months ago

4chan is the original fish AI

Amir, 10 months ago

Hot works well now, would recommend as your default

Amir, 10 months ago

I search for “update duration Android OEMs” and to no one’s surprise find there are only 3 flagships with ok support: Google, Samsung, OnePlus

Amir, 10 months ago

You can get a small USB dongle for media if you want. Android supports USB for added storage for media.

Amir, 10 months ago

You’re meming but do you really need access to an entire 50GB music library at all times? Do you need 45GB of other media?

I mean, I know I do, but I paid the €80 premium to get a 256GB phone variant instead.

Amir, 10 months ago

Just read it, it’s good

Amir, 10 months ago

The combat becomes much better when you gain some levels. Early you only have few spell slots and cool bonus actions. I can assure you it gets better the longer you keep going, especially if you loot all the usable consumables (scrolls, arrows, etc)

Amir, 10 months ago

Legend says he’s still stuck in that store to this day

Amir, 10 months ago

Thanks, the punchline was worth it.

Amir, 10 months ago

Yeah the real problem is giving Facebook any control at all over your messaging experience.

Amir, 10 months ago

That’s surprisingly high quality for something measured in 4 digit bytes

Amir, 10 months ago

I can confirm this works on the new v18.29 and v18.30 apks.

Amir, 10 months ago

I’m with the group that refuses to ever watch YT ads, but I guess it does help reduce bandwidth if they kick everyone off that’s using an adblocker.

Amir, 10 months ago

You can also just get fruity syrup and make syrup juice with a lot of water.

Amir, 10 months ago

Everything has a negative health impact, literally even water does. The question is always about cumulative and spontaneous dosage. At what point does it become bad for you.

One common explanation I’ve seen for aspartame is that it makes your body think you’re drinking sugar while no sugar is being absorbed. This is then potentially harmful for those with a predisposition for diabetes.

Amir, 10 months ago

It’s possible that the increased risk of diabetes snowballs into an increased risk of cancer from diabetes’ secondary conditions. Making claims about “these amino acids are harmless so the substance is harmless” disregards the possible chains of events that could actually cause more conditions.

Amir, 10 months ago

The difference is that now you have the option to go to another instance and still access the same content. It’s not ideal but much better than yhe community being permanently gone.

Amir, 10 months ago

To verify you’re spending every minute on actually working

Amir, 10 months ago

We’re sorry. Unfortunately, eeby deeby.

Amir, 10 months ago

Profit for game industry is relative to sales, because the cost per digital game is practically $0, it’s all paid upfront.

You can sell a game for 1 cent and if all people on the planet buy it, it will probably still turn a profit.

Amir, 10 months ago

Insert crab rave gif

Amir, 10 months ago

Pixels are now super cheap in Europe (in The Netherlands in particular)

Could get a 7 for €400 and now 7a for less than that

Amir, 10 months ago

Fairly sure Pixels can use GCam just fine on third party ROMs and the basic photography modes give identical output

Amir, 10 months ago

Pixels are the standard for how custom ROMs should work, blame other OEMs for not confirming to standards and breaking APIs.

Amir, 10 months ago

Idk I don’t use Dual SIM

Amir, 10 months ago

Belsimpel, T-Mobile or Tele2 in combination with any carrier plan.

I assume you’re not using a Prepaid plan but if you are then my comment was misleading. Everyone I know here has a carrier subscription so I usually list those prices (but with one-time payment for the phone).

Now that the 7A is out, 7 doesn’t seem to be getting discounts anymore.

Google Store sometimes has 7A sales for ~€450.

Amir, 10 months ago

Sam Bankman-Deepfried

Amir, 10 months ago

Bluetooth as a protocol is fine, LDAC can reach inaudible compression levels.

The problem is that most Bluetooth speakers are consoomer oriented and don’t have good drivers.

Amir, 10 months ago

What’s Figma?

Amir, 10 months ago

The one person is representative for all billion Chinese people of course