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Final update with the job: despite me changing my settings, my device still could not pass the test (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Angel@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Yep... to be clear, the test is a load test. It consists of a bunch of people being in a Google Meet call, and I have to share my screen and play four 1080p YouTube videos at once as there are 9 other people in the call to put a lot of pressure on my processor.

Unfortunately, in the process, my CPU has a utilization of around 90% for the most part, and they say, for that reason, it didn't pass the test.

For this reason, I'll have to move on from trying with this job, but at least I got this far.

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[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok so if you were interested in cheating this test I can brainstorm a few ideas.

Create your own basic nature videos favoring simple low detailed scenes from a low res & low fps source then upscale to 1080p 60 fps and upload to youtube. Don't include audio tracks. This could reduce the load while not being that noticeable on screenshare
Use brower scripts to change the videos to lower resolution. Would take some experimentation to do this in a way that isn't spotable (usually these work on page load but you could delay them. Then there is issue of youtube maybe showing an indication of it changing.
stage manage the screenshare if possible. I'm not familiar with google meet but if you're able to get it to accept obs as a source then you could show a prerecorded taskmanager window at low utilization and/or prerecorded footage of the youtube window already rendered at your desktop resolution.
false task manager application showing low utilization. I don't know this exists off the shelf.
I'm assuming you can't physically borrow a faster PC since that would have been the first thing you would have done but have you considered if you know anyone with a beefy PC that will let you remote into it or a vm on it?

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are some clever ideas, but I'm probably not gonna try again because it's more trouble than it's worth. They'll likely have some means of catching on to it. Hell, they were even reluctant to retest me at first because they thought there was not gonna be any improvement whatsoever, but I managed to convince them to try once more and shit still didn't work.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

You gotta follow your gut but I will say that my intution is someone who uses youtube videos over screenshare as a benchmark rather than an actual benchmarking tool will not have the presense of mind let alone the means to notice a deception.

[–] TheTaglineToldMeTo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I agree with doing deception but another idea even if you aren't going to try again would probably be something like https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify with hardware decoding for better performance on an old system if you want, YouTube absolutely loves to crush the bitrate on ~~modern codecs~~ everything anyway >:(. This test also just seems totally unrelated to the requirements of the job lol, at least somewhat more rational "2GHz" i guess...

peppino-why classic bs! im sorry you have to deal with this shoulder-grab