wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

Most video playing apps have an option for this, I know VLC does.

It was a way of setting up video to save size while not sacrificing visual quality on old CRT TVs. Got left behind as it looks like this on more modern TVs.

So there are some exceptions to size being quality, and you've found the most obvious one. .ISO files are full copies of discs, including blank space or filler garbage data. So a DVD might only have a 1GB game on it, but the disc is 4GB, so the ISO is 4GB. Video discs are usually filled more "fully", but then there are also limitations with how the video can be encoded for DVD that tends to make the video files larger than they would be using more modern formats.

All that to say, if you aren't interested in the special features on a DVD, or the experience of switching virtuap discs, you're probably better off looking for the video files outside of an ISO file, if the ISO is of a DVD.

Blu-ray ISOs are closer to space effective, but it's still most effective to get just the video files.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

There is the (more difficult) option of finding a dev job for an older tech conservative company. My workplace has just barely rolled out access to copilot chat. Our devs are still doing things without the slop.

Look at the more heavily regulated business sectors, they tend to be more resistant to tech fads.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

5 downvotes in 7 minutes for a question? Smells like alt account brigading.

Anyway, especially with more modern accessibility tools and frameworks, why can't a design like in the OP be accessible?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Superjail, Mr. Pickles.

Pickles is just violent. Superjail is probably the most genuinely unhinged show I've ever seen.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

The most likely scenario, as many of these situations are is:

  • Person: Computer, say "I am alive and a concious being"
  • Computer: I am alive and a concious being
  • Person: Oh. My. God.
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

I found that when I followed the Viva New Vegas modpack/guide that it was quite stable for me, like only one crash in 20 hours or so, until I started added even more mods on top.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

Protip for anyone with a similarly endowed partner: back rubs and scritches right along the line where the bra clasps along the back after they take it off in the evening is wonderful for them. Least it was for my ex and is for my wife.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Man, I can't be the only one that feels like it's just a little creepy to talk about someone any of us only barely know through the internet like that. Especially knowing she's literally 18 vs the average age around here seeming to start at the upper 30s.

Anyway, from what I can tell she doesn't have much issue getting it, she's just still horny. Having the collective of lemmy effectively cheering her on probably doesn't help, even if her posts are legitimately entertaining.

I remember being a sexually active 18yo. Hormones are a motherfucker. Young, dumb, and full of cum. Had a long term GF who was just as much of a freak as I was. We used to try and beat our "high score" of orgasms per day. I was in no way "deprived" yet it was still easily 75% of what I thought about at any given moment. I found an old reddit account of mine from that time, and it is embarassingly horny as hell.

So cut the (quite) young adult some slack and don't be parasocial about it please.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

I assume you must have blocked the anime lemmy instance, or ml doesn't federate with it. It's not contained to reddit by any means.

There's a small cadre of users posting fan art of various shows and games on lemmy too, where I regularly can tell at a glance that whatever artist they're posting also does hentai. Sometimes what they've posted is even just the one SFW image from a set. Thank god for the block button.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure he's said previously that he often queues up posts in advance and just hits the submit button in batches.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hearbeat notifications man. "Yes I am online" email once a day or so. Yeah it's more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about "the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn't inherently mean everything is ok" after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.

You need to make sure you're monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it's not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.

And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it's noise, but if you don't see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going "yes I am online" is useful.

 

Figured I'd toss up a quick whine thread.

Daughter skipped her nap and is peak obstinant today. Having to "trick" her into following the schedule.

"I don't want bath! I want read book!"

We'll read some books in bed after your bath sweetie.

"Noooooooo!"

Well I'm gonna get a bath, see you later.

"No! No I want baaaaath!"

Just max threenager today.

 

Like traveling back in time via blunt force trauma to the head

 

If you like video game music, you already know this one. But this cover using real instruments is one of the best I've heard of this composition.

Man, I am so overdue for a CT replay. Just have to choose between my copy for DS or the "Plus" romhack.

 

The band has been described as doing metal/fuzz/stoner rock. This is from their album Black Hole Space Wizard Part 2. Part 1 and 2 make a complete story.

Humans escaping from a dying earth about to be devoured by the titular wizard, ship crashes with only one survivor. This track is the survivor trekking across a desert.

Will probably post a couple more from them.

 

Dankpods used 12 computers with different hardware to test the performance of 5 games in 1080p and 4K, comparing the average fps results of the games' built in benchmarks to determine which OS ran the game better across the same hardware: Windows or Bazzite.

Some notes on methodolgy under this spoiler

Each game uses the same in game graphics settings in Windows and in Linux. The Linux distro used was Bazzite, using the version specific for the graphics card hardware fpr each individual machine. To be clear, this means that he installed the Bazzite version for (legacy) nVidia as appropriate.

Each bazzite install was fresh, no copying installs or swapping around a drive with it pre-installed. After install, it was updated using system update and rebooted, repeated until no updates remained.

Screenshots of some of Dankpods's comments to this effect:

There are many comments under the youtube video pointing out that in many of the Linux runs, it was not actually using the correct driver, comments about the experience using other distros, and comments about various potential fixes and workarounds.

This misses the point. Dankpods intentionally tested this way, and used Bazzite, to try and show what this would be like for the average gamer schmuck without a ton of technical skill interested in switching to Linux. Out of box experience matters in this situation, even though it's not quite fair to compare that between free opens source distros and an OS created by a megacorp. To the average end user, it won't matter. They just want it to work.

Prepare to be upset. With this particular testing methodology, Linux doesn't really win overall.

I'm interested to hear the community's thoughts on this.

 

An absolute classic youtubepoop. Can't believe it's 17 years old.

Just about any line from this activates me like a sleeper agent. This is going to be stuck in my head for a month, at least.

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Check the new pinned post in .ml's meme community. Here's the post itself:

There's so much goofiness to unpack here.


And a bonus, this small comment thread. We're totally not a marxist instance guys but we totally are a marxist instance guys and it's such a good thing:


I can't mentally square how someone could claim their instance is general use, run a general meme community, and also openly state the community purpose is to further specific ideology. Wow.

Nothing against surfacing lesser heard voices, but that's not the place for a generic meme comm (go make a leftymemes equivalent or something), and we all know that isn't what's really going on here.

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

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