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It still is, but it's not as recommended over MPV but I'm not as familiar with what it decodes and renders wrong in comparison, but it is still suggested over VLC in Anime circles.…

Chromium based browsers have non-google sync. Vivaldi implements their own encrypted sync service and I believe Brave does as well. But I am talking about browser feature support, …

IDK where you have been for the last decade, but Firefox has not been the better option since Chromium was made Disliking Google Chrome proper is one thing, but Chromium is superio…

Nearly this entire HN comment section is upset about VLC being mentioned once and not recommended. If you can not understand why this very minor (but loud?) note was made, then you…

Smaller PT sites usually allow it Bigger PT sites with strict rules do not allow it yet and are actively discussing/debating it.Netflix Web-DLs being AV1 is definitely pushing that…

I do a lot of AV1 encoding. Here's a couple of guides for encoding with SVT-AV1 from enthusiast encoding groups: https://wiki.x266.mov/docs/encoders/SVT-AV1 https://jaded-encoding-…

The first game was good. This one is not. I don’t understand how a big game like this could have you just walking around doing nearly nothing for several hours straight. Every puzz…

We use ZFS on every server we deploy We typically use Proxmox. It’s a convenient node host setup and usually has a very up to date zfs and it’s stable I just wouldn’t use the Proxm…

No, that is called reverse causality. The type of people likely to drink artificial sweeteners most are those that are overweight, obese, or have diabetes. There is no insulin resp…

I use Octal on iOS/iPhone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server en…

I disagree. The market ready for disruption was the CPU market stagnated by Intel. It was also the perfect opportunity to put the limited financial resources behind to come out wit…

The cost of nuclear today has more to do with the fact that we aren’t building nuclear plants. There are minimum companies with small operations making nuclear reactor technologies…

LTT reviewed the Framework laptop before Linus decided to invest into the company.

While I'm happy enough with using Standard Notes for free, $15/mo for the first paid version is way too much for the extra features. I get that it adds a simple spreadsheet functio…

Akamai is heavily remote now and plans to keep it that way.

I setup a Wiki.js install as a contingency documentation plan for our company when Atlassian had their major outage last year. I liked it. I also like how the documents are literal…

Hi, owner of GitGud.io here >>Free - Yes, totally free for any user or group >Such claims are invariably false. Or, stated most generously, heavily misleading, because of limitatio…

I self host a Ghost instance for my personal blog and for any blog I setup for other stuff. No longer utilize wordpress for blogs. That said, Ghost decided this year to make Ghost …

I don’t have an issue with using the Weather app over darksky on my iPhone. My issue is that the darksky website was a pinned tab on my browser cause there’s no alternative weather…

I had a theory about this about 5 years ago as I started noticing that there was a correlation with my friends who had autism. I got a lot of heat for it though when I mentioned it…

Airbnb is not crushing hotels. The use cases of airbnbs are usually different than hotels. On top of that, Airbnb is on the verge of a reckoning with the issues plaguing the system…

While this is already very useful for my homelab setup, I’d like to see if this could be deployed on multiple servers and communicate the status to a master node to watch over all …

I’d like to see more detailed comparisons between providers like Akamai, Fastly, CDN77, KeyCDN, StackPath, etc

Funny timing as I recently, as of yesterday, found out about pv when searching for a way to view the progress of a zfs send and receive Another utility I found out about is “progre…