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- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 week ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 week ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 week ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 1 week ago:
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 1 week ago:
Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 week ago:
Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 2 weeks ago:
The screen size needed for 8K to make a difference doesn’t fit in a typical living room.
- Comment on YouTube seems to be blocking background video playback on Samsung Internet, Brave, and other browsers 3 weeks ago:
It works fine in Firefox on Android if you switch to the desktop site.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 3 weeks ago:
It’s always an opt out. Making it a mandatory opt in will never happen in the US.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 3 weeks ago:
There is an opt out. Sign into your account, go to settings then privacy preferences and uncheck the AI training box.
- Comment on This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid — and save everyone money 5 weeks ago:
Using your battery to help stabilize the grid is going to put a lot of extra wear on the very expensive battery in your car. Whatever it saves you on your electric bill won’t be nearly enough to cover a replacement battery when it wears out much faster.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 5 weeks ago:
A lot of high school and college stations play music. You probably won’t hear many of the more popular artists, but they do play a lot of indie music.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 5 weeks ago:
In the US, non commercial educational stations are not allowed to have paid advertising.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info 1 month ago:
I can’t even remember the last time I put a music CD in my computer to play it. I always rip them to FLAC and add it to my music player library.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s useful for things like text to speech that doesn’t sound like a Speak & Spell or motion detection that doesn’t go off because a bug flew past the camera. I consider stuff like LLMs that will lie to me useless though.
- Comment on MSI's fifth-generation QD-OLED gaming monitor embraces RGB stripe subpixels — 34-inch display boasts enhanced text clarity, boosted brightness, and improved black levels 1 month ago:
It’s about time someone made an OLED monitor that’s usable for more than games and movies. I can’t stand reading text without subpixel antialiasing.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 1 month ago:
Mod Organizer 2 works great on Linux. It’s a bit trickier to install due to the way Proton works, but there is an installer for it.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 1 month ago:
Linux has been very good for a long time. It’s just gaming that didn’t work very well until DXVK came out and Valve started putting a lot of work into it and Wine.
- Comment on Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs 1 month ago:
It may be a viable option if you have a source of e-waste to salvage the chips from. Of course that will mean even more work since the chips will have to be reballed.
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 2 months ago:
I have a feeling that custom ROMs will get a lot more popular if those idiots manage to pass this.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 2 months ago:
That’s ridiculous, Android has become such a bloated mess that it will run like crap on 4GB of RAM. Even the sub $250 phones had 6-8 GB earlier this year. I miss the early versions that only used a couple hundred MB at idle.
I’m glad they are bringing SD card slots back. I wish more phones would have headphone jacks and FM tuners though.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 2 months ago:
No, but I don’t want to wait a day or more for a movie to encode either.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 2 months ago:
Hopefully they will fix the encode speed with AV2. You need a super computer to encode AV1 in a reasonable amount of time. H.265 is significantly faster for a similar quality.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 months ago:
TLDR: The ability to receive audio broadcasts without having to pair.
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 2 months ago:
Wow, that’s a bigger ripoff than Grainger. At least they give discounts for business accounts that spend a lot.
- Comment on Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears 2 months ago:
Good, it should be banned or restricted to 18+ everywhere until they start moderating appropriately. It’s absolutely not suitable for children.
- Comment on Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators 2 months ago:
It would be nice to have a dedicated block of IPv6 addresses for ham radio, but why a /16? That’s 4 billion /48 networks.
- Comment on [Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them? 2 months ago:
No, but it can make things a lot worse.
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 2 months ago:
They would have to be 21700 cells to hold 4.3AH. 18650 cells top out around 3.6AH. While it is possible to make higher capacity cells, there are some major downsides with doing so.
- Comment on You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training 3 months ago:
There’s no guarantee that deleting your account actually deletes your data. They will probably keep it and use it to train their AI.