Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 1 week ago:
Ah, fair enough then. I'll be honest, most video I've got in my storage is still MPEG-2. A tiny amount is MPEG-4. I don't really have anything that's nominally in H.26x
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 1 week ago:
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 4 weeks ago:
I mean, isn't that first part exactly what the legislation was about? They want to ban porn and make people angry and desperate for a revolution. They're removing the circuses to go along with the removing the bread thanks to SNAP and other funds being frozen. They absolutely must want a violent revolution.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 2 months ago:
Or, in more realistic terms, the internet is already mostly dead. Half of the stuff that should be available on clearnet or the visible web is now hidden in Discord chats. The hope lies in things like Gemini, Tor, and Freenet, but even there the braintrust is in Matrix.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 2 months ago:
If you mean it's the hot sheets and they're never wrong, I don't disagree.
- Comment on The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity 2 months ago:
Techlords? Wait I've heard this before.
No, wait, that was the Teklords. But they're still evil enemies of humanity that need to be destroyed.