gerowen

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[–] gerowen 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure. I've only noticed it on my TV and have even noticed it with content that I personally ripped from DVDs or Blurays and encoded to x265 or AV1. Since it only affects the TV apps I'm wondering if it isn't a lack of support for some color space or something by the TV hardware because when I'm encoding I don't usually change anything about the dimensions, color space, frame-rate, etc., just the codec and quality. If the video is 10 bit, I encode it as 10 bit. If it's HDR, I pass that thru. I've checked with the mobile and desktop app and the web player on content the TVs had issues with and those same files played fine everywhere else, so it's something specific to the LG and Roku apps for Plex.

[–] gerowen 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do my own ripping direct from disc and I've still seen it happen. So far it's exclusive to the TV apps so I think it's something to do with the lack of hardware support for certain things.

[–] gerowen 6 points 1 week ago

It had the best loading animation with the comets flying by. Much better than IE rotating and becoming the planet earth. This was back when you actually had to wait for pages to load.

[–] gerowen 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is one of those things that wouldn't surprise me in the least. Something has felt "off" for a while between him and Russia. But I'm not gonna go spreading it around as if it's fact if I have no evidence.

[–] gerowen 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Plex has recently started applying a green filter to certain content.

The files Plex has a problem with work just fine in Jellyfin.

 

In Skyrim while doing the quest for Clavicus Vile, if you refuse to keep the axe, but then speak to Barbas to interrupt him while Vile is telling him to "get over there", Barbas will not teleport to his place at the statue. BUT, you get an extra line of dialog from Barbas that you don't hear if you let the dialog play out without interruption. Afterwards, the statue of Clavicus Vile disappears completely and Barbas just continues to wander around the cave in dog form.

 

Seems like so far, as far as anybody knows, only the Zotac "Solid" cards are affected.

First paragraph reads:

TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. At the time we didn't pay attention to the ROP count that TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.

 

Subtitle: Qualys finds two worrying bugs in OpenSSH

When I checked my personal rigs Debian had already released the patches and my home server had already auto updated itself.

[–] gerowen 49 points 1 week ago

If you're offending Trump supporters then you're doing something right.

[–] gerowen 91 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft. ;-)

[–] gerowen 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand how people do things like shopping on their phone. I mean if you're only buying one or two items, sure, but if you're doing grocery pickup at Walmart or something how do you even function on a screen that small? You can't do any kind of comparison without flipping back and forth between multiple tabs.

Mobile is fine for reading articles, instant messaging, etc., but there are a lot of things that are absolutely better on a laptop.

[–] gerowen 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I've thought about it; but with a wife and two kids it would be difficult if not impossible to pick up and move somewhere else and start all over.

[–] gerowen 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

They are regulated, but there's a lot of breakdowns in the system. People passing background checks who shouldn't, prior offenders passing background checks because local cops didn't report them to the feds, etc. The DC Navy Yard shooter years back literally had fired a weapon into his neighbor's apartment before and still passed a background check to buy the weapons he committed the shooting with. I also think if you're a parent and you leave your weapon accessible by your children, and they go shoot up their school, you should be held at least partially liable. As somebody who is former military, the civilian population gets away with a hell of a lot with regards to firearms. No federally mandated training standards, concealed carry licenses are haphazard and go state by state, and not all states recognize other states' permits, no federally mandated storage requirements, etc. When I was in the military, if I wanted to go target practice on base with my personal weapons I had to register them with the provost marshal on base, keep the weapons and ammo separate in locked boxes out of my reach while driving to the range, etc. And if one weapon went missing the entire base was locked down; gates closed and nobody in or out until it was located. Civilians get by with way too much.

I think a lot of our problem is loose or missing standards at the federal level, which leaves each individual state to kind of make things up as they go along and not communicate properly with feds when things go wrong.

[–] gerowen 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

1975 was 49 years ago, that's basically half a century, 😋

 

Facebook is a cesspool. I run a small "tech news and tips" page that local friends/family follow and where I'll post little tidbits. Today I made a post about "compartmentalizing" your online life and I didn't think and included the word "hack" in the post. It's just comment after comment of crap like this.

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