[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I can't wait until Lemmy's Peertube integration is released ^[1]^. Then, iiuc, this comment section should be able to happen directly on The Linux Experiment's videos within Lemmy.

References

  1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837.]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T00:59Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837#issuecomment-2757172791.
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm not really sure what the point of this is. Why not just create communities on Lemmy for those listed topics?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

How is this intended to fit in with existing Wii emulators ^[1]^? Is it essentially just trying to offer a more convenient mobile option?

References

  1. Type: Website. Title: "Dolphin Emulator". Accessed: 2025-07-12T00:48Z. URI: https://dolphin-emu.org/.
    • Type: Text.

      Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

      • Dolphin offers emulation for the Nintendo Wii.
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

IMO, an entity that supports authoritarianism has no business associating itself with the Gadsden flag in the first place. So I'm not exactly sure what message this image is trying to convey. Is it saying that those who support liberty fundamentally support authoritarianism somehow? Is it calling out those who misappropriate the Gadsden flag?. Is it accusing those who espouse liberty of cowardice of inaction whilst they are oppressed by authoritarianism?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

For clarity, are you saying that you want to be represented by boot in the image?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The report that the Stonewall national monument's website does not contain references to "bisexuality" is false, or at least currently inaccurate: The article claims the following:

She highlighted changes to the language used on the site: “On Stonewall’s website it read that before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay or bisexual was illegal — as if living as a transgender person was not illegal at that time. Well, just this month they’ve made a new change. It now reads that almost everything about living authentically as a gay or lesbian person was illegal. ^[2]^

yet, currently, this is how the site appears:

^[1]^

References

  1. Type: Website: Title: "Stonewall". Publisher: "National Park Service". Accessed: 2025-07-12T00:18Z. URI: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm (Archived URI: https://web.archive.org/web/20250712001335/https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm.).
  2. Type: Text. Location: ¶4.
[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I retrained myself in Dvorak many years back […]

It's been a while since I've tried Dvorak, so I'm not very confident in my memory, but, iirc, I remmeber Dvorak causing some discomfort in my wrists. Not as bad as QWERTY, mind you, but I found that Workman was much more comfortable for me. Plus, I found that the general proximity of Workman to QWERTY, when compared with the proximity of Dvorak to QWERTY, made it much more convenient to use. For example, on Workman, copy and paste (ie Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) are each just moved over one key to the right ^[1]^, whereas Dvorak puts them on the opposite end of the keyboard ^[2]^, that is, when comparing them with QWERTY ^[3]^.

References

  1. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Website. Title: "Workman Keyboard Layout". URI: https://workmanlayout.org/.]. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:48Z. URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kdeloach/workman/gh-pages/images/workman_layout.png.
    • Workman's keyboard layout

      • C is 4 to the right on the bottom row. V is 5 to the right on the bottom row.
  2. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Dvorak keyboard layout". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-05-29T22:38Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout.]. Published: 2025-02-08. URI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg/1920px-KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg.png.
    • Dvorak's keyboard layout

      • C is 8 to the right on the top row. V is 9 to the right on the bottom row.
  3. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "QWERTY". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: "2025-06-18T19:29Z". URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY.]. Created: 2006-01-12. Published: 2018-11-22. Accessed: 2025-07-11T16:57Z. URI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/KB_United_States.svg/1920px-KB_United_States.svg.png.
    • QWERTY's keyboard layout

      • C is 3 to the right on the bottom row. V is 4 to the right on the bottom row.
[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. […] ^[1]^

Neat! Though, from a brief search, it's not clear to me if that means that they were the first "live CD Linux distribution" overall, or just the first company to release one.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2024-11-23T19:32Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:31Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶2.
[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

[…] But unlike pewds I’m sure they would call out a lot of cons cause they seem more relatable to normal people than pwd who calls everyone a normie.

Could you clarify what you mean here? I'm not sure that I understand.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

What bother's me about these sorts of posts is they don't give people a consumption goal. Blindly telling everyone to consume less isn't exactly fair. Say, for example, there's person A who consumes 1 unit of red meat per month, and person B who consumes 100 units of red meat per month. If you say to everyone "consume 1 unit of red meat less per month", well, now person A consumes 0 units of red meat per month, and person B consumes 99 units of red meat per month. Is that fair? Say, you tell everyone "halve your consumption of red meat per month", well, now person A consumes 0.5 units of red meat per month, and person B consumes 50 units of red meat per month. Is that fair? Now, say, you tell everyone "you should try to eat at most 2 units of meat per month", well now person A may happily stay at 1 unit knowing that they're already below the target maximum, they may choose to decrease of their own accord, or they may feel validated to increase to 2 units of red meat per month, and person B will feel pressured to dramatically, and (importantly, imo) proportionally, reduce their consumption. Blindly saying that everyone should reduce their consumption in such an even manner disproportionately imparts blame, as there are likely those who are much more in need of reduction than others. It may even be that a very small minority of very large consumers are responsible for the majority of the overall consumption, so the "average" person may not even need to change their diet much, if at all, in order to meet a target maximum.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

[…] Second thing is getting a capture card that records the resulting 1080p och 720p output from the ADC. I got a relatively cheap one which then plugs into the pc with usb-a. […]

I want to capture interlaced — not progressive ^[2][1]^. I don't want any deinterlacing done by the capture card ^[3]^.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Progressive scan". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-02-08T03:27Z. Accessed: 2025-07-09T23:33Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"Usage in TVs, video projectors, and monitors". ¶1.

      […] Early HDTVs supported the progressively-scanned resolutions of 480p and 720p with 1080p displays available at higher cost. […]

  2. Type: Article. Title: "1080p". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-06-24T11:18Z. Accessed: 2025-07-09T23:38Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p.
    • Type: Text: Location: ¶1.

      1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels […]

  3. Type: Article. Title: "Deinterlacing". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-02-18T01:05Z. Accessed: 2025-07-09T23:40Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.

      Deinterlacing is the process of converting interlaced video into a non-interlaced or progressive form. […]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

[…] First thing to do is to convert the analogue signal to hdmi. […]

Why? What's wrong with directly capturing composite? I have yet to come across an HDMI capture card that doesn't process the signal in some way (eg no upscaling, no deinterlacing). I'm doing this for archival purposes so I want the signal as unadulterated as possible. This also includes these sorts of transformations you mention:

[…] After that i setup a scene with the capture card as source and transform the output using obs to get the resolution, size and format i want. […]

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Image source ^[1]^.

References

  1. Type: Post. Title: "Dream job". Author: "LadyButterfly" ("@[email protected]"). Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works". "A Comm for Historymemes" ("[email protected]").]. Published: 2025-06-27T05:38:58Z. Accessed: 2025-07-03T06:26Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41051405.
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VHS digitization woes (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm trying to digitize some VHS tapes (presumably recorded as NTSC), but I have some questions that I've yet to find answers for. My current process/setup is as follows:

  • VHS tapes are played in a PV-D4745S-K VCR
  • The VCR's composite output is captured using a generic EasyCap capture card.
  • The captured output is fed into OBS Studio with the following settings:
    • A source with it's device set to the capture card, the video format is set to YUYV 4:2:2, the resolution is set to 720x480, the frame rate is currently set to Leave Unchanged (more on this later).
    • Under Settings>Video I have set Common FPS Values with 29.97.
    • I also have set my encoding options under Settings>Output, as well as audio settings under Settings>Audio, but the details of that aren't relevant in this context.
    • I also have deinterlacing disabled by right clicking on the scene and selecting Deinterlacing>Disable.

With this, I seem to be able to capture VHS tapes with decent quality, but I have some nagging questions:

  1. How do I verify if OBS has indeed captured interlaced? I'm trying to capture both fields, but I'm unsure if that's actually happening, and I'm not sure how to go about verifying it.
  2. Should I capture at 29.97 FPS or 59.94 FPS? My thinking is that, given that I'm capturing interlaced, I would think I would multiply the number of captured frames by 2 as, if I understand correctly, each captured frame contains 2 fields, and each would be captured sequentially, so if I want to capture at 29.97 FPS interlaced, I would need to capture at 59.94 FPS. I'm not sure if I'm right about that though.
  3. I mentioned above that the framerate under the source properties is set to Leave Unchanged. The reason for why I chose that option is because the only other options that it offers for framerates are 30.00, 20.00, 10.00, and 5.00 — ie there is no option for 29.97, nor 59.94 — so I'm using Leave Unchanged in the hopes that it's autodetecting the proper frame rate, but that's mostly an assumption on my part. The closest to NTSC's 29.97 would be 30.00, but I'm not sure if this is an issue. And what's confusing me more is that I have 29.97 FPS set under Settings>Video with Common FPS Values and 29.97 set. If I set to source framerate to 30 with OBS at 29.97, will that lead to syncing issues? Is there a way to force the source to use 29.97 to match OBS? What's confusing me further about this is that if I list the formats for the capture device with
    v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video2 --list-formats-ext
    
    I get the following output (I have truncated it to only list what's relevant, as the full output is long and contains unnecessary information):
    […]
    [0]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
        size: Discrete 720x480
    […]
         Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.050s (20.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.100s (10.000 fps)
         Interval: Discrete 0.200s (5.000 fps)
    […]
    
    There is no option for 29.97 FPS, and, as can be seen by the output, it matches what OBS sees. Is this an issue? It seems, to me, that the capture card isn't capable of proper NTSC framerates, and can only capture at 30 FPS as the closest value.
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ReferencesType: Webpage. Title: "OpenStreetMap". Author: "Adam Dunn". Publisher: "OpenStreetMap". Published: 2025-06-03T20:13:15Z. Accessed: 2025-06-04T00:18Z. URI: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/167151314.

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For example:

Articles are posted to those communities from the respective Ibis instance by @wikibot@<instance-domain>. If an article isn't present on your instance, you can try forcing federation by searching its URI on your Lemmy instance.

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  • Type: Video. Title: "Factorio lets fix video #1". Author: "kovarex". Publisher: ["kovarex". "YouTube"]. Published: 2025-05-07T22:24:16Z. Accessed: 2025-05-20T00:34Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmliviVGX8Q.
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NotJustBikes uses Linux! (sh.itjust.works)
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::: spoiler References

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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt^[1]^. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

References

  1. Type: Documentation. Title: "Bash Reference Manual". Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.

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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt^[1]^. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

References

  1. Type: Documentation. Title: "Bash Reference Manual". Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.

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