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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Certainly more than the Romans have done for us.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well what about the roads? Oh and the aqueducts!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, apart from the sanitation, education, and medicine... Oh, and don't forget the wine! They did give us that, too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just remember Wine Is Not an Emulator!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I wish there was an acronym for me to remember that...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I only use gnu aquaducts. Mine are arch btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Remember what the city used to be like?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Oh and the aqueducts!

The ones we're investing tons of money to replace to remove the lead?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The xylospongium!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Et tu brute Linus.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I knew peertube but never used it before. I was very surprised to be able to watch 1080@60fps at x2 speed totally smoothly, while with youtube I have to reduce to 720@30fps and even then it still hogs the cpu.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Yeah same here. Not to mention that recently they started nagging you a lot when using ad-blocker. And not to mention all the Google spyware going on on Youtube

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe it's just me but a few months ago, it seems youtube got much heavier. My laptop fans ramp when using it almost every time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've noticed that ublock will sometimes be blocking 1,000+ scripts while on YouTube. That's gotta have an effect of all those are active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Well 1000 script requests, since they're being blocked. It's not actually 1000 unique scripts.

I hope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Probably all the new ad-blocking blocking, telemetry, and data harvesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wasn't able to run it at 480p for more than 5-6 seconds without it buffering. I have gigabit fiber.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Guess it'll depend on who's providing the video at any given time. It's peer to peer, after all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hardware accelerated video decoding exists for a reason.