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We need more nuclear power ASAP

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm glad Fedora has GNOME as default. The KDE spin appears to be well-maintained enough for those interested to enjoy it.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

FYI, the Pixel 8's processor is certainly less efficient than the S23's. If it is reportedly getting better battery life, that's likely software related.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It sounds like it is time to defederate. We'll miss the instance but we understand why it must be done

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

Let me know when you can use RCS on an Android phone without Google Play Services outside of Google Messages

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

Sounds like you're entrenched. If that's the case, don't look at Linux until you've accepted that things aren't going to be identical to Windows & there will be drawbacks to your workflow as well as benefits

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

I don't think I'd be the same person without Adventure Time

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

I think if Reddit was really good, 90% of the people here would not have a good reason to use Lemmy. I was on Lemmy before the blackout & it wasn't great; had I plugged it then, many would be reluctant to switch. Now, it is amazing, and Reddit ensured that Lemmy got a nice influx of users to make that happen :)

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

Have you tried Molly FOSS, or are you using the standard one with proprietary dependencies? Is there a meaningful difference in day to day functionality?

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

If you look into it a bit more, the resistance around WebP is mainly because it has some crippling weaknesses. I did some visual quality testing ( here, here & here ) & I (as well as many others independently) have found that for photographic images, WebP & JPEG are equals, & Google's messaging that lossy WebP meaningfully improves upon JPEG for general visual quality per bit is misleading. That being said, WebP has some important strengths that are not often acknowledged. In addition to transparency & (really good) animation support, it also has:

  • a lossless mode that often outperforms PNG
  • great nonphotographic compression (though AVIF outperforms it here)
  • decent compression of photographic sources at lower fidelity, where it actually starts to beat JPEG by a good amount
  • Totally royalty free

WebP's main weaknesses are:

  • not better than JPEG for photographic images at useful fidelity
  • Confusing messaging from Google, may have led to slow adoption
  • Based on a video codec, so no progressive decode (even JPEG has this)
  • limited to 8 BPC (lossy & lossless)
  • superseded by JPEG-XL & AVIF, which are both pretty much better at everything

JPEG-XL in particular is very promising. It faces hostility from Google but has an incredible breadth of features & strong compression performance, as well as Apple ecosystem-wide adoption on the way with the upcoming versions of macOS, iOS, ipadOS, etc. It is also royalty free. AVIF is better than WebP at everything except lossless, too.

Feeling any which way about WebP, it is still a shame to see it transcoded to PNG. All that wasted potential ...

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

Pixel 7 on CalyxOS

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Since what happened with Reddit could happen with Discord at any time (corporate greed), I started an AV1 server on Revolt. Please come check it out! Unlike discord, Revolt also supports AV1 video embeds...

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

some of this information may be out of date

Guide to compiling Av1an on Windows.

Download vapoursynth r57 portable from https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth/releases it's a 7z file so you should have 7-zip installed

Get Msys2 from https://www.msys2.org/, click on "download the installer" & install it with everything

Close msys2

Open msys2 mingw x64

Commands

  • pacman -Syuu

this updates msys2 packages, write Y when needed and press enter, it will close the window when it finishes so open msys mingw x64 again

  • pacman -S cmake git nasm python3 mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg mingw-w64-x86_64-rust mingw-w64-x86_64-lld mingw-w64-x86_64-clang mingw-w64-x86_64-make

this will install necessary stuff

Open VapourSynth32-Portable-R57.7z and copy all the libraries from \sdk\lib64 to C:\msys64\mingw64\lib

this downloads the Av1an source

  • cd av1an

this will take the shell to the Av1an folder

This is optional but if you want a bit more of performance,(i'm talking a small bit) go in explorer to C:\msys64\home"your username"\Av1an and open Cargo.toml and edit it with your text editor of choice, i used notepad++ and in the [profile.release] section change lto = "thin" to lto = "fat", i also added opt-level = 3 but that may not be necessary

  • RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo build --release

#this compiles it with march native which gives a bit of performance

Profit, the executable should be created in C:\msys64\home"your username"\Av1an\target\release

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hi everyone,

Moderators on the JPEG-XL subreddit have decided to join the Reddit blackout following Reddit’s predatory API changes. I created this Lemmy community to help continue to foster JXL community engagement as the Reddit blackout continues, and potentially create a new home for JXL discussion outside the Matrix & Discord. Reddit/Discord JXL mods will be given mod here if they ask. Here’s a link to the JXL discord (permanent invite): https://discord.gg/jpeg-xl-794206087879852103

Thanks, Gianni (gb82)

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SVT-AV1 1.6.0 (gitlab.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Encoder

  • Improve the tradeoffs for the random access mode across presets M1-M13: (!2120)
  • Speeding up the higher quality presets by 30-40%
  • Improving the BD-rate by 1-4% for the faster presets
  • Improve the tradeoffs for the low delay mode for both screen content and non-screen content encoding modes (!2122, !2118)
  • Add a toggle to remove the legacy one-frame buffer at the input of the pipeline allowing the low delay mode to operate at sub-frame processing latencies
  • Add a new API allowing the user to specify quantization offsets for a region of interest per frame

Build, cleanup and bug fixes

  • Various cleanups and functional bug fixes
  • Fix the startup minigop size BD-rate loss
  • Add ability to run the ci-testing offline
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r/AV1 & Lemmy (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hi everyone,

Montec, admin of the AV1 discord & moderator of the AV1 subreddit, has decided to join the Reddit blackout following Reddit's predatory API changes. I created this Lemmy community to help continue to foster AV1 community engagement as the Reddit blackout continues, and potentially create a new home for AV1 discussion. Reddit/Discord AV1 Community mods will be given mod here if they ask.Here's a link to the AV1 discord (30 day exp): https://discord.gg/2nqdkAMN4

Thanks, gb80

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