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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Learn to pick locks. Steal food from dumpsters. Get a job with a locksmith. Aquire shelter. Make friends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Grocery Outlet and Trader Joe’s. For GrocOut just go and see what’s cheap, don’t shop off a list. Make sure the prices of the stuff you’re buying is about 50% off or more. At TJ’s everything is priced pretty fairly, just buy what you want to eat.

Don’t drink alcohol or soda, or anything canned really.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don’t think the crazy taxes need to be on obscene wealth itself, but on the very lavish and wasteful things people do with that wealth, things that have a very real impact to the rest of society.

For example, private jets or even private chartered flights should have some very steep taxes to offset the cost of all the FAA employees and stuff at all the small airports, all the carbon emissions, and everything.

Yachts, and very large properties also come to mind. Like total square feet of living space of all real estate owned - once it crosses like 10,000 sq ft the annual taxes just get higher and higher. For example 10k-20k sq ft costs $1/sq ft annually, 20k-40k costs $5/sq ft, etc.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Kodi runs a server and a client. Depending on the client it may request a transcode. Looks like it’s just bad software support for h.265 on the client side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Kodi played through the browser? It’s probably transcoding to H.264, using more bandwidth for lesser quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The problem is when you pay somebody to do the work. Nobody spends as much time as you. Building these days is a slap-it-together endeavor. They will get the job done in half the time you would, but it’s not quite as good as you would have done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

High dietary fiber like beer, veggies, or beans creates large amounts of gas, but meat is what makes it smell bad. In my opinion pork is the worst, beef is not great, and chicken is still bad but the least offensive. Eggs can be sulphuric. If you want to deodorize your farts try being vegetarian for 2 or 3 days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Password should be Fhqwhgads. Come on Fhqwhgads, I said come on Fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

If your web browser can play it once, it can play it any number of times. Look into Widevine decryption. Basically you load the video in a special browser, save both the video and decryption keys, then decrypt the video file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is interesting. Of course there aren’t any HDMI CD Video players so it doesn’t much matter. But it’s interesting how a 4 GB DVD in H.262 would compare to a 1080p copy of the same movie in H.265.

I wonder if there’s a lot of room for encoders to improve the quality per byte without changing the format. For instance jpeg and mozjpeg.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s quite remarkable really. A single layer DVD stores 4.7 GB, for a movie with 576p (H.262). A while later those videos could be compressed using DivX or Xvid (H.263) down to 700 MB to fit on a standard CD, though full quality was more like 2 GB.

The Blu-ray standard came along with 25 GB per layer, and 1080p video, stored in H.262 or H.264.

Discs encoded in MPEG-2 video typically limit content producers to around two hours of high-definition content on a single-layer (25 GB) BD-ROM. The more-advanced video formats (VC-1 and MPEG-4 AVC) typically achieve a video run time twice that of MPEG-2, with comparable quality. MPEG-2, however, does have the advantage that it is available without licensing costs, as all MPEG-2 patents have expired.

Now H.265 is now even smaller than H.264, so now you could record a full 1080p movie onto a 4.7 GB DVD. Now the Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs are only slightly larger (33 GB per layer), but they store 4K video by supporting H.265 codec. I guess by now a 720p video encoded to H.265 could make a decent copy on a 700 MB CD.

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