lemann

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

After one Google search on my work laptop I was looking for searx instances - a lot of those were going down too due to rate limiting ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use it on the deck - it works really well, however you can definitely see the artifacting when fast motion is occuring. There are also some odd bugs when using SMAA with FSR turned on, where the frame gen model gets confused and starts moving the game UI/HUD with the camera.

Apparently it works much better at framerates above 60FPS since the model has more data to predict future frames...

If you have genuine DLSS available it's probably better to stick to that IMO

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I do something similar for my property's exterior cameras, which are streamed to my VPS in 'real-time'.

You will need to re-encode the footage - videos are already pretty well compressed, so traditional compression methods like 7z (lzma), gz, zip etc being layered on top can't compress them further.

For your solution, I'd probably run a find every minute w/ cron to look for these files in a staging/watch folder, move them to another folder so they aren't picked up on the next run, then re-encode with ffmpeg. Do note that when you re-encode footage, you always lose quality, even if you're on a high quality preset.

I have a feeling that the Handbrake project can do this with a watch folder though, so might be worth looking into that. After a quick search this looks easier to setup than my solution:

https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake
https://github.com/shannah/handbrake-watcher

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are also DLL mods that convert nvidia's DLSS API to AMD FSR, in which case games usually need to be fooled into thinking the GPU is made by nvidia and not AMD

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Typically free of charge for the country's public services to get a domain if the registrar is based within the country.

There are other countries that don't actually own their TLDs like .io, .tk, .ga, .cf etc. Mali recently forcibly reposessed their .ml domain from overseas ownership IIRC

[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I personally think some types of openly developed software projects should have a strict non-commercial license: if companies aren't willing to contribute back to the source IMO they shouldn't be granted permission to freeload & have volunteers fix issues their paying customers run into

Donations are possibly a bit of an exception here - there are quite a few companies that still do this, albeit growing slimmer by the day.

Another big problem IMO is the subset of users that start attacking maintainers and volunteers because their "free app stopped working" etc. I see that a lot, mostly in the arduino community, but especially egregiously on the Zabbix project - I imagine a lot of those users are companies who aren't even paying/donating to the project

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I recently setup a Meshtastic lora node and realized antennas are complicated... I never knew there were ones that are most resonant on specific frequencies and stuff, the importance of having the impedance close to 50ohms for best performance. And fake amazon ones that give you only 8cm of antenna wire inside a 37mm shaft ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

That said, I am shocked that something the size of my thumb can communicate 1km through buildings, and uphill to the other side of my village on such low power. This radio stuff is really fascinating.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

shudders thinking about SAO

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not FOSS as it's under another license, but there's "FUTO Voice Input" if you're looking for a local alternative to Google's voice dictation on Android

https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput

The repo has a list of supported and unsupported Android keyboards. Under the hood it uses OpenAI Whisper

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't have hands-on experience with any of the brands listed so sadly can't give specific recommendations

Would a second-hand Google Pixel work fine for you, or do you definitely want to buy new? Mobile devices are really reliable nowadays, I doubt you'll need to worry about a warranty (which would not cover accidental damage, like a cracked screen)

I've noticed most countries outside of the US and Europe (making that assumption based on inability to get a Google Pixel or a Fairphone) typically have some locally used apps preinstalled regardless; usually a social networking and mobile e-payment app. I'd expect it to be possible to remove these using ADB if you have access to a computer.

Are you buying direct from manufacturer, or via a carrier? Do note that carriers may have customized the apps installed on your device if you buy one through them. For the least preinstalled bloat, buying direct is ideal

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

ElementaryOS sounds like a perfect fit for you, if you haven't tried it already. Superb gesture support and consistent UI across all built in apps

That said, a lot of the gesture support has been implemented in Gnome and KDE now anyway, particularly partial gestures which previously had very poor support IIRC

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you planning to make your own OS for the watch? If so, there's another smartwatch project called the "SQFMI Watchy" which is an esp32 combined with an e-ink display, RTC and some other sensors.

While I would highly suggest supporting the creators, there are clones on Aliexpress that may more readily ship out to your country

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