As always, I got the username wrong…

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  • The fuss is that every time you transcode to a new format you accumulatively lose quality.

    So for example if you have an 320kbps mp3, but then that takes too much space so you transcode it to 192 mp3, but then you discover the opus codec is more efficient so you transcode it again, but then you want to make a fan video of the same song, so your video player transcoded it again into video friendly aac.

    The quality on your final video is going contain the faults of all the files upstream.

    Meanwhile if you edit the video from a lossless source, it will only get encoded once.

    So it doesn’t matter for streaming, but it matters if you want to download and convert to other formats.








  • I used to download and seed torrents 24/7 directly from my shitty consumer smr drive.

    Not only speed was very slow but I think I killed the drive because of that.

    I’m still thinking how I’m going to proceed now that I’m setting up my NAS again, I think I’m going to have to torrent to some smaller, cheaper but higher quality drive and then copy to the smr archive, until I can afford an enterprise drive.

    It’s also possible that I killed the drive due to bad heat management, but in the datasheet it says something that I’m only supposed to use it for 2h a day per year and not 24/7.




  • Because not everyone has the skills, the know how and the time to learn a new operating system.

    Most people if they were to try to install Linux would probably endup breaking their systems somehow, most don’t wanna risk it.

    It may seem simple to us, but think of it from the perspective of someone who is afraid to install a program because thinks it’s going to make their computer explode, have no idea what a bootable USB is, and have never used a command line their whole lives.

    With modern computers with UEFI and secure boot installing Linux is even harder, no average user is going to mess with any of that.

    For the average person, the computer is just a very secondary thing in their lives that doesn’t get any attention besides the average “my phone is full, I need to copy my photos to the computer”. Tech companies know this so they exploit the user’s ignorance.