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andrew_bidlaw, (edited ) to linux in how do i efficiently attach audio to an image
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Can you intentionally set various bitrate (VBR) with a big difference, like from 16mbps max to 1mbps min? Constant bitrate can be your problem. Premiere had this on media export menu, I can’t remember where others have this. And, if you want to upload it to youtube, see what size it has on a private upload by downloading it - they reencode every video themselves to their uniform standard, so maybe you don’t even need to bother with that.

andrew_bidlaw, to asklemmy in Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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Medicine and not taking anything as the will of god you should just accept, this and perception of death. That direct war, colonies are necessary - because now soft power, investments, influence, proxies are seen as more effective and better for business. That raw physical fitness means an easy superiority - and not a gun. Slavery and serfdom took other forms, so are associated stereotypes. Talking while seemingly alone is, arguably, not a solid sign of a mental illness now. First paleness became no longer a wanted trait, then we learnt that sun tan can be bad too. Putting fire to a field or a property isn’t a good idea like it was before. Natural resources are free, limitless and harvested with no consequencies. Finding a stash of gold isn’t that tempting too. Mass production, services kind off changed the amount of skills one needs in an average household and added complexity to it. Knowledge of how to get a clean water noticeably changed our ways. And perception of sex and family in different cultures drastically changed over time due to religion, law and science.

andrew_bidlaw, to memes in What a concept!
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Not only that. People used stars and other predictive technics to navigate their lives, warfare included. Methodical collection of the basics made it the ABC of war. Man invented it as the science.

andrew_bidlaw, to risa in Nerds of equal standing.
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And Cons are about conning people into buying fan merchandize and provide a free advwrtisement in a form of cosplay.

andrew_bidlaw, (edited ) to memes in Billionaire has never heard of the Streisand effect.
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BREAKING: Rajat Khare, the co-founder of Appin, achieved negative connection to hackers-for-hire markets. His vast philantropy project called ‘DONT’ now pays every person in the world a cent a day for them not to do any hacks, even ethical ones. A quickly mounting price that would amount to $160 mil by tomorrow and $400 mil by the end of the week doesn’t scare the billionaire. In an exclusive interview with The Reporter, he said, quote: ‘Honestly, I hate money. Just yesterday I was hungry late at night and I tried to eat a bar of gold, thinking it may be a chocolate one. Nah. Fucking gold. For the sake of my own dental health, I though, let’s just get rid of these’. Although one cent is not enough to thrive even in the poorest states, that’s the first experiment in a worldwide UBI. When asked directly, if he’s secretly a left-leaner, Rajat was rendered inaccessible due to repeatedly picking dollar bills out of his safe and burning them with a weird fascination.

A promise of a better future, or a scam to buy payment data from everyone? Watch our guest experts at The Reporter at nine!

andrew_bidlaw, to memes in Bankruptcy is lifesaving
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July is hot, what’s your problem?

andrew_bidlaw, to lemmyshitpost in Northern star gang
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What’s even the reason to have a compass without these hot and tasty radioactive markings?

andrew_bidlaw, to privacy in Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News
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I get it. It’s just I don’t see any dev-put images in many big apps, besides a logo and a welcome screen. Updating them with dozens of megabytes doesn’t feel okay. It seems like there’s some bloat, or a vault management problems. Like in some seasonally updated games that put dupes to speed up load of a map or easily add new content on top of them instead of redownloading a brand new db. Some I followed shawed off tens of gigabytes by rearranging stuff.

Like, messengers. I don’t get it how Viber wants more than 40+ mb per update having nothing but stickers, emoji already installed and probably don’t change them much. Cheap wireless connection could allow them to ignore that for some reason and start to get heavier in order to offload some from their servers, for many images are localized. Is that probably what their updates are? Or they consequentially add beta patches after an approval, so you download a couple of them in a close succession after they get into public?

andrew_bidlaw, to piracy in After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts
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As I understand it, it has lax checks if all disks are original. Some games required many, Pt.1 was on one, Pt.2 was on another, and a memory card sewed this monstrosity together whenever you switch disks - as it had no HDD, no install options.

Designing a game around that was hard and probably meant frequent checks, delays, and also a player having incomplete game if only one disk is missing or scratched if they want to play again - and you swapped them back and forth. So that dev implemented zero-check on a second disc after the first one is checked, a command to kill a game and start anew, and with that you can put whatever you burnt on your CD, leaving the console clueless it’s not your actual disk 2. It still needs you to boot with original Aliens first and put code, so it’s not exactly stealing anything directly, but oh god it’s an interesting vulnerability.

I haven’t heard of something akin to that, besides weird cartridge combos on old consoles where you put one into another or other heresy like plug-in cartridge readers, hardware extenders, etc. It seems Sony was convinced the first check is there, and it’s ok, but never thought you can abuse it up that great, and had no further investigation was put.

For a console that aged, that had hardware jailbreaks and emulators for years, I don’t feel they’d hurt him now. Twenty years is too much even for them. They’d still sell mini-PS1 without any problem as it has no disk reading capabilities and won’t care.

andrew_bidlaw, (edited ) to lemmyconnect in Issue Comments Disappear as soon as screen goes black
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I don’t have anything like that and I have drafts set to off. Do your apps get unloaded from memory when you switch to something else? And what version do you use, did you encounter this with previous releases?

andrew_bidlaw, to privacy in Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News
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most phones will just struggle to record and process audio indeterminately without a noticeable impact on energy and data use.

I mean, it’s still a valid concern for a commoner. Why my phone has twice the ram and twice the cores and is as slow as my previous one? I’d love to fuel this conspiracy into OS, app makers to do their fucking job.

There’s no reason an app can weight more than 50mb on clean install*, and many socials, messengers fail to fit in. A client I use to write this is only 30+, and that’s one person doing that for donations.

If there could be a raging theory that apps are selling your data to, like, China, there would be a push to decline it and optimize apps to fit that image.

  • I obviously exclude games, synths, editors of any kind with their textures and templates.
andrew_bidlaw, to historyporn in Soldier reads a message from a dog after crossing a canal, WW1, 1914-1918
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Watch the OP’s username lol. Time is a circle.

andrew_bidlaw, to memes in It's cheaper is what it is
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No problem, really. Even better, reading it now can bring you even better experience and understanding of these themes. I didn’t have it in my school’s curriculum and I read it in my 20s, and I don’t believe I’ve exhausted it at that time in my life. There’s something magic sense in his prose I do feel I won’t find until I have me hairs completely gray. So I find it perfectly okay to reread it and maybe find new thoughts you haven’t got before to enrich thyself. See if you can give it a chance. In some contexts it just huts different.

andrew_bidlaw, to memes in It's cheaper is what it is
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You might misremembering it, as it’s more akin to Kurt Vonegut. This phrase is frequently used in his Slaughterhouse-Five, one of my favorite pieces of fiction.

andrew_bidlaw, to memes in Any night I really needed the sleep
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Fuvk that shit. Being awake with horror and a running heart, in a sweat, having your hands and feet bang the bed like you did indeed fell. It’s so uncomfortable.

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