LaggyKar

LaggyKar , 3 days ago to technology in New Samsung phones block sideloading by default

So you need to change two settings instead of one to side load. Seems rather pointless.

LaggyKar , 1 month ago to linux in Leap Micro 6.0 reaches Beta

It’s better in one way, in that updates are applied on reboot rather than pulling the rug put from under running applications. But I agree that it doesn’t go all the way, as it doesn’t provide a verifiable base system with clearly separated modifications. OSTree would be great.

Another possibility would be to distribute a base image as a btrfs send stream (possibly differential against previous versions) containing a compose-fs image and associated files. And then OS extensions could be installed with systemd-sysext.

LaggyKar , 1 month ago to technology in New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds

Figured I’d do the math on the power required.

In the article, they show a iPhone 15 Pro, which has a 3274 mAh battery, so let’s go with that. Assuming a 3.7 V battery and a 1 minute charging time, that’s 3274 mAh × 3.7 V / 1 min ≈ 727 W.

LaggyKar , 1 month ago to linux in VLC Player

I used to use it, but then I switched to MPV, as it works a lot better with hardware acceleration. MPV supports more methods for hardware decoding (e.g. nvdec), and also MPV will keep the frames in VRAM when doing hardware decoding, and do additional processing and presentation using the GPU, while VLC copies everything back to system RAM and processes the frame on the CPU.

At the time I switched hardware decoding with copy-back would actually result in twice the CPU usage compared to software decoding, but that was a long time ago. Also, I would get tearing in VLC and not in MPV.

LaggyKar , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to linux in Installing and using Jellyfin without root

You’re right, that might work

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to linux in Installing and using Jellyfin without root

That requires root

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to technology in iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO.

Motorola and Nokia have phones with 3.5mm jack, and they come with pretty clean Android, without a bunch of bloat, aggressive task killers and whatnot. Though I can’t speak for camera, photosphere or repairability.

Pixels are good in some ways, but of course, those don’t come with a 3.5mm jack.

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in We've all been there...

Speaking of which, nowadays KDE hides files with these extensions for some reason

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in Of course

That’s the original

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to technology in TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate

Oops, I misread, that was a different monitor

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to technology in TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate

So it’s not really a 4K 1000Hz screen then, if it’s just togglable between being a 4k 240 Hz screen and a 1080p 1000 Hz screen.

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to programmer_humor in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

Sounds like a typical COBOL dev

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Can I make it fit, or do I have to just let it go?

Maybe if you use a file system that supports compression, e.g. btrfs, bcachefs, F2FS, squashfs, or EROFS. Of course, you’d need to add a separate FAT32 EFI System Partition for the bootloader, not sure how to do that.

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to android in Comparison of privacy and/or security focused Android ROMs versus "Stock" Android

What’s the difference between significantly and extensively?

LaggyKar , 2 months ago to selfhosted in Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding?

A310 is the cheapest.

I wonder how well it does for transcoding on older computers without ReBAR, since apparently gaming on it is straight out broken without ReBAR. As in, it would actually freeze for a second or so every now and then.