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Gerowen

@ gerowen @lemmy.world

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  • Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead

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  • Wow, that's some really invasive stuff. If a gym ever asked for my account and routing number I would just go somewhere else, but I understand not everybody has that option.

  • Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead

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  • Then I just turn off my regular/real debit card and I'm no worse off than I would have been in the first place.

  • Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead

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  • This is why I use a privacy.com card for just about everything. Anybody gets hacked or tries to pull some shady shit I can just turn off the card and it doesn't affect anybody but them.

  • Dow tumbles 1,100 points as Wall Street fears a prolonged war with Iran

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  • It'll bounce back once they see all the money those government contracts generate. We had KBR driving shuttle buses and Taco Bell being ran out of trailers on the FOBs in 2008 Iraq.

  • We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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  • That looks like something that won't last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won't have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we've got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.

  • It's totally safe. What are you afraid of?

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  • But that means the original, "real" you died and the person that comes out the other side is essentially a clone with a copy of your memories.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • VGA was originally a proprietary technology developed by IBM, though it was later built upon by VESA and is now publicly documented, so while it wasn't developed by VESA as an open standard from the get-go, it is now considered an open standard that doesn't require any licensing fees to implement. DVI was developed by the "Digital Display Working Group" and also does not require any licensing fees, though there are licensing terms you may have to abide by and there may be some costs associated with testing and validation to ensure you meet those terms and the spec.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • H.265 is not a royalty free standard like AV1, VP9, Theora, etc. It's covered by proprietary patents held by groups like MPEG LA so in order for manufacturers to build hardware level support for it into their devices they have to pay whatever the then current royalty fees are to those patent holders.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • That's reasonable, people deserve to get paid for their labor. In this situation however, the difference between them is that DisplayPort is a royalty free VESA standard. So while manufacturers have to pay for the materials and such to include it in their devices, they don't have to pay any additional fees to license the standard. HDMI on the other-hand is a "brand" of proprietary connector/interface (kind of like how "Velcro" isn't the actual name of a product, it's a "brand" of hook and pile tape), so not only do manufacturers have to pay for the materials and labor related to physically acquiring and installing the connectors, but they have to pay both per-device and annual licensing fees for rights to use the HDMI product.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • "Direct playing" just means the source file is entirely compatible with the client device and doesn't require any transcoding/re-encoding by the server, it doesn't really tell you whether the client is using software or hardware decoding to play it. I'm guessing it's probable that a Jellyfin server could still report "direct playing" even if the client is using software decoding to play it. However, if the client device is something like a smart TV or something with a more locked down OS, and the maintainer/manufacturer removes support for a codec from that device, you may show more transcoding action on your server for things that previously just direct played because smart devices like that may not have support for software decoding, or may not have the horsepower to try even if they still have the codecs installed.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • I just set it to downmix to mono in Handbrake and it's been alright. I'll definitely do some reading/comparing to see what this setting is all about though.

  • Lindsey Graham is outraged about federal surveillance powers that Lindsey Graham helped create and expand

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  • It's kinda like MTG resigning and turning against Trump. Sure, I'm glad we finally see eye to eye on something, but it's kinda hard to feel sorry for them when they helped create the very thing they're only just realizing is a problem.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • H.265 (HEVC) is not a free (as in freedom) codec, so yes. You as an individual consumer can use things like Handbrake to encode H.265 video for your personal use, probably using the free x265 software encoder, but in order for a device like your phone, camera, TV, laptop, etc. to have hardware accelerated encoding or decoding, the manufacturer has to pay a licensing fee.

    This is true of lots of proprietary technologies. HDMI is another one. In order for a device to ship with an HDMI port (as opposed to Displayport), the manufacturer has to pay a per-device licensing fee.

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • Kinda makes me even more glad I've been migrating all my stuff over to AV1/OPUS.

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  • The desire of intelligent, hardworking people to just live their lives and be left alone means we're eternally condemned to be ruled by those who are absolutely unfit for the job. Anybody smart enough to be a good leader wouldn't have the job.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • They're completely out of touch with how normal people use their computers. The only people who want AI in their OS are the AI tech bros.

  • You can always emulate Call of Duty for the DS

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  • The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • They say it can run games at 4k60 "with FSR", so it seems like it's targeting 1080p native rendering, which is totally fine for me. I'll be connecting it to the living room TV and sitting 6-8 feet away so I'll probably keep it set to 1080p anyway just to keep the framerate high.

  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • There are alternatives to Microsoft Office like LibreOffice and OnlyOffice. Plus you can still use Office 365 in a browser if it "has" to be Microsoft Office.

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
    Gerowen @lemmy.world

    TIL You Can Be Silently Shadow Banned on Reddit

  • Data Hoarder @lemmy.world
    Gerowen @lemmy.world

    Check Your Optical Media

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.world
    Gerowen @lemmy.world

    Today I Learned GoG Has a "Dream List"

    www.gog.com /dreamlist/game/mass-effect-legendary-edition
  • TIFU @lemmy.world
    Gerowen @lemmy.world

    I made a post on Facebook that included the word "hack"...