Well, I just ripped a few of my old DVDs with handbrake, and I upscaled by setting the resolution to 720p and ensuring the "upscale" cjljeckbox is ticked.

Tovmy eye, it looks pretty good on my 55" 1080p TV, and I noticed in my voddeo player it scaled to my display size appropriately. If I imply ripped it, the video would have a hugee black box around it ony high red display.

I'd say using handbrake is fairly effective once you get it off the disk, for which I used a rip to mkv app in Linux.

Thanks for enumerating the counter points. I'm immediately turned off by his vocal style, but I can look past that long enough to evaluate the content.

I have two big issues with it:

• His assertions lack references to supporting evidence
• his political allegiance gives me pause

I will check out his content more before I write him off.

It appears the android client he used is Cheogram, which I use. It is forked from Conversations, and is excellent. JMP.CHAT maintains it, and pretty much supports all of the xmpp standards. Including gateways to phone PBX, SMS, and Matrix.

They and sopranica offer fully compliant servers, including self hosting.

Perhaps the curator is running a red herring with the intention or blocking liberal media?

Nope, except if you root with magisk, there is a module that takes care of it for you, complete with spoofing.

This is my view. I went the privacy route. The result is the addictiveness of the service went way down. For me, that's a win.

There are other ways to give us content we might like. For example, have a list of topics and categories we can select. This reduces invasiveness while providing some benefit.

The problem is that does not give Google what it wants out of the relationship.

Lower level languages are definitely helpful in learning how computers work. When I was in college, I was not taught C, but our algorithms course was in C. We were expected to learn it on our own.

lisp and Prolog were used for AI - those we learned in class. Assembly was the ultimate "get intimate with the machine" language, and we wrote a simple compiler for VMS.

All of this is meant to help us understand how to work with machines. It doesn't mean that that's how we should work with machines. Sometimes the higher level language is the better choice. Sometimes it is not. We are expected to make that decision based on the situation at hand.

Brilliant! I'm stealing that idea. I love it when I learn useful tricks!

I'm curious - why use a VM ? What is the context here? Are you using a Linux phone and need Android apps to fill gaps, or are you running this in a laptop and use Android in some way I don't understand?

Plus, it is idempotent, which means you don't have to change it before pushing it to an existing infrastructure. If you do change it, the infrastructure will be updated to match. It ends the need for custom deployment scripts.

I went the easy route and bought synology, set up a raid 6, and it saved me within 1 year.

Raid 6 spreads data wide enough to survive 2 concurrent drive failures. I had one drive fail enough to degrade the raid, and while I was awaiting a replacement (warrenty replacememt), a second drive started to fail. I bought a replacement for that, inserted it, then got the first replacement and inserted that. No losses, and I now have a drive in stock waiting for the next failure. It's been at least 5 years without failure, so I am due.

Schedule an integrity check once a quarter or month to protect against bit rot. The danger with bit rot is you won't know you have it until drives fail. If integrity is compromised, the shit hits the fan when you are syncing up the new drive, the system cannot recover, and you lose everything. That is when you start over with your verified backup. If that's bad, goodbye data.

Don't have to imagine. Change your metaphor from hammer to car, and you're experiencing it in realtime.

Actually, the intended use of work profile is for... Work. You don't want the corporate VPN to be The phone-wide VPN - do you?

The design is logical. Since we are all misusing it, I think it would be useful to be able to toggle a "share VPN" switch.