[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I think it's rude to ask someone why they're not married and/or don't have kids, especially if you just met.

Just for kicks, I told a few people I was divorced and they were totally ok with it. But saying you're not married invites a ton of follow up questions.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

I don't blame him. I hate it for the residents of those 3 states, but they need to blame Trump, not Ford.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago

I guess I'll go first. Washer/Dryer. I won't say the company's name, but it rhymes with hamstrung.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

I'd say the biggest reason is energy, like everyone else. But also, being able to make your room into any fantasy scenario you want would probably lead to problems with adjusting to everyday life. They don't need a whole ship full of Barclays screwing up at their job.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

I agree with CameronDev, not so much on the capacity, but the bandwidth. At 100+ Gb, the Ryzen/Core platforms are really holding you back with their weak I/O.

If you need that much memory, you might be better off picking up a used Xeon/Epyc from Ebay. Their CPU speeds are lower, but the quad channel RAM could make up for it, depending on what you're trying to do.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

I'm in the process of switching from Ubuntu/Mint to Fedora. I'm trying it on my laptop first; if that goes well, I've got 2 others to switch over.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

That's why religious leaders are starting to turn on him. He's cutting in on their racket.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AMD APUs have Video Coding Engine / Unified Video Decoder, while Intel CPUs have QuickSync. FFMPEG's hardware page says that AMD support is incomplete.

You may want to ask over in !datahoarder@lemmy.ml . This topic often came up back on Reddit, and the general vibe I got was that most people prefer QuickSync. Intel may not be great in a lot of areas, but they are a beast in video encoding/decoding. That being said, I use a Ryzen APU and it's perfectly fine. There are way more important things to look at when choosing a CPU.

If your performance is slow, I would check your CPU is listed on the chart I linked above. Not all CPUs support all codecs.

Edit: If your CPU doesn't support the codec, it will still work, it just won't be accelerated.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

Damn, you beat me to it. Randolph and Mortimer would be pissed to hear about this.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

In addition to what the others have said, we've lost some big and popular instances (Vlemmy, FMHY and others) along with the communities they had. Also, with the 2 biggest (lemmy.world and lemmy.ml) coming under attack every week, some users want to be on a smaller instance that's under the radar.

Finally, people want to choose an instance that fits their interests/beliefs. I chose mine mainly for what they don't allow and who they're defederated from, but to each his own.

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