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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon is often crazy.
Anon is often depressed.
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Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works

Anon is a specific type of prepper (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Every time I consider that my near-a-terrabyte may be a little excessive, I'll remember anon.

Then again, I keep videos to 720P or less, and convert gifs to video, so if anon's an HD and/or 3D/Vr maniac, I could easilly have more than them, measured in playback time.

[–] chrislowles@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm kind of ashamed of the lengths I've gone to to "optimize" my stash, not too much though cuz finding good upscale and compressing software that's also cross-platform is always hard to come by.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I just use FileFlows to automatically optimize all of my video files. I've got my streamer app to only pick up the converted videos, so I just have to wait on automatic processes before stuff is available for me.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Talking of organizing your stash: stashapp / stash | GitHub.com

[–] chrislowles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Ran into that when I was looking for apps like Upscayl, Caesium and dupeguru, I wonder if anyone would be up for releasing a third-party flatpak on Flathub, they allow NSFW apps there and I saw an issue from 2023 mentioning it.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I've got good news for you: Storage is now unbelievably cheap compared to just a few years ago.

I've forgotten what deleting a file even means.

Years ago when I started ripping CDs people called me an idiot for not using MP3 instead of flac. They aren't laughing now. I fully admit that MP3 can be transparent at high bitrates and modern codecs even more so but that's for the end device (like my car or phone) not archival.

The same will be true with my Blu Ray collection stored as decrypted ISO files... I hope.

[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why would you convert gifs to video to optimize storage space? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gifs are actually really inefficient. It's largely a legacy format issue, but Gifs store every frame as it's own image while mp4s (in simple terms) store the delta between frames.

This link sorta talks about it - https://medium.com/@trongawesome/gif-vs-video-9b9392ec5814

[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, neat. I wasn't aware of that and never thought about it even in that way. I resorted to gifs if given the chance becuase it was way easier for me to mess up the encoding and other stuff of the video, resulting in way bigger file sizes than necessary. I guess it's worth investing a bit more time in that lol.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

We need Petabyte drives to be normalized!

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I prefer audio, comics and text so my database is deceptively small