InverseParallax

Rural island off the coast of a european country:

10g fiber for $65/mo (I don't even think they cared, I asked for more and I think they made up a number).

House literally down the street from google in silicon valley:

Comcrap $100 for shit cable, I'm paying $250 for actual upload speed.

This country is ruled by the corrupt.

Google is pushing av1 because of patents, but 266 is just plain better tech, even if it's harder to encode.

This same shit happened with 265 and vp9, and before that, and before that with vorbis/opus/aac.

They'll come back because it's a standard, and has higher quality.

Maybe this is the one time somehow av1 wins out on patents, but I'm encoding av1 and I'm really not impressed, it's literally just dressed up hevc, maybe a 10% improvement max.

I've seen vvc and it's really flexible, it shifts gears on a dime between high motion and deep detail, which is basically what your brain sees most, while av1 is actually kind of worse than hevc at that to me, it's sluggish at the shifts, even if it is better overall.

Yeah, using the a750 the same.

Can't wait for next Gen arc with vvc (x266) support.

Intel has excellent transcode, even in their igpus.

I use an arc750 specifically for transcode, av1 runs at ludicrous speeds, but don't do an Nvidia, they kind of suck because they dont support vaapi, only nvenc/nvdec and vdpau.

And?

Pah-wraiths are Bajoran.

Make Bajor Great Before/Always!

Yeah, the ryzens are great too.

Full amd will treat you well, I'm running dual xeons and a Radeon pro with an arc 770 just for av1 encode right now.

Next round going full epyc.

Amd knocks Nvidia into a hat on Linux, the drivers are just too incredible.

With the exception of AI, where Nvidia is just plain the gold standard.

Intel is fine, it has exceptional video encoding and works.

Core i3 is fine, celeron can route, but you don't have as much headroom, or room for firewall rules, etc. Recommend Intel x520 or mellanox cx3 or newer, though the cx2 is perfectly fine.

The bs about bsd being slower is maybe 15 years old at best?

Bsd is a monster for routing.

Run 25gbe routing, still can get by on your 4 core, but I throw some serious xeons at it anyway.

Honestly? Wynn didn't sell Bajor out to the Cardassian Empire.

Meh, I like my udm.

I use some of the features, but mostly it just works, and it's debian under the hood so I just ssh in and unfuck whatever needs unfucking.

It's vastly closer to a hand-built setup than anything else, and you can spend less time worrying about security.

It didn't seem like stress, it seemed like they genuinely enjoyed being superior entitled assholes.

And as an American, I thought I had a high threshold for that.

The rest of Europe was incredible, the Nordic countries are my vision of heaven on earth. Mostly moved to Sweden, yesterday basically cut my last ties.

Again, every other country, every other city in France were lovely.

The louvre was gorgeous.

As I said, Paris would be great if it wasn't for all the fucking people.