IronKrill

joined 1 year ago
[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

File format? mkv, so convenient. But media codec would be h265 any day. I find the video quality to file size to be perfect for most films and only have issues with it on the largest files and the lowest power hardware (Roku TV). For the movies I really love and rewatch I sometimes get h264 for the better visual quality. I tried some AV1 files and found the artifacts really ugly, but admittedly these were very small files. That and the lack of hardware decoding on most hardware is preventing me from migrating.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I prefer my men bottom.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Then perhaps it is an issue that should be remedied?

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I agree in an abstract, but shoes do not wear at the same rate each year, especially when you buy different shoes each time. My shoe purchases, for instance, vary by a number of years.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

End of life ≠ breaking it. It will continue working as long as Microsoft doesn't touch it and apps support it.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

You're right, that's a very fair use case, and it would also boost the end-user appeal. I didn't address it as I was fully in a user mindset.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Maybe it is overlooked, but is that unexpected when it seems to cater to such a specific niche? I'm struggling to see why I would use it. If I want to play my own music, I can just use my local setup that uses better apps and has my playlists already. If I want discovery, I can use last.fm, YouTube Music, and other venues. If I want to share music with other people, I start to see a point, but would rather direct people to use Soulseek or a different self-hosted solution that allows downloads. Speaking of, why is there no download link on the files? The website is sharing copyrighted content either way, what difference does it make whether it's saved or streamed to my PC? At least with a download option I could see it as a Soulseek alternative.

And personally, it seems like a lot of effort to upload and reorganise my collection when I can't trust the server and my effort to still be there a few years down the line. After all, storage costs money and who knows when the server host will get bored, run out of spare cash, or get taken down for hosting licensed music. This is before we get into the fact that even the shitty opus re-encodes I keep are over 60gb (the instance I found only supports 50). Of course you'll tell me to host my own instance, but that is narrowing the niche once again as I would have to move my music to a server and learn how to host Funkwhale and would be opening myself up to legal problems.

Excuse my skepticism but I can only really see the use for either:

  • Music collectors that want to share music with each other but for some reason don't want to expand their library via downloading.
  • Users with a tiny or non-existent library that don't mind locking themselves into another website they don't control and can lose their data from at any moment.
[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't use invidious much, but this seems easy to use and friendly! Much better than the default from a new user perspective. My only complaint is please use a dropdown or radio select for the quality instead of a slider, using the slider input makes me feel dirty.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where I am the situation is flipped: I get infinite SMS, but have to pay for data i.e pay per message on RCS.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately the subscription appears to be for their benchmarking tool only, not for website access.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It bothers me how rose-tinted this article is. It pours praise onto the fediverse while glossing over all the major problems. They also keep saying "everything is available everywhere", which it isn't, or "you can take your account anywhere" which isn't a thing on most fediverse sites, and where it is it's limited.

I dunno, it's good to be positive, but I feel this article over-promises and fails to explain what is is trying to. If anything, it muddies some of the basics and sets people up to leave as soon as they realise the experience isn't all that or that instances don't work how they think.

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