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[–] legios@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just came back to this thread. What did I start?! :)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Australia is the most expensive place in the world for cigarettes so... The latter. But they won't ban it because it makes the govt. so much money.

Everytime in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] legios@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (15 children)

It's because he's wearing a double-breasted suit. Not really in fashion anymore.

(Useless fact for you :))

Why aren't more releases x265? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] legios@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

I've done a bunch of transcoding of things to x265 in the past (as I'm sure everyone is aware transcoding isn't GREAT but cuts down on storage costs). With that said I've now moved to AV1. I don't use GPU encoders at all as I found the quality to be pretty terrible. I just use a custom written ZSH script to go through and check the current format (it also converts audio to OPUS too)

Which OS do you use for your homeserver? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Same here for the same reasons (although I started with FreeBSD 4.x) and have adapted to ZFS and Jails over the years.

The POLA (Principle Of Least Astonishment) when it comes to changes is awesome too.

Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Problem is I imagine a lot of their hardware is under NDA so they're unable to. I appreciate what they're trying to do but a lot of hardware companies sadly won't allow them to publish a lot of things. I do wish there was more open-source hardware (and I say that as a huge open-source advocate)

Cyber Knight - Rifts in c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

[–] legios@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great, now I have to dig out all my Rifts sourcebooks since it's been too long...

Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

This is my thing. I have about 122TB of spinning metal (with the same as an offsite backup) with SSDs as ZIL and L2ARC. And it's awesome. HDDs I think will genuinely be important for for the foreseeable future.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Added dark mode] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm trying to remember this correctly, but traditionally /home is a symlink of /usr/home. I think that's deprecated and you should now just have /home

Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] legios@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago

A couple of years ago I ended up in the 1% because of one single thing I posted 2 weeks after I signed up purely to generate some rage because so many subs needed minimum karma... Can completely attest to this.