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It's faster now, great.

The politics are actually mostly pretty good in this.

If you are unfamiliar with the AV1 codec well it is the successor to VP9 which was in the same class of h.264 which was and still is prolific on the internet. AV1 is a big jump over h264...

MediaTek was early to implemented AV1 in their Dimensity smartphone chips since 2019. And if you aren't aware those are in a lot of Chinese smartphones.

There is now a decent chance you own and use a device that supports AV1 decoding. This means that AV1 I think is going to take over the internet in the next few years.

Although AV1 is free and open source, it is a result of corporate socialism and Google's CIA influence. It probably wouldn't even be possible in the capitalist framework otherwise because big surprise intellectual property isn't actually good for innovation or much else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 - https://www.xda-developers.com/av1/ - https://www.androidauthority.com/av1-codec-1113318/

The AV1 Video Codec - linux.conf.au

My first computer as I remember. Great engineering, much innovation especially on the custom LCD which I'm surprised isn't in all the cheaper smart phones. Microsoft tried to ruin the software lol.

Don Hopkins announced that he is creating a free and open source port of the game SimCity to the OLPC

that's what I remember the most

wow. I've been designing toys with these things and it's always scared me.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/371784

I ran Gentoo on our Ryzen 5800X computer... But we had to stop with that because after all my tinkering we didn't have a usable enough system capable of doing the things we needed, like running Steam.

I have developed a love/hate relationship with portage. It's very powerful letting you get at all the compiler flags. I like that. But it was too unwieldy also and parts of it felt a little outdated.

What I need for my workstation is something that is very powerful and efficient but also highly robust and stable enough to serve as the base for all my usages.

Maybe I'll try Funtoo. Thought about NixOS or something but don't want to do that really.

Looks like the creator of Gentoo has a YouTube: Daniel Robbins / BDFLFUN2

I ran Gentoo on our Ryzen 5800X computer... But we had to stop with that because after all my tinkering we didn't have a usable enough system capable of doing the things we needed, like running Steam.

I have developed a love/hate relationship with portage. It's very powerful letting you get at all the compiler flags. I like that. But it was too unwieldy also and parts of it felt a little outdated.

What I need for my workstation is something that is very powerful and efficient but also highly robust and stable enough to serve as the base for all my usages.

Maybe I'll try Funtoo. Thought about NixOS or something but don't want to do that really.

Looks like the creator of Gentoo has a YouTube: Daniel Robbins / BDFLFUN2

Hope the military doesn't get a hold of this god alien level tech.

So we've been waiting for this... Yesterday I watched Tech Yes City's vid in Akihabara where he says that the shop folks tell him the miner dumps are here.

Now I'm seeing K80's and K40's on Ebay for $80. This would make a workstation beast. It's a dual die card from 28nm era with 2x 12GB GDDR5 and 2x 4 TFLOPs. K80 on Ebay

Clearly coming from scalers but maybe they are scared.

If you go ahead and get a server GPU like that like I likely will then go ahead and forward the frames over PCIe. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1340083-guide-using-an-nvidia-tesla-k80-for-gaming-on-windows/

Edit: oops I didn't give the seemingly good K80 link

This guy asks about archival - https://superuser.com/questions/374609/what-medium-should-be-used-for-long-term-high-volume-data-storage-archival

They say to buy a 30TB LTO-8 tape cartridge for $79 - https://www.networkworld.com/article/3638116/why-aren-t-optical-disks-the-top-choice-for-archive-storage.html

ROMs would be useful for storing lots of data for long periods of time without corruption or freeing up space on your SSD for more hot data, that could be automated. They should be cheap and compact. These are useful properties.