I’ve been trying to convince my boomer wife to try affinity. She works mostly with print, and it seems like a good fit to me.

I used to play it a lot when it was cool.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

Resizable BAR was previously cited as a requirement for Intel ARC cards, but I think the drivers today can do without. Sounds like your system might be too old to have that. Might be a soft requirement, as in you’ll see a performance drop if you don’t have it.

My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.

They’re dirt cheap second hand.

I moved from kts24 to a hetzner arm node earlier this week. So far I’m very impressed.

I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.

I think that limit (previously 5GB) is for files that they’ll store for you. Larger transfers are P2P only.

I recommend https://wormhole.app for the purpose. Drag, drop, leave the tab open.

I’ve had my mk1 kit for nine years. I expect I’ll get another nine out of it before it goes to college.

I have no experience with either of the two.

I did however buy a Prusa MK1 ten years ago for 650€. It has since received the MK2 conversion from 3mm to 1.75mm, plus autoleveling. The heatbed needed a new connector at some point, and I’ve enquired about old STLs to replace some parts. It’s still running great to this day, and support has been excellent.

If it ever gives up, I’ll go with another Prusa.

Ubuntu touch supports it decently

Haven’t heard anything, just from memory of my own testing. Looking back at my notes I see a 40-50% speed up with VideoToolbox compared to x265 on M1, but at a lot crappier quality.

I haven’t tested in quite a while, though. I wrote off doing encoding on the M1, as my AMD cards are a lot faster (and produce better results).

It’s hard to beat a GPU in HEVC encoding performance. SoC:s have comparable performance to dGPU:s in that regard. A used zen/zen2 laptop might be a cheap and tiny workhorse for the purpose. I have a zen/vega10 matebook 2020 that does 1080p at around 2.5-3x real-time at high quality presets. No doubt it could do 4k at faster presets.

With the hardware in my arsenal I’ve found that AMD>Intel>nVidia, at least quality wise. VideoToolbox on Mac is down there with nVidia, and Apple silicon being pretty slow at it compared to software x265 on the same machine.