scans for open ports ran continuously since the 1990s, it was never a big deal. Also they only run on lower ports (not that it matters)

what are you talking about killing your internet performance? You can have hundreds of thousands of scans per day (which isn’t gonna happen, you won’t even get 100) and it still won’t bog down jank cable internet from early 2000s

It’s zipping a zip file. E

no it isn’t, zipping is lossless. encoding is lossy.

No, the specific file size is irrelevant, he’s wanting smaller file sizes. CRF is a waste of data on more than 70% of scenes in hollywood movies. You set a bitrate and let it go. This is also why virtually all music now is VBR

just fyi x264 and x265 are programs, written by VideoLAN organization. h264 and h265 are the codecs

And no doing that is no guarantee in visibly worse quality. Depends entirely on the video in that scenario. Plenty of them will look almost the same (though h265 is a lot blurrier than 264, I’d say h264 to h264 you’re likely to barely notice)

Do it.

There’s really not much that can end badly, someone gets in your network (unlikely anyone even knows it exists)? reformat all your shit. Just by knowing what a DMZ is you are already more qualified than half the people I’ve met self hosting

do you run a business out of your house? do you run a bunch of peoples personal info? does anyone else? If you answered no to all of these then there really isn’t much that can “go wrong” you can just unplug your shit.

hosting email also isn’t that big of a deal but your home ISP will block port 25, you need to have a “business” one for them to unblock it and even then sometimes have to directly request it. Things like mailcow docker make it dead easy.

and yea as the other guy said always update your stuff

I agree. Just run it. that’s how I learned decades ago. Don’t ignore it either if you wanna get better.

The risks are just as bad as owning some amazon IoT device

yea they’ll plug in the drive and windows will popup “this drive needs to be formatted” and the rest is history

These days I find ublock as useful for blocking the stupid cookie popups as it is for ads. Honestly the cookie popups on a lot of sites are worse than their ads. The “do not track me” shit in browser should be enough for them to just auto reject all for you.

Really good to see. Will be nice especially on nvme ssds. I imagine storage calls for me won’t even be noticeable at that level

and it probably never will. Inkscape is for vector graphics, like illustrator is for vector graphics. Photoshop isn’t really for that.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17

I’ve been using gimp 2.99 (gimp 3.0 alpha? dev builds?) for like 5 years. glad they finally released it…

https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

Yea that’s their new project they just “started funding”. Synergy used to be open source and it went closed source 10? 15? years ago.

Since then several forks have existed. Most notably https://github.com/debauchee/barrier which died a few years ago and was forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap which while getting plenty of updates, and merges from the other project… never released a version for years. I think at that point synergy felt sorry for them and so they changed their repo name from synergy to deskflow https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow and now they have their open source version lol

I have to assume usage got so stagnant when close sourcing it (it’s so insanely niche software, is it not?) that they felt the need to bring it alive again.

digital rights management (drm) predates linux

There are no lossless copies of any movie that have ever been released to the public

Delivery formats (h265, h264, h263 etc) are compressed and lossy.

You need to do 2 pass encoding. You should also not use CRF. You should pick a bitrate for the file size you want. Do a first pass which analyzes the video to see which sections require more data, and then run a second pass which will give high bitrate to more action scenes and lower bitrate to the credits and slower talking scenes.

Some action scenes require 5 times more data to look as good as a talking dinner scene, you couldn’t even notice the quality difference but the bitrate requirement is literally 5 times more.

You also need to use the slow preset and use x265 if you’re doing this to archive the stuff forever. Do it once and do it right.

Lossy to lossy generally doesn’t matter, that is why people transcode over the web on their media players and the video seems fine, they are doing lossy to lossy on the fly there. What is actually stupid is saving media that is 100gb that you ALWAYS have to transcode to play, so no matter what you’re ramping up your wattage use to play a file. This is also why 99.9999% of consumed media is compressed, you can’t play it otherwise. Internet would explode too.

Likewise can size a jpeg down from 4000kb to 1000kb and it’ll likely be almost identical and good enough for most cases. There are certainly zero handheld devices you’d be able to notice it on.** If you size the 4000kb to 40kb now there will be an actual noticeable difference. There are different levels to all of this. **

Similarly a 100mb wav file should be a 10mb mp3 and you can’t tell the difference. You couldn’t even tell the difference with a 3mb mp3 file.

it will result in visible and audible distortion

This is completely wrong, it “might” be visible is accurate. The actual answer is “that depends”

If a file is 5000kbps and you use 3000kbps you now have 25-50% savings like he just said. Nothing is overestimated, you can encode to w/e you want. This is how lossy encoding works, for everything.