No, because i did it over long time since I encoded only during the day hours and a few episodes at a time.

I can say that I fit a good 30% more episodes in the same space, but at the same time I also have added movies and reduces sizes too, so hard to tell reasonably.

I can say that all my collection was mostly h264 before.

Not angry in general.

If the question is what does enrages me, an answer is probably human stupidity. Or the idea that we have just better than animals. We aren’t, we are just like animals, but with the potential to be so much more. Then comes human stupidity… Well.

i am well over 40 and still play games. The “problem” is that gaming now compete with lots of more important stuff like: kids, family, dogs, home repairs, sport activity, wife, work, errands to run, and sure I am leaving out many.

So, forget sitting on a computer or console for even half hour. I consume quick mobile games, where reflexes are not decisive (that’s age, thanks).

I even bought a real Nintendo DS Lite with the cracked cartridge to load games on microssd, and my kid loves it, but even New Super Mario Bros takes too long between saves for the free time I have, so you get the idea.

Would I still do hours gaming sessions even if I could? No, too many hobbies and ideas that pop up all the time to work on… Maybe this is because I cannot for the sake of life get closed to modern games. AAA are cashgrabs, indie require too much time researching them, and anyway I need mobile gaming, that sucks overall.

Maybe I have a different point of view here, but I have actively converted all my TV series to AV1 and will probably to the same to most of my movies.

The space saving is huge, and the quality is identical to my eyes and hardware. True that storage is cheaper than ever, but this is not a reason valid to waste it anyway.

I have only 6TB of storage for my media and the power needed to run additional disks would only be waste on the long run, and so buying new bogger disks would be a waste for stuff I don’t wantch often (more like hoarding than…).

So AV1 is the way. Software encoding is the best quality, I have heard, rather than hardware encoding. As for playback, I have a fire stick with AV1 support that works flawlessly, so.

Edit: I have FV at home, so converting to AV1 during daylight is actually free for me.

I am not sure that checking the time in the watch instead of on phone counts as reducing phone usage…

But anyway, any “smart” watch will not help you as they all need a phone app.

Get a cheapo analog watch, in that case…

Mostly any modern mobile game. Piles of shit with p2w and gambling addictive mechanics that aren’t fun but stressful…

ROTFL

Italian content? Some, but not much. Way less that torrents.

I speak from experience.

For anybody waiting for invites: i have up and just waited until Black Friday deals and openings: you need to head to “the other site” and watch the deals and opening times and you can get anything you want.

Also, invites are not free: you still need to pay the subscription!

They get DMCA’d regularly and content get removed on Usenet as well. But the fact that they have to report literally thousands of individual files every time make it slow and inefficient. People will just reload the same item many times and it’s always there.

Each copy, each single file in which the copy is split needs to be identified and asked for removal. Compared to torrents, it’s a long and complex task.

As sport watches go, get a Garmin. Its proprietary, but it’s the best in the class.

I have a Fenix 7, wife has a Fenix 5.

Battery last days/weeks (5/6 days with some 10-15 hours of sport tracking with GPS active).

I suggest some “older” models with MIPs displays, not AMOLED, because they have better (absolutely perfect) under the sun readability and much better battery life.

You need the Garmin Connect app on phone, but the web interface to the Garmin ecosystem is simply the best.

I managed to integrate Fittrackee (self hosted) and synched to my Garmin profile to keep all my activity self hosted.

Despite being proprietary, Garmin software is quite nice and the watch can be connected directly to PC to download activities and tracks even without using the app.

Absolutely do it.

Swimming for example, I hated it, but after starting doing it in open water, I changed my mind. Now I like it, even in the swimming pool.

And cycling is also great, no joint issues on that!

Pm me if need any support

Almost 50. Most of (back pain, muscle pain, articulary pains…) my “age” issues have been cured (well, improved…) By an highly active sport life. Think of -daily- activity, not walks, but mixing running and swimming actively. It took one years or so, but I feel 38 again. The trick is NEVER stop, keep doing sport never let more that one or two days pass by without at least 1h run or 1h swim. Get proper clothes and shoes, RUN PROPERLY, and be very progressive not to injure your ligaments.

(Except for those small prints, I swear they used to write them bigger… And small cuts healing that still take ages…)

Also, my memory has improved. Maybe it’s all the time I can let my mind free while swimming or running… And indeed my stress levels have dropped.

As codecs go, I love AV1. More and more hardware support everywhere, it seems more future proof than h265 even at this point.

Rip at native DVD resolution and don’t forget ALL the audio tracks, as many English users always forget about the rest of the world.

Work is work.

Is sex work selling your body? Is doing masonry carpentry or road fixing work anything less than that?

Is sex work ethical? Is working for a weapon manufacture ethical?

I think the point on sex work is a different one: exploitation. That is wrong and should not be allowed or tolerated. But is it avoidable?

The focus should not be on the sex workers tough, but on the clients. The sex workers will always be there as long as there is demand for them.

So, yes, give sex workers the opportunity to work in a safe and not abused environment, so that it can be a choice like any other work. Which means, legalize, regulate, and so on.

Ext4 on every Linux device.

Ah i dont have any other kind of devices (android on mobile, but there I have no choices on fs)

Why not btrfs? Don’t know, been using what has kept working flawlessly for me for the last 20+ years, no need to replace ext4.

It’s dead to me too then. Useless crap. Maybe the best hardware and software, but still closed crap.

Can you unlock them easily and still have valid warranty as well? That would be a great point

Yes, I am a maintainer for a 4 years old device, and I would love to be able to buy it new today! New battery and all.

Xiaomi. Or poco, redmi… Same stuff. For 200 bucks you get awesome phones and you can usually always remove stock and install LineageOS. They are all freely uockable and still under warranty after that.

Get a model near its end of market life, buy new the oldest you can find… Unlock, install LineageOS, enjoy.

I bought my Poco X3 NFC for 160€ 4 years ago and still rocks today with LineageOS 21 (Android 14).

(It usually take 6 months to 1 year for each new model to get LineageOS support, so don’t buy the latest model Also worth looking if there is official support on LineageOS before buy, or at least some unofficial ports).

Indeed, in fact, as soon as the above questions are satisfied, that’s when you stop.