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

We’re talking about rust, not corroding. Rust is only iron, nothing else.

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

That’s in a quote I mean you just reply that to them lol

can also just do flatpak install steam I know there are plenty of ways to get it done

installing the easier linux distros has been easier than windows since like 2004. I never understood the “it’s hard to install” out of everything else that may be legit to complain about

the only thing I can guess is the people that say that are the people that can’t get into their bios and do not know how to reformat windows either.

can you?

oh you can run the https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim and then just install MPV