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Telling someone they're an alien for not being interested in you is very definitely rude. Sure, you put effort into your appearance, you have pride in your looks. There's nothing wrong with that. It's when you take that rejection out on someone else that it becomes a problem. Here, it's a mild issue, almost certainly intended to be a fourth wall wink at the readers more than anything else, but at the end of the day, she called clark an alien because he turned her advances down.

Clark is a man of focus. in c/comics@lemmy.ml

[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It's very much a metaphorical comment for her; normal men, according to her worldview, obviously check out womans titties every chance they get. She's being incredibly rude and arrogant. "If he's not checking me out, he very obviously has serious mental health problems, or is just straight up not human." The arrogant half is the expectation that even if a normal man had the capability to ignore some other woman's titties, no normal man would ever be able to ignore hers.

She would likely consider gay men to be an aberration too.

Midwest goodbye in c/funny@sh.itjust.works

[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right up until they do, and spend 10 minutes checking to make sure you weren't hurt or otherwise injured at their party. This is fine for big public things, but is very much a dick move for smaller groups.

Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you're really worried about power use, you could switch to an itx motherboard with an soc laptop chip in it.

"Kite Flying" by Twonks Comic in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

I have no doubt about that. The virginity part was what dated this specific iteration of it.

"Kite Flying" by Twonks Comic in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Now there's a throwback to '90s/early internet humor.

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Comparing compression in AV1, x264, and x265 (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DaGeek247@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I recently got it into my head to compare the various popular video codecs in an effort to better understand how av1 works and looks compared to x264 and x265. I also had ideas of using a intel video card to compress a home video security setup, and what levels of compression I would need to get good results.

The Setup
I used the 4k 6.3gb blender project, tears of steel as a source. I downscaled the video to 1080p using all three codecs, and then attempted to compare the results using various crf levels.

To compare results I used imgsli, FFMetrics, and my own picture viewer to try and see what the differences are.

The Results

crf	av1 KB	x265 KB	x264 KB
18	419,261	632,079	685,217 – x246 visually lossless
21	352,337	390,358 – x265 visually lossless	411,439
24	301,517 – av1 VAMF visually lossless	250,426	263,524 – x264 good enough
27	245,685	165,079 – x265 good enough	176,919
30	205,008	110,062	122,458
33	168,192	73,528	86,899
36	139,379 – av1 My visually lossless	48,516	63,214
39	116,096	31,670	47,161
42	97,365 – av1 my good enough	20,636	35,801
45	81,805	13,598	27,484
48	69,044	9,726	20,823
51	58,316	8,586 – worst possible	16,120 – worst possible
54	48,681	-	-
57	39,113	-	-
60	29,062	-	-
63	16,533 – worst possible	-	-

Here is av1 rcf 36 vs crf 24.

I go into more detail with the hows and whys of my choices, in my journal-style blog post, as well as how i came to these conclusions, But in essence, if you want to lose practically no visual information, crf24 through 36 for av1, crf 21 for x265, and crf 18 for x264 will do the job.

If you are low on space, using my 'good enough' choices will get you practically the same visual results while using less space, depending on the codec.

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Dynamic DNS domain registrar (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DaGeek247@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey y'all, I've been using my.freenom as my domain registrar for the past six years without too many issues. I've kept it mainly because it has been cheap as balls. However, I am now looking for a registrar that supports dynamic dns and would love to hear your suggestions. The first results that pop up are google and godaddy which are not what I'm looking for. (I actually had issues with godaddy stealing domain names all the way back in 2010, but that's another story) A local community reference is worth a lot more to me than a top search result.

The plan is to set up my domain to point to my local IP for stuff like valheim servers so i don't have to share an IP every time we want to play. My friendlywrt router supports dynamic dns out of the box, so that's what I'm looking to use for my domain.

Also, it needs to support subdomains going to different places. Complete access to the dns records is enough, but I would love a more user friendly interface for adding things like a separate email host, a webhost address, plus a subdomain for the valheim server.

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Little bit of family joy to share (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DaGeek247@kbin.social to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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My sibling is transitioning mtf and just started hormone therapy. She has also always been a huge fan of IPAs and has been super into sharing her love of them with us (to little success). So anyways, our discord movie night comes up and she says she has some bad news. Apparently the hormones have made things taste different, and now she hates how they taste, which is a really big loss for her.

My brother asks if he can tell a bad joke, and she says yes. So my brother says that "when you stop lying to yourself about one thing you start to notice other lies you've been telling yourself, like 'IPAs are good', for example." Anyways, it had all of us laughing together, which I figured I'd share with y'all.

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A good open source sms app? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by DaGeek247@kbin.social to c/android@lemmy.ml

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Hey y'all. Like the title says, I'm looking for an android sms app. I used to use signal, but they removed support for it in October last year. I switched over to qksms which has been great, except it doesn't support video, only pictures for MMS. The default app that came with my phone doesnt support group chat titles, and sms messenger from f-droid says it supports video mms, but it keeps failing to send video (despite the size being 1.4Mb). Y'all got any other suggestions?