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I’m maybe 2/3 through.
The voice acting is extremely excellent. It’s also not anime, if that’s what you’re in it for. So, no awkward hyperventilating between sentences. Female characters don’t all sound like screeching children. And intonation is what an actual human would use in actual speech.
The side quests in the game are definitely pretty awful, though.
Would Mass Effect Andromeda’s writers be considered senior staff at this point?
As someone who knows a little bit about the pharmaceutical industry…
It sucks too much to let something like this suceed. The companies ultimately making the drugs intend to profit off them. A lot.
7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.
Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.
Intel 7th gen & higher CPUs have Quicksync that does hardware h265 encoding.
You can get an old i5-7500 PC pretty cheap these days. That’s what I have, and tDarr converts about an hour of 1080p h264 content to h265 in roughly 10min.
“Wake has a double.”
So they’re still using the American Nightmare stuff?
Here’s what I’m rolling with right now… I try to nuke everything even vaguely political…
GOP
Trump
Biden
conservatives
elections
voter fraud
senate
senator
house of representatives
whitehouse
reproductive rights
pro-life
pro-choice
2nd amendment
gun control
Marxist
MAGA
Pelosi
climate change
Parliament
koch
murdoch
desantis
politician
fascist
Rudy
leftis
liberal
antisem
right wing
supremac
on strike
hateful
elect
liberals
republicans
democrats
republican
democrat
congress
abortion
communist
socialism
socialist
capitalism
capitalist
fascism
vax
global warming
ukrain
covid
proud boy
cops
police
defund
minimum wage
billionaire
the government
injustice
human rights
climate crisis
democracy
private healthcare
public healthcare
labor contract
on strike
It gets a lot more bearable once you setup a Politics filter that blocks dozens & dozens & dozens of keywords (mine is up to 66 words so far)…
Comcast (no other ISPs thanks to local legislation). Suburbs of the 2nd largest city in my state (Michigan).
$84/month for 200/10Mbps with a 1.2TB cap.
You have it great.
When I bailed right after JeffG left, there were personalities I liked, and some I did not.
Also, since it was a complete dice roll who’d actually be on a given podcast: some were great; some not so much.
And more often than not, their podcasts were populated by randos not even on the crew.
There’s never been a better podcast! (I fell off them at first, but I think that was because the world sucked quite a bit right around when they started, and it leaked into their podcast. They’re pretty great now.)
I stuck with Giant Bomb right up until they canned Jeff Gerstmann. Quickly after that, Giant Bomb just felt icky. That said, I couldn’t hang with Jeff’s solo gig – while he’s still a threat, he sorely needs a co-host(s).
I’m very slowly typing up a blog post on how I did it, but I had success tunneling my Plex through T-Mobile’s CGNAT by running this Docker container on my local machine and on a free (technically PAYGo using always-free services) Oracle Cloud account.
Much like Cloudflare, this is for sending specific-port traffic through the tunnel.
You’d be surprised. They even block incoming IPV6 traffic.
I wonder if it plays nice with CGNAT and ISP port blocking…
(looks at my T-Mobile 5G gateway…)
Definitely consider 16GB if you’re using Immich. I started with 8GB and had to upgrade. (on the bright side, 32GB DDR4 was just over $40)
I’d also say that an i7 is likely overkill for your use case (despite other comments here).
I run an i5-7500 with PhotoPrism, Plex, tDarr, and about 30 other services. The power draw barely registers on my 1000W UPS (this includes my SFF PC, external USB HDD, and 3 network switches). And my CPU rarely jumps above 20% utilization.
One reason behind it is that people are taking to defederation, simply based on whether or not you yourself defederated some third party.
See the Threads “grab your pitchfork” posts here on Lemmy for reference… Plenty of “we need a list of people who didn’t defed Threads so we can defederate them”
I would say at least 7th gen Intel. Its QuickSync is one version newer than 6th gen, and QuickSync didn’t get another update until the 10th gen CPUs.
7th through 9th gen CPUs QuickSync added h265 encoding, and 10bit h265 decoding. Also there are the all-around speed & quality improvements that come with each QuickSync generation.
Similar methods, I guess.
The guy running FediBuzz has been asking people to donate API keys as a workaround. It remains to be seen how it will all turn out.
Connect.
It’s an all-new app, and not just some dev’s existing Reddit app wrapped around Lemmy.
And it’s free with no tracking, no ads, and no crazy $100 pricetag to remove ads for a social network that’s still on somewhat shaky ground.