And I wondered who in their right mind would buy just half of that best friends forever charm.

anyone who would like to joke with their depression. I can imagine doing that.

now I actually want something like this

I can’t tell you that, sorry. I prefer cash, never paid with a phone yet. This OS can safely lock your bootloader (does so with the automatic installer), but I wouldn’t think it passes the safetynet check without some closed source magisk module that patches the verification system.

I think there’s a balance. if you really don’t care anymore, you’ll become a bad person that nobody wants around

turns out OBS does not have a software encoder for it, only encoding with a hardware encoder is supported. it is mentioned in the 2nd table of the video formats heading herev https://obsproject.com/kb/audio-video-formats-guide

there is no screen protection on either of the 2 phones

when I tried it, it lagged like no other app does. it genuinely had 10-20 fps

forgot the most important part. I’m storing twitch streams from a variety channel with lots of Minecraft.

they roughly do 7 streams a week, 2-4 hours each, and the size of the collection that has all streams from 2020 October is almost 11 TB.

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and OBS doesn’t support h265

are you sure about that? I’m pretty sure it should. maybe you’ll find it as _x_265, as that’s the name of the encoder it uses

twitch - the gameplay streaming platform - limits 1080p streams to 8000 kbps at most, at 60 FPS. I think it exclusively uses H264 encoding. For most games this is plenty.
There are some where it can be felt that it’s not enough, but in those cases it’s always the bitrate.

these games include

• escape from tarkov because of it’s environment, especially if the player has taken I think painkillers, and in turn has sharper/different vision. compression is really struggling there
• no mans sky when traveling in hyperspace, this is the most extreme case I have seen so far
• any games that have darker scenes (not necessarily in a “bright night” style) will have it visible

unless you are playing a quick action first person shooter, 165 fps is totally unnecessary, 60 is plenty.
1440p, I’m not sure. if thats your screen resolution, maybe it’s better to not lose quality to downscaling, more so because it can’t be done by just averaging every 2 pixels, it would bea weird ratio I think

for encoding… what hardware you have?
x265 is more efficient than x264, if you can afford the performance, but if you have a graphics card with hardware accelerated AV1 encoding, that may be even better. do some test recordings though.

Fairphone 4 user here too. I also got it second hand, but immediately replaced the OS with CalyxOS. It seems fast to me. My last phone wasn’t.

My only problems with it so far is the lack of a jack, that I need to remove the battery to remove the SD or SIM card, and the screen seems too easily scratched. It was scratched when I got it, but not this mutch. Its in my pocket with nothing else, but the screen is basically full of micro scratches while my previous phone of 8 years has (which was a very cheap phone even back then) almost no scratches at all.

windows 10: uninstall edge

windows 11: uninstall copilot

working on it, I’ve taken upon myself the eat the rich way of thinking and planning. however, after their wealth is distributed, retirement doesn’t work without an ever increasing population, does it?

my retirement is non-existent

why?

I only do this with the fridge in the summer to not let the chocolate melt. but why the freezer?

It’s good to hear that there are companies that are accepting this. Interviewing is a little different, yeah, that’s probably understandable when done remotely

I expect that all smart TVs have a web browser, so the first two should always work. Be aware though that while piped is more usable (imho), it currently does not work anywhere, because it did not yet implement a fix for google’s blocking that invidious did a week or so ago.

If FireTVs are android TVs, you should be able to install the android apps too, in a way or another.

• invidious
• piped
• some TVs have 3rd party specialized versions of the official webapp

The first two have web pages and phone apps. You can find the phone apps on F-droid.

Fun fact: did you know that the youtube app on your TV is just a no-effort web browser with a URL fixed to a web page, which you could even use on your PC?

Which does not solve the webcam’s mic, which (to me) is a bigger issue because it does not only record who’s in the from of the machine, but also the whole surrounding area.

Ok, I hear you. But here’s the secret: I don’t want to use a webcam at all. If you want to see me, agree to a physical meetup. Obviously that’s not the only reason.