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    Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.
    Svideo output is a substantial improvement on Composite even on VHS-C sources. VHS-C is still going to look like ass to us, spoiled as...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.
    I did it with TDARR, where you can specify templates that give the encoder something to do. My rules basically look at the source video...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    This is EXTREMELY out of left field, but it's fascinating to me, a long form interview with minimalist composer Steve Reich, about his...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    She likes to climb and she's made herself a little nest on top of my fridge. RIP my Flour Jar. She's also claimed my ENTIRE couch. The...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    An additional kitty has entered my life. I found her out by the dumpster at my office, snuggling a bigger, lifeless cat. She squeaked...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Empire in Decline.
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Empire in Decline.
    This link has some commentary on DOJ Attorney Julia Le's testimony before Judge Jerry Blackwell on the ongoing debacle in Minneapolis...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Android phones: Tips, tricks?.
    The Sxy+ models generally make sense as premium devices. They typically have the RAM and storage options the Ultra models do, but lack...
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    Mercutio reacted to sedrosken's post in the thread Up to date Malware Removal with Like Like.
    CCleaner used to be good, now it's just adware. Even if cleaning the registry was by and large a placebo, it did do a better job of...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Up to date Malware Removal.
    uBlock Origin on Firefox and Firefox-derived Browsers, uBlock Lite on Chromium-derived Browsers (Edge, Vivaldi, Chrome, Opera et al)...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.
    Another tip for stupid selfhosting tricks: TDARR is a tool for intelligently batch re-encoding video data, but it's mostly just a...
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    Steam Headless is a Docker Image preconfigured to support nVidia (or not-nVidia, but nVidia is the one people struggle with) GPUs and...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Linux from the end user side isn't genuinely too different from Windows or MacOS. There are a couple small exceptions, one being that...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home Media Streaming.
    Ars Technical posted this article about nVidia's more than 10 year and still ongoing support for the Shield set top box.
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    Menace is coming out next week on all the storefronts. I like my turn based strategy games, my Battletech and various forms of X-Com...
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