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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?
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    6 days ago

    I mean, they added “bash scripts you find online”, which are only a problem if you don’t look them over or cannot understand them first… Their post is very much cemented in the paranoid camp of security.

    Not that they’re wrong. That’s the big thing about security once you go deep enough: the computer has to work for someone, and being able to execute much at all opens up some avenues of abuse. Like securing a web based service. It has to work for someone, so of course everything is still vulnerable at some point. Usually when private keys or passwords are compromised if they’re doing things remotely correctly, but they’re still technically vulnerable at some point.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Just baffling
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    11 days ago

    They gave references, you ninny. It doesn’t matter if you have references if everyone is bringing a lot more of rhem in to it, which they have.

    Again, obstinance should not be confused with being correct. That’s just being in denial… You are in denial.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Just baffling
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    11 days ago

    Being “left of center” is a comment about the Overton Window. People are trying to express to you about how outside of the extremely slanted window, liberals are all conservative, which is wholly and demonstrably correct.

    When you’re the only one trying to use rose colored glasses, it behooves you to understand that most others will have a different perspective.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•"Recommended System Requirements" for buying a used PC for selfhostingEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Jellyfin and others transcode some videos to a more streamable format. Not important if it’s already a good streamable format, but if it’s some older file, it might not even be streamable (like AVI, and WMV). Those situations are where transcoding is necessary. It also comes in to play when the bitrate needs to change, like trying to watch a high bitrate video on old hardware that cannot handle it (like an old chromecast). It’s nice when the server can just transcode the video and send a less heavy or more compatible stream.

    Hardware acceleration for the transcoding is simply more efficient these days. Most CPUs for the last decade can do software transcoding of 1080p without much issue (if that’s all it’s doing), but get multiple people watching older videos or some really high bitrate ones and hardware acceleration will become a tangible benefit, too.

    Your situation only works for video formats that are streaming-friendly, meaning all the browser has to do is feed the stream of data to a video player, and it Just Works. The media player doesn’t need significant chunks of the file to start playing it, so as long as the connection is fast enough, it’s fine.