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  • Maybe.

    I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.

    It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.

    Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.

    A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.

    It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.

    They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.

    Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.

    I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.

    I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.

    It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.

    Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.










  • I ripped a ton of my stuff back in the day, guess I’ve been lucky, every generic BD drive i’ve used just worked.

    But once you get past the “works” hurdle, the real struggle begins.

    It’s slow, like really slow. Assuming you can find the right titles and convince makemkv extract them, it’s a start the process and go brew a cup of coffee slow. But hey, I’ve got time and you don’t need to watch it … mostly.

    Depending on the disk, it’s still either crap quality or it takes up an ungodly amount of space. Even a decent sized drive buckles sooner or later if you’re generating 20GB images.

    Unless you’re up on your network game, your streaming sticks/tv’s can hardly handle the throughput to stream the video.

    So you encode the video. HEVC (which is getting dicey starting january as the royalties go up and processors stop support hardware decoding) or hopefully AV1, which still has spotty support in places. and the re-encode? The easy software isn’t free, the free software isn’t easy, but FFMPEG isn’t that hard to work with.

    OR, you find an ISO provider and download it.





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    19 days ago

    Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

    The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

    Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.