As a mediatec guy I think the idea that everything needs to be 60 fps is a pest. I understand the idea in gaming, but it is not needed elsewhere. A train stop display can easily do its job at 1 fps or lower. You do not need to display motion at all and the 1 fps you need mostly for blinking things off and on (if there is no dedicated circuit for it).
Most cinema films I watched projected from analog film looked perfect at 24 fps. Heck some anime loocks better at 5 or 10fps than it would look if the motion was fluid at 120 fps. Why would a display at a train stop need double the frame rate of a cinema classic that still looks completely convincing? Because some gamers decided they can't play below 60 fps?
Definitely true! A good way to practice and make sure you’re working on throw consistency rather than pure reflexes is to juggle while watching a TV show. It’s even better if it’s something like subbed anime, so you have to read the subtitles while you juggle.
You say that like once the software has started it had washed its hands of that slow spinning disk, anything that interacts with data (god, remember trying to do video editing 20 years ago?? It was hell) was a nightmare.
And oh yeah, 100% I agree SSD’s are a huge factor as to why software runs faster now than it used to on average for day to day activities. Thanks for mentioning one of the things that helps demonstrate my point.
But it is not the only thing, that’s for sure. I can think of a few other critical things that made usage of computing faster over the years, and I bet you can too.
Partially unrelated but I once downloaded anime on dialup, used to take 30 hours per episode at low quality…
> If one software type is giving you more "attrition" than the others you might be part of a clique
At that time, it was just the fact that I was a windows user.
And once because I posted a pic of me watching anime on my TV, and someone asked how I got screenshots for posting them on mastodon/blog later. User was definitely not pleased that I mentioned I got from /r/anime discussion thread for each episode
But yeah, I'm definitely part of a clique of normies that just wanna use a social network to chat with people
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As a mediatec guy I think the idea that everything needs to be 60 fps is a pest. I understand the idea in gaming, but it is not needed elsewhere. A train stop display can easily do its job at 1 fps or lower. You do not need to display motion at all and the 1 fps you need mostly for blinking things off and on (if there is no dedicated circuit for it).
Most cinema films I watched projected from analog film looked perfect at 24 fps. Heck some anime loocks better at 5 or 10fps than it would look if the motion was fluid at 120 fps. Why would a display at a train stop need double the frame rate of a cinema classic that still looks completely convincing? Because some gamers decided they can't play below 60 fps?
Definitely true! A good way to practice and make sure you’re working on throw consistency rather than pure reflexes is to juggle while watching a TV show. It’s even better if it’s something like subbed anime, so you have to read the subtitles while you juggle.
You say that like once the software has started it had washed its hands of that slow spinning disk, anything that interacts with data (god, remember trying to do video editing 20 years ago?? It was hell) was a nightmare.
And oh yeah, 100% I agree SSD’s are a huge factor as to why software runs faster now than it used to on average for day to day activities. Thanks for mentioning one of the things that helps demonstrate my point.
But it is not the only thing, that’s for sure. I can think of a few other critical things that made usage of computing faster over the years, and I bet you can too.
Partially unrelated but I once downloaded anime on dialup, used to take 30 hours per episode at low quality…
> If one software type is giving you more "attrition" than the others you might be part of a clique
At that time, it was just the fact that I was a windows user.
And once because I posted a pic of me watching anime on my TV, and someone asked how I got screenshots for posting them on mastodon/blog later. User was definitely not pleased that I mentioned I got from /r/anime discussion thread for each episode
But yeah, I'm definitely part of a clique of normies that just wanna use a social network to chat with people
I use GNU/Linux and use the default layout.
~/Downloads <- Everything I download, torrents seeding
~/Downloads/old <- Entropy is here
~/Desktop <- Empty I don't like to keep files here
~/Documents <- Personal documents, my university stuff is grouped by year/subject
~/Documents/Library <- Here are all my e-books keep in perfect order, most of this later
~/Dropbox <- Cloud sync, mostly files shared with others mates
~/Pictures <- Photographs group by month and year, or event name
~/Pictures/memes <- Internet memes
~/Pictures/Inkscape <- Vector images i created, mostly from tutorials followed
~/Pictures/Blender <- 3D projects, I just learning
~/Music <- All my music keep in perfect order, most of this later
~/tools <- Some programs downloaded and not installed globally
~/Videos <- Unsorted videos, my own screencast, offline YouTube videos
~/Videos/Anime <- Anime series keep in perfect order, most of this later
~/Videos/Movies <- Movies keep in perfect order, most of this later
~/Videos/Series <- TV series keep in perfect order, most of this later
~/Videos/Tutorials <- Tutorials I purchased for offline consume
~/Workspaces <- All my coding projects
~/Workspaces/github/<project name> <- My personal and other open source code
~/Workspaces/<company name>/<project name> <- Work and Freelance projects
For keep in order:
- Music: I use https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ if the metadata isn't yet available then I left in downloads folder
- e-books: I use https://calibre-ebook.com/
- Videos: I use https://www.tinymediamanager.org/
- Projects: All my projects are GIT repositories
- Encrypted stuff: Plasma vault for folders and https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html for disk
Sync folders between devices: rsync
Navigate between directories in terminal: ranger, z, oh-my-zsh, byobu
Compress files: tar and lrzip