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Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?
  • AAC if those old movies are in mono/stereo. Also AAC works everywhere, not sure for opus? It's been a long time I ripped dvd to convert them.

  • Loblaws boycott isn’t hurting sales, suppliers say — in fact the grocer’s share price just hit a new high
  • Boycot Loblaws, I went to Maxi, they have way better prices!

    /s

  • Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?
  • I'd use HEVC/H265 anyway, always, the best quality for its size. And AAC for audio

  • Free parking and mortgage holidays: Developers offering new incentives as preconstruction condo sales plummet
  • They are building thousands of condo at 1M$ and have a pikachu face when they realize it's hard to sell?

  • Suggestions for filesystem.
  • agree, and it compresses automatically, can be useful for some backup

  • Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls
  • it should be in your MS online account as someone wrote, but in case of, I always save it on a USB key, hidden somewhere. You can also print it, or take a picture of it with your phone. Because there is no way to get it back.

  • Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests
  • I have bought hundreds of stuff on AE, it's ok, especially for stuff that are less than $10 that local sellers sell for like $40 for the exact same thing. I got some items in less than a week in Caanda.

  • Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls
  • uhoh, and wait for the time when the user will update his BIOS, that resets TPM2, and at reboot bitlocker asks for the 48 digits key to decrypt hard drive, that the user never saved...

  • What is your go-to app for IR remote?
  • I'm using irplus, you can easily create/save/load IR files to emulates all possible remotes, takes them from https://github.com/irplus-remote/irplus-codes.github.io

  • Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
  • I used ext4 for yeeeeaaaarrssss but now I'm using LUKS+btrfs, stable, encrypted.

  • Battery sizes explained
  • I also saw some small rectangles batteries stacked

  • The "Driving across the Midwest" Starter Pack
  • There's the same sign in NC/SC, plus the SOTB Pedro signs

  • I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the `GNU awk` command for beginners
  • At an old place of work, someone wrote an awk script that parsed strings using regex from a CSV file, and it generated JavaScript code automatically. It was ~5000 lines of awk script, it was beautiful. I understood it after a couple of weeks, I was in charge of maintaining it, super interesting.

  • Nearly 60% of retirees are supporting adult children financially, survey finds - National | Globalnews.ca
  • It is funny because in something like 30 years, it will be children that will provide financially to their 80-90yo parents

  • Who here's committed to not shop at Loblaws' companies this month (and beyond)?
  • In my part of QC, the only "Loblaws" around me is a Maxi, it's pretty cheap certainly one of the most affordable groceries here. But I can go to a nearby SuperC just to boycott Galen.

  • Any way to autologin with LUKS encrypted boot drive?
  • Mildly secure but you can put the password in TPM2 with this tool https://github.com/timchen119/tpm2-initramfs-tool

  • Hyundai Motor, Kia Corp sign agreement with China's Baidu on connected car technology
  • I know, all Stellantis too because they are grade B cars. In the end I don't know what will be the remaining brand not enshitified? Lada?

  • Hyundai Motor, Kia Corp sign agreement with China's Baidu on connected car technology
  • Well, time to cross Hyundai/Kia for future cars

  • notifications?

    Is there notifications in jerboa when we have a reply?

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    Frederic Papamousse @beehaw.org

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