Especially since all these niche devices have like a year of security updates at best.

Or forcing the proponents of these reforms to reveal themselves. AFAIK they’re proposing this crap to hit on everyone’s privacy while keeping their own identities anonymous.

My concern is, even if Israel withdraws, it still owns the event through Moroccan Oil financing it. We might have an scenario of Israel not participating as a country at the contest, but Israel completely monitoring and controlling the whole process and winner choosing.

Yeah…but in reality those things usually run their own CPU and firmware, which is undocumented, and you won’t catch a manufacturer dead releasing any documentation about it. This is a major roadblock.

What phones are adviceable these days for a daily driver? Is there any of them where ALL of the hardware does actually work? As in, most of the ones I’ve seen in the past had major bugs blocking from using either the mobile network, the camera, the sensors or just about everything that wasn’t just the screen and touch input. I have a spare Pixel 7 and a Pinephone Pro (that I never got to work too reliably) I keep around for possible testing of stuff.

I’m afraid with how insecure mobile networks are, modem manufacturers will never dare to open or document their mobile drivers to Linux. And we’ll continue to be stuck in this perfectly controlled and planned scenario.

Well people also want HL3, and here we are…

Yup, the information out there seems to explain it’s another Tanashin mechanism clone. In my opinion you can change the tires of your Opel Corsa, but it’s still an Opel Corsa.

I guess it was ffmpeg. Whichever handbrake uses.

Neat! AV1 encoding is painfully slow. I wonder what quality will you get when doing vulkan.

Unless they clearly say so, assume the same crappy Chinese magnetic head/motor combo single integrated module as in every other cassette player these days. I wouldn’t buy it.

Lol…I just bought a more generic logitech cam. And I recently tested an insta360 Ace Pro2, and when hooked via USB it can act as a webcam. I use this one when traveling, so I could just put it on a tripod-selfie-stick combo next to the laptop. But good to know that one works too. I’m stuck with a Dell 2 in 1 that I thought wouldn’t have this issues…but it still does. As I bought second hand, might be harder to sell.

Yeah…I bought the Dell too. It also bothers me that the camera module is still not compatible. Even though they’re supposed to be intel-made.

It seems to be a refresh rate <-> FPS incompatibility. Video files at 24 or 24.97 etc don’t play great in 60Hz refresh rate. But still, VLC does something that makes it much smoother.

As i said, it is enabled. I tested it and it runs fine. But it jitters. Even with acceleration off, this computer is more than capable of playing video off of the cpu and not dropping a single frame.

Thanks I’ll try this.

EDIT: Seems Nobara might include these by default. Basically Nobara is a Fedora with a lot of gaming/multimedia/GPU tweaks to make it pretty gaming ready.

Tried… Gpu, vdpau, vulkan. They all work. I don’t think it’s dropping frames. But I see the jitter.

This might be a very good point. But then, how can I play it properly on vlc? Is there a way for smplayer to handle this?

EDIT: So you nailed, and it IS refresh rate. So, I changed the screen refresh rate to 50Hz, but for the Alien episodes, the video is 24FPS, so not a perfect match, but better than 60Hz. And indeed, the video jittered less frequently, more like little spasms. And so I went again and found out I didn’t have 48hz, but i could set the screen to 24Hz. And there you go, perfect playback.

Now my question still stands…how come VLC manages this rather well without having to tinker with the refresh rate for every damn video file? Is there any setting I could use on SMplayer to account for FPS->Hz conversion?

They should also show the persistent proponents of these laws. Last i heard they were very much trying to keep their names anonymous.

I’m afraid it’s not expanded to many countries just yet :(