Maxy

It’s possible for a certain hardware/software setup not to support a certain codec. For example, my jellyfin client (Finamp) uses the iOS native decoders (afaik), which means opus files are practically broken. My music library (8000+ songs) contained exactly 1 lossy file, which just so happened to be an opus file. I decided to spend the extra ~20MB to standardise my entire library to flac files, ensuring I could play every song on all my devices.

Edit cause I posted too soon: you are generally correct; only in very specific circumstances will you encounter compatibility issues like this one in the modern world. This is 100% apple being apple, and you can expect pretty much every other (reasonably modern) device to support all codecs you might encounter in the wild.

To add to the audio compression: it isn’t possible to further compress an mp3 file without losing any quality. You can either:

1. Recompress to a lossy codec (mp3, aac, opus). This will lead to smaller file sizes if you set the bitrate lower than that of the input file, but it will always worsen the quality, no matter the bitrate.
2. Recompress to a lossless format (flac easily being the best one). Going from a lossy to a lossless format will increase the file size (sometimes by quite a substantial amount), while keeping the same quality. There is very little reason for you to do this
3. keep the original files (my recommendation)

If you’re willing to spend some extra time learning about audio compression, you can download lossless files and compress those directly to whatever format and bitrate you want. The quality will be better than option 1 above, as the audio is only lossely compressed once instead of twice.

I have about 0 experience with openssl, I just looked at the man page (openssl-enc). It looks like this command doesn’t take a positional argument. I believe the etcBackup.key file isn’t being read, as that command simply doesn’t attempt to read any files without a flag like -in or -out. I could be wrong though, see previously stated inexperience.

Dutch media are reporting the same thing: https://nos.nl/l/2529468 (liveblog) https://nos.nl/l/2529464 (Normal article)

“cis” and “trans” are prefixes denoting on what “side” something is. “cis” means “on this/our side”, while “trans” refers to “the other side”, for example:

1. “Cisalpina” is how the Romans referred to their side of the Alps (modern day Italy), while “Transalpina” referred to land on the other side of the alps.
2. There exist certain pairs of molecules with either a “cis” or “trans” prefix, depending on whether certain identical groups are on the same side or on opposite sides, respectively.

The modern use of “cis” and “trans” is generally about gender. A cisgender person is someone whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth, while a transgender person is someone for whom that doesn’t hold true.

In this meme, the person on the right is wearing a transgender flag for a shirt, and presumably offending the cisgender person on the left by calling them cis. The meme is making fun of the fact that some cisgender people consider “cis” an insult, when it really only is a neutral and non-offensive description.

That seems like a good edit, and fair enough. Good to know that there is also room for people who want to use their computer in a non-fanatical way, simply minding our own business.

I don’t fit in an of these teams, and neither do literally all Linux users I know. Should we have identity crises, or could this be a giant oversimplification?

YouTube would be smart enough not to advertise Adobe creative cloud in the pre-roll ads of this video, right? Right???

Och arm ziel, wat een zware examenperiode heb je wel niet achter de rug…

Engels was goed te doen (zoals volgens mij traditie is geworden). Het was wel lastiger dan vorige examens denk ik, maar ik kwam er nog steeds best goed uit. Alleen de tekst over de invloed van romantische poëzie op moderne breakup songs mocht er echt in stikken wat mij betreft.

Heb je trouwens verder nog leuke plannen voor na de examens (of eerder “het examen”)?

Which compression level are you using? My old server is able to compress flac’s at the highest (and therefore “slowest”) compression level at >50x speed, so bumping the level up shouldn’t be too hard on your CPU.

Ik was ook veel te lang blijven hangen bij die cosinusregel voordat ik de 1,4d zag. Zo veel moeite voor een 3pt vraag, wie dat ook bedacht heeft zal wel een klein beetje sadistisch zijn.

Ik hoorde dat best veel mensen niet uitkwamen met die oppervlakte in de cirkel. Misschien had het geholpen als ze nog even hadden genoemd dat het dezelfde cirkel als de opdracht daarvoor was, dus dat je die gegevens ook kon gebruiken? Ik was er gelukkig wel uit gekomen na flink wat gepuzzel.

7,5 met N=1 is wel netjes hoor! De N-term zal vast hoger zijn, dus hopelijk wordt dat een mooie 8+ met normering.

Natuurkunde ging ook best goed. Ik geloof dat ik weinig vrienden heb gemaakt in de examenzaal door eerder weg te gaan, iedereen vond het een rottoets. Mocht je op examenblad willen kijken: iedereen had enorme haat naar vraag 7, 8 en vooral 9.

Maandag alleen nog Engels, dan ben ik eindelijk klaar! Heb jij nog iets te gaan?

I’ve been running some external drives on my server for about a year now. In my experience, hard drives with an external power supply suffer less from random disconnects. The specific PC also makes quite a large difference in reliability. My server is just a regular desktop and has very little problem staying connected and powering my 3 external drives. My seedbox is an old laptop, and has been having almost constant problems with random disconnects and power issues. Maybe test how well your framework does with some external drives before committing to the plan?