nickjj

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by nickjj 6d ago
> And rightfully, no one is entitled to a business model working in perpetuity. I know, I worked very hard for 20 years to build up this business. I easily put in tens of thousands of hours to document, record and open source pretty much
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by nickjj 8d ago
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there - nor are the people involved selling it back in any form. This rhetoric sounds impressive, but really looks more like "pi
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by nickjj 12d ago
The review's purpose wouldn't be to provide you an in-depth guide to walk you through installing some distro. It's more like probing for high level details around hardware compatibility. For me personally, the laptop I mentio
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by nickjj 12d ago
What kind of research did you do? I only ask because if you're buying it on a big site like Amazon you can search reviews for "Linux" and see what pops up. Ideally you're looking for people who have said they installed i
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by nickjj 17d ago
> Feels like we'll see this happen to a lot of "we already figured this out for you" developer products. It has for me at least. I had a solo business for 10 years selling tech video courses (learning Flask, Docker, etc.).
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by nickjj 17d ago
> No, why would it? I don't know, that's why I asked. I haven't done a deep dive into creating custom plugins for Resolve, so I don't know what the implications of that are from a performance perspective. I wasn'
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by nickjj 17d ago
Does this introduce lag while editing? What about for encoding? For example if you want to export a video from Resolve in its final form with AAC audio. The readme mentions decoding but not encoding.
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by nickjj 17d ago
> On a low power machine you should use proxies. Sure, but this same hardware was able to edit 1080p / 30 fps videos on Windows without performance issues and not needing to use proxies. Camtasia let me edit videos liquid smooth eve
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by nickjj 17d ago
Yep, but AAC is not, so you're still stuck needing to encode multiple times. This adds delay and also massive disk churn.
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by nickjj 17d ago
The problem with AV1 is it requires a massive amount of compute resources. This affects both recording (encoding) and playback (decoding) and certainly affects editing. My AMD RX 480 (8 GB) card doesn't even support AV1 encoding too. B
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by nickjj 18d ago
I really wish the Linux version supported h264 video and AAC audio. These are extremely disk space efficient codecs and even on 12 year old hardware you can edit 1080p videos without any CPU bound lag. Having to re-encode your source materi
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by nickjj 19d ago
> Both are valid, and combining the two is great. I'm a big fan of combining the two. When I spent 3 weeks in Türkiye solo traveling (from the US) I tried to have a few home bases. For example 5 full days of hiking 15-20 km in Cappa
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by nickjj 26d ago
Thanks. Not through mpv, but if all of the videos are the same resolution and codec you can use ffmpeg to concat them without needing to re-encode anything. It could be worth making a little wrapper script for this, but the ffmpeg command i
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by nickjj 26d ago
> Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding You can do this with mpv. It's an open source cross platform media player. For example, here's how I set up a tiny Lua scri
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by nickjj 27d ago
Yep, but pretty much every single piece of software you've installed on your system can read and write files to your home directory in a silent way without root, and that's where your most important files are on a desktop machine
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by nickjj 1mo ago
That is good to hear. Supposedly the free Chase cards have comparable rental insurance. The main difference is Sapphire is always primary insurance, but Flex and Unlimited become primary when traveling internationally and if you happen to l
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by nickjj 1mo ago
> If you pay next month you can have stuff today. There is value in this even if you always pay your full statement balance every month. If you have a stable source of income knowing your credit card payment is due on the 7th of every mo
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by nickjj 1mo ago
> It's generally a time-vs-money thing though in that to maximize airline/hotel programs Credit card hotel booking portals are often much worse than what's available too. For example, you might end up paying 30-100% more f
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by nickjj 1mo ago
I've spent ~20 years working either as a contract worker and in more recent years, full time work. Every company I did substantial work for was bottom up from the perspective of my role, which is also related to infrastructure and deve
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by nickjj 1mo ago
Luke's videos were fun to watch. Yep, I also handle updates, some menus and generally everything to 1 shot a full system and keep it healthy. There's a 90 minute demo video. Not a lot of interest in rolling my own ISO though, I th
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by nickjj 1mo ago
> It's a lot more than any shell script I've written, certainly. If you've written a more complex one I'd love to see it. I've been maintaining https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice for aro
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by nickjj 1mo ago
> The stock market is exactly the same - middle class gambling. Our entire society is based on being forced to gamble. If you don't invest your money in some capacity then inflation will eat you alive.
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by nickjj 1mo ago
I was using someone's computer who didn't have ad-block and this is rampant with Google's web search too. It's unreal to me that you can search for a specific doctor's name in a specific town and end up seeing a spo
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by nickjj 1mo ago
> You say (in your blog post) "Linux" didn't work well so you reverted to "Windows", but as is so often the case you buried the distro/version info. Not sure what you mean. The post directly mentions I'
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by nickjj 1mo ago
The linked post in the original comment at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/gpu-memory-allocation-bugs-wi... has a lot of details. AMD's GPU do use system memory seamlessly as a fallback, but NVIDIA's don'
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by nickjj 1mo ago
Yep, there's also a 3+ year old multi-response thread here: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/non-existent-shared-vr...
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by nickjj 1mo ago
Swap doesn't help in this case. It's GPU drivers freaking out when they run out of VRAM, but it might only be specific to NVIDIA cards since AMD seems to handle this better. But, if it's driver specific that means it could be
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by nickjj 1mo ago
This post focuses on performance, but what about crashing due to apps seeing no RAM available to allocate once VRAM is filled up? I remember having this problem when I used an NVIDIA 750 Ti with 2 GB of memory. Just opening a few Firefox or
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by nickjj 1mo ago
Yep, I have an M4 MBP company issued laptop for work and in my day to day there's not a enough of a performance win to feel like I'm missing out for most tasks. Sure, the Slack web app might initially load half a second faster sin
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by nickjj 1mo ago
I'm running a 12 year old i5 3.2ghz CPU with 16 GB of memory, an SSD and an AMD RX 480 (8 GB) GPU. Currently using a 100% scaled 4k monitor and a 2nd 1440p monitor. I keep the machine on 24 / 7. It's great for software develo

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