I hope to see some mid-range phones that fit in a normal hand. In the 4-5" range.

You know what they say about guys with big hands, right?

They have big gloves.

I don’t think I’d want to use a platform the government is so intent on getting a backdoor access to.

That’s every platform. Telegram is just too big to push back as hard as it has.

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I had Android running on my OG iPhone. Must’ve been around Android 2.1 or so.

It was not really usable. More of a curiosity.

Sounds like it’s localStorage. But I’d expect that to be covered by “site data” in that option.

It’s a bit like cookies, but just for one site. Some think they can avoid cookie consent banners with localStorage.

Firefox has a page on the topic.

I haven’t heard of it before, but if Google bans it they must be doing something right.

I’ll check it out.

I’ve been trying to convince my boomer wife to try affinity. She works mostly with print, and it seems like a good fit to me.

I used to play it a lot when it was cool.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.

They’re dirt cheap second hand.

Looks a bit like Heather Harmon.

I moved from kts24 to a hetzner arm node earlier this week. So far I’m very impressed.

I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.

I recommend https://wormhole.app for the purpose. Drag, drop, leave the tab open.

My car is in the shop for some tricky troubleshooting.

I’ve been doing my weekly grocery shopping with my foldable bike and dog trailer. I live in a rural area, so it’s a bit of a trip. I don’t particularly enjoy it, especially the hauling the load home. It would probably be bearable with a bit of electric assist on the bike.

Ubuntu touch supports it decently

How’s that working out?

Haven’t heard anything, just from memory of my own testing. Looking back at my notes I see a 40-50% speed up with VideoToolbox compared to x265 on M1, but at a lot crappier quality.

I haven’t tested in quite a while, though. I wrote off doing encoding on the M1, as my AMD cards are a lot faster (and produce better results).

It’s hard to beat a GPU in HEVC encoding performance. SoC:s have comparable performance to dGPU:s in that regard. A used zen/zen2 laptop might be a cheap and tiny workhorse for the purpose. I have a zen/vega10 matebook 2020 that does 1080p at around 2.5-3x real-time at high quality presets. No doubt it could do 4k at faster presets.

With the hardware in my arsenal I’ve found that AMD>Intel>nVidia, at least quality wise. VideoToolbox on Mac is down there with nVidia, and Apple silicon being pretty slow at it compared to software x265 on the same machine.