Yes, every video you download or stream is actually compressed quite a lot, the bitrate just determines how much compression is applied. Higher bitrate means the file is bigger and less compression is done, while low bitrate means the video has a lot less bits to store all that data and so has to do more compression.

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I use Geddit occasionally, I don’t know if it supports voting or commenting though since I just browse.

Gamescope generally helps with alt+tab issues.

How is Backpack Hero by the way? I played the demo years ago and liked it but haven’t bought the actual game yet.

I believe Syncthing isn’t on iOS.

On System Settings’ Night Light page, the time input fields for manual time mode are no longer a nightmare, because they’ve been replaced with a set of spinboxes (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.1)

Oh thank goodness, that page has always felt a bit weird.

I like the Wayland support from KDE Plasma for things like HDR and Freesync. If you don’t need advanced stuff like that then it’s preference really, Cinnamon would probably be my second choice.

Switched like a year ago or so, not really any difference on my AMD pc and Intel laptop. Now I need wayland for HDR on Plasma 6 so there’s no way I could go back personally, as well as the great multi-monitor and fractional scaling handling.

Was into Dogecoin for the meme in high school, haven’t touched crypto in years but now I’ve become too attached to my background to change it.

https://xkcd.com/1348

You mean… a prompt that needs a second click to run the program?

I’ve heard you can say “octopodes” as well

On Lemmy you can sort by top day in a community, idk if you can open up mastodon hashtags through Lemmy or not

It’s unencrypted, your ISP / Starbucks wifi can read all the files you send. Use SFTP instead.

Tuesday:

Startups: Nice quick game

Coup: Pretty nice quick game, we’ve played it quite a bit though but it can still be fun.

Labyrinth: A pretty cool game about trying to find treasure in a shifting maze. You move the tiles around as you play so all the paths and items change. Pretty fun game although it can get a little slow if you’re unlucky.

Sea Salt & Paper: Quick game, pretty fun.

Wormholes: The main big game, about delivering space cargo. You make wormholes to travel around faster. Pretty cool game, although we played with a couple weird rules since they didn’t read the rulebook properly lol. It was still pretty fun.

Friday:

Scythe: This game is great. I played it once before and it seemed pretty complicated, but after playing it a second time I’ve started to plan out strategies for it because I played pretty inefficiently the last two games. Really fun game.

Flotsam Fight: We played one round of this and were kinda confused about the rules and strategy. We’ll have to play again sometime.

Parcheesi: A basic simple party game, but there were some pretty crazy moments and it was pretty fun.

Bro Scythe is crazy

Tuesday:

Coup - Quick game while waiting for people to arrive, it’s pretty good but we’ve played it so much that it’s gotten a bit samey.

ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo - A game based on the Alien movie, it was cooperative and kinda cool. The issue was we were trying to move everybody to the same space, but people kept drawing a card that sent them to a different place and so we spent like half the time just sitting in the Galley while waiting for the other people to move there. And we should have made more items in the beginning. Pretty cool but I was pretty ready for it to be over because of that one card and we had lost a ton of health in the beginning so we were pretty doomed.

Horrified - A lot of similarities to ALIEN, except it was better imo. Instead of just one monster there were three, with cool objectives in order to defeat them. The map was smaller so you usually didn’t have to spend your entire turn just moving. Items were pretty cool and doubled as a form of health. NPC villagers you had to save from the monsters were also pretty cool. Might have to try ALIEN again but this just seems better after playing both for the first time.

Friday:

7 Wonders Architect - Like 7 Wonders but simpler. Was pretty fun, got rid of some complexity that was kinda weird in 7 Wonders, and we had a good time, but normal 7 Wonders was also pretty good.

King’s Dilemma - Our second session of this legacy game, where you play one campaign that’s like fifteen sessions long and then it’s over. It’s been pretty fun, voting for things and trying to manipulate the kingdom to match our goals. Our kingdom is doing pretty bad though but it’s fine, it’s more memorable that way. Good game.

Ticket to Ride - Was pretty fun, we played very non-competitively and just stuck to our own things so most people got everything done. Cool game but it was a little long, although it was the first time for a couple people.

There is, it’s called Peertube

What I do is have a separate /synced/media/music folder on both my pc and phone, and use syncthing for that and don’t worry about the default Android music folder.

For playlists I do that on my pc with the music player Strawberry, I can add songs to a playlist and save it as a .m3u file in that same /synced/media/music folder. The playlists still work on my phone since it’s just local paths from the root of my music folder. I would do playlists on my phone as well but I use JetAudio which is pretty buggy and doesn’t let me modify .m3u playlists, although I’m sure some other player would let you create and modify them.