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.

Thanks. I think I might rebuild the pihole-unbound server and try again with this setting.

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

With how things are going, I’d be happy to support an EU-based alternative.

Similar idea for Android: TrackerControl.

The next level i kinda wish it had (because it already has about everything else) would be to have the phone screen shown in the desktop.

But apps outside of their store (such as fdroid) get constantly pinged for malware security scans, and android treats them as second class citizens in a lot of scenarios. It’s really frustrating to fight your phone on so many fronts just to use the apps you want.

https://www.androidpolice.com/how-i-customize-android-16-qpr1-quick-settings/

This is about the quick settings. But now I can’t find mentions about the brightness slider…maybe that wasn’t added?

I think they were about to address this once the full android update was released… I think the brightness and the control switches was going to be one of the big things refreshed? And they were delaying the full release because of the whole Pixel drivers enshittification by Google.

I’m sorry but you’ll need the Intel cpu if you want jellyfin. You can’t control what devices your users will play the media from, and eventually transcoding will be needed. I think the amd field isn’t doing great just yet on this regard. Any old Intel cpu past the 8xxx series will have enough transcoding ooomph to handle a bunch of simultaneous transcodes, once set. But yeah you need to make sure you have acceleration for the transcodes.

Not necessarily agree with the tone of the headline, but happy they are finally taken into consideration when talking security.

What’s your consideration for choosing this one? I would have thought ViT-B-16-SigLIP2__webli to be slightly more accurate, with faster response and all that while keeping a slightly less RAM consumption (1.4GB less I think).

Some apps can detect they have not been installed through the play store and will refuse to work. My banking app pulls this bullshit, among others.

Thanks… I had no idea this existed. I can now connect to the work remote desktop software with a single window perfectly integrated. This is incredibly helpful. Moreover I can now say I’m using Winapps in order to run Windows App. I guess now they can rename the remote desktop app again to Winapp to go full circle. Or maybe Winamp, just to confuse people. Or just App, to make it impossible to ever troubleshoot.

EDIT: At any rate, this works really beautifully. It’s a bit of a PITA to set up if you’re having the VM via virt-manager but hell if it’s not as smooth as native.

KDE includes now a default option in their settings to do this. It’s in the Colors & Themes > Night Light menu.