It's hugely more efficient, if you're on a battery powered device it could mean hours more of play time. It's pretty insane just how much better it is (I go through a bit of extra effort to make sure it's working for me, hw decoding isn't includes in some distros).
Afaik ".internal" isn't reserved/defined anywhere, it's just a convention some people/devices use, and doesn't have anything to do with the root cause here (a custom resolve.conf or whatever it is called in macos changing after an update), no?
I guess a Buddhist point of view would be that any emotion/feeling should not be held on to. (It is best to feel and let all things pass, I think, but to consider it a disorder to "hold on" to happiness doesn't seem right...I am not well-read enough about it to know if it can in fact cause suffering)
Yes. The argument is something like at some point in the future the conditions causing the happiness will be gone (probably quite soon, happiness is fleeting) and so will the feeling. If that transition away from happiness upsets you then it will cause suffering so you shouldn't cling to it.
There's a related sutta (MN87) with some dicussion about how love, which is generally an even more pleasent feeling than happiness, causes suffering if clung to because we are all inevitably separated from our loved ones.
Am I reading it right that this is just about the installer not being ported? I guess I'm old but I feel like packaging is a long-solved problem. Bizarre...
No I don't think that's it. If it was just the installer, this person should have gotten it working. I was under the impression it was no longer Javascript and was instead some compiled, closed native code, and the either BSD ELF loader or its C library was missing some functionality it needed? /shrug
Some linux distros (e.g. fedora) don't include hw decoding for licensing reasons. I decided I wanted all the latest goodies at some point and ended up duct taping together a copr repo with mesa/ffmpeg/mpv (latest from git) with all the hw stuff enabled (though I'm probably breaking some of their rules by doing so...I've labeled it in such a way that I hope nobody comes across it and decides to use it). Anyways, my main goal with it all was to extend battery life on my laptop while watching things, it makes a pretty big difference to use proper codecs.
Re: noise canceling... recently got a pair of IEMs (Etymotic ER2XR) with good foam tips and their isolation blows away any ANC I've ever tried. The only thing is noise from touching the cable but that was solved with some ear hooks to put the cables behind my ears.
Maybe a bit clunky but there exist some very good and tiny DACs/dongles now (and have seen a couple creative cases/riggings that present the jack in a good/manageable way)
One of my current favorite websites is http://tv.garden that fills this void for me. It's like having the inter dimensional cable box from Rick and Morty.
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