Psythik

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Seems to me that you got an early or cheaper HDR display, then. To me the difference is night and day.

FWIW, HDR does its best work if you have a display that can do true blacks. If you don't have an OLED, mini LED, or full array, you're going to have a hard time noticing the difference, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. HDR works best in either extremely dark or bright scenes, so having a display with a near infinite contrast ratio is important.

Here's a hint for any display: Look at some HDR clouds while you toggle HDR on and off. You'll definitely notice the difference there. Also check the teals. It's less obvious but SDR displays can't do a proper teal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Either one works; they both have pros and cons. A single file is easier to deal with but Google is correct, due to the way ID3 tags work. Listeners would just see a generic "[your show name] with DJ [you] on Radio Lemmy" for the entire show.

With individual tracks, listeners would be able to see the song title of every track, but I can't guarantee that every tune will play in your intended order. You would get your own programming block for the hour, where your songs would play on shuffle, with bumpers playing every few tunes. I could manually program the song order, but TBH if I had to do that for every single show it would get tiring quick.

So if you want a specific play order, it would be easiest to send a single file. But honestly I'll take either. The most important part is having content to play on air, regardless of how I get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Cue kind of reminds me of Turntable.fm. Gone now but it was a similar kind of community thing; also less radio-like and more like an open mic night at the club. People could take turns playing music and listeners could press a button to make their avatar's head nod if they like the tunes.

That basically inspired the idea I have for the second/third station (should I decide to launch one). You have 30 minutes to connect and play whatever you want, while people vote on your performance in the chat. If people are enjoying the vibes then you can extend it to an hour and keep going. But every half hour/hour you're automatically disconnected so someone else gets an opportunity to try. Could be a lot of fun but I'm also concerned that trolls could take over the stream, especially if there's not a mod around to monitor the audio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Frame Generation adds input lag, but I haven't heard of any upscaling algorithms causing issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I do have some bumpers in the works for everyone to use. "You are listening to Radio Lemmy", stuff like that. No mic is fine; although encouraged, I understand that it's not for everyone.

Please do send the mixes. TBH I haven't received much yet but it's early so still plenty of time for anyone reading this to send whatever you have my way!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What kind of out of the box things?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes except simpler because you don't have to build a library of content. The plug-ins do it for you.

A Debrid service downloads torrents and uploads them to various file hosting websites, allowing you to directly download any active torrent at speeds up to 1Gbps. If the torrent you want isn't in their database (because it's less popular), then it behaves like a torrent client, except since it's running on a server you can shut down your PC and go about your day as it downloads in the background. Most torrents with at least a half dozen seeds are usually immediately available for direct download.

It doesn't really protect your privacy, per se, but it gets your ISP off your back because in most jurisdictions they don't care how much you download illegally, so long as you're not distributing the files, like you would with a torrent client. (Sharing pirated files is how they get you.)

The bad news is that these services also hit and run, so by using one you're not helping the health of the torrent. I wish they didn't do that, but I'm so used to having any file I want delivered quickly that I'm willing to sell part of my soul to have the convenience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do you have a higher res copy that isn't so difficult to read?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

A proper png with transparency applied correctly, so that it still looks good with dark mode enabled? That is a good Link!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fire up game

Title screen pops up

Immediately decide that I actually don't want to play it after all

Alt+F4; fire up another game

Rinse and repeat

I need a new addiction.

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