I’m glad blue sky exists for two reasons:
- It will likely contribute to more Elon meltdowns
- It acts as a containment zone for celebrity and brand worship that’s marginally less bad than twitter
I’m glad blue sky exists for two reasons:
Preventing the updates is also another benefit of airplane mode if youre planning to jailbreak the kindle eventually.
Strictly because the tooling doesn’t exist in an easy enough way to go from blu-ray -> full-sbs encode at this point.
I’m constrained by knowledge to only use tools like BD3D2MK3D to create full-sbs encode in x265 which I watch in VR.
If AV1 were an option in this tool I’d consider it, but the additional encoding time might not be worth it to me as the person actually encoding the files.
If anyone has knowledge of F-SBS or F-OU AV1 content or tooling please let me know as I’d be glad to learn.
AV1 when available for everything other than 3d content which is ideally x265.
Honestly it blows my mind that x264 is still as popular as it is.
If you gamify something people with addiction and addiction-adjacent problems will inevitably interact with it in the gamified way. This was the first state of the karma system harming the site.
Then in the second stage once karma started getting more “serious” (preventing users from posting/commenting and being used as an “authenticity” check- what led to farmed and sold accounts) which led to a further breakdown of the karma system.
The underlying issue is despite being an absolutely useless measure in reality- the site itself ascribed value to them and caused people with (what we’d probably refer to as bad) economic incentives to act on that behavior then rationally acted.