exdor

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[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

It is easier to break something than to reverse engineer drivers and firmware and maintain yourself XD

Also, firmware updates need to be signed so it is impossible to update, unless there is a really bad vulnerability

And you can buy phones used, my most expensive one was under 400€

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dont buy anything older than an 8 currently. Think about support lifespan, the Pixel 6 will be EOL in one month!

https://endoflife.date/pixel

https://resist.berlin/pixel-preise

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago

Well, their requirements increased since Pixels got arm memory tagging in the 8 generation. The 11 would be more secure than a 7 for example but they are still uncertain about supporting them, because it is a clear security downgrade

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

I understood this like porting Android to some other chip? But yeah no idea what that means

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

True. For this specific case dont expect low used prices.

Experts take care and dont sell their devices.

Dumb people buy the new phone and then sell it because they switched to an iPhone or something... dumb. That is why there are so many low-spec Pixels on the used market. Try finding a 500gb Pixel pro used!

Same will be the case with used top tier Motorola phones. Lower userbase and those people are less likely to sell them.

A Pixel 9/10 is kinda premium but the normal one. The a is the lower tier but also runs GrapheneOS. But the a is not the generally advertized model for cheaper, it is released separately and has obvious downsides because you always have a direct comparison. It is simply way less likely for people to buy "the regular Pixel" (which is kinda premium) than for people to buy the top tier Motorola

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah and they are insecure and probably have very short and incomplete software updates

Phones are sadly not general purpose computers

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Tbh I wouldnt call a Pixel 10 camera "just fine", it is pretty damn impressive

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

It is an Android problem but with GrapheneOS specifically simply being supported is not enough for the devs.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Funny how ugly his case is, he could just have gotten one custom made with a camera protection slider

Also people always forget microphones and sensors

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah XD so it should be Clam-GTK-rs or something lol

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Welcome! Introduction (programming.dev)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by exdor@programming.dev to c/ffmpeg@programming.dev
 

Hi all!

Only after I made an account on this instance I saw that there already is a community on lemmy.world. many instances might defederate, so this one is useful.

My motivation: I use / have used ffmpeg for

  • encoding any audio to opus, variable bitrate (there are 2 modes, not sure why and mode 1 seems to be better)
  • converting stereo audio to mono, duplicated to 2 channels
  • cutting audio and video
  • encoding any kind of video to AV1, using svt_av1 (the software encoder which sadly produces way better results than qsv_av1 on my Intel Arc)
  • extracting screenshots from video
  • converting multiple images into a video for timelapse recordings
  • converting videos to animated images (webp)
  • add metadata to videos and audios
  • concatenate audiobooks in several folders to a single file including chapter metadata
  • ...

I will post all my scripts here in some time and hope for an engaging community to exchange tips, parameters etc! Ffmpeg is not very easy to use but incredibly efficient!

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