Some people graduate in 3 years, some in 4, some in 5+. It really is different for everyone. Unless it is exceedingly financially difficult to afford these two additional classes, you’ll probably be okay.
Gianni R
Compressionist
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I don’t write as frequently as I used to, but in case you’re interested in multimedia & data compression:
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom LocationEnglish2·7 months agoI should have clarified that I was referring to “Restart” rather than “Shut Down” because I’m not aware of how frequently people actually “Shut Down” their devices. My intention was to ask: How often would you need to physically press the power button when the functionality of turning the device on and off is accessible through software?
On another note, I think the amount of attention posts like this get is a pretty clear indication of how deep Apple hate truly runs. I’m fine with Apple, more of a Linux person myself, but stuff like this makes me shrug my shoulders. Only Apple could garner this much attention for putting the power button in a weird spot on a tiny desktop that nobody complaining about it would buy even if it was on top of the device.
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom LocationEnglish72·8 months agoUnless your computer has issues, can’t you just power off from within macOS?
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Using a Firefox fork makes any difference?English3·8 months agoJPEG XL support in Waterfox is nice.
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18English151·9 months agoThe fact that iPhones are getting this before Android phones without Google Play Services tells you all you need to know about the nature of RCS. Android has lost all of its intrigue and fun in favor of becoming GoogleOS
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilipEnglish12·10 months agoRoyalty-free blanket patent licensing is compatible with Free Software and should be considered the same as being unpatented. Even if it’s conditioned on a grant of reciprocality. It’s only when patent holders start demanding money (or worse, withholding licenses altogether) that it becomes a problem
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilipEnglish1·10 months agoJPEG-XL is in no way patent encumbered. Neither is AVIF. I don’t know what you’re talking about
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilipEnglish4·10 months agoNo, there aren’t any licensing issues with JPEG-XL.
YouTube serves VP9 video (and more recently a lot of AV1) and I think the Pis only have hardware accelerated decoding of H.264/5 as it stands today
Throughout the entire OS. Image CDNs are adopting JXL on some scale - Cloudinary reportedly ships billions of JXL images regularly
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | BeebomEnglish1·1 year agoI think the wave of hype sort of overshadowed a couple of key points about these chips:
- Performance & efficiency aren’t leaps & bounds ahead of the Intel & AMD crowd
- ARM Windows laptops are still Windows laptops
Battery life is hardware and software.
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•the fear of missing out a better compressionEnglish8·1 year ago.tar.zst forever
I’m glad Fedora has GNOME as default. The KDE spin appears to be well-maintained enough for those interested to enjoy it.
Gianni R@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android usersEnglish5·1 year agoPixel 6 & newer, newer MediaTek devices, anything with the Snapdragon 8 gen 2 or newer. It took Qualcomm a while because many companies (including Apple) were holding out for VVC, which to this day isn’t in a great state. iPhone 15 Pro & newer support AV1 hwdec
GNOME for sure
Hilariously, WebP often isn’t better than JPEG for compression efficiency