If you have a theater nearby that offers Dolby Vision films you can try out a version of HDR. They use laser projectors so the blacks can really be pure black. When the screen goes dark just before the movie the entire theater will be pitch black except for emergency lighting. It’s glorious.
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kieron115@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?English1·18 days agoFor sure the quality will be worse than software but typically if I’m away from home I’m watching on an ipad and then you really can’t tell the difference.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine gunsEnglish21·20 days agoThank goodness, now I can defend my home against tyranny and people who look different than me with a pseudo-machine gun, just the way the Founding Fathers intended! (/s just in case)
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?English3·18 days agoEDIT: I meant QSV Gen 7, which would be intel Gen 11. Kaby Lake and up can still handle HEVC in hardware but they have to use software as well for 4K.
worth mentioning that any intel cpu with an iGPU from generation 7 (kaby lake) and up can handle 4k hevc transcode in hardware. i just upgraded my plex box to an i7 8700K and it works quite well. an old office workstation with like a 9th or 11th gen intel cpu would probably rip through transcodes.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee.English1·21 days agoI would probably still brew decaf coffee to go with them for the taste and smell.
Caveat: I am not a programmer, just an enthusiast. Windows programs typically package all of the dependency libraries up with each individual program in the form of DLLs (dynamic link library). If two programs both require the same dependency they just both have a local copy in their directory.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Games@lemmy.world•Oblivion Remastered troubleshootingEnglish2·1 month agoI can (anecdotally) confirm the overclocking sensitivity. Although it seems to be more that this game just REALLY pushes hardware if you let it which is naturally gonna draw out overclocking instabilities.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its kneesEnglish3·1 month agoi can’t find the article for the life of me but i read an interview with a dev who basically said that the UE5 engine is fine unless you try to crank all of the visual bells and whistles on at the same time. Now imagine being a dev team trying to convince marketing not to use all of the features they paid for? Can we blame Epic and Nvidia?
kieron115@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its kneesEnglish4·1 month agoThis was my first thought too lmao. “How considerate of them to recreate the experience of not being able to play it smoothly until half a decade after it comes out”
IF you’re going to do this, make sure use some sort of sealed package (like the box in the photo). You used to be able to slap these things on like a sheet of plywood and just send it as is but now if the package isn’t sealed and is obvious misuse the post office can just throw it in the dumpster. If its a sealed package then the post office has to deliver it and the permit holder has to pay the charges. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22525/html/updt_001.htm
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Official Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3English3·2 months agoThis is a very good point. We’re supposed to be seeing how he becomes the Kirk we know.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Games@lemmy.world•Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?English13·2 months agoI think the silent protagonist choice is valid in more of “sandbox” story like BG3. Speaking for myself, voiced protagonists tend to “lock” me into a specific role. I absolutely love the voice acting for Geralt of Rivia but when I play a witcher game I’m not inserting myself into the game, I’m becoming Geralt and making choices based on how I believe Geralt would make them.
“The bypass uses a CXH (cloud experience host) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) string during the OOBE to invoke the hidden local account setup screen.” this had to be data mined or something yeah.
one of these creepy bastards got inside of my soap dispenser brush thing for doing the dishes. just threw the entire brush away D=
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Risa@startrek.website•I seek glory (Trigger Warning: Gowron)English1·2 months agoWorf, if I was looking for safe, I wouldn’t be sticking my dick through a wall!
the one with the biiig built in “leather” wrist rest? loved that thing!
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish1·3 months agooh okay, interesting. well, you could always use the web browser on your phone/ipad i guess. not a great experience but i know for a fact that plex works on ios in chrome at the very least.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish2·3 months agoPlex has pretty bad DV “support” as an example. AFAIK it will only play back dolby vision profiles that have the HDR10 compatibility mode or whatever. Any time I get an older DV file I have to play it through some Android TV app.
kieron115@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish9·3 months agoEase of setup was how I just got one techie friend and two non-techie gamer friends to set up Plex servers and we had libraries shared to each other within 15-30 minutes. I don’t want to think about explaining VPNs and SSL to them for the alternatives.
Just curious, do you know how many trees were MOLESTED to create that air you’re breathing?