Google is pushing av1 because of patents, but 266 is just plain better tech, even if it’s harder to encode.

This same shit happened with 265 and vp9, and before that, and before that with vorbis/opus/aac.

They’ll come back because it’s a standard, and has higher quality.

Maybe this is the one time somehow av1 wins out on patents, but I’m encoding av1 and I’m really not impressed, it’s literally just dressed up hevc, maybe a 10% improvement max.

I’ve seen vvc and it’s really flexible, it shifts gears on a dime between high motion and deep detail, which is basically what your brain sees most, while av1 is actually kind of worse than hevc at that to me, it’s sluggish at the shifts, even if it is better overall.

Yeah, using the a750 the same.

Can’t wait for next Gen arc with vvc (x266) support.

Intel has excellent transcode, even in their igpus.

I use an arc750 specifically for transcode, av1 runs at ludicrous speeds, but don’t do an Nvidia, they kind of suck because they dont support vaapi, only nvenc/nvdec and vdpau.

Yeah, the ryzens are great too.

Full amd will treat you well, I’m running dual xeons and a Radeon pro with an arc 770 just for av1 encode right now.

Next round going full epyc.

Amd knocks Nvidia into a hat on Linux, the drivers are just too incredible.

With the exception of AI, where Nvidia is just plain the gold standard.

Intel is fine, it has exceptional video encoding and works.

Core i3 is fine, celeron can route, but you don’t have as much headroom, or room for firewall rules, etc. Recommend Intel x520 or mellanox cx3 or newer, though the cx2 is perfectly fine.

The bs about bsd being slower is maybe 15 years old at best?

Bsd is a monster for routing.

Run 25gbe routing, still can get by on your 4 core, but I throw some serious xeons at it anyway.

Meh, I like my udm.

I use some of the features, but mostly it just works, and it’s debian under the hood so I just ssh in and unfuck whatever needs unfucking.

It’s vastly closer to a hand-built setup than anything else, and you can spend less time worrying about security.

Ollama, llama3.2, deepcode and a bunch of others.

Using a GPU but man they’re picky, they mostly want Nvidia gpus.

Do NOT be afraid to run on the cpu. It’s slow, but for 1 user it’s actually mostly fine.

Not much, I have services that run both externally and only over wg.

Only issue with wg is sometimes I have to shut it off for things like multicastdns, or otherwise that try to look around the network or wifi.

Get a VPS, wire guard and forward the socket to your home server.

Bare metal is stupid expensive because it’s near impossible to administer for them, all you need is a static ip really.

Alternately use a dyndns service and poke holes in your home firewall.

No recommendations, just want to say: Thank you!

They have deals on fire extinguishers too.

Yeah I was thinking DNS over https was sneaking in, it’s a tricky little bastard and you have to kill Firefox to change that properly.

Check again, it is sneaky AF.

Trump’s coin dropped already.

Let me clarify:

Recordsize is basically hash block size. If you want to change things you will always write in blocks up to the recordsize, smaller if the file is smaller, then calculate the hash based on that.

Smaller only helps for randomish accesses inside a file.

I’m really curious if that’s still true for debian 12, it’s using a 6.1 kernel and stuff isn’t nearly as old.

Been hosting my email about as long, thinking about turning it in, or at least only making smtp exposed.

The address argument is a cop out, Wireguard works fine always on now, even in your home wlan if you’re fine with hairpin nat. Ios and android handle it well.

I block China and Russia, tempted to add a few others but those are easy outs (haven’t been to China in years, will figure it out if I am).

My udm is basically running either debian or Ubuntu with all the major apt packages so everything should work, though I don’t think most of the logs go through syslog, many go into their mongodb database I think.