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Am Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 01:18:15PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: |
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> A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop |
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> with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would default |
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> to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash script |
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> that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected the |
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> maximum available CPU speed. I finally got Youtube with steady playback |
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> at 1080p... YAY! |
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OT, but an input to this aspect: |
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in-browser playback has always been a lackluster for me. It gobbles up CPU |
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cycles and makes the fans spin. Therefore by now it’s been engraved into my |
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muscle memory to copy the URL, download it and play it with |
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$FAVORITE_VIDEO_PLAYER. |
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I had a go at my Eeepc Atom netbook a few months back to see whether I could |
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use it as a little home server for Nextcloud and the likes. I noticed that |
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it drew 14 W from the socket at idle. And its performance was actually much |
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worse than my raspi’s (which suckles maybe 4 W). So I stowed it for good. |
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Pity, the haptic was not bad, but that’s the circle of life. |
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Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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If your laundry just wouldn’t become white, |
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may be that’s because it is coloured. |