I thought my mid tier laptop CPU could not handle AV1 SVT SW encoding. I tried both preset 0 and 10 which are the extremes of the spectrum. And both work!

0 is basically impractical though. And 10 is FAST. The size difference is around 9%. Is it worth it to waste 9% space for extremely fast encoding? I say yes.

Vmaf is higher with 10 bit. 8 bit is good too. The source I tested with is 8-bit hevc.

I used the Nmkoder app on Windows to compare different presets. Vmaf is above 96 even with RF 30. It is crazy!!! 50% file size reduction with vmaf and psnr and ssim scores being so high.

I want to have my separate standard user for work stuff. Aurora linux has this command ujust that cannot write to the linuxbrew directory because it is not in sudoers. Only the admin account can.

What is the workaround here? Some of these ujust commands have sudo in them. That will prevent me from having a non-sudo work account, I guess?

I am confused a bit. Do I get it from the website? Is there a way to download the DX release? Or do I have to get the base release and after installation convert to DX mode?

I was wondering about the actual number of official full game releases in the north america region. Does anyone know the exact count?

The Wikipedia page shows ~2340 NA titles. I have seen other numbers like 1831 too.

Note: I'm not counting prototypes and demos.

I experimented with 7z quite a bit. I compressed an iso file aggressively using single thread compression and also 8-thread compression.

Of course, the compression time using a single thread took way too long. But I care mostly about decompression characteristics of these two approaches.

Result: ~15 seconds for 8 thread archive, ~44 seconds for 1 thread archive.

Basically, the structure of the archives changes based on the number of compression worker threads used.

7z spawned 12 threads when decompressing the 8-thread archive. However it only spawned 1 thread when decompressing 1-thread archive. I guess that is by design.

Does someone approve this based on their experience of using 7z?

Edit: Based on my tests, the difference is huge. More than 50% time saving when decompressing a 8-thread archive compared to a single thread one on my machine. It is totally worth it.

I was looking for .hack games and they are apparently gone. So how many titles were removed? Does someone have a correct answer?