please let me know if there are any issues and any bugs. the password encrypted packs are neigh unbreakable and unreachable. this is a pre release alpha. i need input and scalability. because I'm on a laptop I do not have access to higher powered desktops or bare metal systems.

Let's say I am making a video and have hundreds of gigabytes worth of footage compressed using FFV1 and need to free up drive space and so decide to start compressing some of my footage with lossy HEVC.

If I include footage compressed with lossy HEVC in the edit, but encode the final master with a royalty free codec, do I still have to pay royalties because it includes footage originally encoded with HEVC and consequently features forensic visual traces of it despite having been re-encoded?

hey everyone so I just got a new laptop it's not the newest but a very big upgrade from what I used to have and I have a lot of data scattered everywhere so I want to see what is the best way to deal with all the data I have

my data has been scattered all over the place scattered all over smaller USBs and hdds and it's a lot of iso files , app installers , apks , videos , images , documents , system backups and much more and the total size is around 1.6 tbs

so I was searching around and found tools like restic , xdelta3 , rmlint and btrfs but I'm not sure if that is the best approach yet

what i want is to compress the data and store duplicate files in the best and most efficient and space saving way and I want to turn my old laptop into a small server / testing environment for non systemd Linux distros

my main rig has nixos installed and I'm doing system backups and I want to be able to send them over the network to my older laptop for storage and I want the best way to organize data

I'm also learning a lot of things and learning game dev as well so the file sizes will only get bigger

the older laptop has only around 512 gb of storage but I'm planning on expanding that and installing freebsd as the server os / daily os whenever I need to use that machine and I want to self host some stuff on it as well

so if there's any better ways to deal with data or compress it and oeginize it in a better way that would be amazing plus if there's any tips on self hosting that would be amazing

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okay so I have several hundreds of gigabytes of old games on my hdd that I've either used 7zip ultra using .7z on for the archived ones or NTFS lzx compression on for the active ones. what do I swap those our with for even more compression. I have a xeon 2698 v4 with 20 cores allocated for gaming and 10 others allocated for everything else via process lasso

I am a software developer and i am working on compression apps, i managed to code a game-aware compression system,
It effectively compressed a gta v installation into 80gb (30%\~) while sacrificing almost no CPU usage (2-3% of usage), and just a bit more waiting time on loading screens and only a 7% fps drop MAX.
How much would you be willing to pay for a program that could do such on any given game as a gamer?
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