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  1. superczar

    Police clamp down on anti-israel protests

    I think there is where you get it wrong fundamentally. If only the world were this black & white. There are no metal gymnastics here. I just pointed out a simple logical fallacy I i stated that the actions by both Hamas and Israel are deplorable Your hypothesis is that only one side is in...
  2. superczar

    Police clamp down on anti-israel protests

    Those who don’t acknowledge/agree that Hamas’s militant actions were wrong are guilty of the same double standards that can be seen on this thread - just in the reverse direction. However that does not make you right - the same way as how your counter cannot be quoted by them as justification...
  3. superczar

    Police clamp down on anti-israel protests

    I don’t understand this debate at all. While there are a lot of nuances involved, there are two statements which are unequivocally true and unambiguous. - Hamas‘s attack on Israel was wrong and deplorable - period - Israel’s counter-attack , that is supposedly on Hamas but is harming the...
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    PC Peripherals Need help first time buying (brown) mechanical keyboard below 3K

    Failures are not due to switches but the quality of the underlying board. Most of the top selling mech keyboards on amazon are from the lowest feasible manufacturing price band - in order to hit that price point, something has gotta give. Would suggest not to get fixated on the switches - there...
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    Beware of the Custom ROMs - The Case of Officially Pushed Nuke Codes and More

    oh boy! Not sure why you made it a personal attack not just on the poster but even brough the kids into the fold..sigh! In any case, I think @Heisen has pretty much summed it up in his post but just to add a bit more color: Most of the uncle category folks who have posted here have been...
  6. superczar

    Amazon Ends partial Payment via Amazon Pay.

    Amazon policies are misused globally but the % of userbase that abuses it is much higher in India. If they could somehow eliminate COD altogether and reduce/ control returns abuse, the prevalent prices for genuine customers for many product categories (esp electronics) could go down by as much...
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    Beware of the Custom ROMs - The Case of Officially Pushed Nuke Codes and More

    no, i meant bandwidth indeed You could be the most experienced android developer on earth , a true expert on everything from the kernel to the entire library framework ! But if you actually have the requisite skills then the bigger question is how do you have so much free time to even eyeball...
  8. superczar

    Beware of the Custom ROMs - The Case of Officially Pushed Nuke Codes and More

    yup Back then we were also using our phones more as phone first and a secondary standalone computing device with minimal personal/ sensitive data. As against today where most of us cannot /should not trust these ROMs unless one has the bandwidth to review their code
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    Beware of the Custom ROMs - The Case of Officially Pushed Nuke Codes and More

    Most custom ROM users are also college kids. So there you go :p
  10. superczar

    71-90K PC for Editing & Rendering

    Mine is an older i15 12400 Truth be told, the air cooler (deepcool) was fine as-is and didnt need a replacement …but i got tempted as is always the case with folks like us :| Received it today evening - will try install it tomorrow.(or saturday) to see how it fares. TBH i doubt it will make...
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    71-90K PC for Editing & Rendering

    How are 240mm AIOs vs air coolers? I just ordered a liquid freezer iii 240 locally While I’d have preferred 360 but I use a sff case I had sent a note to arctic - apparently they have a new channel partner for India now that they redirected me to. I ordered mine from here...
  12. superczar

    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    I wont go into a point by point response this time because A) you are drawing a lot of assumptions about me which arent necessarily true (e.g. the original assumption on basing my observations with a display/displays incapable of handling proper HDR) This time around you have assumed that I...
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    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    Now this is where we start getting into the classic audiophile discussion territory. There are folks into audio who can spend hours trying to convince why even lossless encoding like ALAC doesn't compare with a raw audio stream. As far as I am concerned, I find it difiicult to tell between even...
  14. superczar

    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    Availability of Free time not withstanding, it was not a standalone statement. And you missed the context around the same I obviously understand the need to store / safe-keep some media files. I have my own repository for that. May be worthwhile to read the preceding posts - but i presume you...
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    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    In which case all I would say is that you must be incredibly good at finding rare combinations on the interwebs.. Like Oldies/classics in AV1 encoding :tearsofjoy:
  16. superczar

    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    Let me draw an analogy. If my shoe size is 8, I would not buy size 6 or 10, would I? There is nothing i gain with PGS over SRT-its not that my server cant transcode it but why would I pick a file of that kind in the first place. The problem you are talking about is a hardware constraint on...
  17. superczar

    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    Hevc hardware decoding is present on pretty much every PC/Phone/Tab/whatever from the last several years. I havent really tried doing local playback on a browser but it stands to reason that if I have setup a plex server, i would have some or the other compatible app on my client devices. And...
  18. superczar

    Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

    I dont get it - there is literally no end user device these days that cannot do a direct playback of even very large/ high bit rate media files. Why bother/ burn power for transcoding? There are plenty of options for local DV+atmos playback on TVs incl ATV and firestick
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    Apple Let Loose Event Discussion.

    It only gets cheaper in the US around the end of the lifecycle. Unlike India, US never gets sale discounts on iphones and relatively small discounts on ipad . The last cheap ipad i was able to pickup was the 2018 ipad pro in 2019 for around 650 odd incl taxes. For whatever reason, apple tends a...
  20. superczar

    Apple Let Loose Event Discussion.

    There is no free lunch The magic KB has added extra weight at the bottom to keep the combination stable because of that suspended floating design. The KB folio has no such stability restriction as the weight of the ipad itself keeps it stable - It adds no more weight than any regular protective...