The (internet) age old battle between content creators and pirates is an ever escalating arms race. It doesn’t seem to matter how much DRM and encryption creators put on their content, the next day there will be a dozen illegal torrents available. There is no way...
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2022 – Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop?
Nope. Abandon all hope. The Linux gaming desktop is a pipe dream. This is obviously only one man’s opinion, but lets think this through historically. Was 2013 the year of Linux gaming? Or even 2021? Simply put, no. So if we’re not there yet, what would...
Continue reading...Make 2022 a more stable year, use ECC Memory
Are you annoyed at those random game crashes, Blue Screens and weird behavior from your applications? Do you create documents or media you don’t want to become corrupted? Then your next upgrade should include ECC Memory. What is ECC memory? Error correction code (ECC) memory detects...
Continue reading...Cartoon or Photo? – Image detection with Python
This all started with me just wanting a fast way to sort through image folders and remove cartoon images. That lead me down a spiraling rabbit hole of possibility. From using OpenCV to do different types of detection, or even training a Machine Learning model from...
Continue reading...Raspberry Pi Hardware Encoding Speed Test
The GPU hardware encoder in the Raspberry Pi can greatly speed up encoding for H.264 videos. It is perfect to use for transcoding live streams as well. It can be accessed in FFmpeg with the h264_omx encoder. But is it fast enough for live stream a...
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