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[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 5 days ago

Every time I consider that my near-a-terrabyte may be a little excessive, I'll remember anon.

Then again, I keep videos to 720P or less, and convert gifs to video, so if anon's an HD and/or 3D/Vr maniac, I could easilly have more than them, measured in playback time.

[-] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Why would you convert gifs to video to optimize storage space? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Gifs are actually really inefficient. It's largely a legacy format issue, but Gifs store every frame as it's own image while mp4s (in simple terms) store the delta between frames.

This link sorta talks about it - https://medium.com/@trongawesome/gif-vs-video-9b9392ec5814

[-] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Oh, neat. I wasn't aware of that and never thought about it even in that way. I resorted to gifs if given the chance becuase it was way easier for me to mess up the encoding and other stuff of the video, resulting in way bigger file sizes than necessary. I guess it's worth investing a bit more time in that lol.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I convert gifs where the conversion results in saved space and there's no noticable degredation in the content. This isn't most gifs, but I've encouotered more than enough to make this worthwhile, to me.

By and large, those who have bothered to convert videos to gifs don't seem to have considered any sort of size vs quality notion; Its done moreso because whatever forum/site they uploaded to would embed gifs and not video files. Gif is efficient enough that this usually doesn't matter, but sometimes...

[-] chrislowles@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

I'm kind of ashamed of the lengths I've gone to to "optimize" my stash, not too much though cuz finding good upscale and compressing software that's also cross-platform is always hard to come by.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago
[-] chrislowles@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Ran into that when I was looking for apps like Upscayl, Caesium and dupeguru, I wonder if anyone would be up for releasing a third-party flatpak on Flathub, they allow NSFW apps there and I saw an issue from 2023 mentioning it.

[-] spooky2092 4 points 4 days ago

I just use FileFlows to automatically optimize all of my video files. I've got my streamer app to only pick up the converted videos, so I just have to wait on automatic processes before stuff is available for me.

I prefer audio, comics and text so my database is deceptively small

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I've got good news for you: Storage is now unbelievably cheap compared to just a few years ago.

I've forgotten what deleting a file even means.

Years ago when I started ripping CDs people called me an idiot for not using MP3 instead of flac. They aren't laughing now. I fully admit that MP3 can be transparent at high bitrates and modern codecs even more so but that's for the end device (like my car or phone) not archival.

The same will be true with my Blu Ray collection stored as decrypted ISO files... I hope.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago
[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 27 points 5 days ago

I wont approach women even if my life depended on it

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 days ago

Yeah my wife is scary enough

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

He isn't wrong tho.

[-] lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

anon is wise lol given that in joe Biden's America not even with Trump in there, the red states all did ID based porn tracking

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 5 days ago

Honestly surprised the database hasn't been hacked yet. It's blackmail heaven for China.

[-] spooky2092 5 points 4 days ago

Lol, you really think it stopped being Trump's America even when he was out of office? There was only like 2, maybe 3 months where there might have been some kind of push back against him from the republican media and establishment.

Porn ID laws fit in perfectly in Trump's America.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You do realize States have their own laws?

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In Florida. Only a matter of time till they ban everything they can get their hands on. I've been saving everything I even glance at

The thing is, I have a low sex drive so it's like 10gb after like 3 months lol

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

So, more porn is the solution?

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm not retarded so I like to make eye contact and then see what kind of nonverbal feedback I get from it before approaching someone

actually i am retarded and i just made that up

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago

I like to interpret any positive interaction with a woman whatsoever as them being totally into me but then never act on it so I can live in blissful ignorance of the truth.

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