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Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 188

Don't forget that Netflix is not re-encoding their content on the fly, it's prepared with fine tuned encoder and maybe 2 or more passes to get good quality for all the devices and formats.

On the other hand, what do you think your ISP will do if it starts re-encoding videos on the fly? It will output crap quality and that is very noticeable! It's not comparable at all.

Comment Re:Will you finally get to work already? (Score 1) 284

It works so well that I'm currently bisecting my kernel to find a regression for sound over HDMI on my HTPC that broken some versions ago.
I'm currently down to some long list of 200 changes from some "drm-next" branch. Yay, so fun!

Linux (the kernel) works like just any other kernel. The problems are usually in the userspace though.

Comment Re:How come no one thought of this before? (Score 1) 140

It doesn't have to be done this way.

In Sweden, we basically have that. We put our "person number" in the website and then it opens an identification request on our mobile phone (you can also use a desktop plugin). Proper 2FA, no stupid password to put on the website.

That's what I use to declare my taxes, use the local eBay, apply for a customer credit when buying something expensive online, connect to my bankS websites and also approve direct money transfers to friends through their phone number (so one pays at a restaurant and everyone pays their share).
It also works over the phone to identify yourself with a customer service.

It's *secure* and it just works.

Comment Yeah about Stockholm... (Score 2) 253

It's all great that it takes 24 minutes, but in general, it's quite hard to find a place to rent long term. So if you're a foreign worker, good luck competing with the locals who have been in queues to get a 1st hand contract rental for many years already...

So well, if you can't move there, you're not part of the statistics of course!

Comment Re:Does the streaming market go there? (Score 1) 41

Probably a lot! Spotify 50M paying subscribers reported early this month, that's without all the ad-based users that are just potential subscribers too (over 100M total). Apple Music reported 20M subscribers too. Deezer is probably at 7M now. Tidal 3M.

So yes, users are using those more and more as they are so convenient and the market growth isn't slowing at all. It should be good for some musicians eventually has revenue that went down year after year in most markets is finally growing too.

Comment Re:How to find them? (Score 1) 55

Nice troll there. Don't be a party pooper please.

They actually say they want to be beginner friendly. Even if you are not a Debian maintainer, you can still participate in QA effort.
That said, I used to maintain the Debian packaging of a lot of software myself, I don't think that I would be a hindrance in any way.

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