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  • Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to fusion on Thursday, May 21, 2026 08:04:00
    fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-

    i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
    streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
    wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

    I'm new to the GPU thing, wondering myself about how GPU usage works.
    If I use my GPU for an LLM like Olama, can it display graphics as well?
    I have a low-ish end card and onboard graphics. The only reason I need
    the graphics card is for one game.

    I'm considering transcoding a ton of video files to an iTunes/iPhone
    friendly, lower resolution format to save space and wondering about how
    that works when it's using the GPU.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Thursday, May 21, 2026 08:04:00
    Nightfox wrote to Mauro <=-

    I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed
    the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).

    A long time ago, the weekly MRC chat morphed into a watch party - I
    think the first was "Hackers". Quite a few people watched a streamed
    version, others watched their own copies and synced them by timestamp.

    It was a lot of fun. I wonder what software they used - I think there
    were 10+ people watching the stream and at least double that in chat.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to fusion on Friday, May 22, 2026 08:01:00
    fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen.
    instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

    then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these
    ones are specific ..

    i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400
    (~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on
    eBay..

    the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you
    want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want
    AV1 support

    To clarify, I don't need to run LLMs and transcode at the same time -
    these would be operations I'd run while using the computer for
    basic web/office work.



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