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  • What is the scrappy super cheap but capable competitor of the pi, like the pi was to average desktop PCs?

    I’d say Rock Pi or Orange Pi, if you want something close to capable.

    what can do the same as a pi for 30 bucks like 10 years ago the pi was?

    Probably the Arduino Uno Q. It’s Qualcomm’s new Arduino board that runs Linux. It also seems to start at around $44 for the 2GB model (I’m guessing they’re making a loss since they’re new to the SBC game, and they’re probably trying to gain market share).

    Or if you don’t need a whole general purpose operating system, then there’s plenty of microcontrollers that’ll work fine (ESP32, STM32, etc.).



  • I really only edit the odd video, but I can try and answer as it seems no one else has.

    1. Is it worth it to buy server MOBOs and employ one, then two or more CPUs? Does KDEnlive or other Linux apps make use of multiple CPUs? Do I need to buy i7-i9 CPUs from the start, or a couple of i5 is okay? Where is the golden middle there?

    I would not go with a dual socket system, most Linux apps will schedule themselves fine but you will get quite some stuttering if the app wasn’t expecting the latency of being scheduled between 2 seperate NUMA nodes. Kdenlive isn’t too demanding so you can realistically go with any somewhat modern CPU. Kdenlive also does let you use multiple cores in the render menu, but it recommends against it as it can cause artifacts. So if you’re going to buy a new CPU, look for single core performance.

    1. What about double vCards? Can any software use these dupletes or is it more beneficial to just buy the top single vcard? Do I need to purchase some compatible vcards for that?

    Not a lot of apps support using 2 cards at the same time, and I don’t think Kdenlive needs anything too special. As long as the card supports VAAPI (AMD/Intel) or NVENC (NVIDIA) then Kdenlive can use it for encoding.

    1. If you use KDEnlive on AMD, what are lifehacks to boost it’s performance? What do you use for preview, render, proxy clips, do you use another hard drive for cache, etc? What options do you choose for preview and render?

    Just render using VAAPI and it should be fairly fast. There also used to be an experimental option for GPU accelerated effects, but I couldn’t find it last time I looked.

    1. Have you tried VFX software like Natron (native), emulated Resolume, Nuke or Houdini via Proton or Wine, and how it went? What suffixes to use there?

    No, but you could try CrossOver too if Wine doesn’t work.








  • It’s missing the CSS, and I don’t think this is something you can do solely with curl, at least without a bunch of parsing. Wget does have a --page-requisites option that should work though.

    Also, your first screenshot has included the HTTP headers, which are not part of the HTML. You probably need to remove a -v from the curl command, although it doesn’t really fix the main issue.

    Edit: You also might get some more replies if you posted to one of the programming communities.


  • I actually made a similar thing a few years ago, and mostly relied on WebSockets with a HTTP fallback: https://github.com/Steve-Tech/My_Time

    You actually seem to know what you’re doing with Workers though, mine was pretty much a half-assed attempt at porting my python code (which again could probably be better).

    Also my desktop is PTP synced to a GNSS disciplined time server, and I’ve found the My_Time workers demo to be fairly accurate. I also feel Cloudflare should be reasonably accurate given they have database products you’re intended to use with workers, but yeah, there’s no guarantees.