You can absolutely re-encode h265 video, but you can’t do it losslessly. In the end, it’s always a balance between quality and filesize.

I decided for myself, that 1080p30 crf28 h265 is good enough for home video, which lead to a 50% to 80% storage space reduction on videos from my phone.

If you don’t obsess over quality, I would highly recommend just messing around with ffmpeg a little bit and decide how much quality you’re willing to lose in order to save disk space. When you’re happy with your settings, you can either use ffmpeg itself or some fancy batch program like Tdarr to transcode all (or parts of) your video library.

My goto command is:
for file in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -movflags use_metadata_tags -map_metadata 0 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 -vf scale=1920:-1 -r 30 "${file%.*}_transcoded.mp4"; done

Magic Earth (while not FOSS, it’s privacy oriented though) can do this.

There’s also Transportr, but AFAIK it’s been unmaintained for quite a while now, so it may not work / stop working soon.

I find it even more puzzling as surely it has to be a decent increase in server demand to constantly be streaming video. How can that be worth it??

Push Notifications don’t really exist for Lemmy yet, as they aren’t supported in the backend currently:

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1027 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

As someone else here said, your best bet is probably monitoring your Inbox RSS feed.

Public transport in Magic Earth mostly works for me. It’s not as good as Google Maps, but it’s better than nothing.

+1 for kid3

Nope, you’re doing everything right. Unfortunately it seems like that station actually just isn’t available in whatever catalog Transistor uses.

It seems to also have american stations, I’d recommend you still give it a try.

I was never in a situation where I had to choose which fliphone to buy, but most don’t have a normal headphone jack, with a decent number of them also using a fully proprietary headphone port. So I guess I’d look out for it having a normal USB connection and ideally a fullsize headphone jack, or at least one of those smaller diameter jacks.

I don’t know its source for stations, but Transistor has direkt links for many German radio stations and probably other regions too.

I still vastly prefer FM, DAB or Satellite radio, but when those aren’t available Transistor is a nice alternative.

If your hate only goes towards touchscreens and not having physical buttons, Mazda is (or at least was) very anti-touchscreen. I haven’t done any research on their current stance or if they have good EVs, but a neighbor of mine was really happy with his Mazda ICE car for having a button for everything.

It’s not a full car or even entertainment system, but comma.ai is an opensource autonomous driving software. Last time I looked into this was a few years ago, but basically for most newer cars you can rip out the adaptive cruise control, and effevtively replace it with autonomous driving. Either powered by certain supported phones or dedicated hardware.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just “modernized” Tetris music).

I have bots on and it’s mostly ever these two.

There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don’t see any of them.

There’s a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.

I’m on both, the one friend I message on matrix conveniently also hosts our instance.

Nowadays I very rarely use discord (only for server voice channels, because it’s just better). The few chats I still have on discord are bridged into matrix.

For many of my friends it was easier moving them to Signal though instead of matrix.

AFAIK a lot of the tech that they show off also isn’t actually theirs, it gets sent to them for unboxing / showcasing and then they have to send it back.

Looks like it might be coming back as suyu

Consent-O-Matic is super convenient if you frequently visit new websites or clear your cookies. It will automatically decline all those annoying pop ups! https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

I believe you can rent 3D movies in Bigscreen, but I’ve never tried it.