Recent content by SlicEnDicE

I think you misunderstood. The issues started when MS shifted full focus onto AI, not when I've used it. CrapALot, including all other LLMs, are good for some things, but horrible for other...but that's a completely different discussion.

It worked fine for a while...quite a long while. Then something happened, I bet it was the start of focusing on AI Slop that broke it all. Bookmarks stopped syncing properly between devices and sending open pages to a specific device also stopped working. I gave it a long time to get fixed and...

I've been using Edge , since it was introduced (even the old Edge), but stopped using it about a year ago. It is not up to the task as a whole. Bookmarks being one, they are all over the place. Has been, is and will be in the future too. I've got about 10000 bookmark duplicates now. And had to...

After all they have been screwing up lately, they'd better...🙃

Yeah, there is not even a conversation to be had about NVEnc. It never produce the quality a top-tier CPU-based x264/x265 encoder does. The way the whole pipeline is built, prevents it from doing so. But it is fast, and good enough for a lot of stuff. Also not all x26x encoders are the same. As...

Yeah something like that. But it's more complicated if you really get into it. There are so many parameters that can affect final size and quality. And it requires multipass encoding, which takes time. But since we're talking about quality encoding, NVEnc should not even be in the same...

Compression quality when targeting small size is quite a bit more complicated than just selecting a flat bitrate. It also takes a really long time to do even on modern hardware.

The funny part with DVD and BR standard is that with proper re-encoding you can get a pixel and audio perfect copy at a fraction of the size. A 50GB BR movie, shrinks down to a few GB with no quality loss, even in fast moving scenes. Same for an 8GB DVD movie, goes down to about 1GB. But the...

I agree

I know women are brilliant at multitasking, but 4 screens at the same time? Is she an octopussy-spider hybrid with 18 brains and 12 eyes? 🙃

Probably not, but I use voice typing quite a lot on my phone, and it works brilliantly most of the time. One area of AI where it really makes sense to have a local one on your devices.

There are certain things I can't do anymore without a smartphone. There exist no Computer/web equivalent for those services. So yeah, for me a smartphone is a must, even though I also prefer a proper computer. I can however plug in my phone to my 32" display, connect a KB and mouse and use it...

Same here. My smartphone is more powerful than my laptop (see system specs). Has less RAM though (12 vs 32GB)

On my laptop it takes over 30s to get from cold boot past the UEFI screens to the actual boot menu. What are you people complaining about. 😄

That's just how the syncing app is built...it relies on a network to do its thing. Please note the distinction between Internet and network. Not the same thing in this case.