Thanks I just tried PassAndroid, pretty slick! I was using KDE Itinerary (way more features and always improving, but not too polished yet) to manage tickets before, now I have an alternative.
Regarding wireguard I always used WG Tunnel from f-droid, I'm looking at the official Wireguard app screenshots and it seems to have the same functionality (easy config import via QR scan, notification shade button), maybe it looks prettier. Not on f-droid, that's why I didn't come across it before.
I was interested in the "non-traditional" fps of Fury Road so here's the relevant part from wikipedia, they actually used less than 24 for most of the movie.
According to Seale, "something like 50 or 60 percent of the film is not running at 24 frames a second, which is the traditional frame rate. It'll be running below 24 frames because George, if he couldn't understand what was happening in the shot, he slowed it down until you could ... Or if it was too well understood, he'd shorten it or he'd speed it up back towards 24. His manipulation of every shot in that movie is intense."[75] The Washington Post noted that the changing frame rate gives the film an "almost cartoonishly jerky" look.[76]
Awesome! I love this app for its widget, it's very quick to jot down some notes during the day, and you can scroll the note contents from the homescreen.
Together with the Gallery they were my must-haves from Simplemobiletools, now from Fossify
Great news, I just wish they were priced to sell millions instead of thousands...even considering their apparent decent quality and the fair salaries, that price (149€) is extortionate IMHO. For any TWS.
Same goes for the Fairbuds XL at 249€, at the end of the day they have the same 40mm drivers found on 30-40€ headphones..for 99€ they would sell so many!(Maybe this is where I'm mostly wrong unfortunately..people don't care)
Their design is pretty cool I find, on all their products.
Their smartphones are pricey but not so much all things considered..
Let us not forget they removed the headphone jack for no good reasoning other than making extra cash, environment and customers be damned.
Other than cleaning the vents, I would also see if any problem come up with a few passes of Memtest, and with a linux live system (I suggest Ventoy if you don't have one ready, you install it once on a usb pen drive and from there on you only drag and drop the .iso files)
This is a good approach. I would not even use Izzy's repo shown by OP (at least not on a daily driver device - great for testing newer apps I'm sure) because I don't see it as advantageous to get updates so quickly or access to apps that are not yet (or will never be) fully open source.
Basically I see most of the value of F-Droid in their build server and official repo. So I only add repos with a very short list of apps, like microg and KDE.
I can always install the odd apk manually, or use Aurora store (preferably in the work profile)
From a quick look on wikipedia, looks like AC3 does not support VBR. That is enough to make AAC twice as good at least, especially since movies have a lot of silence in them, so your ratio of 1:2 equivalence seems right to me
Sorry I edited my other reply heavily because I noticed later that you were interested in some exact bitrate numbers..
I don't know enough about AC3 to know an equivalent number, all I can say is those numbers I've written for opus and AAC are in my experience enough to enjoy any movie.
Hi Zedstrain
If compressing, why not opus? AAC is almost as good but you have to make sure you're using a good encoder, and its licensing is not as open.
Anyway I found this table, next to "Music Storage", it shows the suggested bitrate values depending on the number of audio channels, from 96 to 450. Should applicable to movies, and to AAC (maybe adding 10% bitrate?).
Did not see any requirement of the sort in the fine print, but even if there were, it's fine as long as you pick the right provider. If I had to make the occasional call it'd be still worth it. There are also providers that will keep a sim active indefinitely as long as you "purchase" one month (as little as 5€) every 1/2 years (most importantly, they do not charge you into negative credit). So basically free to operate as well.
Honestly I do it mostly to limit spam, if I did it only for privacy reasons I'd have more than two numbers but I fear one might start getting noticed by the autorities at that point :/ sms is inherently unsafe and not private.
Other than avoiding those services as much as possible, I use a second phone number for "machine-communication"= whenever I'm not giving my phone# to a person.
I'm in the EU, I found a provider in my country that offered a prepaid sim card (pay-per-use) with no expiry date, but never use the credit on it because it's free to receive sms. I turn it on in my dual sim phone whenever I need it.
croc is great, works even when devices cant find each other on the network, or with gigantic folders (I use it between computers).
Or Simplex chat, I dont use it to chat but only to quickly share between phone and laptop :)