/int/ - International

>>24233 Is the Mirror your iPhone app available in Switzerland? In the EU it's blocked.

I bought a 280 euro mini pc. Ryzen 5500u, 16 gb ram, 500gb nvme. I hope it can play eve online. If not I just play wow vanilla private servers.

>>24520 Yes, it’s breddy nice.

>>24525 Gib dat. Which video player do you use on MacOS seeing that Quicktime only supports a handful of containers and codecs?

>>24776 VLC, no idea if there's anything better or more modern, but I've been using it for most of my life.

>>24776 >>24783 Elmedia Player is pretty gud. I execute it from a script that opens a new player for each file you open with Finder

>>24776 mpv. It's cross platform like vlc.

>>25359 I already use mpv, but for the love of God I don't get the mpv.app (installed over Homebrew, the stolendata build) to work, so I can just doubeclick on any video file in Finder to open a video (right now I use mpv exclusively over the Terminal, which works of course, but is a bit annoying). When I installed it and tried to open it over the GUI, the audio was playing, but no video.

>>25360 Use Elmedia Player like I said. It will associate most file types but if not just right-click and use "Get info" on the file to set the default application. Additionally, you can ask ChatGPT for instructions on a simple script to make it so MacOS opens a separate player for each file you open (Windows does this by default but Mac doesn't).

>>25380 I need the high quality scaling and options (as well as scripts) of mpv, I can't use any other player without compromises.

Okay, I found out what the issue was with mpv on MacOS (no video through the GUI). Apparently it doesn't work with vo=gpu-next (which I had set in my .conf), only in the terminal. That sucks major ass, because only gpu-next provides the highest quality viewing experience. Maybe it's time to go back...

>>25813 Come back home, friend.

>>25380 >MacOS >>25380 >>25360 Imagine paying a premium for a device whose major selling point is the ease of use of the ootb software experience and then having to tinker this much just to watch your Chinese 2D series. Topkeklel

>>25826 I'd rather use IINA, if I couldn't use base mpv. VLC doesn't accurately display the video. VLC's core issues: https://slow.pics/c/XhbmrYgU (wrong colors) https://slow.pics/c/FW2nBwKP (wrong colors) https://files.catbox.moe/uavkkp.mp4 (poor subtitle rendering) https://slow.pics/c/j5xmf2of (scaling, deband & subtitles) https://files.catbox.moe/yvop5e.gif (poor subtitle rendering) https://slow.pics/c/BLodyVXh (wrong colors) https://files.catbox.moe/kq60du.png (VLC on left, MPV on the right) https://files.catbox.moe/6ooh42.png (this shit while seeking BDMVs) https://files.catbox.moe/jfp193.png (Incorrect MPEG2.ts playback) https://slow.pics/c/KeCnbfKS (wrong colors) https://files.catbox.moe/hjfvx3.png (poor subtitle rendering) https://files.catbox.moe/7qev9t.png (BakaBT's take on the matter) https://slow.pics/c/kkPNlNwW (IVTC issues) https://slow.pics/c/L3zLP4DE (IVTC issues) >Destructive sharpening enabled by default >Font cache needs to be rebuilt on every file >Limited scaling options >libplacebo only used for tonemapping (as of 3.0.20) >Will not render any Advanced Substation Alpha subtitle with the ScaledBorderAndShadow flag in header >Bad with gifs >Corrupts the video decoding if it takes too much time to decode a single frame, other players skip the frames >Wrong chroma location (MPEG-1 for everything) >Uses point upscaling for chroma in screenshots >Can't go back a single frame

>>25828 I mean I could have used a simple GUI player like VLC and IINA without problems, it's only because I need my autistic highly configurable mpv that I have to tinker. But yeah, on Windows and Linux it worked better.

I guess I will stick with command line mpv for now and use IINA as a GUI alternative. At least IINA lets me use my mpv.conf and the playback looks just like in mpv (although IINA doesn't use the correct colorspace for screenshots for some reason).

>>25826 How did you deal with colors and ICC profiles? I see that MacOS just automatically loaded or created one for my monitor. Don't know, if that's actually better than the standard ones though. Which color profile do you use?

>>25909 Ideally you'd use a Spyder or any other calibration hardware tool to create an ideal profile for each of your monitors. If colour accuracy is extremely important to you. I rented one once to do that. Back then MacOS was capable of using sepatate colour profiles for each screen whereas Windows only had a single one system wide. Not sure if that's changed.

>>26282 Wow, such words from the inventor of Linux.

Have any bernds used airpods? Are they any good? I've been looking for some good wireless earphones since using wired ones at the gym is really inconvenient, and my dongle stops working every few months. I have an iPhone so airpods seem like the natural choice, but I don't know about the sound quality.

>>26294 I have AirPods Pro (2nd gen I think), they’re great, especially together with an iphone

>>26294 They're good, but not 10 times better than earphones that cost 1/10 of the price. If you have the money, go for it. Nice feature: they automatically connect to your other Applel devices, so no need to re-pair them when you want to use your computer or tablet or whatever.

>>26297 >>26298 >but not 10 times better than earphones that cost 1/10 of the price. >Nice feature: they automatically connect to your other Applel devices I guess you're paying for the compatibility, but that sounds like it could be useful if I somehow end up with a Mac at some point. I'll keep then in mind then, thanks :D

>>26300 The transparency mode of AirPods Pro is also God tier

>>26302 Also, I can call people while cycling. My Moondrop space travel produce too much noise from the wind.

>>26311 >Moondrop Space Travel I thought you were joking lmao, but they seriously named a product like that

>>26313 They're actually amazing for 20 CHF/€/$, despite the chink name.

>>26294 I have Airpods 2nd gen, regular ones. They're definitely decent. I got them new for free when buying a Mac Mini for my momma, so no complaints there.

Is the Mac mini THE personal computer to get with the RAM crisis on our hands?

>>27500 There are good mini pcs that dont require fagOS. Get a beelink ser5 for 280 Euro it can even game most shit with vega 7.

>>27501 >no M4

>>27501 And it will be hot and loud.

>>27568 Also the Mac Mini supports higher resolutions. >Simultaneously supports up to three displays: >Up to three displays: Two displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one display with up to 5K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt or 4K resolution at 60Hz over HDMI >Up to two displays: One display with up to 5K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one display with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at 240Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI

I wish there'd be some good videos and channels about MacOS, because I want to learn more about it, but the only people making content about it are brainless Apple fanboys.

>>27568 It only gets loud when windows 11 is doing whatever garbage in the background. Desktop pcs get loud because of it as well.

>>28241 If you plan on using it for gayming, it will get loud and hot, no matter the OS.

>>28241 Like I had a 13400f desktop pc before this mini pc and it also got loud for no reason in idle all the time cause of windows module installer and antimalware executable all the time.

>>28242 Its like fucking 28 watt tdp how can this get hot lmso.

>>28244 It's 64W max

>>28261 The 5500U is 15 TDP which is less than the mac mini. I mean ok its much weaker but the argument was hot and loud.

>>28239 Honestly, there's not much to learn. Or do you want to develop something like kernel extensions?

>>28306 Did you ever run local LLM models on the Mac Mini? If so, which is the largest one that still ran reasonably well?

>>28398 No

>>28398 The 16gb base model can run 14b models fairly well. It can't load anything higher than that. can't remember the tokens/m but it's reasonable.

Maybe I’ll try some emulators, this looks awesome: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwOz4VCXzD8

>>28497 Thanks, I will play around with ollama.

>>28497 How good are 14b models? Even OpenAI 120b seems retarded.

>>28735 They all suck donkeyballs and even the largest ones you can run at home are really dumb compared to even free models out in the wild. AI at home is only useable for visual stuff or highly specialised use cases where you train it on your own data.

>>28735 As >>28752 said it doesn't compare to free stuff online for general use. But for more narrow use cases it's very useful/cost effective. Some smaller models are decent at coding. They all can be setup with modules to browse the web and do all kinds of crazy automation stuff, and you can get uncensored models to unlock any crazy idea you have.