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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • Right now https://jeena.github.io/recoder/ which I just released and here is why (copied from the website):


    🎬 Why Recoder?

    I used to edit family videos in Kdenlive without a problem — it handled footage from all our devices without complaining. But then I switched to DaVinci Resolve, and suddenly nothing worked right. My Sony Alpha 7C, my Galaxy S24, and my wife’s iPhone all produced files that Resolve couldn’t handle without transcoding.

    😤 Too Much Fuss, Too Many Steps

    Every time I wanted to edit, I had to hunt down the right ffmpeg settings and manually run them on each video — a frustrating and repetitive task.

    My typical workflow is simple: I create one folder per event on an external HDD and drop in videos from all our cameras. A script renames the files based on the date and time so I can easily sort them. But for Resolve, everything has to be transcoded to DNxHD — which only supports resolutions like 1920×1080 and 1280×720.

    🔄 Vertical Videos? Extra Pain

    That also meant vertical videos couldn’t work. So now, I rotate them during transcoding to preserve resolution and rotate them back in Resolve during editing.

    ✨ Enter Recoder

    I built Recoder to automate this annoying step — so I could spend more time editing memories and less time fiddling with command-line tools.















  • The thing is, it doesn’t matter how many languages you speak somehow you end up not being able to communicate anyway because of the language. Some anecdotal evidence:

    • I speak Polish, German, Swedish and English. Me and my siblings went to Morocco for vacation, my sister was vegetarian and we wanted to order something without meat. The guy at the street food stand didn’t understand and then he asked: Do you speak Arabic? No, Do you speak Spanish? No, do you at least speak French? Also no. None of the languages helped even tho the other guy also spoke 3 languages.

    • After speaking 4 languages fluently I moved to Korea thinking it’ll be easy to pick up another language. After 4 years of living here I still can’t even have a very simple conversation. The language is so different that even after trying hard and spending money and time the learning doesn’t move forward. And me working from home mostly with Europeans makes it even more difficult, but I can’t get a local job without the language, chicken and egg problem.

    Every language is good to know, and I kind of agree with my grandfather that every language is like another hand you have to disposal, but somehow you end up in situations that even 6 hands are not enough ;)







  • Isn’t my dad the hosting provider? I ordered the hardware, he connected it to his switch and his electricity and pressed the button to start it the first time. From there on I logged in to his VPN and set up the server like I would at Hetzner.

    But you’re right it doesn’t really make a difference. I feel the only difference it makes for me where I post my questions on Lemmy if it is in a !selfhosting community or a !linux community.

    From a feeling perspective, even if I use Hetzners cloud, I feel I self host my single user PieFed instance (and matrix, my other websites, mastodon, etc.) because I have to preform basically the same steps as for things I’m really hosting at home like open-webui, immich, peertube.