While the subtitles of the VLC player on Gentoo looked rather ugly, they looked nice on Windows—to a point it really bothered me. After some online searching, I came across a forum post that helped me to resolve it rather easily:
Under Font (on the very top), you ...
After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.
OpenStreetMap/iD/Esri
Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!
Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving Guide can help you to find the perfect gift.
Logo of the OpenStreetMap project. Ken Vermette, OSM/CC BY-SA 2.0
It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!
Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.
Note: If you make a ...
Vorbis nominal bitrate at quality levels for 44.1 kHz stereo input. The new libvorbis v1.2 usually compresses better than these values (effective bitrate may vary).
Quality | Nominal bitrate | |
|---|---|---|
Official Xiph.Org Foundation Vorbis | aoTuV beta 3 and later | |
-q-2 | not available | 32 kbit/s |
-q-1 | 45 kbit/s | 48 kbit/s |
-q0 | 64 kbit/s | |
-q1 | 80 kbit/s | |
-q2 | 96 kbit/s | |
-q3 | 112 kbit/s | |
-q4 | 128 kbit/s | |
-q5 | 160 kbit/s | |
-q6 | 192 kbit/s | |
-q7 | 2 ... | |
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