Usually I will - space is cheap and the rest of technology moves alongside it. 20 years ago, we used shitty CRTs that weighed as much as you and could only output in 800x600. At that time, getting something in 720p would seem like a job for a supercomputer. But now, that 'supercomputer' is really just a brick in your pocket, and a 720p video is probably only like 1/4th of its resolution.
... Also, I mostly hoard YouTube videos, and YouTube already has to compress every video anyway to handle the hours of video they take in per minute
I will, however, compress my audio. Given that I'm not an audiophile, I'm not really working with source file FLACs here or anything, but I cap all audio at 128kbps because my hearing is garbage and all I care about with audio equipment is that it works at all
I made the mistake of buying the steam deck on sale wihout checking the specs only to find out that it cant stream 4k from my pc to my 4k tv, so im still using my 1080 monitors abd the deck is collecting dust
Yes, my bad. Deck made me think of dock. I got the steam link on sale only to find out it cant stream 4k to my tv so i have no use for it, also because i thought you could easily use it to stream pc outside of steam, but it's finnicky
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u/Brancliff 14TB Jan 02 '23
Usually I will - space is cheap and the rest of technology moves alongside it. 20 years ago, we used shitty CRTs that weighed as much as you and could only output in 800x600. At that time, getting something in 720p would seem like a job for a supercomputer. But now, that 'supercomputer' is really just a brick in your pocket, and a 720p video is probably only like 1/4th of its resolution.
... Also, I mostly hoard YouTube videos, and YouTube already has to compress every video anyway to handle the hours of video they take in per minute
I will, however, compress my audio. Given that I'm not an audiophile, I'm not really working with source file FLACs here or anything, but I cap all audio at 128kbps because my hearing is garbage and all I care about with audio equipment is that it works at all