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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • I use them instead of virtual desktops - each with a specific hotkey, and some with customized pinned apps.

    I have …

    General: Email, shopping, etc.

    Gaming

    Media

    Two Work activities - a primary, and a secondary for when I need to compartmentalize different ongoing tasks

    Other - for anything transitory that doesn’t fit in the others.

    I realize this could largely be done with virtual desktops, though I don’t think you can have a different pinned app loadout for each?

    The downside to setting things up this way is when I restart my computer, it seems to randomly decide which browser windows go in each activity. Also, with apps that I use across them (like Notion), I have to go hunting for which activity it opened in. To get around the issue of splitting Firefox across different profiles, I just use two browsers. Firefox for work, and Firedragon for personal stuff. They share the same external password manager, so it’s pretty seamless.





  • Yup! Where possible I try to get everything in x265 for this reason. It takes a little more processing power to transpose, but the difference in file size is worth it.

    I’ve heard you’ll take a quality hit to re-encode something from x264 to x265, however. If you care about that, it’s better to just find a new source recorded with x265 or AV1 (if all your devices can run it).

    I’m not very knowledgeable in that end of things, though, so I could be wrong.

    Edit: Fixed AVC where I had meant AV1