I’ve used these setting for re-encoding and the quality is very good. Even DVDs look better in many cases. Haven’t done any B&W though. Be warned h.265 encoding is very cpu intensive e.g. with my Ryzen 7 7700x re-encoding a bluray movie takes about 90-120 mins at 1080p. Down scaling will reduce that time.
File size doesn’t equal quality e.g. h265 encoded titles usually take less space than h264 encoded titles and the quality is imho better. For example from my own collection (ripped from my own discs) Dune 2021 Part 1 1080p 5.2 GB h265 re-encoded + original soundtrack + subtitles.
The 20+ GB files are typically not re-encoded bluray (AVC/VC-1) or 4k releases.
For a proper 1080p release with bluray audio expect anything from ~5GB up.
They are not. The traffic between your phone and the tower is encrypted but beyond that it’s available to anyone who can plug directly into your operator’s systems e.g. the government.
It does.
That’s why big tech renamed them to direct messages (DM).
One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.
Did you try asking e.g. duck ai about this? Got some good pointers for my own boot setup from it. Also see the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain.
After some research I stand corrected.
You need to read that output as a timeline from when the kernel starts pid 1 aka systemd.
Graphene’s scope feature basically lets you share a set of pictures/videos/directory whether it’s empty or not and tells the app that it has full access. For snoopy apps just create an empty directory somewhere and set the scope to that and allow access if the app is persistent. More info: https://grapheneos.org/usage#storage-scopes.