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Cake day: February 11th, 2026

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  • I’m so fucking confused, man. I’m a tech guy. I’ve spent my whole life getting good with computers, I know very little about cars, and I just can’t keep up. I’ve heard that yeah ethanol is bad but put in your tank what the manual says because if your engine isn’t designed for “high-octane” fuel (???) you’ll damage your car with the pure stuff? But I know how ethanol dries out rubber, which I’m quite sure is what my fuel lines are made of, but my manual says to use 85. So should I be using 87 and avoiding 85? Or…?

    I just want an electric car. “Plug it in”, I get.

    Edit: Thank you to everyone who responded! It was salient as I was actually driving at the time and saw the comments before my next stop; I ended up getting the right gas thanks to you all. My car immediately started running better. I’m a lot less confused now, I’ll be using 87 gas from now on. Thankfully my car seems to have survived my mistake(s) without any immediately negative consequences >.>











  • Don’t get me wrong, suggestions are appreciated, but you’re answer is absolutely typical of a Stack overflow “huhuh well don’t do it wrong then” comment. You could have, for example, said you don’t use Synapse but this is why you like Continuwuity. (edit: not prescribing speech, giving an example of how your comment could have read better)

    As well, I take issue with the idea that people can only ask for help in sanctioned forums. This is a self-hosting community, after all; I am here not only to learn but to share what I learn, which I thought was the whole point.






  • Ah, I’ll put in a zoom feature, that’s a good idea!

    Remind me of the hardware you’re running on? 22 hours for a 4k HDR movie sounds about in the ballpark for converting on CPU. I’ve just switched to Linux (Mint, not Cachy) and I think there’s an issue with detecting GPU on Linux, so this’d track (or you have Precision Mode enabled) - if you see “libx265” or “libx264” in the top right, you’re on CPU. I’m looking into this one.

    Can I ask which version you downloaded? I’ll look into the DVTools/MP4box issue.

    Also, yes, I removed the codec and container selection boxes - it’s HEVC/MKV by default unless you go for “Compatibility Mode” in which case you get H.264/MP4. “Preserve AV1” of course preserves AV1 which is incompatible with MP4 so they’re mutually exclusive.