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  • I do wonder what the refresh rate is like on these. I’ve been daily driving a Minimal Phone for a few months now. While I like it, it definitely took some getting used to. While it’s actually quite snappy, it feels abysmally slow even compared to the Cat S22 Flip it replaced (which is a low-end Android smartphone in a flip phone form factor).

    I also wonder why they bothered with a camera on it. The camera on the Minimal is extremely “meh”, but the thing that makes it mostly useless is the refresh rate of the e-ink. You never know if you got a blurry mess of a picture or what. The firmware will put the screen into “fast refresh / low fidelity” mode to try to improve it, but it’s still a roll of the dice when trying to take any kind of photo. About the only thing it’s good for is scanning QR codes.














  • Pretty much, yeah.

    Rather than jot down in a text file the various ffmpeg commands I use frequently…

    Raktajino@laptop:~/Downloads$ history | grep ffmpeg
       12  sudo apt install audacity gimp ffmpeg mplayer
      184  history | grep ffmpeg
      215  ffmpeg -i source.mkv -ss 629 -t 7 out.mkv
      217  ffmpeg -i out.mkv -s 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
      218  ffmpeg -i out.mkv -ss 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
      231  ffmpeg -i out.mp4 -vf "subtitles=out.srt" final.mp4
      503  ffmpeg -i toofat.wav toofat.mp3
      ...
      682  history | grep ffmpeg
      684  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2" out.gif
      685  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" out.gif
      686  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
      687  history | grep ffmpeg
      688  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 12:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
      689  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
      690  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
      691  ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2"  out.gif
      694  history | grep ffmpeg