Category: Technology

Let’s see how much space this lossless “incantation” for JPEG XL could save for my 50 gigantic images.

Jpegli, a new JPEG coding library, does bring a significant compression ratio improvement, comparing to libjpeg-turbo and MozJPEG. I selected 332 lossless non-photographic PNG images for some rough tests, on macOS Sonoma 14.4.1. The images were recorded after applied with ImageOptim‘s lossless optimisation for the minimal possible sizes, and Jpegli was directly from libjxl version… Continue reading Rough tests of Jpegli

You can use the generator to create an animation like that.

Z370 AORUS Gaming 3(i5-9600 & RX 580)Single-core: 1518Multi-core: 5856Vulcan: 47772OpenCL: 44511 ‘MacPro7,1’(i5-9600 & RX 580)Single-core: 1464Multi-core: 5698Metal: 47013OpenCL: 42705 GA-EP43-DS3R (Q8400 & HD 7850)Single-core: 407Multi-core: 1117Vulcan: 17872OpenCL: 19549 ‘MacPro6,1’ (Q8400 & HD 7850)Single-core: 401Multi-core: 1004Metal: 22586OpenCL: 18729 iPad mini (6th generation)Single-core: 2134Multi-core: 5365Metal: 19591 iPhone XRSingle-core: 1292Multi-core: 2042Metal: 9245 iPad (6th generation)Single-core: 844Multi-core: 1060Metal: 4544… Continue reading Geekbench 6 results

I don’t work on a tablet, and I seldom use the portrait mode, so the jelly display isn’t an issue. I do gaming, web browsing, social networking, and watching videos on a tablet more. That’s why I ultimately bought an iPad mini 6 which display is just slightly narrower than my iPad (6th generation), but… Continue reading A week with iPad mini 6

Since 30 April 2022, Meow’s internet speed is upgraded to 500M (downloading) / 50M (uploading), provided by TWM Broadband (台灣大寬頻). It was 60M/20M. The following summary is generated by the command networkQuality -v which is introduced in macOS Monterey. Upload capacity: 40.399 MbpsDownload capacity: 452.926 MbpsUpload flows: 12Download flows: 12Responsiveness: High (1967 RPM)Base RTT: 14Start:… Continue reading Internet upgraded to 500M/50M

Cinebench R23, Geekbench 5 and 3DMark benchmarks are tested on Meow’s primary computer on 11 October 2021. OS Windows 11 (Build 22000.194) CPU Intel Core i5-9600K (undervolted to 1.15V) GPU Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 GAMING 8G (undervolted to 1.04V) RAM Crucial 8GB DDR4-2666 UDIMM SSD Crucial MX500 500GB Unnecessary applications were closed before testing.