I was under the impression that libsvtav1 was still underdeveloped, but turns out the ffmpeg documentation for it was just lacking. Looks to be pretty good quality and even supports two-pass (which the documentation doesn’t mention).

I wish they made a 100x leap to the AV1 encoder. Even on my 12900k it runs at like 0.001x real time, which is… well, unusably slow.

The only real issue I’ve had was that the btrfs partition sometimes shits itself and requires some CLI commands in emergency mode to fix it.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this shouldn’t happen. You haven’t said enough to know what the issue could be, but most of the time when btrfs spontaneously stops booting on you, it’s because it has dropped to read-only mode because it detected a problem with your drive.

To be fair to the internet discussion, Linus’s (and the other maintainers’) communication on this could have been better. Still, it should’ve been pretty obvious from the start that this is a sanctions thing, and people and companies don’t end up on sanctions lists for no reason – though it is easy to end up on the list if you have even indirect ties to the Russian state.

The discussion around this has been physically painful to read. From what I gather, the delisted maintainers are people on sanction lists, i.e. somehow connected to the Russian state, and they have been given the opportunity to prove their innocence by providing some (admittedly unspecified) documents to Linus and the Linux Foundation.

Judging by Linus’s updated comment in that article there are legal concerns involved, as the Linux Foundation is a US-based organization. Though even if they weren’t, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.

No, but I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.