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Sad thing is that, regardless of what he is or isn’t, people are answering his attention whoring with attention.

They’d stop us at the border

I’m a fan of physical media and at the same time I don’t believe in its supremacy; I don’t think it’s more practical than digital files for example.

I still like it because 1) it can be a way to directly support artists that I like and 2) it’s a way to own content instead of renting it.

Could be, I don’t know. I doubt that video creators would go through all of these old videos just to update them to a slightly higher bitrate; the other possibility is that YouTube kept the original uploads or higher bitrate variants without previously showing them (and only showed them now), but that seems like a huge waste of storage, so it seems unlikely to me. Again, we’re talking about old uploads (2-3 or up to 10 years ago), not new ones.

The one thing I’ve seen that makes sense is updating old videos that were previously available at up to 480p and bringing them up to 720p or 1080p (with the idea of keeping the original published video with the views, comments and so on instead of uploading a new one).

Ads aside, what’s been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don’t have Premium, but I’m fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would’ve been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

As a photographer I’m wondering why would billionaires give autofocus about poor people…

/s obviously

I’ve always believed that eating really spicy food is a form of masochism.

Ironically enough other standards appeared because of the need of more torque.

Yes.

Naming conventions are somewhat consistent; it’s the pricing that has gotten a bit out of hand.

You know, you don’t have to buy everything in industrial quantities.

What if you input another woman’s salary…

Just look at how fired up you all are over a simple slogan.

Try explaining this to your family.

But only a little, right?

I have something resembling RAID5 in my NAS. 4 drives, 1 drive failure tolerance.

Is this a question?

death peenalty

It’s on the Internet, it must be true

I placed the thing in a plate. It’s plated now.

But yeah, I get your point.