furries might have a slight edge because neurodivergence is overrepresented and some ND people don't experience friendship degradation. The rest of us though. Hmm.

oh that'd be lame if they bag you for a new imei

just check if your carrier is doing esim, nearly all the major ones are. the new phone will offer to convert the line to esim without ever needing to install the old card. dont even need to call the carrier

this is the way. keep it till it breaks or can't do something you actually need, then buy the outgoing model. 5-7 years of incremental improvements are huge

Nick Wilde is a perfect example how you can engineer a product for maximum appeal and ease of manufacture, end up with something completely unremarkable and safe, and utterly succeed. He's as deep as a puddle. Exactly what he needs to be an nothing more.

notable and major exception here is youtube premium

rather, they will save costs by asking, 'is 5 mbps good enough?' and never offer something better

AV2 will eventually be used for enthusiast stuff of course and maybe for casual capture on phones etc. but I doubt anybody in distributed video is going to give consumers a chance to give a shit about a 10 mbps stream that gets close to a mezzanine format

it's concerning when the common use case is delivering 5th-generation copies of cat videos with the fewest possible bits--faithfully preserving the damage previously done--and high quality delivery and publishing are an afterthought while physical formats and ownership also disappear

if you really wanna cook their brains, tell them about rewritable magneto optical media we had in the mid eighties

there's less to be gained there of course. if i have 170 MiB to burn for a 20 minute cartoon, that was already a home run for H264 and would be downright wasteful for AV1. same with a modern talking head yt video.

other than a sentence about better lossless performance i don't see any mention of how it performs against AV1 or earlier codecs when bandwidth limitations are not the principal concern. "the same with less" is much less interesting to me than "better with the same"

old punks are some of the realest people around. getting knee replacements and doing a year of PT so they can get back to kicking shit that sucks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchX...

hank can be a lot but he's fun

black cars look awesome when clean, but they *must* be clean all the time and that's hard