It can be forked by anyone, but what is already out there will always be there.

And how does this hurt all of us who use it for open source projects?

I’m not sure what you were trying, but this works for me:

Never use hardware encoding. That is intended for real time transcoding. There are not many settings that work since it is just sending the file to the video card and letting it do its thing.

Slower is better. If you set the software encoder to very slow it will produce an output that is very high quality per megabyte. I generally don’t care if it takes twice as long to encode it as to watch it. I queue it up and let it run over night.

Choose the right codec. I like 10 bit HEVC, because I know it will work on the clients I play it from. When you rip a DVD using MakeMKV, the video will be MPEG-2, it was designed in the 1990’s and converting the file to a modern codec will save a lot of space. I don’t reencode 4K UHD rips much since I don’t want to mess with losing the hdr or other color features that I like in watching those files.

Audio tracks: I will rip out audio for languages I don’t speak, or desctiptive audio track, but go out of my way to label things like director commentaries. I don’t reencode the audio tracks at all, you won’t save much disk space by messing with them compared to the video tracks.

Nobody is saying that tariffs are income taxes, but I pay a bunch of taxes each year that are not income taxes. I have sales taxes at stores, property taxes a couple times a year, and hidden ones like gas taxes. Now we are going to pay more import taxes so that the ultra rich don’t have to pay as much capital gains. To call them anything else is lying to yourself.

A tariff is a sales tax, pure and simple. Sales taxes hit lower income people harder than the rich because they have to put a higher percentage of their income into it.

Didn’t the people purchasing them have to sign a document saying they would not resell them to a 3rd party? Or did that not happen?

My point is you have to pick SOME server to host your account. You are right that most communities are accessible from most servers, but that is where it becomes confusing for someone who just wants to look at memes for a specific fan base.

That’s what that Star Trek server did.

The problem with that is that you need to make a user on one of those servers. Do you make it on the politics one, or the games one? What happens 3 months later when you realize the server you picked on a whim is full of assholes and gets defederated?

Do you think an average user at that point would move their subscriptions to a new account or will they get annoyed at the concept?

The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

1080p is fine, but I really like the colors of HDR. I am NOT a fan of the higher refresh rate for movies though.

For once it’s nice to see such a clear statement and continued support like this. This is the complete opposite to games like Apex Legends, Grand Theft Auto V, various Battlefield games and more that went and permanently blocked compatibility layers so players on Linux / Steam Deck cannot play them

DST is sprung forward. It happens in the summer. Standard time is what the northern hemisphere is on now in the winter.

Fun fact. In the winter the sun is pretty close to its highest at Noon but I the summer that happens at 1:00 pm.

And this picture doesn’t show the more recent models with the mag lock power, hdmi, and sd card reader.

Type c ports are the best. I connect my monitor through one and it has a type ports on it for a wired keyboard and speakers.

I hear electric cars all the time, they are not much quieter than an ice car. We don’t need to strap lawn mowers to our cars in the name of safety.

If your router/firewall is configured to let these broadcasts through you have a problem. If it is working correctly and you have an attacker on your lan? You have already lost.