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TIL! Thanks!

... and then hope that you don't get hardware issue warranty claim denied because of the software.

"You do you, but buy my book btw please"

Yet another time I'm happy I haven't ever set foot in the US.

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

Why does it often seem like the bigger the company, the more absurd shit they get away with... Hope the guy wins in court, although sadly, a legal win sometimes is synonymous with financial loss.

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.