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Thanks for clarifying, I'd been misunderstanding that for 20+ years.

Lots of media devices that don't have AV1 decoders tend to have issues decoding high resolution AV1 in real time so you either get pauses to buffer or dropped frames.

> On top of that it was going to be very hard (near impossible) to get all devs to agree to a v2->v3 license bump.

My understanding was this was never a problem, almost all of the kernel was licensed as "GPL2 or newer" until GPL3 was released and they removed the "or newer" from new releases

No, the server is just sending the file named 'foo.jpg', but encoded as a webp with webp mime type, so when you save the file it defaults to the webp extension cause it ends up treating the filename as a blob of text without an expected extension for the file type.

> I wouldn't say they are rare.

Better known brands are starting to drop zigbee for matter (Ikea has moved, the last aqara zigbee device I bought required me to get an aqara matter hub and flash the firmware through their app to switch it to zigbee from matter).

It's feeling like for more devices I'm stuck with unknown aliexpress products (I know behind the scenes they're mostly the same devices but I'm generally okay paying a bit more to get a known company with some known QA level for these types of things).

> Jellyfin forced me to organize my files into Show/Season folders, whereas Plex just handled my original flat mess of scattered files.

You keep all your shows in a single directory? or just sorted into folders per show?

I haven't had any issues with files just sorted into show folders for shorter series, but even in general it's very un-particular about filenames as long as you have `<show name> (<year>) S<Season #>E<Episode #>` (and it accepts a decent number of formats for season/episode number, and year is usually only needed if you need to differentiate shows with the same name).

Yeah, def is tiling at windmills, but my point is the same, I took it as them saying the public has taken a defeatist attitude and views it as tilting at windmills but here's a case where it wasn't fruitless effort and we need to view it as inspiration.

I took it as doing what too many people feels like tilting the windmill. As a society (and frankly in myself on too many issues) I notice way to much "well what can we do" defeatist attitude.

Some of the people who've been involved in getting previously found episodes returned/restored have stated that they know of collectors who are likely to have copies of other episodes but are worried about how they'd be treated.

> That really sounds like micro managing jr. developers.

That's how I tend to describe AI to a lot of non-technical people (I actually generally say it's like having an really fresh intern who can read technical docs insanely fast but needs a lot of supervision).

I think 3 things

1. D had a split similar to python 2 vs 3 early on with having the garbage collector or not (and therefor effectively 2 standard libraries), but unlike python it didn't already have a massive community that was willing to suffer through it.

2. It didn't really have any big backing. Rust having Mozilla backing it for integration with Firefox makes a pretty big difference.

3. D wasn't different enough, it felt much more "this is c++ done better" than it's own language, but unlike c++ where it's mostly a superset of c you couldn't do "c with classes" style migrations

depending on how the data duplication is actually done (like texture atlasing the actual bits can be very different after image compression) it can be much harder to do rote bit level deduplication. They could potentially ship the code to generate all of those locally, but then they have to deal with a lot of extra rights/contracts to do so (proprietary codecs/tooling is super, super common in gamedev), and

Also largely cause devs/publishers honestly just don't really think about it, they've been doing it as long as optical media has been prevalent (early/mid 90s) and for the last few years devs have actually been taking a look and realizing it doesn't make as much sense as it used to, especially if like in this case the majority of the time is spent on runtime generation of, or if they require a 2080 as minimum specs whats the point of optimizing for 1 low end component if most people running it are on high end systems.

Hitman recently (4 years ago) did a similar massive file shrink and mentioned many of the same things.

> the community in total can finally move protocol forward that were blocked by really dumb ideological conflicts that are holding back Wayland. If Cosmic can take Gnome market share, people will be more willing to move on protocols without Gnome and hopefully eventually Gnome will realize that they have to implement this stuff, or at least large users of Gnome will realize it.

Can you expand on what you mean here? I only somewhat follow Wayland/X11 migration/development, but from what I understand gnome is on Wayland, enough so that they apparently dropped x11 support from their upcoming release in march.

It's relevant in that it's enough to cause them to plan to do a bigger study so we can say with more clarity how if it actually helps.

At the very least he lost his free lodging/staff (though it sounds like the royal family will pay for his new lodging somewhere else).

A large amount he's lost is also ceremonial, it sounds like he won't be removed from the line of succession cause that would require approval from all the separate countries the monarchy reigns over to do so (and he's like eighth in line so extremely unlikely given his age).

He's been excluded from a lot of official events already so a lot of it is just making it official.

He's still not being criminally charged with anything from the government.