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Depends on the server you are using to host your media sever from. If you're using a Raspberry Pi, then you might not be able to support transcoding at all, definitely not for a 4K AV1 video and a lot of modern formats. So even if Apple TV can play it, the Plex app won't attempt it and will force transcoding from the server.

Even if your server can support transcoding, all transcoding results in quality loss, so if you want to enjoy your media in the best formats then you want to direct play. Just depends on the media you are playing and how much you care about the quality.

> and it's "better for the environment" because every year you don't buy a new phone, the environment is happy.

This seems wrong. I am still on an iPhone Xs Max from 2018 and it still gets software updates. It looks like the last software update on the G6 was in 2020. The lack of even security patches limits the life of the phone for many people.

The primary reason I'll eventually need to upgrade is because of 5G support. Coverage is getting worse as 3G has been shutdown and all new towers are focusing on 5G. My battery life sucks now too, but that can solved easily.

Sounds like he used to be younger and needs to see an optometrist.

Actually, SSO is usually a requirement for even basic security audits. So SSO is essentially required for companies operating in specific sectors, regardless of their size. Healthcare and military contracts are two obvious ones, but any company dealing with sensitive information, going through SOC compliance, or similar will likely need to enforce SSO to enforce and audit access policies.

Besides, SSO is a major convenience. Assuming that SSO = large company is a flawed perspective, although, I understand the reasoning you're conveying. I believe, however, that only very small companies (less than four people) can easily avoid SSO, because it is complicated to deal with on/off-boarding employees, SSO helps.

And I agree with OP in most regards, for most services, advanced security controls should be available. I think it is far more likely that most companies segregating their security features are not secure by design, so the functionality they're offering is poorly implemented, and by restricting access they limit the amount of support they need to provide to those features.

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This has been annoying for me. I build a healthcare EMR software, and the browser trying to autofill the employee's information into every patient field is often a problem. By accident we end up with patient's phone numbers, addresses, and emails being set to employee's information. Since its software, I don't have control over those employees, but we have had to put in recommendations to disable autofill in browsers being used to cut it down.

We've spent countless developer hours trying to work around password managers. I agree that sites shouldn't attempt to disable password management for login and sign up pages, but it's annoying how often these password managers do the wrong thing and break the user experience for pages… like Safari is doing for livewire-ui/spotlight.

I agree entirely. I've tried zsh and other replacements, but I keep coming back to Fish. It's intelligent, loaded with features, and ohmyfish adds a lot.

No other machine I connect to has fish, but for my own machines, it's my top choice. Still, I write a lot of utility scripts in bash for the compatibility and it can be annoying when I copy a command and I know it won't work because it uses some unsupported syntax in fish. Every now and then, and it is rare, I switch to bash locally to run something.

No one wants used products for "new" prices, but plenty of people would be willing to buy open-box items at discounted prices. It's a huge thing for appliances.

In most situations, however, things are simply repackaged and sold as new. Clothing, for example, is commonly returned; then hopefully re-washed before selling again as new. In most situations this applies to electronics as well, although electronics can be different. There are stories out there of people buying new SD cards that had photos on them. Most companies have a return center that processes returns, inspects them, resets them, and repackages them to be sold again as new.

Exceptions are when returns are sent to stores… like Amazon or Best Buy handle returns differently than returns going back to the manufacturer.

I don't think most stores would offer returns, except it is often forced on them buy credit card companies to protect their consumers.

American Express, Visa, and Mastercard all have some kind of requirement that the merchant allows returns (usually 14 days minimum). Otherwise the consumer can file a chargeback and the resolution will go to the consumer in most situations.

Maybe I am missing something, but iOS 14 has had beta versions out for developers for months; I had been running iOS14 and Big Sur for testing for weeks. Apple has always had developer previews and at some point, when mostly stable, they often release public previews to get a few interested users involved in testing as well.

They've been working with developers for a long time on the new App Clips functionality and that's been open for developers to start working.

So I am not following what is this article is saying? It seems like they're suggesting that Apple should release iOS a few days after announcing, but, that isn't enough time for most developers to test and release updates for a major iOS update; but Apple never intended those few days to be the only time developers had.