Related: this is why the audio quality of phone calls is so bad. It’s using what’s basically a predecessor of mp3 compression at a very low bitrate. Originally because that’s what the bandwidth limits were like, but now just for the sake of backwards compatibility. That’s why making a VOIP call sounds so much better: it’s using modern audio codecs and a higher bitrate.

A lot of these are true about IP addresses as well

Some programs monitor the system clock for purposes like this.

But in the case of Steam games, many of your games would work just fine.

Which distro has full HDR support?

In Spanish you say “estadounidense” which is pretty much “unitedstatesian”.

It was already practically instantaneous compared to video encoding, but neat anyway.

Toyotas are still good

LLMs will often assume any information you give it that isn’t part of its historical training set is fictional or hypothetical.

He’s saying “.oN” but upside down

Splatoon is about to get real sweaty when M&K is an option

Disproportionately beat up those who don’t have bat insurance, and suppress the “conspiracy theory” that there is such a correlation.

I read a bit about the Iroquois history. It sounds like as soon as they found strength in their political structure, they started conquering neighbors, a pattern that seems pretty much unbroken throughout human history :/

Buy a smart TV box like Apple TV or Nvidia Shield. You can get full quality streaming with some ads but not nearly as bad as the software that’s built into some of these TVs.

Apple wants to use it in China

Tbf it’s kinda a fundamental limitation of electric vehicles vs gas that the energy density of gas is way higher.

Criminal contempt of business model

Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).

See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.

EDIT: I just want to point out how both this and another comment chain in this thread ended the instant I asked the lemmy.ml users to back up their claims.

I’ve never had any major issues with Wikipedia but I know it can have issues.

Do you have other sources you’d like to suggest I look at?

EDIT: I just want to point out how both this and another comment chain in this thread ended the instant I asked the lemmy.ml users to back up their claims.

Only after the rioters killed over a 100 soldiers was military action taken.
Only after scores of soldiers dead,
did the military enter the street where the killings took place and did Chinese military kill the insurgents that killed their soldiers.

Source? Because that doesn’t match up with what I’ve read, especially the numbers.

Source is Wikipedia