LaggyKar

Yes, they did, at least in some cases: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/netflix-is-not-facing-the-innovators-dilemma/

Hmm, maybe I was misremembering. On second thought I think it was actually 7digital I was thinking of that did the regional lossless, I forgot about that one. For example, the same album on Swedish and American stores:

https://se.7digital.com/artist/taylor-swift/release/the-life-of-a-showgirl-explicit-60581637?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2

https://us.7digital.com/artist/taylor-swift/release/the-life-of-a-showgirl-explicit-60581637?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2

HDtracs also sells some stuff losslessly. Though one thing I’ve noticed I’ve noticed on both Qobuz and HDtracs is tha, in addition to only having some stuff losslessly, the availability of lossless varies by region. The same album might be sold lossless in one region and only lossy in another region.

AAC-LC though works just about anywhere, and AFAIK is also patent free by now.

Care to back that up? You wouldn’t need a license to do something that copyright laws already allow you to do on their own. For example, making additional copies for your own personal use is perfectly legal, if allowed depends on your local fair use or private copying exemption law (provided you do it without circumventing DRM, e.g. via the analog hole), even though of course the movie studio wouldn’t give you a license for that.

Of course, DRM is the real issue here, as due to anti-circumvention the movie industry controls who can legally make players for movies on DVD/Blu-Ray (unlike on VHS and CD).

You can’t rent your copy of Shrek out to people

That’s literally how Netflix got started.

Reddit does have RSS feeds

Unless they start adding cellular connectivity for serving ads. Though maybe the calculation doesn’t work out, presumably most people would either connect the TV to the internet voluntarily, or they’re not gonna use the TV:s UI much and thus not see many ads.

Does your job not provide a work phone? If you need stuff on your phone for work, it would be the employer’s responsibility to provide a phone that it works on. Or is it just that you want everything in a single phone?

Once you look at 120Hz you can never go back so I dont want to

Too late for me. My current phone has 165 Hz (Motorola Edge 40 Pro) and I don’t want to go back to a mere 120, let alone 60.

This is something that’s now legally required for new cars in the EU.

If you can. The problem there is Play Integrity API, which is used as an anti-competition measure.

Yes, they have a pretty dominant position, but they’re not abusing it, at least not like many other companies, and that makes the difference. For example, they don’t make anything exclusive to their own hardware or their own OS, their software can run on any distro, and their OS can be installed on any adequate hardware. And they don’t lock the Steam Machine to run only games sold on Steam. And a lot of work they do under the hood is made open source (Proton DXVK, SDL, GameScope, driver work etc). It’s mainly Steam itself and stuff part of it that’s kept proprietary (and that’s been relatively resistant to enshittification).

Of course, the thought of Valve starting to abuse their dominance is every PC gamer’s nightmare.

Also, maybe this is just me, but in my experience the pages the Google AI overview links to as sources very often says nothing related to what the AI overview claims, which makes it very difficult to verify the information.

Played that as a kid

6 inches is not small. Small would be like 4 inches or less.

The problem is, YouTube has no real competition. No one has the same thing they do. And the same applies to a lot of things today.

Another issue is, subscription services can just raise the price and then start charging people more without those people doing anything, or possibly even noticing, which differs from individual purchases where you had to make a judgement about the price each time. Now, people have to make an actively cancel in order to not agree to new prices (or EULA changes for that matter). It should really be the other way around, so that if a service raises their price, people have to actively agree to the new price in order for the service to keep charging them.

Can’t speak for Uber Eats or Starbucks though.

Out-of-band, I think. I.e. some other means of communication that doesn’t go via the same route they normally use.

Natural sunlight only works while the sun is up. That’s no replacement for artificial lighting

over 100% of the BT.2020 pro color space

What does this mean? BT.2020 already requires pure monochromatic subpixels (which you’re not gonna get with LCD), so you can’t go beyond that unless you use 4+ subpixels (in which case the extra colors will just go unused, since HDR video is delivered as BT.2020). Or is BT.2020 Pro a smaller gamut than BT.2020?

This article is the only thing I can find on Google which mentions “BT.2020 Pro”, at least in English.

According to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html, Java 8 Extended Support will end in December 2030