> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.

> They don't do backups at those outfits?

We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.

Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.

And /also/ so when one agency goes, "whoopise, I guess we deleted the evidence of our crimes!" there is recourse.

Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."

Looks like the device can also report status. I'm buying one just for the feature of letting me know the door is open after a certain time.

It really works too. Robocop feels heavy and tank like

4k is a bit of a stretch for software decoding.

That's why it's 30%. As more devices support AV1, the number will rise.

I still pirated Stranger Things though, despite being a paying customer, because anyone watching Netflix on a PC still can't get 4K or HDR.

Ring wing operatives have long been trying to prove that government doesn't work.

I've done my first test of buying a whole pallet of filament straight from a Chinese manufacturer. It's a risk - it could be all junk - but if it's usable, the price advantage is insane. Like $3/kg for PETG at the factory gate (like $5/kg after sea freight and our 24% VAT). Versus local stores which sell for like $30/kg.

Backups cost money and anyone with that knowledge was likely purged when Elon was running around with armed security firing people.

Hey it worked for a prolific drug trafficker https://apnews.com/article/hon...

Deleting a few files is nothing.

I'd love to see someone try to 3d print with a filament that melts at 162K. Where do you even buy xenon filament? ;)

Autopen is the 2025 version of ...but her emails!

Speaking of the constitution, it's still missing from the Whitehouse website. https://www.whitehouse.gov/abo...

404 error.

Yeah, if you had injected moulded PLA, it would have been just as terrible