*where available (sorry)

The real advantage of 4K is avoiding the low-bitrate 1080p that most streamers and broadcasters pass off as "HD" these days. Don't get me wrong, streamers and broadcasters are stingy with 4K bitrate too, but at least the resolution is higher, so the bitrate has to be higher (which means more information for your eyes). It's the reason 4K looks better even on 1920x1080 screens. Also, HDR were available (though 1080p HDR is also a thing).

As previously stated, go and tell all that to someone who cares, I don't.

You go and tell that to someone who cares, I don't.

BTW I don't want to spend too much time entertaining your inability to read, so let me make it as simple for you as I possibly can: Most jobs are either dirty or boring or physically taxing or mentally taxing. Sure, there is a small minority of people who enjoy their jobs, but they are the exception. Generally speaking, a job is something you don't enjoy doing so you have money to do things you enjoy doing. So, most people would rather keep as much of their hard-earned income as possible instead of giving it to other people who do nothing all day. Also, all my gains are from a mentally taxing job, none of them are ill-gotten, my dear sycophant.

Nope, I said what I said, read my previous posts again to understand what I said, it's not my problem if you fail at basic reading comprehension.

No, it wouldn't, because there are jobs out there that are boring, dirty, or physically intense but are required if you want to have a functioning society, because those jobs haven't been automated yet, since we don't live in a post-scarcity society. Even in white collar jobs, there is the digital equivalent of emptying the garbage bins because there is no automation in place (or the cost of automation is too high to justify) or doing complex financial calculations or complex trading that requires human thought and creativity and is mentally taxing.

Such comments (from people who think that society as we know it can function with people only doing the jobs they like) reaffirm my belief that we are really in "weak men create hard times" times.

Then they are a tiny exception that doesn't matter, most people work because they have to, not because they want to,

Germany wants exceptions to sell combustion cars to other member states, even ones fueled by fossil-derived fuels. Even if Germany ignores the EU directive as a member state and allows the sale of such cars to Germans (and pays any related EU fines), the other member states have zero obligation to allow registration of combustion cars past 2035. This is why the current German government lobbies to have the law changed.

If Germany doesn't want to build nuclear power plants and spent-fuel storage facilities because nuclear power in Germany is politically incorrect, that's something that can be classified as a "their problem".

As others have said, they aren't even banning the sale of combustion engine cars after 2035, combustion engine cars running on green hydrogen and e-fuel are possible. Of course e-fuels have to become affordable enough for this to make sense (green hydrogen cannot be made affordable by 2035, so I won't entertain the idea).

But wouldn't someone else have to work more so you can sit at home and collect your inflation-indexed basic income? If you don't understand why this is an issue, I won't explain it to you.

PROTIP: The law to ban combustion engine cars in the EU after 2035 has already been passed, it's Germany that wants other member states to defer to them on how the entire EU should operate transportation by changing the law.

Although it's worth mentioning the article is somewhat wrong, the law doesn't mandate a ban on combustion engine cars after 2035 per se, it mandates an 100% CO2 emissions reduction target by 2035 for new cars and vans, so combustion engine cars could exist after 2035 if made to run on e-fuels only (and assuming e-fuels have become affordable enough for it to make sense).

Office 97 established the binary formats as we know them and they stayed compatible for a very long time, so they should have followed that once it became obvious Office was becoming the dominant Office suite and simply add the new functionality as new versions of Office got released (extensions to the Office formats are mostly backwards compatible). Even the OOXML formats are disguised binary Office formats.

Their problem was that, when they saw Microsoft Office becoming 90% of the market, they didn't immediately make compatibility with Microsoft Office formats their first priority and the Microsoft Office formats the default formats for their word processor (even if that meant redoing some code). It's the same reason all the non-Microsoft-Office suites failed in the market: they thought people would use their non-Microsoft-Office file formats, and compatibility with Microsoft Office was seen as a nice-to-have bolt-on side-feature, if it existed at all.