Interesting. Our parent company is an 8,000+ multi-national and that isnâ(TM)t the case. Their standard laptop is a Microsoft Surface. Theyâ(TM)re not a technical company and weâ(TM)re a strange fit in there. I got one of these for my tech writer that I hired a few years ago, foolishly thinking she didnâ(TM)t need something more high end. Doxygen builds were incredibly slow and the machine wasnâ(TM)t upgradable. I found her a spare Acer with more memory and cores and the dox build is so much faster yet still takes 2 mins (compared with under 20s on my five year old MacBook Pro). Point is, a lot of business also donâ(TM)t have need for more expensive devices that allow upgrades. Iâ(TM)m sure it makes IT simpler, especially in a place that only does spreadsheets, PowerPoints and social media campaigns.

Or turn it around: why the fuck are people buying phones with such powerful CPUs?

I have a couple of Intel Core Duo powered laptops from 2007 (Win7) and 2008 (macOS 10.11) that I still use, the MBP quite frequently. Theyâ(TM)re fine for a lot of tasks and more convenient than my phone for many things, but vastly less powerful. Itâ(TM)s not the CPU that will hold back this rumoured device but the amount of RAM or local storage.

These have returned already: you can choose to have a nano-texture display.

Bluetooth keyboards and mice are annoying when you have multiple devices. I have a 2.4 GHz USB dongle for mine that's plugged in to my Thunderbolt Display. Then whichever of my couple of laptops or my desktop is connected to the display gets the mouse and keyboard.

Are you saying that you need a special USB-C port to plug in a USB-A cable + USB-C adapter to use a USB 2 device?

But somebody did anticipate it! If you read to the very end, it turns out that Norwegian vehicles donâ(TM)t have this problem. It turns out that this is a story about cheap crap dressed up as anti-EV FUD

The menace in London are people who drive Chelsea tractors. Oversized vehicles whose owners think theyâ(TM)re too good for the TfL. We need to take a leaf out of Paris' book and increase the charges for congestion and emissions, especially in zones 1 and 2, and perhaps even 3 (letâ(TM)s say everything inside and including the north and south circulars.). Cycling is the only sane way to get around this area. Driving isnâ(TM)t an activity that scales and weâ(TM)ve sacrificed enough on that experiment.

MKV can contain MP4

Are you mixing up MP4, the ubiquitous file format (container, like MKV) with MPEG-4 video, the outdated codec that preceded AVC? DivX popularised MPEG-4 video in MKV a long time ago, but they tried to move on to AVC and HEVC, also a long time ago now.

Davinci Resolve is wierd, it still can't do AAC on Linux. The last post in this thread was July this year: https://forum.blackmagicdesign...

It's free or cheap because Black Magic are a hardware company. They're not interested in feature parity on all platforms. In fact they're not interested in any codecs and formats that cost them money, hence MainConcept's plugins.

That added that quietly, didn't they? Partial support started in April this year, years after the other browsers.
https://caniuse.com/?search=he...

If what you said were true, online video services would use MKV, they can't afford to waste so much moneyÂon a streams that are 140% bigger. But that's not true is it? HLS and MPEG-DASH and CMAF are all based on MP4/base ISO media format (fragmented MP4 to be precise). It wouldn't be in their commercial interests to use such an inefficient format.

I never said it was a codec. It is a file format that offers better compression. That's why a 1920 x 1080 video in an .mkv container is smaller that the same video in .mp4 format

That's simply not true. MP4 and MKV are containers with low overload, unlike MPEG-2 TS where the container overhead can add up to 8-10%, especially for low bitrate audio and video.

Containers have nothing to with how much video is compressed. While MKV can have compressed headers, this makes little difference unless you're dealing with video that is either low resolution or was compressed so much that it has a very poor quality. MP4 does not have 700MB of overhead compared with MKV, and if you're finding that the file sizes are that different, it means the video has been compressed significantly more in the MKV by the video encoder, not the muxer (multiplexer). Or maybe one has used a different codec, such AV1 vs. AVC. Demux your streams and then see what the size of the elemental video streams are if you want proof.

Yes, I work at a codec company. And no, I haven't seen MKV for years, it's a format popular with certain online communities like the DivX crowd or pirates (often the same people).

That amounts to more than 100 million pounds of added sugar (358 million kilograms)

Errr, what? 1lb = 0.454 kg (1 kg = 2.2 lbs). 100 million pounds is 45 million kilograms!

What makes them too small? Surely theyâ(TM)re not smaller not the mini-roundabouts in the UK, which are no more than a white disc painted in the middle of the intersection (you can drive over them).

The driverâ(TM)s guide from the Alberta government says nothing about signalling as you approach a roundabout, but it does talk about signaling your exit. The former sounds a little lax, but the latter is consistent with UK rules.

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