No, it's lack of hardware support. I called in to an AOM webinar end of October entitled "Is Real-Time AV1 Ready For Prime Time?". Meta, Google and Microsoft for instance all complained that there isn't enough hardware support, e.g. only in higher-end phones or some GPUs. Agora didn't mind so much because most of their users were desktop browsers and they could cope with CPU decoding.

There's also the cost factor. A streaming service isn't going to switch off AVC or HEVC streams just because they've started to use AV1. They want to support the long tail of users who can't decode AV1, so that means adopting a new codec increases their bandwidth, storage and CDN costs, as well as making their encoding and packaging pipelines more complex and expensive. Furthermore, many vendors that have already switched/added from AVC to HEVC aren't going to switch to AV1 because the savings aren't enough and are more likely to wait for something better such as VVC.

Complaining that usage is not widespread enough seems to be common and it shows a lack of understanding of codec adoption. HEVC usage is still growing and it was standardised in 2013. AV1 needs a few more years.

Give it more time.

I live in the UK, so no need to worry about domestic A/C ;)

I lived in the Denver in the late 90s and came across BTUs for the first time on the back of my energy bill (although it wasn't in BTUs) and shopping for window A/C units. I'm from Britain and I'd never heard of British Thermal Units before. WTF! I guess if you're still talking in terms of Fahrenheit and measuring water in lbs then BTUs might marginally make sense. Meanwhile it's all Watts and Watt-Hours here in the UK.

X over SSH - doesn't that kill your apps if the SSH connection goes down? If so, also not suitable for a shared remote desktop.

RDP is connecting to a remote session and more like doing VNC over SSH. To this day, RDP works better than any other solution like VNC. Try them over a slow or high latency link to really see RDP shine.

Another feature I'm excited about: they finally fixed the window layout implementation. If you want side-by-side windows, you no longer have to go full screen and you don't need to try to find the second window from a bunch of small unreadable thumbnails.

You are not going to consume TV content with privacy, getting that content involves compromised privacy, always.

Over the air seems to work fine for privacy. As does my dumb TV from 2009. No ads on the BBC either. I also use a real radio in the morning when I'm getting ready for work, also very private.

That said, I do have an Apple TV box, which obviously has less privacy. Unlike my DVD player. Something good about old skool.

I think the feature name "iPhone Mirroring" is pretty self explanatory: it mirrors an iPhone in a Window on a Mac.

Face ID annoyance I wrote of here. You commented elsewhere in another branch from the same OP's comment, but it was almost a year ago ;)

It's nothing to do with C++. Probably more likely the switch to web-based everything and/or smart phones. There seems to have been a generational change sometime after 2010.

Not me: iPhone Mirroring is my favourite feature. Now I'm not getting annoyed multiple times per day by Face ID and whenever there's a Microsoft Authenticator request, I can keep my hands on the keyboard and mouse and eyes without having to care where my phone is.

Yet there have been two such fires in the past year in London: on the platform at Rayners Lane station in February and on the platform at Sutton station last March.

Thameslink is shit in my experience, but it's still not better than the Tube to get to Heathrow. My point was more that it's 70 km and one hour's drive further away at 70 mph for a lot of people.

If you want to talk about convenience and cost, Heathrow hands down. For our family of three:
Tube off-peak to Heathrow: £4.60 (£9.20 round trip)
Tube peak to Heathrow: £6.40 (£12.80 round trip)

Tube and rail off-peak to Gatwick (contactless): £24 (£48 round trip)
Tube and rail peak to Gatwick: £37.25 (£74.50 round trip)

Local taxi firm (15-20% cheaper than Uber and more reliable):
Heathrow: £27.30 (£54.60 roundtrip)

Uber (25% cheaper than local taxi co.):
Gatwick: £72 (£144 roundtrip)

Rail to Heathrow is 40-60 mins and 60-80 mins for Gatwick. Arrive at Gatwick on a Sunday evening and the line to Clapham Junction is closed for engineering works, then 150+ mins on a train that goes out past Crawley and loops through Surrey and back in (yes this happened to us). Better, cheaper and quicker options from Heathrow when things go wrong.

Heathrow annoys me because there's so much retail obstacle course after security (this is problem in many airports these days) and they've sacrified a lot of seating for it. Last time I was at Gatwick, I couldn't find any water fountains after security, and lack of free drinking water prejudices me against any airport.

BTW, I don't use the Lizzie line to get to Heathrow as that would require going out of my way to Ealing Broadway. It's District and Piccadilly Lines all the way. I realise experiences differ depending on where you come from. I know you're somewhere south London, and I'm SW near the South Circular and District Line. But, Gatwick just doesn't stack up for me and the cheaper airlines rarely work much cheaper once baggage and additional ground transportation costs are factored in, but they do tend to be more aggravating and their destinations less convenient or they're less resilient when a flight is delayed or cancelled.

Where would you put that in SE England? Not going to happen.

This is my beef with Gatwick: itâ(TM)s the wrong side of the city to most of its passengers, which adds up to a lot of extra miles travelled by millions of people. The government should mandate all ground transportation at Heathrow is electric or other zero emission and find ways to reduce the number of people who need to drive to it.

Itâ(TM)s more than a couple of hundred flights, itâ(TM)s Heathrow. But your point is good: they had flights resuming by the end of the day, so what was the impact compared with weather events elsewhere?

What makes Domodedovo airport comparable? Fewer than 30 million annual passengers versus more than 83 million, and fewer than half the aircraft movements. What criteria are you using?