Apple added animated wallpapers a while back. I turned it off immediately. While Iâ(TM)m not one of those people who do everything full screen (why do people do that with a terminal on a large screen?!), my desktop is rarely visible, except for little bits of it around windows. Thatâ(TM)s enough though that if thereâ(TM)s any movement, itâ(TM)s distracting. I constantly felt like something was happening in one of my windows in my peripheral vision, making me look.

What is it with Microsoft and wanting moving crap on the screen. Itâ(TM)s always been a pain remote accessing Windows servers, sometimes over slow connections, whose default web page is animated and kills the performance and interactivity. Why?!

Have you seen these things?
https://hilo.com/

Been thinking about getting one myself. It looks way more useful than Appleâ(TM)s approach of just sending a notification because it gives you a log with real numbers. The only downside for me is I hate wearing things on my wrist, although it is narrower than an Apple Watch.

Europe not buying LNG from Russia distorts the market. US producers can get a better price selling to Europe, so prices go up in the US too. If you donâ(TM)t like this, youâ(TM)re better off crushing Putin so Europe starts buying Russian LNG again. You canâ(TM)t just sit back and ignore it if you donâ(TM)t like it.

Maybe you bought before it was available or didn't buy a device that has the option. It's available for the M4 MacBook Pros, for example. You can see it here if you search for "nano-texture configuration": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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.