No, but they had a few deals on websites with codebases that had been updated in the last decade so they support encoding properly.

You should. The "sold by Amazon" shit comes from the same exact bin as the other sellers. So if any one of the sellers sends Amazon a batch of counterfeits, then ANY seller on Amazon, including Amazon themselves, can sell that counterfeit crap.

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/t...

The only time you're safe is if it's sold and shipped by the manufacturer, and at that point you're probably better off just ordering it directly from the manufacturer or from a retailer that doesn't co-mingle their stock.

If it's cheap shit that won't really be counterfeited, it's likely just shit being resold at a huge markup from alibaba, so just order it directly from them and wait a little longer to get it.

I always knew to not buy things like memory cards from Amazon, but the last bike chain I bought from them turned out to be a counterfeit that broke after a few hundred miles in the middle of a trip, nearly leaving me stranded. I was able to repair it roadside and ride back to my camp, but I couldn't trust the chain to do any more riding on that trip. That marked the end of me really buying anything from Amazon.

They're not replacing it with $0/hour AI, that shit is expensive. I doubt they're saving nearly as much in salary as they're claiming, and I'd be willing to bet they're getting far less value for that money than they were with actual humans. This is almost certainly an executive making some pretty wild claims so they can get a bonus and move on to another company before the investors figure it out.

There wasn't anything directed at voters.

They pulled Kristi Neom away from killing puppies long enough to produce ads trying to sell the public on shipping immigrants to concentration camps, but they didn't do anything like that for this budget bill to encourage people to call their representatives.

They don't give a flying fuck about what the voters want.

They'll throw it away to keep someone else who is starving from having it, they don't even want it for themselves.

They just don't want *those* people to have any chance of getting some of it, even if it destroys the future crops for everyone including themselves.

I bought GTA V on release day for the 360, for $60. I also bought it for the PS4, for another $60. Then I bought it again for the PS5, this time it was like $40. So all in I've spent around $160 on this game. And I've played it for hours over the past decade plus. Same for GTA SA, GTA 4, multiple Zelda and Mario games. They're all $60 or so, maybe more in the future. But I get hundreds of hours of entertainment from that, at a minimum.

There's very few publishers that I will buy a game on release day from, but the ones I do that with haven't let me down yet. I don't just go randomly buy games without knowing anything about them, especially not from most publishers.

That is ridiculously cheap compared to taking my wife to a movie ($40 for tickets, another $30 on drinks and popcorn) for 2 hours of a movie that may or may not be any good.

They're going to start rolling ads in the corners during the show, just like they started doing on TV years ago.

The HP logo on the lid is the only warning I need to know to stay far away from. I've never seen an HP laptop that wasn't a complete POS within a year of it being built.

If battery life is important to you, look at Garmin watches. Mine, when used as a smart watch, gets about 50 days of use on a single charge. Using it as a watch only it will last an infinite number of days without needing a charge.

Up until recently Garmin also had no subscription charge for any features on their watches, although they started dipping their toe into that realm a few months ago, so who knows how far they will try to take that. I'm happy with the features my watch cme with, and so far they haven't added anything new behind the subscription, and I'm hoping they keep it that way going forward.

But as far as battery life, you won't beat them.

He's not "possibly" one. He's given multiple sieg heils in public on television, and spoken at the modern far-right party in Germany telling them that they need to "move beyond nazi guilt".

There's no other way to interpret it than he is one.

Firefox on iOS is just a re-skinned Safari, as are ALL browsers on iOS. I still use it since it keeps my tabs and browsing history in sync, but it's just Safari.

Even still, 55+ GB for Windows is insane.

Could this be why my windows folder on my work laptop is 65+ GB? Maybe that Weezer video from Windows 95 is in there too.

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

They're not doing it save a few bucks. They're doing it to kill starving children.