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Lots of people shitting on Microsoft on this thread ignoring that it's not Microsoft who charge for a codec and that Microsoft promote a royalty-free HEVC competitor called AV1.

Guaranteed this video file is from an Apple device, where patent-encumbered HEVC is the default recording format.

Only if your computer's manufacturer paid for it.

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."

A really good quote that I live by. It was also popular with the Nazis, unfortunately, so if it's not a self-illustrative example then I don't know what is.

Ideally the wheel should be big enough for a single human but not so big that it can fit multiple humans.

Source: I was once a child on a wheel big enough for multiple humans.

It's like saying "prove you don't own a poodle". How do you prove that? I can tell you I don't own a poodle... but how can you be sure?

Fucking hell. They really were/are/will be demented.

"Sire! The Theiyr"reian hoards have attacked the village of Peasantry. The Peasants, they fight back, Sire, but they will surely be overwhelmed. We expect a death toll in the millions, Sire."

"Dispatch ten knights to se- wait, 'millions'? There's only a few thousand people in that village."

"Yes, Sire, we included the Theiyr"reians in our estimates... there's a lot of them but they fight with wooden swords, Sire."

"..."

"They are an inefficient peoples, Sire."

Theiyr"re

In my secondary school we were expected to address all the teachers by name so I tended to use "Er...".

I don't have a cat. But rest assured that if I did it would be pampered and, potentially, overfed. So we'll call that a draw.

Thousandsaire.

It may be a getting-older thing, but I used to despise sparking water, whereas now I find it merely intolerable.