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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do Apple still sell Music in that app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t even know how to hold a local music library on macOS these days. The app that used to be iTunes is now just called Music right? It’s way confusing for me but I also don’t daily drive the OS anymore. I have my stagnant library in Subsonic which in itself is a stagnant product but you know how it is with Spotify these days.

  I didn’t know MOV has a more accessible license than MP4 but yea MP4 in itself is hardly what one ever wanted to hold their content in. All I know about MOV is that back in the XP days obviously Windows couldn’t play them out of the box. Not that WMV (lol) was any more desirable. I guess most of my stuff back then was AVI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea … no, sorry to say but this one’s on Microsoft. I get it, hurr durr Apple expensive and elitist, but they know where to put up their walled garden and where not to. For example they used to have their own video container .mov but they’re way past forcing something like that onto iPhone users. And even back then, the actual codec they committed themselves to in those days was H.264, a standard that’s open to adoption by anybody. You can easily turn an old .mov into an .mp4 or .mkv without needing to alter the actual content of the file and that content is playable by pretty much every media device built in the last 15+ years.

  HEIC isn’t Apple’s thing it’s from the MPEGroup, also easily licensable by anybody. I guess the reason why it wasn’t part of Windows 10 from the beginning is because they both came out in mid 2015. Windows 10 seems to have adopted it for viewing (and later editing) in 2018 but they make you hit a stupid download button in their store to get it so that’s lame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically the only answer that takes the question seriously and brings facts to the table instead of an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a used old gen Sonos Connect about a year ago to integrate my Logitech Z906 into an existing pair of Sonos speakers. They made it deliberately tedious to downgrade those speakers (who had gotten the S2 “blessing”) back to S1 to make them work with the Sonos Connect. I’m an IT repair shop guy and I cursed all the way through this downgrade process.

  I would have gladly bought current hardware from them again if their prices were anywhere within the realm of plausibility. Credit where it’s due, that Sonos Connect hookup with the 2 wall-mounted 1st party speakers works absolutely reliably. That company just seriously lost its bearings since they engineered those parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to survive for 3 days while pooping, and eating as much as possible. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How easy would it be for you to find (natural) laxatives? ChatGPT names Prunes and Kiwis, Broccoli, Almonds and Walnuts, Yogurt (the white non-sweet kind would be best)

  Basically the above is just a who’s who of healthy dieting if you ask me lol. If you need high caloric density for the “eating as much as possible” part just go for anything high in fat and or sugar. Nutella would check both boxes but this is really not recommendable from a health perspective obviously.

  Competitive eaters like Beard Meats Food would just chug on double cream if they wanted to get as many calories down as possible. The only “problem” there is that it doesn’t make for a very entertaining video.