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Meta should preemptively leave the UK until this disgrace of a bill is no longer being considered.


Apache won't automatically trancode your 4k videos for lower resolution devices


Automatic transcoding is the last thing I'd want wasting processor cycles.


Of course it's not a requirement. The same way a knife isn't required to spread butter - you can use a spoon. If you were to attempt to keep up with say, javascript the way you used to learn you'd be left in the dust.

And as tge other person says, how do you define social media? Forums?


Some people just have way too much free time.


Or simply they spend their free time doing what they enjoy


And the world is a better place for it


Maybe they're just really good at optimizing their time management. Or maybe they're secretly superheroes with the power of super-productivity. You never know


All I learned from that mess of a site is that Arc is a browser of some kind.


Yep still on a 1080.


Good riddens then? It's just a case of having a terrible person as a partner.


FYI, it is riddance.


How does watching paint dry work then? Does it only dry when I'm not looking?


Monitors or anything backlit are terrible to read from for any length of time. Paper or e-ink is superior. I don't see anything wrong with lowering the contrast of text on a screen to compensate for that fact.


Pure black and white on a screen is far more fatiguing on a screen than on off a screen so I don't see what's wrong with compensating for that fact.


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