A BR disc contains much more than just video data. The BR player device contains user-hostile functionality.
For example, firmware updates for various parts of DRM, like HDCP key revocation lists, are distributed with commercial BR discs.
Your playback setup could become permanently broken because you inserted the wrong movie and now your player refuses to send a video signal to your TV, or it suddenly stops accepting discs it did before.
It’s just the time the manufacturer is willing (or forced) to be held liable for certain defects to be caused by manufacturing errors instead of expected wear and material degradation.
Unless something is mission- or safety-critical, replacing it before it breaks is wasteful.
It appears the main driver for the replacements are frequent gas service outages. Presumably they didn’t want to just replace that with an equivalent vulnerability to blackouts.
Also, a battery can add to the power of a standard outlet, so these stoves can have some serious output even without a 240V connection.
You greatly overestimate the capabilities of Firefox’s average user.
Some websites that present cookie banners or other modal dialogs like to piggy-back starting an audible video to the click that dismisses the dialog. Most videos get ad-blocked anyway, so this rarely bothers me, but last week one news article with accompanying (non-ad) video hit me with sudden audio.
How did they do that?
Actually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.
Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.
I guess this is really a bug in KDE/Plasma’s themes, then? The window controls in the GTK3 theme should have the same look as the window controls in the icon theme.
They now use a zygote process like Chrome does. When a new process is needed, the zygote just forks.
In the old version, the main process used a classic UNIX fork+exec of the browser executable instead, which could start an incompatible process if the executable has been replaced.
With the zygote process, all code and data files are preopened, so replacing or deleting them does not affect the running Firefox.
As another effect, skipping the exec makes process creation faster…
A recent Technology Connections video mentioned people are configuring chargers to 48 A when they’re using 14-50 “50 A” sockets that are really designed for 40 A continuous current. Or they’re using aluminum wiring without corrosion protection, or not abrading the oxide layer.
My mother would have trouble using a small phone at its default display scale. Large text, small screens and poorly designed UIs do not mix.
(Also: be careful, because the pineapple is just as interested in eating you as you are in eating it.)
Are you talking about the bromelain? It rapidly makes milk and milk products bitter and also irritates the mouth.
It’s about adding API to Vulkan for access to the hardware encoding units that you’re complaining about.
Cross-platform, I guess. However, the only platform of commercial interest (and that I know of) that offers Vulkan as the primary, supported API is Android.
Well, Wikipedia claims
The Earth has an internal heat content of 1031 joules (3×1015 TWh), About 20% of this is residual heat from planetary accretion; the remainder is attributed to past and current radioactive decay of naturally occurring isotopes.
In that sense, it’s the only renewable energy source we have that’s not indirectly powered by the sun. It’s most similar to (proper) nuclear power, but the latter isn’t “renewable” because it requires digging up fuel from the crust.
Isn’t geothermal mostly nuclear power?
It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.
In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn’t really solve our problem.
I think it was even a modification of Doom, not a clone.