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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s very funny you say MOV and HEIC are proprietary and then list MP4 considering

    • HEIC is just H.265, the video codec, used to encode images
    • H.264, the codec used for most mp4 files has the same license as H.265 with patent bullshit license fees going on
    • MP4 container is pretty similar to MOV, and is also not an open standard
    • this also means MOV and MP4 can be losslessly converted
    • Apple provides documentation for MOV format free of charge while ISO really wants you to pay to get official standard PDF
    • All this doesn’t matter anyway because ffmpeg can decode everything (though I guess it might matter in bizarro land where software patents are a thing)

    Also Android can totally read at least HEIC images. Not sure about MOV. Any of this is also not related to the problem the OP has.




  • They all should, they’re relatively recent phones and at least one of them I’ve sent MMS images to and the other one is on the same carrier as me.

    Maybe group chats is just something carriers in Germany don’t support. Nobody in their right mind here sends MMS anyway, it still costs 36 cents or so to send one, for me at least. Pretty much a straight up scam.


  • Yes, and I feel like it’s even more irregular in Russian than just not existing. It’s not used in present tense as a copula, so in most cases where you would expect it in English. However it absolutely exists – быть – and is used like normal verbs in both past and future tense.

    For example: «я здесь» – “I am here” (same word order, but this sentence has no verb), but «я был здесь» – “I was here”

    And in the cases where it is used in present tense, there is a single conjugation regardless of subject: есть (in contrast to all other verbs, I assume at least, which all have distinct conjugations for 1/2/3rd person singular/plural).

    A simple example for this would probably be sentences with “there is”, affirming the existence of something, as in “there is a bathroom” – «ванная есть». Contrived example for sure but I can’t think of something better right now.






  • I don’t know honestly??? University is draining the life out of me right now but other than that I think I’m fine, in spite of my tendencies to say/do things that might indicate otherwise (but at least part of that is just because I like being dramatic sometimes).

    Though considering I’ve often been having low motivation to do anything and sometimes just been staying in bed for over half of the day saying I’m fine might just be a whole lotta cope. :^)

    But yeah I would say most of my friend group is not depressed, but I’ve also never directly asked and you often never know so that doesn’t mean much.