MiniDisc "ignored by the world" my ass, ignored by the USA you mean.

Not only I guess. I remember buying a minidisk instead of miniCD __by accident__ in the '00s in Russia. That was literally the only time I saw one in person.

European there. It was either walkmans or discmans. No one cared about MD's unless you were a poshy kid living in the rich area of the city/town.

I just put the latest Jamiroquai album on a minidisc through WebUSB!

My parents got me one in 1999 after years of me asking. It was such a disappointment when mp3 players like iRiver came out soon after (that should have a page on the graveyard) and then iPod came out. The iRiver and similar product used flash memory too.

Also I disagree with the minidisc distribution being an issue. They were less popular but, in the U.K. at least, album releases in minidisc format were available in supermarkets as well as music and electronic retailers.

I hate how prevalent AI "art" has become on articles like these.

It is soo cheesy. The crab is even pulling a YT thumbnail face.

You need to make sure your browser uses video acceleration.

+1, if your software stack decides to use CPU for video things, you’re going to have a hot lap and a drained battery. Sometimes your browser can already be using GPU for web page rendering but still uses CPU for video encode and decode.

Hardware video acceleration in a browser is somehow still a mess on Linux.

I've spent hours trying every unholy combination of browser/version/Wayland/x11/flags/command line arguments and still can't hardware decode a YouTube video on a pretty standard Intel igpu laptop. Something that should really just work out of the box.

Strange - for me, installing intel-media-driver & setting the vaapi config option in about:config (for firefox) is sufficient. I gave up trying to get it to work in Chrom{e,ium}, though.

Agreed. You can't have normal usage letters behind AltGr when writing your own language, that'll get annoying fast.