Yeah that caught my eye too, seems odd. Most compression/encoding schemes benefit from a large dictionary but I don’t think it would be constrained by the sometimes lesser total RAM on a GPU than the main system - in most cases that would make the dictionary larger than the video file. I’m curious.
Always seems like the Pixel phones are better tho
The Fairbuds XL have replaceable everything and they’re sustainably produced and designed to be repaired. Probably going to be my next pair.
And Motorola, I’m sure there’s more?
Yeah big tech loves to throw dumb stuff your way to piss you off and keep you engaged, even if you’ve never shown an interest before.
Yeah I should bite the bullet and get a Pixel, they normally get the longest updates support or am I wrong? This habit of going for a budget phone and it becoming unusable/unsafe after 3 years is just a hidden cost I’m in denial over 😞
My understanding is that all of the codecs we are discussing are deterministic. If you have evidence to the contrary I’d love to see it.