I love that Miez is beginning to understand that the jigsaw noise means “new things for me” :)

NTFS was around in the 1990s, exFAT is from the 2010s - and I think was also caught up in some sort of copyright/proprietary shit for another 10 years. There are brand new 2025 TVs which still won’t read exFAT.

I’m mostly echoing what’s already been said, but I have a preset in Handbrake for this, which works fine on most TVs I’ve tried from the last 10 years (possibly 15 by now) and therefore should have no problem running on any computer. I often (for work reasons) prepare video footage for looped playback on TVs and projectors at numerous places - so “TVs I’ve tried” is a larger number than it might initially sound like.

It’s roughly along these lines (as I appear to have emailed someone about before):

"H264 mp4. 1920x1080. 25 or 30fps, or similar (appropriate to source material). Constant bitrate <=12mbps. 8mbps is generally universally compatible, though you should be able to get away with 10-12mbps on newer TVs with newer USB sticks.

AAC audio 192kbps, though lower is fine.

Use same samplerate as source (i.e. 44khz 48khz etc)

If you’ve got settings for encoding profile, Main and Level 4.0 should work.

If individual files are small enough (<4GB), format the USB stick as FAT32. Otherwise NTFS. EXT2 will work on a lot of TVs, but you’ll have trouble with some computers. Exfat may work on newest tellys, but won’t on anything more than a few years old, so safe option is not to use it."

I do appreciate that the listed recipe is “relatively quick and simple”, but I’m not convinced by “literally the same effort”.

If it was, then why would anyone buy the millions of frozen/boxed/packeted “just put it in the oven for 30 minutes” or “just put it in the microwave for 2 minutes” meals? They’re not buying them for the high-quality taste, surely?

Massively cheaper and almost certainly better for you, yes - but arguably not as low effort as “beep beep beep, ping”.

Your “no effort” meal, sounds like a lot of effort to me.

My low effort meal is “open packet, put ready meal in oven or microwave”

Is that a sacrificial chair, and the rest of the furniture is spotless, or does that happen to everything?

Wes Fucking Streeting? He’s even more right-wing than Starmer!

Zip disk/zip drive? wiki link

Also having " and @ in the correct place, and being able to £.

A few months ago.

Last time I tried Wayland (with Cinnamon), it didn’t support any keyboard layouts other than American. That’s a bit of a deal breaker if you’re not American.

That’s where the green post-vegetable liquid lives.

No. He needs to take more. The amount he’s currently taking is a measly “woke-trans-vegan-lib-radical-left amount for girls”.

If he was a real man and a genius, he’d double the amount of ketamine and cocaine he takes every day.

So twice as much today, 4x as much tomorrow, 8x as much the day after…

Did you give them a “human-style bath” with a bowl of water and soapy stuff, or did you give them a “cat-style bath” by licking them clean with your tongue?

Firstly, great guide image at the top there. Very useful, thank you :)

Secondly, that AI slop article is hilarious.

“Cut the shampoo into manageable portions” :D

Also getting weirdly excited by forks:
My missus in a charity shop (US: Thrift store?) or antique shop

Attempt to set the new world record!

9 Cadbury’s Cream Eggs

Google reckons this would be: “Yn ddwfn yn ninas danddwr R’lyeh, mae Cthulhu yn gorwedd yn cysgu, yn breuddwydio”