Agreed.
Not sure about current generation, but the Gen Z people in my life do seem to understand the concept but are absolutely terrified of it. Like, if they don't have cell service when we go camping, they are just super agitated like they've lost their sense of smell or something. Could just be those specific people, but that's the only sample I have to gauge on.
IMO, peak internet experience was when you had to make an effort to log on. i.e. dialing-up and tying up the phone line. Yeah, the speeds sucked and sometimes you got the dreaded "all circuits are busy now" message during peak hours, but everything else about the experience was better.
When you logged into AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo, etc, you did so with a purpose. You never worried about bothering someone by messaging them at a bad time because if it was a bad time to do so, they wouldn't be online in the first place.
"Back in my day" (lol), the internet wasn't always on, it wasn't demanding your attention, it wasn't pestering you with constant notifications, it wasn't in your face all the time, it wasn't constantly recommending or suggesting things at you (not "to" you, at you) etc, etc. It was there when you needed it but didn't butt into your life every second when you weren't.
You could disconnect.
I honestly don't know what we can really do about it. Personally, I turn off pretty much anything that can send a notification except SMS/MMS and check manually when I want to. Some people hate that and get annoyed that I rarely respond instantly to IMs and such, but I hate being constantly "on" as well as the expectation to be.
Or when Nellie shot the hooker with a crossbow because she was bored.
Yeah, that show got dark after the 3rd (or was it the 4th?) season.
The comparison goes deeper. Nellie and Joffrey were basically the same character (minus the whole royal drama). Both evil, spoiled brats with rich parents who usually got away with whatever they did. The fact that decades apart and in completely different shows that their actors look strikingly alike is pretty interesting.
Bike alpaca is Taylor Lautner (from Twilight)
Joffrette is Alison Arngrim who was Nellie Olsen on Little House on the Prarie.
My takeaway is that I'm gonna start calling no-bake cookies "no bakies".
If I understand correctly:
"Ask" is for more open ended questions (The vague "what do you think about" posts like you mentioned). Posts that are asking for a simple / single answer are generally removed for not being open ended. The question is more for discussion.
Here you can ask things that are less open ended and/or are looking for a single or simple answer.
I usually do everything from CLI.
Are you wanting to re-encode it to a different codec or just change the container from mkv to mp4?
To remux the file (change the container format), you can simply do:
# The -f mp4 is technically optional as it can deduce it from the extension, but I like to be explicit
ffmpeg -i file.mkv -f mp4 file.mp4
That should go very fast as it's just copying the streams as-is into a new container.
If you want to re-encode it to a different codec, then you'll need to use a more complex ffmpeg command.
Weirdly, back in the dumb phone days, with T9 I could bang out texts way faster and more accurately so long as I wasn't straying too far out of the dictionary. But it was super easy to add new words, and it would pick them up later.
This is approximately where it is in the print. Every time the head moves over any of those support bases, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard ๐