H.265 tends to struggle with older, film grain heavy content in my experience, but for newer stuff it wins hands down.

More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.

Alright, well, there it is in plain English. They’re killing downstream clones like Rocky, Alma, etc.

I have to wonder how this is going to affect software which officially only supports (insert RHEL clone here). I use DaVinci Resolve for work every day, historically they’ve only supported CentOS, and just recently they started supporting Rocky as well. VFX isn’t my wheelhouse, but I know the situation is basically the same for those programs as well.

No. Even if they decided to do something to placate us today, they’ve shown their hand and demonstrated they don’t give a shit about their userbase. I have no plans of going back. Period.

Bonus points if they’re Nintendo games!

It’s so bizarre to me how, in the wake of Reddit killing 3rd party apps, some people are running to Discord, which is infamously, actively hostile towards 3rd party apps, to the point of banning people for using them.

…what the fuck???

No.

Easiest question of my life.