I’ve got a Xonar Essence STX II still faithfully plugging away in a PCIe slot, it’ll be a sad day when I get a new system and it’s no longer compatible.

Sony Pictures Core, Kaleidescape, probably a few other niche ones.

Streaming services pretty much top out at 80Mbps, but more typically are around 15≃20Mbps for even 4K content, so even if they straight quadrupled the bitrate for 8K content you’d only be hitting UHD BD rates.

I don’t disagree that BD will not exist for an 8K market, but that’s because physical media is being killed.

This isn’t even getting into the actual mastered resolution of much of this content, which you’re lucky if it’s even in 4K, most stuff is still mastered in 2K.

There isn’t a particularly good delivery mechanism for 8K, Blu-Ray tops out at UHD/4K, and streaming is so bitrate starved 8K doesn’t even matter.

Most of the VCS ops in Hg are actually written in C.

GitHub is mostly written in Ruby, so that’s not really a performance win.

Like I said, we’re stuck with Git’s UX, but we were never stuck with Hg’s performance.

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say a significant percentage of Git activity happens on GitHub (and other “foundries”) – which are themselves a far cry from efficient.

My ultimate takeaway on the topic is that we’re stuck with Git’s very counterintuitive porcelain, and only satisfactory plumbing, regardless of performance/efficiency; but if Mercurial had won out, we’d still have its better interface (and IMO workflow), and any performance problems could’ve been addressed by a rewrite in C (or the Rust one that is so very slowly happening).

Same with mice, Logitech uses a combination of under-designed (denounce and chatter can be fixed by using both the NO and NC terminals to perform latching in firmware) circuitry, out-of-spec voltages, and cheap wrongly spec’d microswitches, which results in their mice suffering from double click and other similar issues after a year or so of usage.

You can put switches that are closer to spec and will last many more years, but really they should be using 5V and both momentary terminals.