Nah, this is patented by Sony.

It's still not enough time for KDE devs to fix all major issues with Wayland. It requires at least another two years in the oven.

Thumbnail pic looks like public toilet to me.

Nah they should just upgrade their PCs

It seems to be fully backwards-compatible with standard JPEG. I.e. image viewers will that don't support newer formats will display it as if it was a JPEG file with SDR colors.
Also, HEIF/HEIC is patented format that you need to pay royalties for. Open formats are obviously superior and there are multiple ones that support HDR (there is also open variant of HEIF that uses AV1 encoding but I don't know whether Android or iOS support it).

I'm sure shit bags are someone's kink too.

Not only Google services. If you want to make a phone you need to buy SoC from Qualcomm or MediaTek and all the drivers for it are proprietary (often including Linux kernel modifications). Sure you can technically make your own but it's impossible for 99% of phone makers.

I don't know.

Well, yes, it's a business decision. Google wanted to push their Chromecast devices so they made them use proprietary Google Cast protocol and removed Miracast from Android (both phones and TVs). They later added Chromecast/Google Cast to Android TV but it is still not supported on other platforms. Samsung on the other hand had their own TVs which don't use Android TV so they added Miracast back to their phones and removed Chromecast so that their consumers would buy Samsung TVs.

You mean AVIF?

Sounds like they didn't test what happens with their apps when token is reset on server 🤔 should be reported to the apps devs. Thankfully with lemmy this is easier to fix than with proprietary services because you can self-host it and check various edge cases.

Are they still trash in terms of performance (I know that all smart tvs have weak hardware but my experience with Sony was even worse than average)?