All the more reason to avoid it then. I dislike shorts.

I’m listening to music. I don’t want to pause the music to listen to something that I could just read.

Other reasons I don’t want to watch a video might include:

• I don’t have headphones with me and can’t play sound because e.g. I’m in public
• Watching moving pictures when I don’t have to is annoying
• Reading is quicker than listening to the exact same text
• I’m just on Lemmy while doing something else and can’t take that much attention away from the something else
• Videos - and articles - often have a load of extra fluff I’m not interested in, which is waayy easier to skip over if it’s written.

sigh

posting for others…

From what I learned about the video, HDMI is an organization that charges licensing fees for the port, logo, and revisions to be included in devices, charging between $5-$10,000/year for licensing plus per unit fees, and more for specific revision features, while Display port is just a connector/protocol with no licensing encumbering it, and supports all the HDMI features and more.

This is highlighted by the new Steam Machine from Valve where it includes both a display 1.4 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port, but the HDMI port isn’t listed as a 2.1 port because it can’t legally be licensed for Linux machines, so to get around this valve just didn’t label it 2.1 even though it supports 2.1 capabilities.

The creator of the video is rightfully calling for the industry to shun and abandon HDMI as a port, and just use the royalty free and unencumbered display port.