> The braun drain was to the US

I see what you did there...

Freudian slip

Private healthcare exists alongside the public system in many places.

Is he?

What?

"The future is socialism or barbarism" (Rosa Luxemburg). I fear we have chosen the latter.

The author has updated the site to address this:

"Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated. Which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose. I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to be knowingly posting AI generated footage on a blog that I’ve worked hard to keep on the up and up. The footage was captured by a CBS news team, and they followed up with an interview of Atari employee (I’ll share that at a later date). Same goes for the images – they’ve been around for a while but clearly were taken at around the same time. The footage was upscaled a little on export from the editing software I used to clip irrelevant parts from. Hope this clarifies – enjoy!"

"Will the real AI please stand up!"

What a wild Twilight Zone we've entered.

France has a little more than that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion

There was also "Tom's Root Boot" distro that fitted on a floppy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt

That had to use non-standard image size though. Mind blowing this fits now into regular 1.44MB.

You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2?

The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

we were decoding 480x320 MP4 on PalmOS 5 devices in early 2000. Those were single-core in-order 200mhz ARM devices with no accelerators at all. Pentium M outperforms those easily and thus can do it too.

Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.

got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2

And still much easier to play than h264. A Pentium II with NetBSD was more than enough.

Nowadays on an n270 CPU based netbook I use mpv and yt-dlp capped to 420p, even if I can play 720p@30FPS.

Good point. Though too late in this particular case, since the battery was also busted, I ended up e-wasting the machine.

Also this site, which shows how the recorded Phonovision broadcasts were eventually recovered:

http://www.tvdawn.com/earliest-tv/phonovision-experiments-19...

Also:

- Monkey Dust

- The Fast Show