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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's not recent...

Black bars get added to both formats often, sometimes back and forth until the video is a tiny rectangle and 90% useless black space

And people still talk shit about when someone used the wrong one to record.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm relegated to just talking shit on people who clearly have a copy of the original video, but upload it to the internet by playing it on their screen and shakily pointing their phone's camera at it rather than just uploading the fucking file.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I blame iOS's poor file management.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It’d have to be magical to be utilized by the average iOS user.