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  • Looks like the most widely used Portuguese demonym is Americano/americana. Which would be “American” which is correct.

    There’s also the term “Estadunidense”, which would be “United Statesian” in English, which obviously is not a term used in English at all, but it is accurate nonetheless. If you don’t like the term American and wanted to use this one instead, I don’t think anyone would mind.

    North-American would be meaningless as a country’s demonym because there are 3 countries in North America and a number of other non-continental nations and territories. North-American refers to all of them, not a single country like the United States. Mexico, the USA, and Canada are all North American, but they’re not all citizens of the United States. It would be like using the demonym “European” to refer specifically to Portugal.

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  • “American”, which you are.

    I am not.

    This is a very funny demonstration of your lack understanding of the English language.

    Funny thing, in my country the demonym for a US citizen is North-American

    No, no it’s not lol. There are 23 countries and foreign territories in North America. North-American would refer to all of them.

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  • Having a "North America" implies there's an "America", it doesn't come out of the blue. You didn't start with a North America, you start with America and then divide it between north and south.

    The singular America that you’re referring to that in fact did not come out of the blue was a man by the name of Amerigo Vespucci. He is credited with discovering what we now know as the two distinct continents of North America and South America, together referred to as “The Americas” (Plural) which were named after him.

    If there's no such thing as an "America", then why have a northern america?

    Because Amerigo “discovered” two continents. One is further north, the other south. Hence, North America, and South America. You’re also confusing terms. There’s a difference between “North America” and “Northern America”. Similar to how there is a big difference between “North Ireland” and “Northern Ireland”. These are not interchangeable terms.

    Why is everyone reacting like I'm claiming Canada is part of the US?

    They’re reacting like you’re claiming that the astronaut is “American”, which you are, and he isn’t. He’s North American, or Canadian. If you just say “American” then you’re referring to somebody from the United States, which he isn’t. You’re acting like the word “North” in “North American” can be dropped in this context without changing the meaning but you’re incorrect.

    Because how can you not be a non-American if America doesn't exist? Good day Sir!

    Because “American” is the recognized demonym for the citizens of the country United States of America. It refers to the citizens of that country, not the continent it’s in.

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  • That's like saying southern europeans are not european.

    No it’s not like that at all, there’s no continent called “Southern Europe”.

    Canada is in the american continent.

    No it’s not. It’s in the North American continent. Canada uses the 7 continent model, which includes the North American and South American continents.

    In Canada there is no continent just called “America”. So a Canadian calling themselves “American” makes no sense. They would either be Canadian referring to their country of origin, or North American referring to their continent of origin.

    This is why the treaty that historically allowed free trade between Canada, the US, and Mexico was called NAFTA, or North American Free Trade Agreement, and not AFTA.

  • Pennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.

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  • The fact that so many people choose to live in a HOA is not on its own evidence that they aren’t despised. There’s a housing crisis in the States and people will live where they can. HOAs are often something you move into a neighborhood in spite of, not for.

  • Pennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.

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  • HOAs are a patently un-American idea and are generally speaking viewed as such within the United States. I’m sure there are those who view them as a necessary evil, but by and large if you mention the acronym HOA in the U.S. you are more likely than not going to receive a look of unhappiness in return.

  • Pennsylvania, USA is trying to stop HOAs from banning native plant gardens.

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  • It really just means "plants that aren't grass" - as often the "native" plant will end up being some tall grass from another continent or region.

    No? It means “Plants that are native to this continent/region”.

    If the plant was from another continent or region, it would be definition not be native.

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  • Geographically speaking, no. If you are basing that on his continent of origin as opposed to country of origin, Canada uses the 7-continent model meaning North America and South American are considered two distinct continents. This means that somebody born in Canada is, for all geographical intents and purposes, North American, or Canadian. Just “American” doesn’t make sense in this context.

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • The person they’re replying to was talking specifically about their Plex server and how av1 causes problems with it. If their Plex server is the thing that is having trouble with AV1, then it’s encode.

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • “Click button media plays” would be the bare minimum a media server does. Being able to play media at all does not elevate it above of its position at the bottom of the media player stack.

  • Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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  • Yeah you’re going to need HW acceleration to encode AV1 on your server “without issues”.

    Theres a world of difference between something that’s technically possible and something that will just work without issues of any kind. Something being “good enough” implies the existence of caveats. Mainly being that’d be a shitty experience lol.

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  • Lmao

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  • jellyfin is the least functional of the trinity of media servers so that’s not the best recommendation here.

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  • How would that help at all lol

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  • Neither of those things support AV1 encoding or decoding. Curious how you’ve come to believe you’re having “no issues” with a codec your hardware has no support for.

  • Dual Wielding [Dungeons & Dragons]

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  • Jarvis, translate this comment into English

  • Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance

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  • Can hardly blame you for failing to keep up with the breakneck pace in which the U.S. government has been assaulting our freedoms and privacy. Some new fresh hell every day an all.

  • Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance

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  • Net Neutrality was repealed in the U.S. in 2017. ISPs including your mobile phone carrier are allowed to throttle your bandwidth based on the sites you visit. When you use a VPN an tunnel your DNS through it to servers not operated by your ISP, they don’t know which sites you’re visiting, so any automated throttling would not happen.

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  • As somebody who knows how DNS works, there are certainly cases where DNS servers causing a delayed response to requests will slow down the initial loading of sites. This would result in a layman thinking their wireless speed is “slow”