Frame rate restrictions on Motorola phone | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Nov 3, 2026

okay I just set the frame rate and the bit rate to auto because five megabits per second and 24 frames per second are not supported so only bloated audio and video is supported apparently on my phone so trying to get these sizes down to a manageable level is difficult it's not open camera as well it's Motorola, Moto 2026 and it just all I get is an error message saying frame rate is not supported on this device frame rate is not supported on this device so you can't lower the frame rate which is cool talk about AI slot this isn't AI slot this is corporate choices restrictions my theory is that the manufacturer doesn't want to have a lower frame rate or lower quality of video or audio because well their device will be associated with that and if it looks bad it's going to look bad for them so they take away your choice and you don't get to choose what what it is you get to just take what they they give you and either you like it or you don't and right now I'm not super jazzed about it but I don't have a lot of choices and I've always worked with the constraints just this one's particularly annoying because I just want to downshift but I can't but I have reduced the perspective to a 1920x1068 which is full HD but it's still a portrait perspective so maybe even that's a bit silly to even have it at that I'll experiment with other things we talk about slop we're acting like we've had choices unless you're going into buying all these flexes and you know all the specs involved in it you're just going to give them a review and then it's going to be when you try to change anything you can find out just like how Facebook has been able to buy into being backported into some of these devices and TikTok is able to buy why? because people that sign these contracts are super rich and they're not using these devices and they see these devices as appliances that that we just take they're a closed box and this isn't new this was something that had been a battle that was fought back in the 90s against like you would buy a computer from let's say Best Buy or Micro City or Micro Center I mean something like that and it would have a little seal on the back of the case and said avoid if removed which in the beginning of computers like I can go both ways on this but that you couldn't even go to a tech store and have them maintain your computer you had to whatever ship it back to the manufacturer which if you ever use one of those old computers like I had a 486 and it was a 486 my gosh I I think I had 4 megabytes of RAM in it I had to go back but it had one of those seals on it and I remember being bummed out because I wanted to upgrade and I was anxious I didn't I was still you know I was still learning this stuff and I remember that fear that if I even open a case to inspect it I'm going to now have this whatever $2000 box that I can't you know that I might break and I can't even get support for it even look at it or upgrade it and now we're talking Sam Altman is talking about the tragedy of of too much RAM sitting in some gamers PC as if the fact that you have something and he doesn't is the problem there's a word for that avarice avarice it is not just that I'm jealous and I want to have things and I want to have what you have it's that I want to make sure that you don't have it and that only I have it and that you understand that you don't have things I have things that's avarice yeah so can't change the settings on my phone to a lower frame rate or bit rate because the manufacturers decided such and then think back to the early days of computers and the anti consumer efforts that had been shot down in court but something happened and I think it's just a lot of money got in the system and people figured that out and then you know I know the AI likes to tell me that there's it isn't conspiracy it isn't collusion but when a herd starts off in a direction and all the other animals in the herd see that movement they know it's time to go too so we're looking at people like Altman and Amaday and Musk who are and I'm like the fact that Zuckerberg is barely even in this conversation as powerful as he is remember remember what he said about Facebook a bunch of suckers and that's what they think of us all of them this jet that went down I am disgusted how everybody is putting this young co-pilot who was doing her job they love to put her picture up why? she was pretty and all a bunch it's it's a sickness it's a sickness there's the person whose jacket was I don't know whether it was owned or it was leased or what but this is a one off flight for the person who was had their family and I'm not going to shed false tears because I didn't cry when people I care about die I'm not going to cry about these people but I don't gloat in the suffering I also want to remember these people the father owns a company whose entire purpose was to remove anonymity from the internet that's how I summarize it what their business was and it was trying to piece together the aspects of your online presence and even without having any kind of consent they figure out who you are not a good person what happens to all the free speech and privacy advocates these guys said it when they were it was advantageous for them but when things go sideways they just put up a picture of a pretty young woman who was doing work and she was somebody I can't even imagine my heart breaks for the family her family and the family the pilot they love flying what's all we get is all we get is staying money and stuff with our energy and our will and our effort and it's sold to whoever will buy there always seems to be somebody who's got the money to buy and they tend to be just the worst the absolute worst people and I'm even nervous to say this because the thing about talking about the absolute worst people is well they're the absolute worst people and they don't like you talking about them All right. 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