Since the end goal is to post a video to YouTube, you will have to create a video file. Personally I would probably just be lazy and upload the large file, since YouTube is going to reconvert the video anyway.
That said, to optimize the file you need to know how videos work, specifically key frames. Speaking generally, when a video gets encoded, it doesn’t add the whole image for each frame. Instead, it only does that when the current frame is a key frame, and then only stores the difference to the previous frame for every regular frame. There’s a lot of different strategies when placing keyframes, like every X seconds, when the scene changes, or both. This is usually you can change somewhere in the encoding settings of the application you’re using. You will need to use a codec/format that supports interframe compression though, so avoid AVI and MJPEG.
So the TL;DR is: Try to decrease the amount of key frames as much as possible, maybe even down to only one if possible.
The way WSL1 worked is actually quite interesting: The NT kernel always had the capability to run multiple subsystems, with Win32 only being one of them and there were subsystems available for OS/2, POSIX and later UNIX. WSL1 was pretty much a revival of that feature. So WSL1 is indeed somewhat like Wine, but making heavy use of some features built into the kernel. So yeah, no real boot process happening.
(Also it’s kinda stupid that the ‘S’ in WSL2 still stands for ‘subsystem’, despite not using that feature anymore.)
Yup. For companies it’s much safer to connect the dots with the giant amount of available metadata in the background than risk facing a huge backlash when people analyze what data you’re actively collecting.
Which is why people need to call out the tracking that’s actually happening in the real world a lot more, because I don’t really want my search-history leaked by proxy to people in my proximity either.
Yup. Maybe even just pure coincidence. People are very susceptible to confirmation bias and, as an extra spicy hot take, people in communities like this one even more so.
I would agree that a reasonably locked down device helps certain audiences stay secure, but to me that always sounds like a convenient excuse. Surely they could at least implement some way to regain control, even if that meant having to unlock the boot-loader and flashing the device, which is not something your average person would/could do.