No, the original Pi B can play 1080p video just fine. The video is not decoded by the CPU. H264 and older codecs play just fine. It cannot handle h265 videos as it doesn’t have a hardware decoder for those. Kodi works just fine in fact. The interface is a little bit slow, but actual video playback is fine.

Not for me. Just updated 3 minutes ago.

I’ve been using namecheap for about a decade too. But, be careful with their free email forwarding service. They do not forward all emails. The ones that they consider spam, they proceed to drop silently. There is absolutely no way to access those emails. The service is essentially useless. I have lost several important emails like that.

Been using duckduckgo for years. At least for the type of content I’m usually searching for, mostly tech related stuff, it seems to me that it has always had great results.

I’m mostly lurking at HN, but I do like it. I find the submissions interesting and most discussions are high quality. There are some subjects that are… let’s just say not HN-friendly and any discussion ends up in the same echo chamber. But overall a thumbs up from me.