One does need the mental fortitude to live subscription-free though, especially in social circles where current media and games are daily topics of conversation and curiosity is difficult to suppress.

I only have three subscriptions: the house I live in (rent), public transport, and the usual energy and water neccessities.
I don't care if I miss out on the latest shiny trinket on screen if I can't have a copy of my own, so no streaming and no Steam or Epic or whatever. I don't worry about boredom because I have a good imagination and write my own fiction or work on my personal fork of OpenTTD.

..and it displays more intelligence than current "AI" instances. :-p

Sometimes I think there's no need for AI to create a code mess because people can do that just fine right now.
I'd like to have the source code for some software just for a chance to see if I'm correct in suspecting certain bugs or sloppy process flows.

What advertising? I have nothing denied from slashdot and fsdn domains in eMatrix (on Pale Moon) but I see no advertising. Disabling uBlock doesn't change it either.
You sure you don't have some malware doing old-fashioned code injection on pages? Or maybe it's some Google forced spy advertsing crap in Chrome if you happen to use that browser?

I would not be surprised to see the killing of CEO Brian Thompson to be the first of more as the consequence of widening the gap between the haves and have-nots through applied (and misused) technology.
Guy Fawkes will rise again.

Have you tried posting this question there?

Let it see a psychologist specialised in anger management?

Yeah, modern codecs are already a large enough burden on my Core 2 Duo when playing movies, I don't unneeded features chocking the life out of it.

I use mpv instead of VLC because it's easier and more basic in use for me.

David is for me also the definite Poirot, Ustinov comes second. Watched the 100 Years of Agatha and Poirot documentary recently, after that I thought I should at least have a look at the Kenneth movies. I won't speak of those first two again, at least the third was doable as long as you keep in mind it has nothing to do with the original story and the main character is only coincidentally named Poirot and has a moustache and OCD.

I remember Jeeves and Wooster by name, but not sure if I saw much of any of it specifically, seeing I have seen plenty of Fry and Laurie years ago.

The birth of one more fanatic fantasy book club ^W^W^W^W religion.

Certainly not in a driverless car, duh!

If there was any interesting content. Of last year I only remember liking the latest Deadpool, Hellboy, and Despicable movies. Oh, and the Oceans one that was not an Oceans one. Of all the other movies I thought might interest me, I stopped watching in half an hour or less. Definitely not enough to warrant even one subscription. I'll snatch up hardcopy versions when I come across the ones I do like.

Watching movies from before 2000 has become much more fun. Currently enjoying the Poirot series, and played Demolition Man as fireworks during new year's.

No no no, it's all true. The hardware won't be able to work any longer so it's best to replace it.

As an aside, I can help out with the bothersome task of throwing the not-so-old preferably gaming with AMD CPU and GPU type laptop by sending it my way. No use trying the arduous task of installing Linux on it which will be a disapointment anyway. Buying a new laptop is so much easier for everyone. Really.

You can have a good 3D image as long as you stay in the centre position and have very good content created for it, otherwise you'll notice distortions you can't ignore after a while, and also can't experience it fully when you watch with the whole family on the couch.

Just give me a good (dumb) 2D screen without the bullshit limiting DRM junk so I can hook it up to any Linux PC.

Not just the background, but the whole desktop should be minimal.
I use fluxbox without the usual taskbar and everything. There's only a digital clock and the application menu pops up with a key combination. I even disabled the whole window decoration so all I see is whatever programs I have open.

It's so relaxed, I feel shivers just thinking about looking at Windows or a Mac. I'm also glad to use Olauncher on the phone for that reason.