enjoy your enjoyment of 'sound'.

as you get older (GOML) the sound of the sound matters so much less.

there were times that listening to a single speaker fm pocket 'transistor radio' was good enough to enjoy the songs.

have your fun with your rumble and explosions. as you get older, that shit becomes SO much less important, you wont believe how irrelevant all that hype really is.

I have not been to a theater in - 20 years? more? I cant remember.

its been unpleasant for decades. and with home theater, unless you're a teen trying to escape home and get 'privacy' somewhere else, theaters have long outlived their usefulness.

I think I stopped theaters around the time I cut the cable.

all around, what passes for entertainment is just plain rotten and/or boring.

you can keep it.

I thought you could still register but you had to manually contact the admins. Not that I can imagine anyone bothering.

True. Does not help the person going to prison much though.

It is really sad to see people not learning from history and making the same dumb mistakes again and again and again. Remember this in a few years. Maybe you will learn something then.

Indeed. And it will be. Probably by losing 10% of its revenue.

But Google has been a habitual liar for a while now.

You're assuming that backend reading prompt will honor things like that, rather than simply output text in easily readable format stripping custom formatting entirely.

Honestly the morons here on slash dot know all that.

There's basically two kinds of right-wing slashdotter.

The first are the I got mine fuck you crowd. These are genuine idiots who think that they can put psychopathic lunatics in charge of everything and get away with it. A handful of them are in their mid 60s or even seventies and they will drop dead before the damage they're causing hits them. The rest are going to be homeless and living out of a broken down car by the river. Paying rent for that by the way.

And then there are the moral panics. There's a shitload of people here who grew up with their daddy or their granddaddy or both constantly dropping n bombs. So much so that the word is normalized. And they are absolutely terrified they're going to get a few beers in them and do something racist and lose their jobs. Every time you hear somebody complain about woke that's what they're really worried about.

And of course there's a shitload of people who are really really into transsexual porn and so they get really weirded out by trans girls in public.

Honestly it doesn't matter what the moral panic is those people will fall for whatever FOX News tells them to. The racism will always be a viable moral panic for them but eventually trans will run its course and they'll move on to something else.

There's no stopping them at this point. Between the propaganda and the voter suppression the Republican party and the right wing extremists are unstoppable.

Eventually they'll get theirs unless they die before that happens but they'll go down blaming Hunter biden's laptop and Hillary Clinton's emails.

Because it's not that they're smart enough to know better they're just really really really mean.

Must be nice to be over there in Russia and not have to worry about the American economy collapsing.

The downside is you've got our religious lunatics whipped up into a frenzy and we are about to hand them the launch codes.

You're going to find out real soon whether or not you're a nukes work. Honestly I don't know if ours do either but it doesn't matter because we have more than enough conventional bombs to turn the whole of Russia into a parking lot

And thanks to all that Russian propaganda we have put lunatics in charge of everything except the little bits and pieces we put nepo babies in charge of.

The print industry like a brick now that I think about it. As it rips through white collar jobs you're going to see a hell of a lot less printing.

There is a shitload of people who just make documents out of documents and move them up to chain so that information can be summarized and the CEO can decide what he wants to do next.

All of that is going to be done by AI pretty soon. You might have one or two data scientists programming the AI but the reams of people who had the job of taking the data scientists ugly data and making it pretty for a CEO that scraped by on a "gentleman c" is definitely going to get taken by ai and there's no way in hell those are going to be printed.

My point is that the microSD Pro cards exhibited their first error after half again more cycles, on average, than the "high endurance" cards, suggesting that the high endurance cards might actually have lower endurance than Pro cards, which is... unexpected. The Pro cards, IIRC, do more wear leveling than the standard cards. I have no idea whether high endurance cards do more wear leveling, have a lower number of levels per cell, have more spare cells, or something else entirely.

No no no, see, these regulations are working exactly as intended.

Google/Alphabet is looking for ways to extract more and more "Value(tm)" for their shareholders, and since they have already plumbed the legal avenues for revenue generation, the only options left are grey, and outright illegal methods of generating it, as it concerns user privacy, and as it relates to monopolistic business practices.

The "Innovation!!" that this, and other large companies are screaming about, is the "NEW! and AMAZING, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES!" presented by Flagrantly violating consumer and market ethics, and they are OH, SO VERY UPSET by this.

The pointed response to this, is to ask google, bluntly, what exactly it has really brought in terms of USEFUL PRODUCT in the past decade, because search is DEMONSTRABLY inferior to what it was in the past (which is enshitification, not innovation), and Google Play services are just a walled garden pretending to be open by comparison with apple's white-plastic-dystopia.

The only thing it's really invested in, is in new and increasingly awful ways to fuck over users of their platform for profit. (The a-fore mentioned Grey and Illegal practices I mentioned)

EU regulation is doing EXACTLY what it is supposed to be doing, and Google needs to be FUCKING TOLD THIS, VERY VERY FUCKING PUBLICLY.

Sadly, our regulators here are so bought and paid for by these trolls, that such a missive will be a very long day coming, but hopefully EU stands firm in actually fucking protecting their citizenry, as opposed to the fucking gilded age horseshit we have over here in the states about these matters.

You are talking to idiots that think that tariffs are paid by the exporter, not the importer.

Yep. Essentially sunk-cost fallacy. And it makes things worse. It is hard to feel comassion for people that aggressively are doing it to themselves.