We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.

True. But that said, I still come across rips of vinyl recordings from... sources. Generally, the quality is obviously inferior; but I've found a few that sound very good, and at least one that sounds more detailed and balanced than the CD. And when an official digital source isn't available, I'm very happy to have a conversion from analog performed by a fan.

Similarly, I've come across some digital copies of television shows from the 60's and 70's which weren't released on DVD. They were converted to digital by fans - sometimes from VHS, sometimes from off-air or CATV. And although the degradation is obvious, they're still quite watchable.

In any case, having the music, movie, or TV show in a quality that's not the best, is better than not having it at all.

Big screen and big sound. Maybe it doesn't mean much because you have a house in the suburbs, but if you're in an apartment (either because you don't want to commute, you want to live in a city, or it's all you can afford for housing), TV speakers are pretty much it because anything more will get you noise complaints.

Depending on your income and housing costs, you may be limited on how big a TV you can have as well.

So a theatre is pretty much the only place if you want that sort of thing.

Granted, I don't go out to theatres much anymore either - and I spent $35 on the ticket (one, for myself), mostly because I want the big screen IMAX, but it's a far drive. And the local theatres are regular screens which aren't great. I pretty much limit myself to one movie a year or so tops.

I believe part of the reason is the year 2038 issue. A while ago I remember seeing posts about the issues FreeBSD has/had with getting around 2038 on their system. IIRC, it was a huge effort.

*EVERY* UNIX and UNIX-like system has to deal with the problem. But it's got nothing to do with 32-bit systems, because OpenBSD and NetBSD have it working since 2012 on 32-bit systems. Linux since 2020 (Linux supported 64-bit time_t on 64-bit platforms already, but 2020 is when 32-bit systems supported it).

It's not a simple solution, but it's been done before on other systems. It's also why Linux has a bunch of system calls that are merely using 64-bit versions.

Modern devices are killing us, both physically and mentally. The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed almost entirely things that we don't want or need.

I was playing Yooka-Laylee the other day and a message on the loading screen make me chuckle: "If cartridges were still cool this would have loaded by now."

Have you considered the possibility that you might just be an arsehole?

In the first place, alternative schooling practices and structures are a prerequisite for the kind of education you're promoting. In that environment iPads and the like can be valuable and useful tools. But in an underfunded public school system, where there's little opportunity for one-on-one guidance and where teachers often have second jobs just to make ends meet? Not so much...

Second, as much as I hate to admit it, there's a LOT of common curriculum that's necessary for kids. All that stuff can be both more efficiently and more effectively taught en masse. In those cases, iPads and the like can be both a distraction, and a way to undermine the communal aspects of schooling.

Education is complex and difficult when it's done well, and some of the things I think and say about it would - at first reading - seem to contradict what I wrote in my previous two paragraphs. That said, I don't think a policy of handing kids an iPad, saying "go to YouTube and watch this video", and letting them supervise themselves with no ongoing guidance, will result in very many positive outcomes.

Bhyve https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve

First, although the DVD was developed in 1995 it wasn't a mainstream thing until at least 2000. So it's just a bit more than one generation old. If this young man loves DVDs, he'd probably pass out from joy over VHS tapes. And wait until he sees his first pair of rabbit ears and finds out what THEY were for...

All humour aside, this retro media and electronics movement pleases me. I'm pretty sure it's just a fad; but even so, a connection with and awareness of how things used to be can give one a valuable perspective on more modern ways of doing things.

I'm also very happy at this guy's realization that "It's nice to have something you own instead of paying for subscriptions all the time". If that sentiment ever takes root and becomes popular again, the broligarchs could be in for a rough time - and the harder things are for them, the better they are for the rest of us.

Congress members have official mailing addresses.

FTA: "For those times when you need to install many software packages at once, like when setting up a new PC or virtual machine, you can create a Brewfile with a list of packages and run it with the 'brew bundle' command. However, the Brewfile isn't limited to just Homebrew packages. You can also use it to install Mac App Store apps, graphical apps through Casks, Visual Studio Code extensions, and Go language packages.

So it seems that Homebrew streamlines the process of installing a specified set of programs - especially a mix of APT packages and Flatpacks - on multiple machines, both real and/or virtual. That could also be done with a BASH script, but as TFA points out BASH isn't always available or up-to-date.

The article doesn't mention Snaps or AppImages - I wonder if Homebrew can handle those as well.

In the first place, trailers - which play before the movie, are a feature, not a bug.

In the second place, streamed movies can be interrupted by ads - and I'm not talking about mere product placement. So when it comes to streaming - no, fuck you very much.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.

I'm a Boomer, and I second that. I like being that guy behind the dawdling check-writing woman who checks out with a quick tap of my iPhone.