A lot people buy merch primarily to support the artist. Vinyl like you say has big artwork so is highly desired. They also likely have clothing merch they never wear.

I never signed it because it never made sense. The ink just fades and smudges off anyway. I barely ever even remove the label. I can't recall there ever being a complaint. If there's a problem I can sign it right there in front of them. But what did we really accomplish?

Exactly. And it's not just that. You can actually focus on different things near or far similar to real vision. I don't know the specifics of the Apple format, but I really feel that VR180 is an underrated medium. Basically it's VR video where everything is in front of you. There used to be an app you could download for Oculus/Meta headsets called Amaze which had TV shows, videos and movies in this format, sometimes involving choosing what you wanted the characters to do. But what I thought was interesting is the individual scenes had no cuts because you could choose to look wherever you needed. And it was immersive because it felt like the characters were standing right there in front of you. Unfortunately, the app was discontinued and it's hard to find info on it. But it had a pretty big catalog.

I'll take hallucinations over a search engine that ignores my search and outputs hours of useless information.

For Americans college means the same thing as university. The only real difference is how it's used grammatically. College is more a concept (like the word school) and university is a place. So we'd say "We're going to college" but not "We're going to university". Instead we would say "We're going to the university" or "We're going to a university".

We call everything that precedes college, school. Trade school is a separate thing in that it's generally seen as a alternative to going to college or even high-school ( which is generally what precedes college).

I'm pretty sure my awful infotainment system touch screen gets disabled when the car is moving. Unfortunately when I stop, random phantom touches are enabled.

I just read up on Recall from the Microsoft website. First of all, Recall is only available on Copilot+ PCs which specifically have a NPU chip specifically for processing AI locally. It takes periodic screenshots, and will use up to 15% of harddrive space (based on user preference). The screenshots are saved locally, single user, and BitLocker encrypted. The sole purpose is to have an AI be able to search this information visually and textually. At this point it is an optional feature.

I can see how this could be a useful feature in some cases. But I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind storing screenshots vs some other form of local history. Or how much more affective this would be than just searching history or looking at Task View. It's hard to say how useful it is without having used it.

As for instances mentioned about what happens if your system is compromised, you can exclude apps and websites from getting screenshot, and it doesn't screenshot private browsing. However I don't really see a majority of users taking those precautions. I also don't really think for most people having screenshots makes the fact that someone has unwanted access to your computer much worse.

My mom quit using laptops/PCs entirely because of Windows. And that was back in Windows 8 days.

All I know is the only way I could get antenna input on my Vizio TV after a fairly recent update was to disable WiFi and do a factory reset. "Antenna" input with WiFi connected is now just a random streaming channel they are trying to push onto you.

Yea, before I completely stopped using DVDs altogether, I would almost exclusively buy the Redbox DVSs instead of renting. Not because I wanted to own them or watch them multiple times, but because I didn't want to be on the rental time table.

Pretty soon we'll play the Ads instead and get a minute and a half of show at the halfway mark.

No way I'm going back to that. Hundreds of the exact same show with the same characters. I'll pass on that. May as well just watch YouTube or Twitch at that point.

For me, there's nothing I need Windows for that I can't do on Linux. It's more the other way around. I'm not saying Linux doesn't have limitations for certain things people do on Windows, but to say you can't do "anything but web programming" isn't my experience at all. From my perspective, Windows is the OS with limitations.

This really isn't that big of a deal. They are trying to get people to pay the actual price they are charging for their service. The Reddit post they are referring to is an OP who was using a VPN to get YouTube Premium cheaper than everyone else in his region. I'm not promoting region pricing one way or another but it's nothing unique to YouTube. Plus, they aren't cancelling the membership, just the premium subscription. Good business move or not, there's nothing surprising about this.

Yep, same here. But I also almost never use a browser to watch YouTube. It's either Roku, Fire Stick, or phone app.