So much hype, then the reality hits...

I don't turn the sound down or off, but I certainly need subtitles to clarify the dialog.

More often than not, I turn up volume where audio isn't clear, but I do appreciate clear sound effects and, especially, spacialization on my 9.2 surround sound system -- something I appreciate more as my vision fades w/cataracts... *sigh*.

or maybe this is a prelude to bans on faster-than-light travel breaking down, but only within observed sizes of the universe exceeding what is allowed by on red-shift estimates of farthest astronomically measurable (visible) structures....???

Or maybe this is just a prelude to breakdown of current physical "constants", etc...?
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bots aren't affected by problems that aging eyesight causes in solving captcha's

Along similar lines, I have a LARGEST-display iphone-14 -- and apply still doesn't support arbitrary zoom on 3rd party apps, and still uses crap low-contrast layouts on most of their sys-dialogues.

I still find white on black text to be easiest to read, and the apple head-in-the-sand grey-on-white background with 4-5pt font to be the dominant theme.

Black on white text works in print because it is reflective text, but black text on white background for an emissive display sucks -- its feels like having flashlights shining in your face, using shadows for text.

Finally, more people are feeling the burn of high-intensity backgrounds, and finally more people are switching to dark displays.

Usually, my prototype = end result. But then that requires ability to know what your requirements are.

It's when other people add new requirements that you need updates or "revisions".

You make the checking process intelligent.
You put your boarding-pass number on your luggage at check-in.

Now you guarantee right tracking number = same as number on boarding pass!

I.e. benefactor of tracking = responsible agent for ensuring proper asset tagging.

I've recovered my cell phone from a short dunk in the ocean (in a pocket, was accidentally dunked, took it home, redunked in filtered water + alcohol + thoroughly dried.

As well -- how many times have I recovered a mouse or keyboard from a spill followed by a cleaning....

Sounds like that would be considerably less likely. *ouch*

The trade-off may be worth it, but still...*arg*.

What about erosion due to water vapor (humidity) in air? If it slightly condenses due to
temperature changes? Hmmmm
 

Good luck w/MS offering real improvements to your locally running windows...

Windows has been dropping in speed since WinXP (likely before). The difference between WinXP and Win7 -- was like typing text locally into a computer vs. seeing the text echoed from a remote login session -- maybe 10+ms added to each keypress.

This is due to continued "layers" added between the user and the HW.

Now we see more layers as keys are routed to the cloud and back -- and MS (et al) want to have us get used to their services in the cloud as the new norm.

MS is rather annoying -- especially since MS-fanboys rag on anyone not on the latest MS-offering. With Google offing attested-ads on their webpages, as a final cap to their encrypt-everywhere (that they pushed for to secure their ad-placement), how long before PC's are relegated to consoles?

But to render a google-approved web-page, you will need a certificate from google that confirms you haven't blocked ads.

The start of this was googles DRM^h^h^h, let's encrypted every where. This was to stop users from caching content-- so users be forced to download "fresh" ads for each page refresh.

So this is like the 80-bit for export standard, with the initial mozilla browsers that used a trivial seed.

It even says its for export use.

Seems most "users" would have at least upgraded to a 128-bit or higher version, but this standard is ~20 years old. Who still uses an 80-bit encryption with the time/date stamp as a seed?

So the AI that sniffs out Licence-Plate criminal tendencies was trained on illegal (criminal) material?

Where does it begin? Isn't it true that all of us are criminals down to things like a "California Stop" at a stop-sign?

Doesn't training AI on humans create an ethical quandary that is already being used to track down more "unethical",
law-violating humans? And people think this is somehow going to better society?

Was this substantially different from what Daniel Ellsberg did in releasing pentagon papers?

Maybe I'll get to play the EA games I've been locked out since
EA upgraded their online distribution. Note -- these are games I've
bought and have been locked out since EA made their changes.

Similar dynamic happened when the games first came out and EA's
DRM was a nogo. Wasn't until pirated copies came out of Russia that
I could play games I'd already purchased. Seems like EA supports piracy by locking out legitimate users who are ignored by EA-support [sic].