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Comment Re: Unionsâ¦. (Score 3, Funny) 53

And then the small bot appears in the video, again.

In the second video the robots almost conquor Earth, and in the last video of the trilogy, the humans defeat the robots but they still escape to Mars and begin a colony there.

Sequel trilogy might involve the old Mars probes and explorers forming a rebellion.

Comment Re:The decline of home audio (Score 1) 66

It's inevitable that brands disappear as audio equipment has been good at sound reproduction for decades. Apart from loudspeakers (and maybe turntables), any decent consumer unit is indistinguishable from high end in blind tests, so why buy a player or amplifier which has a pricetag of 4 numbers or more?
And I speak as a former audiophile who had bought some top notch equipment through second hand deals. I still have the rare Yamaha GT-CD 1 made for Europe, but nowadays I use a PC with proven sound card and active open baffle loudspeakers by my own design. Never heard such an excellent 3D soundscape through stereo before even at pricetags in several hundred thousands of euros.

Comment Re:Isn't that good news? (Score 1) 257

It's all making a mountain of a mole heap. As if the world ends because we have a relative percentage more old people. Every time a change has been called a crisis, the world still continued revolving and humanity adapted and went on with their lives. It didn't end with the global pandemic, it will surely not end with more grey hairs.
Pensions didn't exist for centuries yet old and young people still lived on. There will be plenty of older people who will do their bit to support others or work part time and thereby softening the blow to this precious and fragile glass economy.

Comment Re:I tip my hat to those with the patience (Score 1) 46

I would hate keeping tabs on all the subscriptions and turning them on/off all the time.
I have a nice DVD collection of selected films and a few series, and there's rarely something new that I would miss if I couldn't watch it.
I do like to sniff out downloads if I'm in the mood for some nostalgia, like some Magnum or the first season of Miami Vice I'm currently watching with one eye while doing some simple stuff. Everything Stargate I already binged several years ago. :-)

Comment Re:Colour (Score 4, Interesting) 55

I say Adobe gives closed source software a bad name. I used Gimp as my first editor and when I tried to use Photoshop I hated the interface.
Who still uses a single huge window in which the inage windows open? Ugh, that's so.., Windows.

Anyways, Photoshop is not the be-all and end-all UI that everyone prefers. I prefer Gimp classic interface.

Comment Re:Nobody wants more features (Score 3, Interesting) 83

This is why I use Pale Moon since years.

It's relatively light compared to the memory bloating Firefox with its seperate process for everything, it never messed with the simple and clear UI, and for the handful of sites I saw that didn't work with it, their non-standard site wasn't interesting enough.

Long live the uBlock and eMatrix extentions for spy-free browsing.

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