I feel dumber after having read TFS. Some extraordinary claim, and some word diarrhea by some influencer, with AI mentioned 7 times in the story, all of it thinly veiled as some "Year of the Linux Desktop" story to bait the folks here. Wow.
That's because you live in a place where corporate interests are put in front of consumer ones. EU directive
That's absolutely right, UK ftw! Ah how I miss EU regulations.
In my experience, cancellation for services is rarely on the website. So that you have to call them (fuss! Talking to humans! Waiting for robo-menus!), plus they can try to sell you something to keep you on their service
Maybe these days. Maybe (as I'm cynical) some companies intentionally cripple human support (e.g. pointing you to online resources) so that you might as well use AI support, and thus making an argument for cutting out human support. Like Google Search enshittifying itself to the benefit of Gemini
I mean I didn't make the connection, but the sales manager might have made that connection... It's extra humiliating, so, might have been on purpose.
I've heard of those and a friend has some like those, but custom-made for his ears, and he swears by them (he's a musician). I might try one of those next time I plan to go see an IMAX film, sad indeed
Coral reef though to be dead is living and in good shape
Indeed, and this is so rare it makes the news... Usually it just dies, from heat, deep-sea trawling, you name it.
Sounds like exceptional cases all rolled into one... Maybe pick different times/days? But if you got an adequate setup at home and you're really mentally done, fair enough. I prefer home for comfort and most importantly subtitles... damn modern audio mixing
I mean I've been to rock and metal concerts and I don't remember my ears suffering that much (except Motorhead!). On top of that, I'm not sure that the speakers were handling the volume that well. But yeah I wish there was some feedback mechanism to the cinema on that front.
I didn't mind the lack of breaks (3h would be my limit though), and there were no disruptive people in the big cinema where I watched it, but I *did* mind the obnoxiously loud sound in that IMAX theater. In most action scenes I couldn't wait for them to be done so my ears would stop suffering.
That is an embarrassingly presumptuous and stupid position to take.
Tell that to the people who did the surveys in the 60s:
1960s surveys, focused on identifying promising fishing areas, flagged a possible deep-water coral reef but assumed it must be dead
The historical surveys had identified a possible reef more than 50 meters beneath the surface and declared that it was probably dead
Drones can drop handcuffs, use projectors for visual directions and shout instructions via a speaker, at a mounted-gun point. Far, far, far simpler than trying to program hand-to-hand combat on robots, and far cheaper too. Nauseating scenarios either way.
Nah, some drones with guns can do that better and far more efficient
for screwing your OS so badly and making me move to Linux, I'm far happier and I miss nothing, thanks to all the awesome software that is either native (Kate) or cross-platform (JetBrains) or is used as a bridge to windows software (Wine et al). The only thing you're extending is your pointless hopes for recovery from this unparalled idiotic move to force people to 11.
No software of mine gets faster with updates (in the game development space - IDEs, game engines, etc). So, "hold on" translates to "see performance gets worse every day". I don't think the old console paradigm applies anymore, as the hardware is known these days
Digital circuits are made from analog parts. -- Don Vonada
