I don’t understand why I would want to buy a new computer so their OS can have their AI do that stuff that they want.

Why don’t they just do it themselves then? I never asked for any of that shit.

If you liked Unreal, you will like Sauerbraten.

“I ain’t never said no such thing” - Albert Einstein

It’s better to piss in the shower than to shower in the piss.

It’s better to shit in the sink than to sink in the shit.

Fuck cars alright, but as long as I’m dependant on a car, my no.1 reason to get an EV is that I hate the oil industry even more. Fuck their oil and money and pollution and fuck their wars and politics.

Well done.

I believe it’s called data poisoning, which theoretically could be used to hack something in some theoretical situation.

It’s not the case here. He simply left a turd on the sidewalk and then the AI picked it up.

I don’t think they even care about profits anymore.

Billionaires live in the balance sheet, not the P/L statements.

Energy production being local is a benefit.

Just like the fediverse being unaffected by some servers going down. Deliberately or accidentally, doesn’t matter, the rest will keep up.

Smaller production is also easier to scale up. You can erect a solar farm in a month or shorter, while a nuclear power plant takes a decade to build.

No, the guitar to amp “instrument line” has even lower current than the line in.

The only hazard with music instruments is if someone turns on phantom power 48V to a microphone that doesn’t use it. Then the grill can give a nasty shock and typically right on the lips.

It appears to be a line signal, so it should be fine. But then again, we can’t see what’s on the other end. Could be a nuclear power plant for all we know.

something about audio that attracts an atmosphere of wilful ignorance

I think it’s the lack of a shared vocabulary.

Everyone likes some music better than other music, and so everyone think they can tell the difference between good and bad music. However, nobody can explain the difference in plain words.

This easily leads to the conclusion that it is fully subjective, and this is where the ignorance comes from. If nobody can explain what good music is, then my own voodoo explanation is as good as any.

However, we can talk about music theory, audio production and sound analysis in scientific terms to the point where we can even reproduce certain sounds based on the description. But we can’t really understand the description without actually experiencing the sound.

It’s similar to somebody saying “I don’t like this cake” or someone saying “my taste receptors react to the umami in this cake”, but I still wouldn’t have a clue about how the cake tastes.

Sound is also different from other sciences in that there is very little proof of one thing being more correct than others. And that goal changes constantly. Whenever somebody does crack the code to what people enjoy, it’ll get boring really quick.

I had a music teacher long ago who said that there is no bad music, only wrong audiences. His point was that the music that makes it through to the recording and publishing will already have passed the filter where someone made a decision if there is an audience for it. If you hear bad music, then you’re just not the right audience.

Anyway, cables. Who cares. The end result is the most important part. However, I’d prefer to hook up the instruments on stage with thick cables instead of bananas. Same thing applies at home. Any wire will do, but cheap wires do break.

History is a circle.

First we had bicycles. These then got helper motors. Then we got motorcycles and the two stroke engines had helper pedals to start. Then the pedals were removed.

Now we still have bicycles. These then got electric helper motors. Then we got electric bikes, that still have pedals, but people hack them to run entirely on the motor.

Make up your minds already. Everyone of these changes upsets the elderly.

No, but there are fees for late payments and other special situations.

Their main income is from the transaction fees that they charge the merchants.

The idea is that people who don’t have money can spend money and create a transaction fee on a sale that wouldn’t otherwise have happened if they didn’t lend the money. That way it’s the same as a credit card that you only pay monthly.

The difference is that the payments can be split, so that the customers can … uh … utilize their entire credit maximum every month…

Needless to say, this kind of credit maximum optimization can end really badly for people who have unstable incomes. The same kind of people who might be tempted to use it.

Five nights at Freddy’s is a media franchise that includes games and movies. It’s a horror story about a pizza place that has teddy bear like robots who are also ghosts of children.

It is or was popular among preteens for a while. It’s somewhat similar to Poppy Playtime, with the characters being used all over tik-tok and Roblox etc.

I have no idea nor desire to know how it makes any sense as porn, or why any adult would even want to create that kind of content.

Depends on the cause.

If you’re protesting against anchovies on pizzas, sure, it might be a bad idea to block the roads.

If you’re protesting against unidentified terrorists abducting and killing your neighbors, then you should obstruct the roads to stop them from proceeding with their genocide.

You won’t be rewarded for being obedient. They’ll come for you next whether or not you followed their law.

But whatever…now we know why the Germans didn’t stop the concentration camps in WW2 even if they knew about them: They had to go to work and didn’t want to obstruct traffic.

Don’t be a gramour Nazi.

I like the idea, but unfortunately most PCs don’t boot from USB out of the box. It requires a few easy steps, but this might just be enough for a lot of people not to try it.

He goes on a rant, saying out loud what everyone is thinking.

This is unusual for him.

Personally I liked the start of it more, where he clearly and simply explains some basic facts that a lot of people need to understand.

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.