Brain got the excellent speaking voice.

Just be sure you’ve got those backed up. CDR bitrot is real and it can hurt you.

At this point it’s more of an overly optimistic look to our future.

Windows is just more familiar. It definitely has problems just like this all the time. There’s a reason most companies have to have a test environment to try out every update to make sure it doesn’t break everything.

I feel bad for Nikola Tesla having his name associated with all this nonsense. Not even death let him escape from rich assholes taking credit for the work of others.

It’s been essentially tried since near the beginning with AOL. Their dialup service required you to have their branded browser (customized Internet Explorer) open to stay connected. On that browser you could only connect to sites in their walled garden whitelist.

Luckily, you could just minimize their browser and open regular IE or Netscape to bypass it.

NFL has a streaming service that condenses games for rewatch. It’s literally just the relevant action. It’s a lot longer than 11 minutes. It is significantly less time than the full broadcast, though.

The original idea behind the superiority of vinyl was that the ambient audio was being recorded directly to the media. Of course, this wasn’t even true when it was first made, as they were using magnetic tape by then to record in analog. However, there is still some merit to the idea that an infinitesimal amount of quality is lost when translating sound waves to digital data.

Most of the actual differences between cd and vinyl, though, can be chalked up to the loudness wars ruining the mixes on cd.

There’s more thane one reason someone might not be convicted of homicide and it’s not always because a homicide didn’t happen.

It was much better integrated into the story. The problem isn’t the message, it’s the writing.

Not all of them are without interest. In fact, the ones you’ll find the most are quite usurious.

They probably wanted to sell it as AI training data.

Probably don’t do that second one. That is technically fraud. What you could do is, if you’re bank or CC company have the service, use a virtual card number to sign up for the service and delete it when you want to leave.

Communism is just a different sort of fucked up. It’s just as bad for people in its own way.

I too prefer that. However, I also know there is a large subset of computer users that just want their magic box to work and I don’t think it would be a bad thing if there was a Linux distro they could use.

There’s a reason windows flatly refuses to do some things no matter how much you may want to. It’s people that would do exactly that without any thought or hesitation.

This is a bit different from before. They aren’t privating the subs this time, they’re just doing their unpaid full time job by disallowing posts with untrusted sources.

I’m not sure you understand what decentralized means.

ME was an eldritch abomination of cobbled together dos and nt architecture that should have never been.

There’s no such thing as a joke that doesn’t offend anybody. If you want to tell a joke, tell the joke. If you want to be universally inoffensive you would probably need to become a lurker.