And they used to get tangled on everything all the time, got caught on things all the time, frayed and wore out all the time, had janky connectors that had to be jiggled to sit in just the right position to get stereo sound, and got tied in knots when you put them away not matter how carefully you wound them.
There’s a reason everyone is using Bluetooth now, gramps.
100% fine with this. Let them out some statues of him up. It’ll give our grandkids something to tear down later on.
The real world.
The law: Do what we say, don’t challenge us, give us all your wealth, we can change the law at any time.
“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage
Just give it a couple of years for the hype/boom/bust cycle to complete, then it’ll settle down and people will start using the tech appropriately.
I thought this one was declared “satire” a couple of days ago.
Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.
My work machine is W11 and has options to change it. Not one of those stupid ‘home’ vs ‘pro’ version things is it?
They used to have that as a filter. Although for a long while you could pick short (<4 mins) or long (>20 mins) but not medium length videos.
This, too, was a sign they had no fucking idea what they were doing.
Nope, I’ve seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.
Some older online games have pretty good latency tolerance because they were built in an era before broadband was widely available.
Vanilla World of Warcraft, for example, has a ‘spell batching’ mechanic that helps to equalise things somewhat. You’ll need to play on a private server though because Blizz changed spell batching in Classic.
For web browsing? No.
Well, with their track record…
For a while there I thought “moved to Belarus” was going to become the new “fell from a window”, but I guess they’ve decided to stick with tradition.
In my experience, influencers are people who:
And about a million other things I can’t think of right now.
In short, they’re among the most awful people around. You really don’t need a more insulting term.
“Influencer”