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The definition of sound quality tends to change between people.

My definition is pretty much the same as yours here, but I know quite a few people who hate listening to music on anything with a relatively flat frequency response.

When the game comes on 14 floppy disks, sometimes you forget how to count in the excitement.

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First time I've ever seen it. No clear way to bypass it either.

AliExpress won't allow me to open most pages in the account section on my iPhone. Instead I get a page telling me to install the app.

While browsing, there are also popups offering the app approximately every third link I click. Some of them are telling me to install the app.

Unless the situation has changed recently, it's not perfectly fine, it is unusable on purpose.

I recall that full length movies on VCD were usually two discs to get decent quality.

Not needing to get up and switch discs because you could use divx or xvid instead was a real life improvement.

Really depends how you're defining "need".

Will you die without it?

Will your life as you know it end if your next phone has 8GB instead of 12GB?

The cheap radios boggle my mind a little bit. I can order a wireless transmitter for an electric guitar for cheaper than the cable next to it. How is this possible? $18 ESP32 with a camera attached and WiFi for an instant cheap IP camera? Crazy!

Those kitchen advances never feel like advances to me though. Maybe I'm over simplifying it, but I'm tired of "needing" yet another box that gets hot. I am pretty sure an air fryer is just a small convection oven.

You can take my panini press from my cold dead hands though.

Dishwashers with WiFi, but they can't keep the water in.

The data track never sounds very good. A little too industrial for my tastes.

I agree. Very likely to be brushed off as "you're having a good day today" unless you are looking for it.

There is only XUL!

I often drink a 12 cup pot in a day. No noticeable effects.

Why are coffee cups smaller than cups?

Maybe I’m just slow, but it makes doing the mental math a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Maybe I just need more coffee.

The chat server was the only thing I was sharing anyway, so it ended up on a boxing day sale VPS. Everything else became an internal service.

I thought it would eventually drive me crazy, but to this day I regret nothing.

I use subdomains and a wildcard cert to partly obfuscate this.

Don’t look at me. I won’t even put a TV online because they want to watch me back.

What I do know, however, is that most people seem to be willing to give up everything for a little convenience.

I’d imagine some people would actually find that useful if they offered a backup and restore feature.

No more “why did I come in this room again?” moments.

This conversation just dug some old nightmares out.

In a past life, I used to be almost ecstatic when a client would choose Tomcat over WebLogic or WebSphere, or whatever abomination of an app server they standardized on.

I'm convinced that some day bootc (or something similar) will be exactly what I'm looking for, but not yet.

A Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is $425CAD right now ($300 USD) which isn’t a huge gap.

The price on SBCs is insanity right now because they have RAM.

YOU CAN JUMP ACROSS

And as I typed that I can still hear the noise all these years later.

I could see just powering through because modern hardware is fast enough to do so being an option.

Adding 20% to a 10 second operation is a lot longer on a wall clock than adding 20% to a 1 second operation.

I only have a front lawn (townhouse) and I'm not allowed to plant whatever I want in it.

If somebody reports it, the city can and will come tear it out and charge me for the work.

"Ownership" is a funny thing.

Sometimes I think "it's a UNIX system, I know this" but I've been caught by subtle differences before too.

killall is very different between Linux and Solaris, for example. I would rather have not found this out on a client machine for the first time.

Would the metaphor have worked better if it was Amazon?

Walmart does allow other stores to sell through their website.

You and competitors are free to ask the White House for help. The White House is free to say “no”.

Look at all that freedom!

I see you’ve met my mother!

I don’t know about anybody else, but I don’t have infinite time to play those infinite games.

Right. As far as I know you need to be a volume license customer, or resort to piracy.

Perhaps, but how do you buy a copy for your family at home?

> fitness trackers (the passive ones, without display

Do you mean my belly when I look down? That and the answer to "can I keep up with my kids?" has always been enough fitness tracking for me.

I wear a self winding watch. I suppose if it stops going while I'm wearing it, I've been very still and might be dead.