I see, I know the arguments from gamers (and have seen that video before). The discussion was on TVs and I didn’t think of the gaming angle.

I’m also not convinced about that stuff, to me it’s like talking to audiophiles that swear they can totally hear the difference between made by an expensive ethernet cable in the final audio, or that they can tell 16bit 48kHz from 24bit 96kHz, while basic physics and double blind tests say they can’t.

What would be the benefit of a CRT? I’m sure they last plenty, but they draw a lot of power.

My current laptop is 7 years old, and I Love It!

I still even play games with it. Not the newest stuff, but I have such a huge backlog of indies and not-so-new games that I could play for 15 years…

If someone told me this will be garbage in 3 years… I would hit them with the laptop. It’s a T470p, their skull is the part that would break.

I kinda disagree. If you need something to connect to the internet, it needs to be rather up to date.

I am… Confused about your request. Why can’t you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.

It literally says “Other authenticator apps that support OTP […] can also be used”.

The whole “Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware” always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming “this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption”.

The problem with that is the power consumption. It adds up.

You think that’s a lot? I don’t have a single laptop younger than 6 years, at home or work.

VS Code is mostly open source though, with an independent build being circulated under the name “VS Codium”. Some proprietary Microsoft extensions will however refuse to run on it out of spite though.

The proprietary version of Inkscape would be Adobe Illustrator, I guess.

Never used it though.

You can definitely mount a windows share on a linux machine. I was doing it at my last job, because it allows you to do anything on it transparently as if its part of the local filesystem.

Here instructions from the Ubuntu wiki, most things should carry over to most other distros.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

No car is fun in those instances. But that is how we spend the majority of our time on the road.

Hence, “fun driving is over”.

There are still fun cars. It’s getting incredibily difficult to have fun driving them.

I have not.

Do they somehow make it fun to be queueing at a busy intersection?

Is driving 70km/h behind a truck somehow a blast if you’re in a Tesla?

If so I’ll make it a priority to try one out ASAP!

Agree that fun driving is essentially over, but I don’t think automatic cars are as common outside North America.

In Europe ~80% of cars have manual transmission, mainly due to the (in the past) better fuel efficiency.

Modern automatic cars have often slightly better fuel efficiency, but they cost quite a bit more to buy and maintain, and very nearly everyone knows how to drive stick, so people usually don’t bother.

Edit: As we stop having fun driving cars, should we finally also say goodbye to race biking, and fun motorcycling, once and for all?