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by OroPla 14d ago
I recently solved this problem by buying the Dell U5226KW. It has the same height as a 16:9 42" TV, but is 21:9, so a lot wider. It costs about four times as much as a similar sized 16:9 TV and you can't get it any bigger.
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by OroPla 14d ago
You don't need monitoring for that to work. Just something like "Hey, Google". The device knows a bunch of keywords and when it hears them it's bingo. As long as your laptop and phone are logged into the same local netwo
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by OroPla 14d ago
If the checkbox is already ticked it is called opt-out. You have to toggle the checkbox to not be activated. The other way around is opt-in. The checkbox is empty and if you want to enable it you have to take action. Opt-in: take action to
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by OroPla 14d ago
It sells for as little as five bucks in some markets [1] and has done so since at least 2021 [2]. Even the most expensive version is only about twice of that. This makes it a bit difficult to estimate earnings from worldwide sales numbers.
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by OroPla 14d ago
Seems like we are transitioning to the fighting stage of "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Alternatively we are transitioning to the bullying stage of: (1) Shaming (you should be e
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by OroPla 15d ago
I am not sure I believe in this "unified accepted version of the truth". Before the Internet it was a lot easier for the unified media [1] to convince people of whatever it wanted them convinced, but I find it a lot better for peo
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by OroPla 15d ago
Who was it again that said: "The new fascism won't say 'Hello, I am the new fascism.' it will instead say 'Hello, I am the anti-fascism'."? First time I heard it was decades ago and it has been proven more
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by OroPla 15d ago
Because it's not mentioned anywhere who posted the images in the first place and which prison he or she is now living in. The complaint in the article is about not taking down the images faster than within an hour.
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by OroPla 15d ago
Can someone explain why the goal is only to remove the images and not go after whoever posted them? You'd think the pool of posters would eventually shrink to zero.
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by OroPla 15d ago
> In a lot of occupations the skills you learn in college are real and meaningful Such as? Medicine and STEM aren't one of them as far as I know.
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by OroPla 15d ago
If only copyright and IP laws didn't exist, then we wouldn't have to argue about who did it and could instead be happy that another problem was solved.
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by OroPla 16d ago
Remember CD spindles? Those are were a quarter of my cables live now. They can be stacked! There's also a few boxes and one tech bag. Also, the 15m (50ft) HDMI cable doesn't fit anywhere so it got it's own space.
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by OroPla 16d ago
Wait,.. you guys only have one big box of cables?
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by OroPla 16d ago
As you age, you have less need to grow your collection. You'll also forget about stuff from decades ago and can watch everything again without remembering much of anything. Similarly, as you age you'll have less time spending on e
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by OroPla 16d ago
There are a bunch of albums I found on Youtube that I ended up buying, yes. It's only a very small percentage of my collection, though and not generally how I discover new music.
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by OroPla 16d ago
You can't sue a bus passenger or people a bus killed. And if there was no driver since the bus drove autonomously, you wouldn't have anyone to sue. I don't understand why this is a problem. Just treat it the same way you do f
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by OroPla 16d ago
Physical objects do not exist in a digital format. When I type the letter "a" is it not the exact same letter that you are using in your text? Even all the "a"s in this comment are identical, are they not? In the physica
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by OroPla 16d ago
I guess it's worth pointing out that Sony (the conglomerate) isn't one company. It's a whole lot of companies. The gaming related part is called Sony Interactive Entertainment (headquartered in San Mateo, California). Movies
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by OroPla 16d ago
Once your collection is built, thirty years down the line, you'll add less than five CDs per year. With streaming however, you'll end up paying a whole lot more than $5000 for the next 30 years, thanks to inflation. If you started
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by OroPla 16d ago
What is the problem with having the answer be the same as when lightning strikes down and kills people or a flood happens? Sometimes damage happens without anyone being responsible.
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by OroPla 16d ago
Some are 576p and at that point the difference to higher resolutions isn't as pronounced, especially if you sit a fair bit away from a TV that isn't 120". Unfortunately, though, very few DVDs are 576p.
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by OroPla 16d ago
I heard of a study [1] claiming that people that swear more have a larger vocabulary in general, so your efforts might be counter-intuitive to your goal. Don't see how deprivation of some words leads to the knowledge of other words, ei
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by OroPla 16d ago
Take Wolfenstein 3D (1992) as an example. Genre defining game, no question. Spear of Destiny (also 1992) is not only more of the same game, but an entire new game worth of new content. Great, but it's not part of any conversation. Then
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by OroPla 16d ago
Success is measured in profit for companies and it seems that the numbers of what games like Death Stranding cost compared to what they earned back are not available, so it likely isn't looking rosy. I'm seeing claims of a cost in
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by OroPla 16d ago
Try before you buy is what piracy is for. I would prefer if there was another venue to try before paying, but the industry hasn't figured this out in the past hundred years, so piracy it is. Streaming could be an acceptable compromise
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by OroPla 16d ago
Who pays when a natural occurring rock slide totals your car? There are already situations where no one can be held liable.
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by OroPla 16d ago
I never quite understood the obsession with keeping some language away from children that everyone uses themselves. The words are there because they are needed. Walking the euphemism treadmill is a Sisyphus effort.
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by OroPla 16d ago
It's called a profit deal [1]. People don't pay to get the crap, they pay to have a fun experience and get a memento of it. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE6Y3_EEXys&t=39s
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by OroPla 16d ago
I am still happy with my decision to never get entertainment subscription services. I buy CDs (that I rip) and BDs (that I let someone else rip, since that's a science in itself). This guarantees me access forever and I get to sell dow
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by OroPla 17d ago
That's because the 1950s were seventy years ago, not fifty, which only brings you back to the 1970s.

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