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Do we have the technology to make windows that can smash from the inside but not the outside?
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Really low effort. Unless, I guess, the point is to showcase how some of the answers ChatGPT comes up with are very confident and very incorrect.
Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in t…
It's so true: * I can't even install Netflix on my Iphone 7+ anymore (the phone practically brand new, it is less than 6 six years old!) * Screens in cars replacing usable buttons, are a disaster. give me buttons and knobs. * the TV takes 15 seconds to start up??? and takes 10+ seconds to select a youtube video to watch. back when I was a kid, tvs turned on right away and you could change the channel in less than a s…
1. You can watch your favorite movie sitting on a bus stop
2. sure but i can listen to any song i like those that aren't on my playlist thanks to 4g instead of hearing annoying radio ads. i can frickin see the tyre pressure of each individual tyre fwiw.
3. yes but again i can watch anything i like as compared to having a tivo or even before that when you missed your favorite show at 9pm, you missed it forever.
Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in t…
Also some games had nice enough multiplayer modes that we spent all night on these with my cousin (bubble bobble, rc pro am).
I wouldn't compare the 8bit era with the post ps3 era
Man vehicles are a big one. All of the infotainment crap, the 200 control computers, electronic wastegate turbos, etc. etc. are going to age so poorly. There is a reason why cars with mininal BS are fetching such a premium on the used market.
So just how does one escape from a car through the window if the electrical mechanism is broken?
1. https://rac.com.au/car-motoring/info/unexpected-car-emergenc...
It might be hardware too… or the software/firmware side: Recently I’ve had every DX12 game crash at start-up, time to RMA my expensive graphics card. I buy an Intel Arc A750 as a cheap stop-gap as my CPU has no iGPU. I completely wipe windows and start from scratch—I can now play DX12 games! Oh, no, they hang after about 1 hour of play time and brick the system. Hard reboot required. Also, if my PC sleeps/hibernates…
Would you trade 3-year-old graphics for 25-year-old stability? If so, my friend, console gaming is where it's at!
> Playing together now a means an hour of downloading content from an online service before the game even starts — and this particular game is an entirely offline one! Did nobody else spent the first 8 hours of 00s LAN parties trying to get the equipment set up, the networking to cooperate, the games shared? Then finally after a reformat of windows xp or two around 2am finally getting to the gaming? That was my only…
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For their occupants, maybe! It's getting harder and harder to see over the front hood. My wife, standing straight, is invisible to a new F150.
An F150 is only a car to USAmericans, to the rest of the world, it's a truck.
He had me until he started shitting on MS Office. I would disagree, I think O365 kind of crushes it value-wise. And yeah, they added the ribbon in 2007 . The UI hardly changes year to year, and if you know Excel 2013 you will pick up Excel O365 pretty quickly, and you will actually be pretty psyched about some of the new features.
Subscriptions for MS Office is nothing but a money grab. It is not useful to me. Maybe it’s useful for enterprises. But I use word and excel a couple times per YEAR. I don’t fit the subscription model, but there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years. So I’ve mostly moved to Libreoffice and Google Docs.
Uh, yes, there is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
A key point of what is now old tech is/was multiple paths of operations. On the other hand we have what I'd call appification, where there is just a single path and anything else has to be weeded out, for the sake of simplicity and the benefit of the user. As it happens, as of today, Twitter (which provided quite a remarkable number of paths of operation), succumbed to appification and removed the option to retrieve…