Yep. Its definitely a nice to have, not a need to have.

This is the thing I notice the most whenever I check back into reddit. So much bot & ai bullshit.

I also agree with u/Xylight@lemdro.id that several of the subs I subscribed to have no equivalent here yet.

lol. Yeah, I was describing that aussie term of endearment with a phrase that rhymes with attention chore

She’s an attention removed seeking relevance. She will never willingly help Democrats. That’s as obvious as the sun rising tomorrow.

e: interesting censorship. lol

There’s also a fuckload of people seeking misdiagnoses for financial gain. You see it in mundane ways like people faking depression or PTSD to get an emotional support animal to get around their apartment’s no pets policy. You also see nearly universal advice to soldiers separating from the military to claim some mental issue to get a partial disability rating.

Not saying that there aren’t genuine occurrences of mental illness, but the amount of fraud is pretty massive.

that’s how the codec game works.

That, and add some patent pools filled with dubious claims of essentiality, sales deals made under the threat of litigation, and ever-present claims of “twice as efficient it’s predecessor” with a big asterisk. Fun times.

Big companies are not inherently more tech savvy. Thats a misconception.

And before GTA VI.

Love it. Lol.

Private jet aircraft. They are very expensive to buy (say from US$ 5 to 70 million), but also shockingly expensive to operate. It’s hard to put an exact number to operation costs since it’s a mix of fixed and variable costs, but a fancy jet like a G650 is likely gonna be a few million a year in op costs (fuel, maintenance, management, crew salaries. training, hangar fees, facility fees, and so on. Also, few people actually buy aircraft directly. Rather they pay a management company to set up an ownership entity that owns and manages the aircraft for you.

It’s tempting to think of a jet as a vehicle, but really it’s more like paying people to do all the work and waiting for you so that the time you spend waiting is as minimal as possible. When most people fly, you buy a ticket, you book a ride to the airport, you go through security, customs, immigration, ticketing, baggage handling, and so on. Then you wait to board, wait for everyone else to board, wait for other planes to take off, maybe fly to a hub location enroute to your destination, and so on. If you’re in a plane like a G650, you pay other people to do all of this for you so that you can show up to a plane that’s fueled and ready to go, with the cabin AC at the temp you like, and your cocktail already poured sitting at the table by your seat. You get in, they start the roll.

It’s lavish, opulent, and wasteful in the extreme, but still a damn nice way to travel.

Software wise, ProTools is what nearly everyone in the industry uses. Its been around forever. It enjoys a massive monopoly share of the market. But I don’t think it works on Linux. Mac n PC only.

For a cheaper Linux friendly option, consider Fairlight (the audio component of Black magic Resolve).

The name “Fairlight” has also been around forever, but was defunct for a while, and a handful of years ago the fine folks at Blackmagic Design bought the brand and IP integrated into their Resolve software. While Resolve has a free tier that includes Fairlight, some might require the Studio version which is a one time fee of ~US$300 and includes all future updates. I’ve heard some Pros speak highly of the new Fairlight. Can’t vouch for it myself but the mantra of the Blackmagic CEO is “we build the tools we wanted when we were working creatives.”

is that what they told him cured the strokes. Lol.

I was gonna say the same thing. Never had a death threat sent to me, but I have had guns pointed at me a couple of times, so I guess that is a death threat of sorts. Been threatened with violence a few times, and even an attempted carjacking once. Not a damn one of them was conscientious enough to put it in writing though.

The rule of law in the USA doesn’t mean much any more.

Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we’ve reached a point of fascism we can’t turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.

It’d be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.

lol @ the thunbnail… GMO corn is getting crazy.

It’s probably just brazen, illegal manipulation of Kenvue stock price. They say things for effect, not because they believe any of their own nonsense.

It’s just Dodger’s fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

And Microsoft. Ain’t nobody buying SharePoint because it’s good.

Probably not. Disney has previously announced that they’re gonna stop reporting subscriber numbers in 10Ks and annual reports.

yeah, after reading your comment, I realize I meant something slightly different than I wrote. So to clarify… a lot of people are on-board with the “policies” he’s pursuing since the policy is always some variation of “crime with impunity” for people on his side. There are hordes of people who want to get in on that. Nevertheless, they don’t like him, don’t trust him, don’t believe anything he says; and they wouldn’t hesitate to stick a knife in his back if a better option emerged.