Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.

Practically yes, although they still market it as a multi-device OS.

It actually is, although Samsung only released Tizen phones from 2015 to 2017.

That’s just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that’s a core part of the Netflix experience you’re just not getting with Jellyfin.

Heck, it doesn’t even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It’s like Jellyfin isn’t even trying.

Mind you, stealing the internet worked because they effectively had the sum total of human knowledge as a training set. I don’t think that there’s nearly as much detailed data on the minutiae of running a business.

You don’t need a double-blind study to determine if acoustic emissions are the culprit. You just need to measure specifically for infrasound (and ultrasound, for that matter). It’s an unusual form of pollution but very much measurable if you know to look for it.

Unlike the things you mentioned, infrasound is understood to be a thing these days and is sometimes considered in construction. It’s not exactly witchcraft; most equipment (including decibel meters) just isn’t built to account for very low frequencies.

If the data center does put out noise at very low frequencies that’s probably some kind of unintended resonance that they’ll have to stop. It might be as simple as slightly changing the RPMs of some cooling fans or installing sound proofing in specific places.

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn’t commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it’s also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building’s ductwork.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a data center’s AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

Nothing beyond shipping laptops with NPUs, which isn’t unusual since that’s what Intel’s and AMD’s laptop CPUs come with these days.

Of course the real trick lies in figuring out which decade is your last one.

In theory:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “You exclusively play the multiplayer mode of AAA games so that’s already assumed. Here’s your list…”

In practice:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “I can’t help you with that but did you know you can subscribe to Microsoft® 365™ Copilot® for as little as $19.99, getting access to the industry standard in office productivity tools? Certainly xXx_360noscope_xXx will be impressed by your professional Outlook® presentations and seamless integration with Teams®.”

Player: “My penis isn’t that small and neither is his.”

xXx_360noscope_xXx: “Yeah, dude. That was uncalled for.”

I think the first Shantae was a bit more difficult than the later instalments; it might or might not feel frustrating.

I’d also recommend Super Metroid and Metroid Zero Mission. SM does little in the way of active hand-holding but I think it’s designed well enough to feel fair. MZM is an improved remake of the original Metroid and actually gives you pointers on where to go next.

Of course if those two work out there’s also Metroid Fusion but I’d play the other two first.

Though, to be fair, Framework laptops can’t charge from all of their ports. The 16 can charge from one port each per side; not sure about the 13 and 12.

Nope, still perfectly legal. Proprietary charging ports are allowed but have to be accompanied by a USB PD port that supports the same wattage (or 240 W if the device needs more than that).

So basically the law says “devices must support USB PD”, not “devices must only support USB PD”.

They can.

USB-C goes up to 240 W now and the law has been amended to acknowledge the new USB PD spec. Devices are also allowed to have proprietary charging ports but must include a USB-C port capable of showing the full power draw of the device (or 240 W of they need more than that).

So a big gaming laptop might have a USB PD-capable port that supports 240 W and a barrel jack that supports 350 W.

They do; the article points that out.

However, this doesn’t work in enterprise environments. Companies want to download updates once and then deliver then themselves when and to whom they want. And that means they need to download all of them.

These days they’re all bundled up in one huge package so companies have to devote a of storage for update files that mostly contain the same stuff as last month’s.

And on the diagram it only has “influenced by” lines going to it. There’s no contradiction here.

Yeah, that’s what I refer to with offloading. Depending on the model and runtime it might be a bit fiddly but it usually works fine.

The newer CPU generations come with cores optimized for this stuff (referred to as an NPU). It actually seems to work fairly well for the kind of model you’d run locally.

Barring that, a typical laptop dGPU will also work, although not super efficiently since they often don’t exceed 8 GB of VRAM and thus can’t run most models without partially offloading them to the CPU.

Of course a laptop with a dGPU and NPU cores will make the offloading less painful. So yeah, workable for most reasonably-sized models.

Some of the newer C# features are nice. Of course .Net is not handled by the same people who keep setting Windows on fire.

Yeah. 60% more responsive for something infamous for taking multiple seconds to launch is depressingly bad. That’s “not even trying” levels of improvement.

The start menu should open essentially instantly (excluding optional animations) – 100 ms is good, 200 ms is somewhat adequate. They’re aiming for somewhere between 400 and 1200 ms.

I hope for them that they underpromise and overdeliver because this does not inspire confidence.