There’s nothing wrong with UDP. At least not that I know of.

They soiled themselves.

I pirate what I can’t get by reasonable means within my boundaries.

I pay for three streaming providers constantly. If the one series I want to watch is on a fourth provider, they can fuck off and I’ll just download it. Same if the offering gets moved out of a provider I use (because their license expired or whatever).

Games I typically don’t pirate, since Steam is just too damn convenient. Epic Exclusives though… well, if possible I just avoid them.

Most books can be bought via Kindle store so that’s also convenient and I just do that.

Music is basically close to equal on all streaming providers so I am mostly good with that. If something isn’t I either buy them on beatport or just rip them off youtube (so pirate).

I basically live GabeN’s theory: piracy is a service problem. Give to me without having to bend over and I gladly pay. Try to fuck with me and I shrug my shoulders and go elsewhere.

Also updates were typically incremental to save bandwith. So not only do you need “the update”, you may need a cascade of updates you need to download and install, in order.

Maybe they got pranked by someone who suggested the idea.

Is it much different from other savory food that comes with a sweet side dish? Just as cranberry fits to venison, the taste of pineapple fits the ham those pizze typically are covered with.

But if you consider that both are drunk, it gets even more complicated. Sure, you can’t rely on the consent of a drunk person. But if you are also drunk, you can’t even rely on your own judgement of the situation… and you likely are not aware of that.

For the most part I am a fan!

Can you blow some fresh air over, please?

Margos Dezerian has entered the chat.

Don’t forget Goliat and Bosch.

I also use VueScan on Windows. It’s generally a good scan software (with OCR, artifact removal, etc). The price is fair; license is multi platform and not time bound either. I bought it 10 years ago and still get updates.

I swear by VueScan. You can check the support status for your scanner on their site.

For picture options and to switch between inputs.

Same here. I use my TV as a glorified monitor with a ton of HDMI ports. All smart features are basically non-existant to me. I disable all picture “quality improvement” shit (that typically introduces latency). Everything else is then handled by the attached smart devices that I can exchange or upgrade however I want.

When I look for a new TV, I actually still prefer going to the store, because the one most important aspect for me is input latency. I absolutely hate hitting a button on the remote and then having a delay of a second or so until it actually reacts to it. So this is something I need to try in person: if I hit a button, how fast do I get feedback? If it’s not instant, the TV is out of the question.

Flutter is quite nice too. Closer to web dev, but still pretty close to native.

Non-native speaker; sorry. I meant furnace, not oven.

The only downside (in comparison to fuel burners) is complexity. Heat pump systems are extremely complex with a lot of parts that could get fucked up over time.

A gas furnace is as simple as it gets with almost no moving parts. Coal/wood furnaces are a bit more complicated if you don’t want to blow 100% of the emissions into the air… you need good well maintained filter systems. But it’s still far less complex than a heat pump.

So I understand the appeal of furnaces. Simpler systems are easier to understand, are harder to break and easier to repair/maintain.

I think that problem is tackled too rarely in these articles. If you can’t take away the fear that people will have a higher upfront invest and higher maintenance costs and higher failure risk, that makes it too convenient to cling to what they know and understand.

Edit: oven --> furnace

[X] Shaaauuuuuun!

Or is it maybe that we simply rotate far too much stuff through the working memory? Where a “normal” person puts in two/three things and keeps a fourth on the stack, we switch our focus so often to different things, that we have to put a lot more in and out of our working memory, thereby also pushing out everything we meant to think of “later”.

I don’t think that’s the working memory. At least in my diagnosis I have extremely well functioning working memory and I excel at a lot of tasks that require to juggle with a lot of information.

However I still struggle with remembering that I need to do something after the current task if I don’t put some reminder in place.

So I think it’s some other part of the memory that’s … erm … weird.