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Outcomes are rarely determined by your own thoughts about the situation.

It’s like being anxious about driving because you’re worried someone is going to hit you. As long as you’re being safe and careful, being an anxious mess isn’t going to make you any safer and it can even make things worse.

Of course I’m not trying to say “just stop being anxious!” but you have to understand that only ever thinking about the worst case scenario will hinder far more progress than it will help.

a digital to digital copy will be a 1 to 1 replication of the data, there’s no expectation of loss

You are mostly right, except this line. And I think I understand your meaning but I think it’s a little misleading.

A digital to digital copy can be a 1:1 replication. But just saying “digital to digital” doesn’t mean the copy process is lossless, there are a ton of lossy transfer methods. I don’t believe they are used when burning CDs (honestly not sure, but I googled it real quick) but just because it’s digital doesn’t mean it can’t have losses

Oh man I forgot about LightScribe! I remember being like 10 and working my butt off for a summer to be able to afford one. Good times

Nobody blames the patient for getting lung cancer, they blame the patient for smoking for years knowing the risks.

Same thing with obesity related heart issues. You aren’t being blamed for the heart issues, you are being blamed for eating yourself into obesity.

This. 200 calories is not very much food. That’s like 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, a little over 1 banana, a little less than 3 eggs, about 30 individual almonds, or little over half an avocado.

A single Hershey’s chocolate bar, mountain dew, or the smallest size of my favorite star bucks drinks are all over 200 calories too.

What countries medical system encourages risky surgeries? As far as I’m aware “reducing risk” is most of the game in medicine

Different issues have different causes.

You’re confusing a personal and moral decision with an economic one.

A company, the legal entity, is not a person (despite what some people say) and it can’t make any moral decisions. For a company the decision between “collaborate” and “stop existing” isn’t murky nor is it a hard one. Corporations exist to continue operating and to continue making money. They are machines built to do that one thing.

Now the people who run the company, are different. They are humans and they are capable of making moral decisions.

BMW is also an interesting example because they didn’t really make cars before hand. They made one model which was more or less of a failure until they were nationalized by the Nazi party to make aircraft engines and other vehicles. So the people who owned it did decide to jump ship when the company was taken over.

Some folks have never been to a proper crawfish boil either and it shows

I don’t really know. Nobody seems to really be in jail, and their agenda keeps happening so enlighten me please.

they are serving up major Ls for trump.

Are they tho? Cause to me it seems like trump is floundering and the DNC has spent the last 9 years doing fuck all about it

The former is also kinda cheating because Doom was actually running on an external controller just using the display on the pregnancy test to display the game.

Its honestly blown my mind that it’s taken this long to get something that’s even somewhat competitive with the Tesla’s.

Like a Model 3 is $35k, has a near perfect safety score, can go like ~360 miles on a charge, and is a 4 door sedan.

Let’s look at some competitors why don’t we?

• BMW i3 has a 4 star rating, gets like ~300 miles range, and costs $60k
• Honda Prologue does have a 5 star rating, but it only gets ~300 miles range, and is a SUV, it also starts at $50k
• BYD HAN (the only one i could see on their website in the states) only gets “300+ miles” on a charge, but it supposedly only costs around $30k. I also couldn’t find any safety information that didn’t come from the Chinese government so I wont comment on that.

Obviously Musk is a bad guy and you shouldn’t give him money and all that. But it seems like the legacy manufacturers are like 3-4 years behind, and that’s the smallest the gap has ever been.

Aren’t you worried about losing them? I keep my photos backed up to a local storage server and Google drive because I’m terrified about that. I lost my iPhone 5 back when it was new and that maybe is why I’m so nervous about it.

Huh I guess that makes sense. Idk I guess I solved it other ways.

I back up all of my photos to a server I have at home so I don’t think I’ve moved a file off my phone in like a decade. And the closest I get is sending a single photo but I’ll just email/text it to myself in that case.

I also store all my music locally, but Im not even close to using all of my storage? I just checked, i have 6340 songs, and ~1000 photos/videos. And that takes up a total of like 26gb. So I’m not ever really limited by storage.

Nobody owns their smartphone. Just like nobody owns anything else anymore. But personally, my “cloud provider” is a server box in my basement which I do own.

I just don’t see the benefit of using an SD card. But I’ve seen too many of them fail while I was a photographer so maybe I’m just burnt out.

I guess, but who actually stores photos on their phone anymore? Everyone I know/talk to just back it up to some cloud provider.

I think it may have been a joke ;)

The “driver” is a part of a speaker that actually makes the physical motion that makes the sound. So all speakers do have drivers haha

Genuine question. What do you use the SD card slot for? I havent needed one in like 15+ years at least. But I don’t do a lot on my phone.

I’m an avid fanboy of Bluetooth on mobile. Its not “better in every way” but when I’m out and about, it is.

• I don’t have the lag issue because I only listen to music with it. But this is an issue, and while it’s better it’s still not consistent enough.
• A/V resync maybe this is just luck but I have had resync issues with Bluetooth in like half a decade? Outside of my phone just sometimes not connecting to them or something.
• High pitched hiss - actually not sure what you mean by this because anything better than $1 ear buds won’t have the hiss, and $1 wired ear buds are going to hiss after 1 month when the cable deteriorates
• Wired headphones also degrade over time. Especially when you’re out on the go and they get snagged, tangled in pockets, etc. I got my current earbuds for Christmas in 2019 and they are still going strong.
• Interference - again I’m curious to see what earbuds you’ve used in the last ~5 years. This really isn’t a problem any more unless you’re 10+ meters from your phone or leave it next to the microwave anymore.

Anyways, i don’t expect this to change your mind. It just seems like these “critiques” of Bluetooth earbuds have literally never changed even though the tech has gotten orders of magnitude better in the last decade or so.