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It looks like something you put VHS tapes in to rewind them.

My first thought upon seeing the Haptic Music feature is to wonder how long until they make compatible headphones and I can relive my high school years, walking around listening to nu-metal and hip-hop with a Panasonic Shockwave walkman.

>People often forget the the first season of many shows (comedies particularly) are particularly ropey while the writers and actors find their groove.

Parent mentioned Picard, well the first season of ST:TNG is a prime example of this. Some of the worst episodes in all of Star Trek are in that season.

Crave recently did the same thing in Canada, got rid of their $9.99 “mobile” plan, and now the $24.99 subscription is the only choice available for new subscribers. Sucks because all I want to watch is new Star Trek series, which means paying $28/month after tax to watch about 3.5 hours of content.

> We are excited to begin rolling out a new plan at $6.99/month from November 3 in the US.

You have to click through the link to see that "in the US" actually means

> Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the US.

Nope, unfortunately an EV is not in my budget. It's an Elantra with an ICE.

I don't understand how that can be true. I put a deposit on a new Hyundai last month and Hyundai Canada is telling me it won't even be built until February 2023, specifically citing chip shortages.

I worked in an academic library where the scale was on the order of hundreds of users per day, but many of those users were faculty/researchers spread out across the globe who got very grumpy when whatever online archive/exhibit was not available.

I migrated our services from a very “pet” oriented architecture to a 4-node Proxmox cluster with Docker Swarm deploying containers across four VMs and it worked great. Services we brought up on this infra still to this date have 100% uptime, through updates and server reboots and other events that formerly would have taken sites offline temporarily.

I looked at k8s briefly and it seemed like total overkill. I probably would have spent weeks or months learning k8s for no appreciable advantage over swarm.

I live in Leafs region and last I checked I think you have to be subscribed to three different premium cable channels to watch all 82 Leafs games.

Similarly frustrating is trying to follow tennis in Canada. There is no comprehensive tennis streaming option, the ATP and WTA use separate apps that each have a $20/month subscription, and do not have rights to show any major tournaments. So for four months out of the year, you’re actually paying $20 for two weeks of tennis coverage, and you also need to pay for TSN streaming if you want to watch the biggest tournaments. All this adds up to $60+tax/month to follow _one_ sport!

Anecdata here, but I owned an HP Spectre 360 laptop a few years ago and I would never buy another HP laptop again. It cost almost as much as a Macbook, and within ~2 years of gentle use, mostly around the house, it blew a speaker, the webcam developed a purple tint, the rubber strips on the base peeled off, and when I tried to open the case to check for a second M.2 slot, one of the Torx screws stripped and remains stuck.

Downtown Hamilton, or downtown Toronto?

I don’t know much about the technical aspects of microphones, but over the last 10 years or so I’ve listened to a lot of ASMR on YouTube, and I would say the Yeti is a pretty decent microphone. My advice for ASMRtists would be: don’t buy a 3dio. They sound hollow, tinny, and harsh. One of my favorite ASMRtists just “upgraded” to a 3dio from a Yeti and it sounds so much worse. The rich, deep, bassy low components of her voice that made her so unique are gone. IMHO the best sounding mics for ASMR are Rode shotgun models, I think they’re called NT4 or NT5 or something like that; sound amazing.

I have the exact opposite problem. I own at least a dozen game consoles and a gaming PC, and have a huge attach rate for all of them. Games look fun and interesting to me, I watch reviews and follow industry news and get hyped for new games etc, but I spend very little time actually playing them. I rarely spend more than 60 minutes playing a game before I get this weird mix of boredom and anxiety, like the contrivance of the game becomes highly apparent and I feel like I should be doing something else. Despite owning literally hundreds of games, I can count the number of games I've beat/completed on both my hands. I'm nearly 40, married with kids, but this behavior dates back to when I was a youth/teen and had loads of free time.

> as opposed to customers of those corporations voting with their wallets, e.g. by not listening to Rogan).

How is it “voting with your wallet” if you’re still giving them money every month?