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Haha, some people just have a stick up their ass.

Lots of sophist bullshit like this gets tossed around these days, so people can rationaloze being an ass.

Give US Mobile a try.

Alternatively jmp.chat

JMP.chat is based entirely on your data connection, always. So if you have wifi or cell data, you can make calls.

I recently re-played a 2005 game because the game play is so much fun. The graphics were merely ok even for the time and yet better gameplay than many games today.

What?

AI text can be very hard or nearly impossible to detect from human generated, at times, depending in the model used.

It’s rather surprising.

Define consciousness.

Lol, because movies are reality.

To do what?

A non-visible guard isn’t a deterrent.

And they already have the cameras recording to NVRs 24/7 in a remote location.

They do - you just don’t see it because it’s remote.

The security model for bank branches is to keep limited funds available, and to let robbers get away with what little cash is in a branch. Insurance will cover their losses.

They have very high-def cameras with the latest identity-capability features. These cameras record all motion to commercial security system NVRs in the bank’s own data center.

They have a dedicated security team monitoring all this 24/7 at a remote location (relative to the branches).

This is standard practice for fire/safety/surveillance/access control in large/distributed facilities with high risk or large employee bases.

It even has it’s own insurance and regulatory systems.

I use clocks all the time - it’s way faster to look at a clock than pull my phone out.

Its even faster to simply look at a wall clock than the clock on my phone when I’m using the phone, since the fint is so small and digital.

Analog clocks are just faster to read, for me - I don’t have to think about “what do these numbers mean”.

Analog clocks are just a better analog for the passing of time.

I mean if I were a mod I’d drop the hammer for the juvenile “Windoz”.

The other stuff? Meh, whatever.

Incorrect, but I’m giving you the upvote for the lyrical answer

It’s relatively easy for modern consumer desktop hardware to crack old encryption in reasonable timeframes.

Time - that’s the limiter. How long you’re willing to wait for a solution.

If quantum computing can apply orders of magnitude greater performance than current systems, the same increase in cracking applies.

Not all encryption is equally complex - it’s all about how long it takes. The end.

Nope.

My monkeys and circus are mine. Let the others figure out their own unless they’re someone I trust and they ask.

Are you me?

This is the exact argument I make about updating.

Without knowing, you’re just trading known risks for unknown risks.

Known risks can be managed.

My opinion of the constant update cycle today: it rationalizes management’s liability offloading while also justifying staffing requirements and therefore budget.

Liability and risk are related, but very different things.

Uggh, yea, you’re in a tough spot. I wouldn’t try running that stuff under Wine - it would be really painful and probably end up as bad an experience as just using Windows.

Stick with Windows 10. Debloat as you can, but it’s not likely to make much difference.

Idiots

So, what I’ve been doing for 15 years to my own desktop/laptop using tools like Syncthing, ResilioSync, FolderSync, etc.

Get bent Google.

First, how big is your TV, and how close do you sit?

I have a 65 and sit about 6’ away. I’ve found there’s a LOT of variability in visual quality even in the same category of source (eg DVD). BluRay can be better, but only of the source is better and mastering is done better.

There’s a lot of dependence on the original source, and then on mastering. Most of my videos are h264 (for compatibility), some look fantastic on the TV, some look like crap - and the difference is in the original source or the mastering process (I’ve converted a lot of discs myself, so have seen the difference). Conversion brings it’s own issues, but that’s secondary and more about my preferences.

Old masters weren’t intended for today’s large TVs or LED/LCD tech, so bring along or induce artifacts (blockiness especially in dark areas, videotape originals, or mastered for smaller CRTs, etc).