Maybe, if the side-effects are close to nonexistent and I can afford it.

I have tipped if the service was good, but only with few coins. I have no trust that the tip given on card would go to the wait staff and not mystically dissappear on the way to the booking. When I worked in restaurants, I have only gotten the cash tips, or my share of them. The card tips have been shared with only the real in-house employees at the end of “season”, not with people doing trainings or working there only for month or two or occasionally filling in for someone being sick.

At least with Apple I know I don’t own shit, not the device or the data.

Well, but I’m used to WinRAR and never had any issues. Only need it once every few months. And it’s pretty fun when the software tries to tell me that it isn’t a free software. What a silly thing to say!

Shhh you’re a free software

Two minute hate would be pretty fun and relaxing group excercise!

I don’t want my country dependent on buying sperm from america lol.

… Oh my dear god, dude just get the nearest cup and go on already!

With my IRL friends? Most hate AI or dislike it, one uses it sanely and one is vibe-coding. I like having conversations with the two, because I am so damn deep in the AI-loathing pit I need to see other perspective too. My family doesn’t use it, nor have any opinions or knowledge about it.

At work? Boss is absolutely gone with the AI, using it to everything and telling us to use it to everything as well. If we don’t, the boss “helps us by asking for us” and then tell us the, clearly unsafe and wrong, answer. But it’s the boss, I am not going to be the one lecturing the boss. With other coworkers, we don’t discuss the topic much, except there seems to be surprising amount of “LETS ÄÄÄSK STÄTKEEPEETEE”-jokes when the boss isn’t around. So I think most of us is at least cautious or annoyed at AI, but try to avoid the confrontation. Which is fair, we have known the boss for years.

If I only count the people who treated me with respect, cared for my safety and stopped when caused pain, I’d say… one.

I don’t see EVs ever becoming good for everywhere. Here it usually gets as low as -20 to -45 degrees in Celcius during winter so you’d need a heated garage at your home and another at your workplace to have an EV work well, or hell, even start. With an older car, you can just take the battery indoors for the night and pop it back in the morning and be on your way. And having a heated garage (and the cost of building EV’s battery, building the car, shipping it) is already worse for the environment, so no, it will never work here.

Just developt the gas (gas as in gas, not benzin or diesel) and use them here, EV’s where it’s warmer all year around.

And no, fuck them Chinese spyware cars. And other spyware cars. Put the cameras up your ass.

I think fewer bands/artists are making even full length albums these days, thematic or not… At least in my country. The one big recording studio also owns the radio channels, tv channels and news sites, so they got the whole package. No point in wasting money doing an album… Singles here and there. It’s changed a lot, the whole culture.

Depends a bit on headphones too! Mine can be turned on while they’re also connected by the aux so the ANC and such can be on, or they can be used off with the aux which still does sound great, but obviously doesn’t actively cancel any noises.

Absolutely, there is an psychological factor in this too. I’m listening way more carefully and listening the whole album in one go which is good because I’m enjoying the same tunes a whole lot more. And I agree on both the dedicated players and theatres… My attention span will do it’s tricks unless I keep in a short leash.

With the MP3 player yes, there is aux. But on PC it’s the same Bluetooth earphones or soundbar. // Edited for grammar lol

I didn’t, but I am biased with how much I love my “own” collection.

Nope, neither. Actually listening much more quieter and the headset/soundbar is the same. :D

Thank you for your tips, I’ll look into these. :)

Great answer! Thank you. :)

I do know that some of the albums I like have been not even remastered, but remade when the band changed record studios, so the album has been quietly “swapped” from the crunchy original to the clean and safe new version, so yeah, I’m careful when hunting the CDs. So with some bands (/recording studios) that can be huge and tbh, gross, factor too. (I personally prefer the first few albums and ditch the bands once they learn to play with each other…)

Uh-huh, uh-huh, taking some notes…

I’m getting good tips for my next PC build here, thanks!