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I would just like to say that I really appreciate everyone's contributions so far; even the little off-topic discussions.

But you are completely misjudging the situation. When I spoke of "first assumption", said they "know their way around Windows" and stated they found ways around prior parental locks, I was actually referring to the fact that "my kid" hasn't even been born yet. We've just slipped two iPads in, one with a YouTube-Kids Elsa Gate loop and the other constantly doom scrolling TikTok and Twitter.

I'm definitely not talking about someone who is a several years older than I was, when I got my first internet connected PC.

Sarcasm aside; they are more than old enough, according to their actual parents. They had a phone for quite some time; same for a Windows notebook. I just happen to have a better notebook laying around, but feel like Windows is sort of shit, and I need a little help with judging if Linux is the right call.

Just want to add to the difference in experience:

I leaned Linux, because I wanted to learn Linux and as such I was fine with stumbling a bit from time to time. They want a working computer that does Roblox and homework and don't care much about the rest.

I daily drive Silverblue (and the terminal is not useless >:c), and in a vacuum I would probably install Silverblue or another atomic desktop. But I worry about Windows compatibility.

Imagine the feeling when "you just click the .exe and everything installs itself" works for everyone but you. It doesn't matter that downloading executables from random websites is way worse than a proper package manager in pretty much every way.

It's still alienating. Going along with everyones technical dept may still be a nicer experience, because at least it doesn't require the effort of doing something different.

That's what I'm worried about.

I'm not sure if I want to argue about if a non-flat headphone should have flat headphone characteristics. Simply put, these are not mixing headphones. And a flat curve is not even some sort of golden rule for headphones. I linked to Wikipedia's basic overview of HRTF, and there are pages upon pages of research on different curves from diffuse field to harman and back.

And yes, nylon is great. A nylon jacket on a non-decoupled cable for headphones is not. There are even silicone cables now for this very reason.

But this entire argument misses the point of this post. This headset takes well to EQing. If you somehow still want a flat response, then EQ them to be flat. Or buy another set, if that's not for you, I'm not your mom.

Edit: I just want to add, that a flat response for headphones, will not equate to a flat response from speakers in any room. This has been demonstrated by Fletcher & Munson, Harman Research and a bunch of others alike. There are very few reasons anyone would want a flat response on headphones, because our ears just don't work like that.

Is the image edited? 75% sRGB coverage on an IPS panel? That's terrible. I've never seen IPS panels that cover so little sRGB colorspace. Almost all of them will easily achieve the same amount of Adobe RGB per default.

75% is horrendous. You'll definitely notice that.

Damn, woke plants. lol

Just like with solid fertilizer.

I sprinkled a bit on top and worked it in, like a few centimetres.

Depending on your setup, budget and location, Nubert makes some nice speakers. I'm pretty happy with my A-125 and a XW-900.

They also make a soundbar (AS-225) that uses the same drivers but reaches low enough to eliminate the need for a subwoofer.

I understand LLMs well enough that I really don't want to use them because they are inherently incapable of judging the validity of information they are passing along.

Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's right. But they don't tell you when they're wrong, and to find out if they were wrong, you now have to do the research you were trying to avoid in the first place.

I tried programming with it once, because a friend insisted it was good. But it wasn't, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.

Our shareholders have decided that our proprietary software now requires a subscription to work and that an ad will be displayed every 60 seconds on the fan aswell as in the app.

Thank you for supportig our goal of increasing profits.

Sure, it may sound bad when children become homeless. But have you ever thought about how much money it saves? Just think of all the good things we can afford with all that money!

Like anti-homeless park benches. Or those little speakers that emit ultra-high-pitched sounds so that young people don't … enjoy … existing somewhere or something, idk.

And just because I'm unable to actually satirize reality at the moment, yes, /s

Protoarc. I think it's the same guys who produce the "gameball" trackball. With cheaper sensors and switches, I'd guess.

Trackballs and vertical trackballs.

Not only are they better for my wrists and allow extremely fast movements in-game, but also this:

Keep in mind that more surface area usually means more bacteria. Afaik there's is nothing wrong with the usual changable filters (although there are a few horrid ones).

But many private households tend to underestimate how dirty these things get, even after a short time.

Since water supplied by the municipality is usually fine and most bad stuff happens as a last-mile problem, I shower in the morning (which I have to do anyway, but it also flushes most pipes) and then wash out a large stainless steel beaker before filling it up and drinking from it for most of the day.

Have you considered that we could reduce the number of lanes available and fuck some of our customers?

• some GPU sales guy, probably

I've only used an LLM (you can guess which one) once to write code. Mostly because I didn't feel like writing down some numbers and making a little drawing for myself to solve the problem.

And because a friend insisted that it writes code just fine.

But it didn't. It confidently didn't. Instead, it made up something weird and kept telling me that it had now “fixed” the problem, when in reality it was trying random fixes that were related to the error message but had nothing to do with the actual core problem. It just guessed and prayed.

In the end, I solved the problem in 10 minutes with a small scribble and a pen. And most of the time was spend drawing small boxes, because my solution relied on a coordinate system, I needed to visualize.

Isn't it mostly 9*10+2? 9 * ty (implying 10) + 2.

Even german does that, although weirdly the way you can't just write down long numbers reasily one by one: Zwei (2) und ((and) neun- (9) -zig (*10)).