You can get a hunting licence and buy a gun/rifle/shotgun. It takes a test, and i think you cant have violent crimes. You also need a gun "safe" (basically a shitty locker like in US highschool movies), and the cops can come whenever they want to inspect it (usually regular, i forget if once per yearor 6 months or something).
That said theres still guns from the war. One grampa died and the cops found a bunch of rifles and granades in the attic, and a minefield infront of his house. Everybody knew about it, but knew he was a harmless nut.
Yea it's better for media to have a high "dynamic range" (as in the comic). But for most consumers it's bad. My solution is to use a "compressor", a audio filter that practically averages loudness.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/compressor-tool-in-vlc
Funny enough shitty laptop speakers are better for watching these kinds of movies.
I was playing bloons td back when it was flash, in firefox. It was sometimes too slow. So i fired up perf and found out what horrors flash player was doing with memcpy. One byte memcpy, completely unaligned memcpy.
So i wrote an ssse3 memcpy that could do one byte unaligned with xmm registers. It was 30% faster then whatever glibc was doing and made the game playable. Was planing to submit it to glibc, but they came up with something different that was just as fast.
Ubuntu got to be most popular because they focused on making it easy to setup and use by non-technical people. Even now they, for example, patch gnome to make it usable.
It's better for them to ne on the grid instead of each having their own panel and battery. It's more efficient material-vise, and they would still need to be connected to the grid.
More like tolerated. I don't remember which episode, sry.