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I didn’t make the initial comment and I would have thought it was pretty bloody obvious I was making a joke with my second sentence. I was trying to make the explanation less dry, but thanks for the hostility. Reminds me of fuckin’ Reddit.

Calling university “school” is not a universal practice in English.

Edit: last time I explain someone else’s comment…

In much of the world “school” does not refer to higher education. Unless you meant that you went back to your high school at 32.

Edit: looks at negative score Did I need some emojis or some shit to make it clear that I was taking the piss? Back to “school” with you lot.

Preach!

I have similar questions when YouTubers say the old “don’t forget to ring that bell” and the like. What on Earth would I need notifications for? It’s on-demand video! The whole point is that it waits for me!

They’re a tad bigger than that (100 GB per disc), and I’ve lost enough hard disks over the years to not want to have to deal with backing up files that big. Not when I can have a small collection of shelf stable discs that won’t suffer mechanical failure short of deliberate damage.

Anyway, you can disagree all you like. If it’s not inconvenient for you, excellent, but for me it is. Hard disks sit in the back of my mind as ticking time bombs that I need to keep an eye on if I want to trust them. Ugh, I’ve done enough of that in my life. So many dodgy disks!

Oh and that also assumes a load of infrastructure in my home that I don’t have. I know how to set it up, but I don’t want to. Been there, done that. I’d rather check the second hand UHD shelf at CEX and pick up the occasional disc when the price isn’t silly.

Of course, eventually my UHDs will decay, but the timescale is decades rather than years.

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology. The most basic speaker setup for it is 5.1.2: 5 = front left and right, centre, rear left and right 1 = subwoofer (bass box) 2 = ceiling speakers

So a soundbar - a single block sat in the centre below the screen - claiming to do immersive surround sound is up there with gold-plated fibreoptic leads.

I’m always tickled when I see soundbars that ostensibly support Dolby Atmos.

Speaking only for UHD blurays - to get similar quality requires large files. Storing a collection of giant files is a hassle.

I asked why: “we didn’t think about it”

I have Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz ringing in my ears: “IT’S YOUR JOB!”

Probably distracted by all the side fumbling.

I was in the signals corps as a cadet and every time I hear it… grrr…

Over and out!

It’s such a legendary bit of misinformation that it gets an explicit mention on the Wikipedia page!

Incidentally, the carbon-fibre pistol from The Dark Knight isn’t a real thing either 😉

Nope, that’s a line in Die Hard 2 that the armourer hated.

I’m somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I’ve seen for both Samsung and Apple’s new phones that mention “AI”. None of what I’ve seen has actually explained why it’s a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.

Ultimately I’m not the target market for flagship phones as the price has spiraled out of control to the point where I cannot fathom how it can be justified for such a mundane device.

Here’s what I found when I was trying to do this:
https://krita-artists.org/t/how-to-set-white-balance-according-to-a-specific-point/52297/

When I tried to use Krita a few months ago I couldn’t set the white point in the levels tool. I looked it up and the tool apparently doesn’t exist. That makes it awful for processing scanned artwork in my workflow.

Soooo, The GIMP.

You’d hate my IDE at work. It’s bright pink.

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.