That word salad gave me Time Cube flashbacks.

Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.

Not necessarily. hCaptcha is not very reliable in my experience. Sometimes it wants you to select multiple pictures but only shows one that matches the prompt. Or or gives you multiple matching images but still says you’re wrong. Sometimes it tells you you passed but then doesn’t bother setting the token correctly so you have to do it again. Of course all of these can combine until you solve variations of the same damn captcha thirty times in a row.

hCaptcha is such a horrible buggy mess that my base assumption is that I’ll get trapped in an infinite loop anytime I see it.

Actually, yeah. Apparently the kind of lockout the replacement firmware works around has been defined for BD from the beginning but has only really been enforced for UHD BD.

Practically yes, although they still market it as a multi-device OS.

Most newer drives won’t give you the kind of direct access you need for an accurate copy. Some disc areas necessary for dealing with copy protection are inaccessible except by specially blessed playback software.

Some older drives ignore this restriction but newer ones, especially all 4K-capable drives, don’t.

There’s an alternative firmware called LibreDrive that enables a low-level access mode where an application has direct control over the laser assembly. That plus ripping software aware of this mode (MakeMKV) will get the data off the disc. Add known decryption keys and you can get at the raw video files.

You do need magic firmware for BluRays.

It actually is, although Samsung only released Tizen phones from 2015 to 2017.

A Backstroke of the West screenshot is definitely an inspired choice for the “keep above others” feature.

That’s just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that’s a core part of the Netflix experience you’re just not getting with Jellyfin.

Heck, it doesn’t even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It’s like Jellyfin isn’t even trying.

Mind you, stealing the internet worked because they effectively had the sum total of human knowledge as a training set. I don’t think that there’s nearly as much detailed data on the minutiae of running a business.

You don’t need a double-blind study to determine if acoustic emissions are the culprit. You just need to measure specifically for infrasound (and ultrasound, for that matter). It’s an unusual form of pollution but very much measurable if you know to look for it.

Unlike the things you mentioned, infrasound is understood to be a thing these days and is sometimes considered in construction. It’s not exactly witchcraft; most equipment (including decibel meters) just isn’t built to account for very low frequencies.

If the data center does put out noise at very low frequencies that’s probably some kind of unintended resonance that they’ll have to stop. It might be as simple as slightly changing the RPMs of some cooling fans or installing sound proofing in specific places.

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn’t commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it’s also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building’s ductwork.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a data center’s AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

Nothing beyond shipping laptops with NPUs, which isn’t unusual since that’s what Intel’s and AMD’s laptop CPUs come with these days.

As does Arch AFAIK. It’s still very niche, though.

You see, that’s just inaccurate. GNU/Linux is not equivalent to GNU+Linux. That would be addition; this is division. The bigger Linux gets, the smaller GNU/Linux becomes.

That’s why they’ve developed GNU/Hurd. Hurd is unlikely to ever amount to much, meaning that GNU/Hurd will never evaluate to a small value. And that is cold, hard mathematical fact.

The staff ate it later.

Of course the real trick lies in figuring out which decade is your last one.

In theory:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “You exclusively play the multiplayer mode of AAA games so that’s already assumed. Here’s your list…”

In practice:

Player: “Copilot, give me a list of all orifices I can fuck xXx_360noscope_xXx’s mom in. Assume I have an extremely small penis.”

Copilot: “I can’t help you with that but did you know you can subscribe to Microsoft® 365™ Copilot® for as little as $19.99, getting access to the industry standard in office productivity tools? Certainly xXx_360noscope_xXx will be impressed by your professional Outlook® presentations and seamless integration with Teams®.”

Player: “My penis isn’t that small and neither is his.”

xXx_360noscope_xXx: “Yeah, dude. That was uncalled for.”

Though, to be fair, Framework laptops can’t charge from all of their ports. The 16 can charge from one port each per side; not sure about the 13 and 12.