Exactly. Some of my favorite movies are not at all masterpieces but you can tell the whole cast and crew are enjoying their time on set. I’m hoping this is that.

This could actually work if they go the way of the Need for Speed movie and try not to directly tie it to any one game’s storyline. Absolute banger of a game universe with plenty of potential for fun.

I can speak to this. I did phone support for 6 years working with VoIP (internet phones). In my experience, it’s much less their ability to learn and much more their willingness. So many people I worked with never wanted to go off their beaten track of what they already knew how to do.

They would do it often because it was a management decision and they were stuck with calling support. Even just training a group of 4-5 people how to transfer a call could take 15-30 minutes of explaining all the details. They don’t want new phones. They just want to get back to the work they know.

There are certainly exceptions and occasionally they will even find it fun to learn something new or get new features, but this was definitely not the rule.

I’ve always considered the perfect technology to be one you never realize you’re using. Linux, as broad and powerful as it’s utility can be, is anything but seamless to someone who doesn’t already have years of experience with it.

Because [buzzword here]!

Nope. They were just trolling and fucking around. It was obvious sarcasm:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/comment/c8t7bbp/

I don’t know what it was, but after a while of using regularly, it got to a point where every time I smoked, I would get panicky and my stomach would be on the verge of throwing up.

It was overall a very unpleasant experience. I’ve since cut way back and only smoke on weekends and just a couple small joints at that.

I found when I had a vape pen or flower, I would take in huge amounts and it would send me to the stratosphere every time. Now I can actually stay coherent enough to remember and enjoy the experience.

I know I’ve heard about this happening to other people as well where it’s fine for a while, but then it’s like your body starts to reject or something along those lines.

All that being said, the few times I’ve gotten really drunk, the experience wasn’t enjoyable at all and the headache the next day was monumental.

I can second the white noise. I fall asleep to a mix of rain, wind and rolling thunder pretty much every night. It probably takes about half the time it used to now that I do it as a habit.

If this is true, please let there be a story sequel, too. I want more BT, dammit!

either they overestimate their AI services or the think that most of people are just too stupid to realize the level of shit they are forcing on them.

I don’t count it as stupidity so much as most people don’t keep up on this sort of stuff. It’ll be installed in their OS and they don’t know any better that all that data is being processed by M$.

I’ve been thinking about all of these major companies sending data by default and how this can’t be good for government contractors and the like.

I imagine accidentally (or someone who doesn’t know any better purposely) clicking an AI assist option and sending military or aerospace prints or medical records to an outside party. I know Adobe Reader has this built in now. How long before they’re processing classified documents?

Rule 1 is: The gun is ALWAYS loaded, even when you “know” it isn’t.

I second Horizon. There are moments where I’m convinced the graphics are pre-rendered when cranked to the max.