And there will be loads of companies who insist on using AI in the future..... but not all will - because they'll learn that like everything, there are limits to it's capabilities.
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There are a few plants that would help with your savage garden desires.
Check out pitcher plants for example. These plants use a pitcher of nectar water to attract bugs who get stuck and slowly dissolved in the water - any captured flies act as fertilizer for the plants.
Alternatively look up "sundew" plants - They are essentially leaves with sticky "dew" that catches bugs which land on the surface of the leaves (and slowly absorbed the fly - some varieties will even curl up around the bug to digest it faster)
Both of these plants grow best in a "bog planter" (imagine a mini swamp on your desk) - with a tray of water constantly full to keep the soil "damp" at all times. I ended up 3D printing my own bog planters for my pitcher plants. My Sundew died, but I need to buy another one - I enjoyed growing them.
Remember when big corporations thought they could outsource 100% of customer service to india many years ago? Remember how well that went?
LOVE My Bose Quietcomfort2 earbuds. The active noise cancelling is one of the best in the industry. You can customize up to three modes with your own desired level of noise cancelling from totally silent, to completely transparent (to hear what others are saying). The app lets you chose between something like 10 different levels of noise cancelling.
In louder environments, you could turn down the transparency mode so you still hear "some" sounds, but not everything.
Then I simply turn on some quiet music to hear my own favorite tunes, and then shop around. This not only helps me block out other noises/sounds, but gives people the impression I can't hear anything, so they don't bother talking to me (thankfully) hahaha.
For me I use them while bicycling - full silent to jam out to my tunes in quiet neighborhoods, and then switch to transparent "aware" mode when crossing busy intersections.
Only complaint is the call quality - kinda sucks because the software is trying to noise-cancel my voice when talking to people, and they all say it sounds like I'm in a hallway or fishbowl. I wish there was a way to disable that feature or tweak it somehow. But that's fine, I don't use these for phone calls anyway, I use them for blocking out the world.
That partially already happened at the start of the war. There was a massive "brain drain" among the higher educated part of society, which did include a bunch of hackers. Why live inside russia these days when you can move elsewhere and get paid better?
I was a Netflix DVD subscriber before they released a Wii streaming disc then started streaming Netflix back when it was glorious with all your favorite shows. Eventually I downgraded to the cheap $8 plan for a single user at 1080p resolution which was fine - my old television is still 1080p native resolution.
Then they quietly raised the price.... and dropped the resolution to 720p without telling me. Finally I had enough - after more than a decade I finally cancelled my Netflix account last year and haven't looked back.
I don't miss their "netflix originals" which only last for one or two seasons before getting canned because netflix needs more viewership to justify the investments.
Truth be told, I don't watch must television (or even youtube) in general - I have better things to do with my time than vegetating on a couch watching a tv screen.
True, but at least you can pause a download. That wasn't possible twenty years ago with any software that I can think of...... aside from maybe usenet newsgroups where a single file is split into millions of text documents and then uploaded to services ultra compressed and then recompiled into the file after downloading. That tech has been floating around since the 90's but it's still very niche and very few people even knew what a newsgroup was back then.
Lol yeah I was lucky enough to get a dedicated phone line for dialup.
Although even at max download speeds, I think the fastest I ever saw on dialup was around 4.5kbps because our phone signal was so low quality haha.
Damn I'm getting nostalgic for the old internet, pre 2008 when the average person wasn't online. The internet had it's trolls, but it was a far more civil place compared to the modern era of vitriol and hate prevalent in many online communities.
Remember the IRC and downloading files using automated chat rooms with simple queues to request files from hosts. It's crazy to know they're still in existence and still pretty active.
Remember when downloads could not be paused/resumed. Back in the day if your download was interrupted, you'd have to restart the download. Then apps like Downloadzilla and other programs let you download large files and resume as needed which was critical for large downloads that took hours/days to complete.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but Philips Hue smart lights can sync with Spotify. You program where each color light is located in the room (location and elevation) and then it will dance the lights to the music, with light color scheme determined by album art colors (which is really handy for things like Christmas music where most of it is red/white/green anyway lol).
I use my spare hue lights in my garage gym so they dance to the music in my earbuds. I honestly love it - it gets me more "in the zone" when working out.
Otherwise to answer your question I use ProjectM on my android phone
Wow, thanks for that writeup!
I'm glad I stayed off r/headphones because that would have been dangerous for my wallet lol. I already hate that I spent $500 on my B&W headphones, but damn do I love them.
That was a long in-depth bringing me up to speed, and I loved it hahaha - thanks for taking the time to write all that up
Oh yeah, very good points. Although I'm lazy with my purple pitcher plant. It gets tap water from the hose because I never have enough quality RO water to keep them from drying out and they seem to be doing fine in my climate.
But totally I'm pretty sure my sundews died from not using adequate RO or distilled water.