Those are pretty staggering numbers considering the population has only grown by maybe 12% in that same timeframe.

Agreed in all accounts. I do use ublock on my laptop but not on mobile.

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Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky.

Yeah, for sure. I’m not saying it is good at all, just that scraping some proportion of copyrighted material is an improvement over scraping all the copyrighted material.

That is at least an improvement over including in its corpus the entire worldwide collection of copyrighted materials.

Careful. You might burn yourself on that take.

I married at 18 and became a father just a year later. Been married 25 years, I and still cherish every wake-up next to my gal.

I’m not saying if you should or shouldn’t, at all. What I’m saying is sometimes, you know. Not that it will work, but that you’re ready to work for it. That’s it. You want to put the work in? If so, it might be the best time ever available to you. But it isn’t easy.

Some of us just enjoy spending the day with family and eating good food. Not for everybody, I accept, but I don’t understand the ire.

That’s good. I hope your family has a wonderful time together.

They’re still alive and kicking.

Well, yeah me too. But my life being easier (food and money easier to come by) and comforts rarely in question - for me at least - does not equate to easier to make friends.

There is probably some truth to that, but I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive. I think both can be erosive to human expression at the same time.

Is it? It gets harder as time passes for each person. Friends become fewer, more busy, and farther apart. It may be that it is objectively harder now. What do I know as an old man? But it feels hard for everybody as they age individually. I have no close homies that I talk to regularly. 30 years ago, I had many.

Simple, the problem is the erosion of human directed art. That is a much broader problem than if the music is good or not; it may be. But we want, many of us anyway, humans making and being recognized for making art. Empowering this expression is less likely if everybody begins consuming only machine made works.

Near beer works great as a shandy, too. The lemon flavor may even lend more to the desired bitterness.

Parenting

Suggesting something open to doubt isn’t debatable is just not knowing what the word means. There are dictionaries available to the public.

Suggesting the device is underpowered in all contexts is just silly. If I want a device to play Stardew Valley, Braid or some other game with very different people requirements than Cyberpunk, it may not be underpowered… to me.

I get that you’re one of those people that just can never ever accept they are maybe making an objective statement about a subjective value, but you should introspect a bit. You said it wasn’t debatable. We have debated. I doubt your position. End of story.

If you want to compare this to flat earth, fine. Rest assured, nobody will likely find and follow this thread.

FWIW, I think I probably agree with some of your sentiment. It would be better if more powerful. It is underpowered for many of the modern generation of games, etc. Not for you. No problem. Maybe others will like it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

You don’t seem to understand that “underpowered” requires context. Nor do you that what we’re having here is a debate, thus making it debatable nevertheless.

Yes I agree, if we can move the goalposts where ever we want, you might have a point for your own narrow view. But there will be people that believe what it delivers to be suitable for playing the games they want to play, in which case it won’t be underpowered. Which means its status as underpowered… is debatable.