I agree with this. Tony Hsieh (founder of Zappos) also ended up dead because of the lifestyle enabled by his wealth, and he wasn't a famous musician. The wealth also led to lots of hangers on around him that didn't care about his well being, just personally benefiting.
Something I haven't seen mentioned, the TV's got a lot lighter too. That's purely anecdotal from me having had to move TV's around for the past few decades, and that's not comparing CRT's to LCD's. Even the LCD's have become lighter.
I'm assuming it's a function of building the devices down to a price point. Fewer atoms makes for lower cost.
I look at some large TVs of 2016 vintage being sold for surplus and I was shocked at how heavy they were. I don't have the specific numbers handy, but I recall they were >40 lbs heavier than I expected them to be compared to today's TVs.
I remember nearly killing myself as a younger man trying to hook up a games console to our powerhouse of a 32" Philips Trinitron, tipping the scales at a svelte 150lbs or so.
There was a 32" flat screen Sony CRT up for surplus on the same site. I really, really wanted it and then I saw it was nearly 300 lbs. I was sad to see it go but I didn't have the manpower to move it!
Definitely noticeable and inversely correlated with the quality of native sound from the average LCD/LED TV nowadays - putting sufficient wattage speakers and optimising for audio with acoustic cavities became an afterthought once soundbars were accepted as a necessity. Cooling systems are also greatly improved.
My interpretation was/is that they're both right. The word originated as 'wares with a Z' but once it was spelled that way it became natural to pronounce it 'ware-ez' but nobody thought you were unintentionally mispronouncing it. The in-joke continued on certain boards as 'warez' became 'Juárez'...
It absolutely is pronounced "wares" as in "software" but 13 year old me didn't know that so I and everyone I knew pronounced it "war-ezz", as in "warfare".
In one of the first seasons there was a kid that was a witness to a murder.
He got out of the city and was living with relatives in the countryside, he was safe.
I didn't understand why, but he came back to Baltimore and ended up getting killed. He could have just stayed where he was and lived out his life in peace.
That's somewhat untrue. Personal software only moves to your constraints. Shared software moves to others' as well. I use Mediawiki for my site (I would like others to be able to edit it) and version changes introduce changes in more than the sections I care about.
They tend to change and when I want to do something that the generator does not do, I either need to hack it in (which might break) or i need to fork the generator.
I seem to remember that there was a suicidal teen that was getting instructions from Chatgpt on how to properly end themselves, ie. how not to alert the parents.
Seeing the telegraph cross Canada like that reminded me of the network of hotels across Canada that were used by the wealthy on their way to the Orient from Europe during a bygone era.
My first experience with this was in Maastricht. We started walking in the city center and before I know it we were on the outskirts. This was unexpected to me at I'm used to North American cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW87nhKZ8A0
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