morgan423 @ morgan_423 @lemmy.world

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If Microsoft doesn't 1) come at this from an angle of adjusting Windows into a great handheld experience, and 2) releasing this as an open platform PC, they're toast.

There are a handful of people who don't have a handheld currently who will blindly follow the branding, but I doubt a single person who is currently enjoying the openness of a Deck, Go, Ally, et cetera will voluntarily blunder back into a freedom-restricting walled garden of any sort.

I really do think it’s a mass noun.

I'm not sure why you think that. By definition (which you even gave in your original post) that would mean that data are something that can't be broken down into individual, countable units.

But there is a smallest unit, which is called a bit. Data can be broken down into smaller, countable units. So the word doesn't fit the common definition of what a mass noun is.

I think you're confusing this due to the common incorrect use of "that" in relation to data as if it's something singular, id est, "Could you please provide me that data?"

Technically this is grammatically incorrect (and yes before you ask, I say "those data"), but I've come to understand that people actually mean "data set" when they say this, and are just omitting that word from the sentence.

Since that is all that's needed to have everything correctly agree again, I can just fix it in my head when I hear it so that my brain doesn't explode.

I love how the AI is all like, "I think I know what a chess board looks like, hold on a sec and I'll give this a go!"

I'll take "What in the Actual Hell Are You Trying to Say" for $1,000 Alex.

Ah, I see the problem. That person should have bound the cop into a contract before he took action, so that he couldn't have completed arresting them and towing their car. Rookie mistake!

I recommend Cobalt Core. Super cute characters and story, and very satisfying even after completing the main quest. It and Balatro are currently my standing "twenty minutes on a lunch break" games.

Ah, yes, the standard "I enjoy getting pulled over half a dozen times a day" sovcit license plate.

The IPA is fantastically interesting.

I don't agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people's accents from written text when they don't match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations... where you're actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.

Well, this would have been 160 people, who society forced to live in vans, taking up those spots anyway, so... sorry Karen, but you would have lost that lot regardless.

Sounds like something you could write, since you experienced it directly from your subconscious.

So, you have to give a little more than 48 hours notice when you decide to organize a large scale national protest action.

Look to be planning for the event to be somewhat out in the future, to give time for the plan to be spread and heard by the masses. When you just throw something like this out with two days' notice, you're not going to make any change larger than 0.00000001%... not enough people possibly hear about it to be able to participate.

Maybe I'm a weird mutant or something, but I don't use "get" in that way at least 90% of OP's examples, I just use the actual verb I mean.

I'm curious about the Go 2. Huge OLED screen... I know it's not supposed to come out for a minute, but it's tempting.

The ergonomics put me off of the first Go, it was not comfy to hold when I tried the display model. But I think they're addressing that. We'll have to see how it goes.

A little old school here, but Tom Petty and the HB were always fantastic live, I got to catch them several times.

I also once was socially-dragged to a Sheryl Crow concert at the Ryman, and even though she's not usually my thing, that show was fantastic. She had a bunch of folks from the Nashville Symphony Orchestra playing with her band that night, and I've never seen a group of classical musicians have so much fun. They really made it an unbelievable show. If you're ever there and can catch ANYTHING at the Ryman, do it... the acoustics are absolutely insane.

My favorite concert story was that we went to a "Best of the 80s" concert in Indiana in the late 90s when I was a teen (bands that performed included Wang Chung, A Flock of Seagulls, and a few one-hit wonders I'm struggling to remember right now). At the end, the promoters took the mic and apologized to everyone that the show was ending a little early, the closing band, Missing Persons, couldn't make it. My friends and family I was there with laughed our asses off the entire way out of the arena, but it didn't seem like a single other person there got it.

Fortunately there's still a zillion super-fun games that the Deck can handle fine. Also if you have another, beefier PC, streaming to the Deck is a thing.

Pretty sure the game theorists channel on youtube did that one several years back. It's been a minute since I watched it but a search should pull it for you.

Middle age guy here (if I live out my family's typical life expectancy).

I try not to worry about death, as it's something I can't change. Doesn't mean I'm ready for it to happen tomorrow, just that I realize that it's going to happen when it happens and isn't worth wasting thought on outside of preparing affairs for it once it gets closer.

I'm not religious, but I've had an experience (and others have had experiences, such as out-of-body NDEs where the details that they witnessed in places and circumstances they shouldn't have been able to see were later verified by others) that indicate to me that we continue on somehow after death... it's not a nihilistic void.

But even if it were one... that's not so bad. You wouldn't perceive stimuli, you wouldn't notice time passing... the unbelievably long mass of practically eternal time between your death and the death of this universe would be the blink of an eye for you. And if scientific theories about Poincare recurrence of the universe are correct, then eventually you'll go trhough life again from the same starting point, none the wiser that you didn't exist for an unfathomably long time.

In short, try not to worry about it. You can't change it, and once you get there, there's either something or absolutely nothing afterward... and you'll be fine either way.

Edit: spelling

I get the feeling that when you were a terrible, horrendous person all your life, and you get a reincarnation demotion as a punishment... you don't come back as a bug, or an amoeba, or anything like that.

You come back as a public defender, who only gets appointed to cases starring sovereign citizens as your clients.

If you're doing them, any time before the deadline from here is fine.

If you've got complex stuff going on and are using a tax service or accountant, I'd say the best window is the back half of February through the first half of March. This misses all the people on the front end who rush to get them done the femtosecond they have all of their documents, and also misses the people on the back end scrambling for the late-season rush.