helmet91 @ helmet91 @lemmy.world

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Hmm. In the country where I'm from, absolutely, that's the case. The average level of IQ there is incredibly low, so it's not really surprising.

Generally on the internet? Well... kinda yes. Of course, I know there are many cases thanks to social media garbage that are making people unwilling to read and use their brains to think, thus degrading their abilities to pay attention for a longer time, which would be required for reading even just a moderate length of text. Yes, I'm fully aware of that, and that's a tragedy for today's generation.

So why "kinda"? Apparently I tend to follow topics that actually require a certain level of intelligence, and the communities there usually have adequate reading and comprehension skills.

But yes, long story short, that's the trend unfortunately. People just read less and less, and with that, their skills are degrading as well.

For me, Teams works much better on mac than on Windows. And luckily I have no Edge on my mac.

I wouldn't imagine it like that. I would think of it more like just an AI tool, that teams are using, and they wouldn't need a CEO.

Of course, not with today's dumb AIs.

What?! That's so cheap! Mine is 1000/50 (cable) for €60. Also Germany.

Damn, I've been eyeing the Affinity suite for quite a while, but I still couldn't bring myself to buy it, because they don't have a Linux version. I do have a Windows on my computer, but it's only for Rocksmith basically. And I don't even remember the last time I used it. I don't wanna buy anything for Windows anymore.

For now I have to stick to Inkscape, which is amazing in functionality, but I wish it would crash less often when I'm handling large files.

Regarding the Adobe part: I see what you're saying, and I'm uncomfortable with the subscription model too. But to be fair, you never really own software, unless you write it yourself. When you purchase a software license - no matter for what software - you're purchasing the right to use such software. You aren't purchasing the software itself. But yes, even that feels better than just a subscription.

Btw, I've read an interesting conversation elsewhere about subscriptions. In some cases it's not a bad thing at all. If you're seldom using a software, why would you pay a full boxed price, when you can also just pay the fraction of the price for one month of usage? In my opinion, subscriptions do have their place, but companies should offer a dual pricing model: a boxed one-time price for one version, and a subscription for always the updated version. And it would be up to the customer, which one suits best for their use case. For example, JetBrains does something like this.

Emirates has such cameras, one looking downwards and one mounted somewhere in front of the rudder, looking forward. Maybe there's a third camera as well, I don't remember. I flew in 2019 last time.

I have an old Nvidia-Intel setup in my laptop, and dealing with that Nvidia driver is kinda of a hassle. Mostly it works fine thanks to mhwd (Manjaro's driver installation script), but damn, every time I reinstall the OS, it takes several hours for me to figure out what's wrong. Luckily I don't reinstall it too often, maybe every 5 years.

Before this I had AMD, and it always worked like a charm. And I've heard Intel's drivers are working well too.

Personally, I'm planning to go for AMD next time.

Same here.

For some reason, I trust the cleanliness of Airbnb's more than hotels. Maybe this is baseless, maybe not.

Also, the amenities: you can never get a hotel room with a washing machine and a stove, so you either need to pack a lot of clothes or go to the laundry shop (if there's any). And you cannot cook anything, you cannot even heat up leftover food. Hell, there aren't even any cutleries.

Also, most of the case Airbnb wifi worked for me better than hotel wifi. Even if slow as hell, it's still stable. But in a hotel... good luck with using the internet for anything.