> All of them have bad microphones (worse than wired ear pods)

Yeah this is why people just buy AirPods Max.

They just work. The integrated mic is clear and easy to use for daily standups. They connect to my work and personal laptop in a few seconds every time - I’m never left panicking right before a big meeting. Of course the audio quality, noise canceling, and battery life are world class, but that’s the case for their competitors too - the reason I coughed up the extra $150 for Apple headphones is because I know they’re going to fucking work exactly as advertised, no glitches or gimmicks.

Most men can’t even get a date anymore, but we’re not allowed to talk about the reasons why.

Yep, the only reason their pay is high is artificial barriers to entry.

If you have to be “top talent” to survive it’s not a good field to get into anymore.

To survive against Outsourcing/cheaper labor and AI, I would agree.

It’s matter of incentives. Everyone knows the value of college is in the piece of paper they give you at the end, the things they teach you are not super helpful in real world. So people cheat so they don’t have to waste time learning useless knowledge and instead spend that time on something valuable, like working out or going to a party.

He is a good guy for not selling out but let’s be honest, it’s just a thin wrapper around ffmpeg.

I think you mean libavcodec?

But that is incorrect. VLC has even more supported features, if you do not believe me, check the source code https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/a33f33ddb0a9e0d26d779eb...

Have to agree. This whole procedure of booking an appointment with a GP who then books you an appointment with a lab who then takes your blood is a huge waste of time. The technology is largely there for people to continuously monitor their health in real time, you see this in smartwatches as feature by feature slowly trickles in.

Their offering is inevitable, at least on a less bombastic scale (e.g a few drops instead of just one).

Made my phone immediately much laggier (iPhone 13 Pro) which is probably the intention

13 Mini here, and yesterday for the first time since I bought, the battery died on me in the middle of the day, in the office, with my regular usage (which is very low).

Every update slows your phone down temporarily, because there’s background processing that goes on for a while after. That’s always been the case

I’ve had it for days and it’s still slow

It also made my iPhone 16 Pro Max a bit laggier, but the worst offender is my Apple Watch Series 10 which has a big frame rate drop every time there is a Liquid Glass animation. It feels very sluggish now and the battery seems worse than before. Everyone is impacted to different extents, I don’t think it’s deliberately made to cripple older iPhones.

I thought colleges only had a limited number of slots to accept students each year. Seems like US citizens would be competing with foreign students in that case.

For most colleges the number of available slots is not constrained by some absolute limit but is instead constrained by their income available to pay for all the people and resources needed to educate these students.

Further, the most competitive universities artificially constrain acceptance rates because low acceptance rates make them more desirable.

Imagine we passed a federal law banning the children of parents who make more than $150,000 annually from attending college. Would this just mean that colleges take their same planned slots and give them to lower earning students? No. It'd be massively disruptive and change the available slots.