It means you get a 1 in 20 chance of 100$ or a guaranteed 5$ gift card.

If it takes you 3 minutes to redeem the 5$ gift card and you earn $100/hour before taxes,
the gift card is worthless. No wonder that quite a lot of people prefer taking
a chance on winning.

This is silly.

James Bond fans may remember the film Goldfinger, where the evil vallian Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe) was completely redubbed because of the accent. Or films like My Fair Lady where the singing parts have been partially re-sung.

Incorrectly spoken foreign languages have always only worked for monolingual viewers. With a worldwide audience, for everyone who spoke the language these blunders broke the illusion. Everything in movies is false, so why shouldn't AI help here?

It's exactly not the power of their marketing, but the grass root recommendation that goes around that you need to buy Brother when you're disgusted by HP.
Now that there's a public outcry they have a unique chance to commit to never locking out third party again. If they fail to do it, they lose what made them special.
Which in the long run may hurt them, as the fight against enshittification gains traction and visibility.

Actually, not allowing the majority of Win10 systems to transition to Windows 11 without major expense may be a good
thing in the end to finally get those frugal older people off Windows. Because having to throw away perfectly usable work computer
at such a large scale is unacceptable. MS telemetry was always feeling icky - but with the new, no-longer-leader-of-the-free-world
US administration in place, running your life and business off a Windows 11 PC may soon become a pill too hard to swallow.

Since only the total of a sale is rounded, it doesn't increase all prices and penny pinchern can game the system, if they like.
This works fine in those European countries that have dropped the Euro-cent coin years ago..

The local FM stations are not very good. DAB offers more choice and there are some decent stations, but I quickly got tired of having to recharge the radio after listening for a few hours and I'd rather have FM hiss and AM distortions then the constant drop outs when DAB reception is weak.

Add to this
4) continue to support real sim cards next to esim
5) bring back the mini format.

Personally, I switched from Android to Iphone with the 12 Mini, because there was finally a small, great device that's dual sim (even if it's only one sim card)
And I'm a big fan of the iPad Mini, too. But I'm still missing the headphone connector and have not updated the iPad Mini because it doesn't have a sim slot, either.

Looks like it's time to have another look at the Android world to see if there's now a small, high quality phone.

Then the numbers in Finland should go down, because in the last decade, the Scandinavian countries switched to dubbing for children's programming - influenced by commercial broadcasters.

Luckily there's still subtitling for adult oriented programming, so adult viewers will still have their reading skills improved by television.

This was obvious from the start. They (just like Disney and Netflix) wanted to get into ad infested streaming, so of course they increase the number of ads and the price of the service gently. They have all the data and know when people stop watching or quit. They might even try to find each household's ad endurance limit, For me, I'm not playing that game. I'll rahter have one ad free service that costs more than all of them with ads.

Interesting trend - I can't imagine paying close attention to a multi hour podcast on a regular basis - there's just not enough time.
Also I mainly listen while driving or doing chores. These time slots are usually less than one hour. I also do not have a podcast player
that supports resume consistently, so I can pause and resume more than one audio file. (Maybe there's a better player on iOS that does this)

Long podcasts may work as background noise, though, where you sometimes pay attention. It's probably a lot better background noise then
running a TV or a talk radio station in the background, so maybe that's what people like about this format. For me: If your podcast is over
one hour, I'll probably never start it. Maybe I can ask ChatGPT to read the transcript and give me a summary instead.

I quit over a month ago over the latest price increase. After being with them for many years, but not watching much. Usually I was just scrolling through their offers for a few minutes to relax.

To my surprise, the login and browsing (with trailer auto play on my Apple TV) still works. The only thing that doesnâ(TM)t is playing the programmes.

So if you usually just browse Netflix, but almost never have the time or energy to commit to actually watch something, you can do that without paying.

Just that you knowâ¦

OK, I'll bite.

I bought my first raspberry roughly 10 years ago and it was a game changer.
I was a total Linux Noob (being a Windows person) and previously have had
several failed attempts to get into Linux. (These failed because the learning curve
was too high and also I needed the main Windows PC for work.)
With the raspberry, it clicked. I learned Linux at my speed and became quite good at it.

Mainly because of these reasons:

- Having the operating system on a SD card means you can easily back it up or setup your system again.You can fix a broken operating system in seconds (even as a beginner)

- Everybody has the same hardware and they even bring their own Linux. You don't need to decide on the Linux flavor, the tutorials on how to do stuff mostly work.

- Since everybody has the same hardware, loads of hardware extensions came to the market. And they seem to work great.

- It uses very little power and is quiet. It's a home user you can afford to run it as a server

- The small size makes it less threatening that running a proper Linux server. Knowing you can mess up the SD with no real pain helps a lot!

I've used it in many real world situations, mostly as a hardware prototype and at quickly got sucked into production. I've also used it as a home server.
It has proven to be really stable and good enough for low load situations, I still have 2016's pi running 24/7 without corrupting the 8GB SD card.

As an Apple customer and owner of a few ipads this ad makes me unhappy.
Most videos of people destroying stuff that is still usable make me unhappy.
Destroying music instruments? WTF. This even makes me angry.
Why would this make me want an ipad upgrade? Apple advertising has lost it.

yes, like a mouse wiggler. something that detects the pauses as well and inserts some mild movement to stop triggering the ad detection.

Can't do colors, can't do pictures, can't pull up an image of the face to people, even the girl friend. And if I have to decide, if a normal person on two portrait photos is the same, I have to concentrate and compare face parts to get an opinion. I can do rooms and areas, like walking through a friend's house or revisiting a place where I stayed a while in my head. Without being able to put up detailed images, though.

I'm probably using all the space for music, because I have my own radio in my head playing my favorite songs (or the last one I got reminded of) in my head in detail.