Sid Meier's Civilizations®
owenfromcanada
joined 8 months ago
I use Qobuz, as I understand it pays the most to the artists. It's $11/month CAD, which is still doable for me. Not sure if it's "worth it" in the long term scope of things, but monthly I listen to music from a hundred or so albums (not every track from every album, so it's hard to estimate what it would otherwise cost to buy).
I wouldn't pay that much to Spotify or Google, though. Fuck them.
I'm not sure what the difference between "lifespan" and "expectancy" is other than semantics, given the context of your questions. Regardless of what our DNA says, our life expectancy is typically in the 70s or 80s, and that hasn't changed much throughout known human history, so it has nothing to do with modern technology.
No.
People have lived into their 80s for millenia. Average lifespan used to be shorter because of the amount of infant mortality. That is, anyone who made it out of childhood was likely to make it at least to their 60s, barring things like war and plague.
The simpler explanation is that the study is cookydooks.
Gotta get my dumbrella, it's stupid out there
I use a Logitech K400. Small and has a built in touch pad. I even designed a wall mount for it so I can keep it out of reach of my kids.
There are even smaller devices as well, but the keyboard works fine for us.
Yeah, I've still got all dumb TVs, with small PCs connected. Best possible setup.
"Anyone who calls me out on my shit is undermining the revolution" and other dumb shit you can yell into the void
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I'm an engineer in R&D and have briefly worked on an exoskeleton project. The reason we don't have mech suits is that the capitalist market doesn't demand them much, at least with our current technology.
There are two primary markets for them: medical, and manufacturing. I worked on the medical side--the big challenge there is making devices that are light enough that the mech helps more than it hinders. The biggest challenge is power: batteries are heavy. As we continue to figure out more efficient power storage and efficiency techniques, you could see more of these devices out in the wild.
The manufacturing market is growing, though most applications there are less "mech suit" and more "assistive arm" type of things.
Can confirm, I have an EQ12 I'm using as an HTPC. Performance is great and sound is minimal (aside from coming out of suspend, the fans fire up for a moment).