I’m mixed on this. If it’s a serious movie, then I agree wholeheartedly. It’s not funny and it breaks my immersion.
But if it’s a more relaxed or even funny movie? Bring it on, the more subtle the better, I love hearing it, always gives me a chuckle when I’m in a chuckling mood.
If it’s people I don’t know or care about… And it’s not directly in front of my line of sight… Then I guess.
But I’m really sensitive to light in my periphery. I drive with the dash lights as low as they will go without being off, and can’t stand new cars with the LCD equivalent of the sun in place of the radio.
But in my own home? My own family? Especially if it’s a movie I really care about and they haven’t seen? Drives me bonkers, because they are missing the best parts, or will be confused later because they are missing details. Frustrating.
That doesn’t clock as the traditional Wilhelm scream to me.
I’m not trying to say you’re wrong, I don’t know much about this. I’m just saying if I were watching this with zero context, I wouldn’t recognize it as being the Wilhelm scream. Whereas normally I hear it in every movie it’s in, pretty clearly.
Nice! That’s the thing, right? That’s the key I don’t think people understand.
My normal energy level, once I’ve woken up for a few minutes, is how I used to feel when caffeinated, after having been on the stuff for awhile.
The low energy they feel, is literally the caffeine addiction talking. Your body gets so used to it, you’re not feeling the buzz you felt when you first tried it, you’re just maintaining a normal human level of energy, but it feels like a buzz because without it your brain is so addicted that it’s suffering for it.
Crazy.
Now I still have a little caffeine for a really bad headache I can’t shake. But it only takes a few sips of coffee or pop, and I’m good. It’s not enough to make me feel wired, but I still might struggle to fall asleep that night, when normally I don’t struggle at all.
Caffeine IS powerful, people just get used to it, but their body is still affected every day.
Not throwing shade, but caffeine is a crutch.
If you ditched it, it would suck for a few months sure, but then your brain will adjust.
I’ve been caffeine free for over 20 years. If I stay up super late, or wake up super early, I struggle for a moment, but then I’m fine.
Water is my go to in the morning.
Your body is so used to caffeine, that you’re literally medicating yourself for a condition you created for yourself. You need it in the morning on a weird shift, because you always use it in the morning on a weird shift.
Again, sorry for the rant, I just feel very strongly about this scientific fact.
Best wishes to you
Also zero, for like 20 years now.
Maybe the occasional sip of coffee if I have a headache
Preach. Love my $15 rice cooker, works fine
I got my framework about a year ago, before the tariffs got crazy, and well before ram got crazy (I put 96 gigs in it to play with AI workloads, and for the lulz).
My plan is to ride this thing until it starts showing its age. Which I imagine will be another 3 or 4 years? Only then can I comment on my actual desire and commitment to upgrading it.
Until then, I’m just banking on the fact that the company will a) live. And b) still have parts for my machine.
I do appreciate what they’re doing, and I like my machine now.
There are definitely people out there who upgrade super frequently, who knows, maybe I’ll be one of them in 1 or 2 years instead of 3 or 4. Hard to say what life will look like then, the way things go these days.
That’s his point. It’s similar to framework, but not the same.
Easy repairability is great, truly.
But framework offers more than that, easy repairability AND upgradability, because they offer new upgraded parts with the same compatibility as the old ones, so you can just drop them in.
Lenovo is not yet doing that. Which is fine. Just a noteworthy difference.
I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it’s an absolute game changer, for reheating.
Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.
30% power is something like “turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat”
Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.
This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they’re in.
It works but could be better, smoother.
Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it’s literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.
This is much more gentle on delicate foods.
Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can’t run normally.
But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.
This has made reheating leftovers much better.
Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.
I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.
Haven’t seen that in a long time