They had 300 years then where the next one usually murdered the previous one…

Your first try with a generated text?

She isn’t holding a thing.

She is holding her open, empty hand, and she is looking up to you, and she says: “…yes, really, that big. Now look at you. Can you see why I just am a little disappointed?”

who was a mechanical engineer

Tell him my greetings. I am an electrical engineer (I have even studied acoustics for several semesters) and I have made my jokes about mechanical engineers all my life. But I don’t think that they are actually stupid ;-)

He’s a very straight forward man

he is also a very picky man

He is right about it. They are bad. The sad truth is: they are all less than perfect, and hard to endure.

Scientists have improved them during the last 10 or 20 years, and they still have to improve them a lot more in the next 10 years or 20. Until then, everybody can only choose these current ones, that are less than good.

But these devices are even worse if they are not adapted to the person.

You can’t just buy them off the shelf and wear them like you do with a wooden leg, that has either the correct length or you cut off a little.

You need to adapt many different parameters before they start to be somewhat helpful. It is because hearing is super complex.

So regarding your question about the best device, it is neither the brand nor the price, but whether you (or your audiologist) can adapt it good to the person.

This will take some weeks of trying it out, and then adapt again.

This is the actual choice he needs to make:

Either have the stamina to let somebody adapt the devices for him, then try them for a few weeks, and then repeat this for at least three rounds of adapting and trying. Or let it all be, and grow old as a deaf man.

Quotes may help you.

I would wake up from the nightmare.

So you have to create an instance, and be that bad admin.

And then don’t forget to hate yourself ;-)

And the price is you have a cop now, telling us who can talk and what they can say.

Lemmy’s solution is that you can vote with your feet (=choose another instance with an admin to your liking)

Of course the solution is incomplete. Real bad admins remain a possibility.

That is kinda equal to a free world: Real bad humans are a possibility.

But:

Big fat BUT:

If you really want a world where all bad people (according to your own definition) are excluded, then you have turned yourself into that cop that you despise so much.

filtering out […] I can do for myself.

It still means too much legal trouble for the admin if the offending data would be on the server.

My father in law died several years ago,

He made some very strong and very fine liquor, once every year. I still have half a bottle of the good stuff, and now I don’t dare to drink it up.

pickup trucks are hardly a niche product

Tanks camouflaged as pickup trucks are.

He may not be the inventor of evil, but he surely accelerates it.

Has Wikipedia made it to the outside?

when advertisers do what he tells them

They have actually … themselves?

;-)

earthling, you have evolved over the course of billions of years to deal with sunlight at a distance of one astronomical unit.

…plus a planet’s magnetic field, plus a few kilometers of atmosphere!

50% of marriages say

Let me say it like James:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0i3p-9STCM

explain why DeepSeek was able to create

Surely they also received tons of plutonium donations from Iran!

/s

My wedding ring, of course.

Does the elephant call the ant hopeless?

One of them is threatened with extinction. ;-)

Don’t they use linux for their own servers LOL?