I don’t know. I use mpv because I switched to Linux in 2006 and I’m used to it now.

I did! I see it on my students’ screens in December. There is some other software that does little things like that. Pale Moon does something for Halloween I believe. I hardly ever watch videos on my computer though.

I was team mpc until about 2006, now I’m team mpv.

I still can’t remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.

Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin’ around all these years.

Part of it is RFK Jr. and MAHA who are on a mission to “cure” autism because the whole anti-vax thing doesn’t fly (due to common knowledge and, you know, science).

So it looks like they are blaming the most common medication used by pregnant people.

I am an ESL teacher. Generative AI is making things complicated for us, but it cannot replace learning the language. Right now, things like ChatGPT are presented as some sort of solution, but it is so far off and sometimes too obvious.

Like you mentioned, you think and reason differently in different languages. Plus, some people just love learning languages.

Aside: I am of the opinion that OpenAI and ChatGPT will disappear within 2 to 3 years. Their investors will abandon them leaving them drowning in debt, Sam Altman will face the same fate as Elizabeth Holmes. At some point his grift of asking for more money, hardware, electricity, water, etc., will be revealed.