The machine I have running mint is a fifteen year old Core 2 Duo T6600 laptop. Works great!

Land usage is also a huge concern with hydro power. Pumped hydro storage means permanently flooding an area to create the reservoir, which carries many above and beyond just the destruction of whatever was there before. The flooded land has vegetation on it, which is now decaying under water. This can release all sorts of unpleasantness, most notably mercury.

Yeah, there are different bluetooth audio profiles, one for high quality audio intended for media consumption, and one for bi-directional audio intended for telephony (and some others, but these are the relevant ones here). The "gotcha" is that in general, any attempt to consume the mic feed from a bluetooth headset will switch it to the telephony mode, so if you have them paired to a PC and an application is listening to the mic for any purpose you get stuck with much lower quality 64kbps PCM audio.

Hey, my Brother laser printer can see my screen, you know! Apologise now!

warn - no unused parameters: my_present_circumstances

Literally the only reason I ever fire up a different browser. Come on guys.

Neither of those points invalidate the idea presented.

Just because it's not a uniform distribution doesn't mean the average changes. Most people learning a thing earlier in life doesn't change the average rate. Even if literally every single person learned a given fact on their ninth birthday, that still averages out to the same rate.

As for your second point, you're conflating "things everyone knows" with "knowing everything". Obviously people who are 80 still don't know everything, but it's not unreasonable to assume they share a pool of common knowledge most of which was accumulated in their early life.

And even if both of those things were valid criticisms, the thing you're calling out as "inaccurate pseudoscience" is the suggestion that people shouldn't be ridiculed for not knowing things, rather we should enjoy the opportunity to share knowledge.

Yes. It's a commercial signage display, not intended for desktop use.

Totally agree that a lot of them are poor implementations. Or just have a terrible UX such that it's almost guaranteed that a layperson is going to set it up badly and have a degraded experience that they've convinced themselves is good. Obviously the "correct" thing to do is check every box for "enhancements", right?

Gaming peripheral software supplied by the OEM being bad is probably the least surprising thing I'm likely to read all day.

As for stereo sounding better, I think in the purest sense that's always going to be true. Any kind of processing is going to alter the audio to some degree away from the original "intent". A pure triangle wave from a NES isn't going to be a pure triangle wave after it goes through any HRTF, good, bad, or otherwise. If you want your sound to be clean then yes, avoid extra processing at all costs.

First, I apologise for assuming you were uninformed. That's clearly not the case.

I agree that if a game has its own headphone surround solution then that's preferable to anything external to the game. And yes, turning on both just mangles your sound and should not ever be done.

A theoretical game that doesn't have its own HRTF doesn't need to provide full soundscape details for a external virtual surround to work though. It just won't be as good. If the game can output 7.1 audio but lacks HRTF for headphones the processor can at least use the surround channel positions to inform an HRTF, so that the right rear channel sounds like it's behind you and to the right, etc. If the game is stereo only, maybe you want your NES emulator audio to sound like it's coming from the screen in front of you instead of strapped to your head.

All that aside though, OP also didn't mention games. Maybe he's got some DTS7.1 movies he wants to watch, in which case HRTF by channel position is the only option.

You should read up on head related transfer functions. Virtual surround is much more than just "an audio equaliser that makes footsteps louder".

That's already RAW.