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On a film set I would expect anyone in ear protection like that to use the kind with either external sound amplification (mic on the outside, speaker on the inside, so they are headphones) and/or with wireless audio transmission (bluetooth/etc, speaker on the inside, so still headphones)

e.g. https://www.amazon.com/PROHEAR-Electronic-Protection-Bluetooth-Amplification/dp/B07YSM7N97

Since... about a decade ago? Noise cancellation/reduction has been an available feature in earmuffs marketed to firearms users for a while now.

Would you spend an hour fixing a problem that will only save you ten minutes total in the rest of your lifetime using the software?

How did you get from "People often ask" to "having recurring conversations with everyone you know"?

The same way anyone else for whom English is a second or third language function in society.

And, since we don't own or use any Haier appliances, we aren't subject to their TOS.

Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.

I'm going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.

That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.

lots of stuff runs on Windows (namely older games)

We've long since passed the point where Linux (and MacOS), via Crossover, WINE, Proton, etc, have better support for old Windows apps/games than Windows does.

I would have killed for a Windows support resource as thorough as the Arch wiki, back when I used Windows.

Not an acronym, but I've been in a couple of jobs where people use "offline" to mean "not at this meeting", as in "let's take this tangential discussion offline". They would say that during an in-person meeting to take the conversation to digital (online!) media!