r_deckard

Don't forget discussing existentialism with the bomb.

And "National Lampoon"

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel...........

We'll see. I've set the Group policy to limit feature updates to Win 10 22H2. I will be unhappy if they over-ride or reset a GPO.

Lots of restaurants and cafes pouring their waste cooking oil down the sink instead of paying a collection service.

And in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and in the "The Great Escape"

Larry Niven's "Known Space" has quite a few machines, but they're generally not the point of the story. There's a lot more about how human and non-human species relate and interact, and how the machines affect their behaviour and choices.

The whole approach of Puppeteers (technically brilliant cowards) and Kzinti (foolishly rash but honourable risk-takers), taken against human approaches is well-written.

Of course, once you comprehend its size, the Ringworld itself overwhelms a lot of the rest of the stories 😲.

Niven's attitude to women and sex haven't aged well.........

But the stories are pretty good. He knows how to set multiple threads on their way and bind them up together at the end, or at least leave a decent cliff-hanger for a sequel.

Flowers for Algernon is an extraordinary piece of storytelling, without relying too much on "the machines"

Or for a quick fix, use an equaliser to boost the 200-4000Hz frequencies. Put a slight suppression on anything higher and a lot of the music will be quieter.

Can you imagine the sheer frustration of trying to hear and appreciate the glorious dialogue of Deadwood were it subject to the poor standards of current productions?

Get Crazy (1983). Just a fun piece of silliness with a cameo from Lou Reed.

And Electric Larry

Pi-hole can block microsoft telemetry domains, just need to keep the blocklists up to date, and flush the Recall cache every day.