Overcast “voice boost” has very good results for me. I basically don’t ever adjust the volume between podcasts. If that’s the app you use then obviously it isn’t perfect!

No, they are bigots themselves and are happy to force trans people out of public life.

1. No, most people don’t remember that due to not being adults at the time.

2. What were wages doing during that period?

Inflation going down doesn’t mean prices would go down. That would require deflation which is generally considered to be something to avoid. Inflation going down means that prices increase more slowly.

I think it is true both that platform gatekeepers have far too much power over the bounds of artistic expression and also that that including that in the demo you sent to valve was an incredible unforced error.

There isn’t really one. You can call it “generative AI” or “gen AI” which also includes LLMs.

You can’t see who reports come from.

If you have a Sonos sound bar then you can route the audio to any other speakers in the system.

It’s absolutely ludicrous that each NHS provider has to pay admin staff to sort out visas, and then has to pay visa fees that flow back to the treasury. Sponsorships for work in the NHS should be centralised. One sponsor, and you can work for any NHS provider, and no admin to move jobs.

Sonos can give you half of this, yelling can give you the other half

Oh, I use a Mac and the built in dictation on that is good (and all on device), so I can’t recommend anything else, sorry!

Uh speech to text I meant, obviously.

Are you in a workplace where using text to speech could work for you? If you are doing a significant amount of typing it could help (even just to reduce rather than eliminate it).

Careful, he’s going to start emailing you again

Do NOT look at any of the other policies the UK government is currently enacting

My wife used to work at a hospital that did that treatment. They called the radioactive cats “hot cats”. They had to wear a film badge to go in the “hot cat room”.

“Fairer” not the word I’d use