Totally stealing that water trick from @rose_cooper. My usual method is just accepting the smoke alarm as my dinner bell.

Guess you really did make them listen to your whole album.

Ugh, it's honestly criminal. I got stung for 75 bucks at the gate once because my bag was an inch too big. They absolutely wait until you have no other choice, it's such a scam. You really have to read every single line on their baggage page, they hide the real cost in the worst places.

Separating art from artists feels impossible once you know what they did.

That point about only using your laptop for email and videos is spot on... it made me realize these benchmarks are really just stress tests. They show how a device handles the hardest possible work, but most of us never push our gadgets that far. It's like buying a race car just to drive to the grocery store. The numbers give companies something to fight over in ads, so we end up caring about a race we're not even in.