Random Dent

I’m pretty actively hostile to ads: I have an adblocker built into my router, I won’t subscribe to any streaming thing that will show me ads (and I get a lot of shows and movies from… other ad-free sources), don’t have cable etc. The only place I really see them is outside on billboards and stuff.

But anyway, I’m so used to not seeing ads now that going to family member’s places over Christmas was kind of jarring with the amount of ads. What’s wrong with your TV!

They actually do meet Hitler at one point in Doctor Who. IIRC they can’t kill him for time travel (and probably also family TV) reasons, but they do punch him in the face and lock him in a cupboard.

Also there’s AM in case that one doesn’t work out.

I’m the same with systemd. I’m aware it gets a lot of hate from people but I dunno, seems fine to me. It’s never given me any trouble that I can think of.

If AI can get to the point where it can make, say, a coherent half-hour TV show, I wonder if we’ll end up going full-circle back to the days when TV shows had like 25 episode seasons and were on almost all the time?

Or it’ll just surpass that because it never needs to take a break so a TV show will have a new episode every 3 days forever or something like that.

The Simpsons too. Not that the first few seasons are bad, but they’re definitely rough and it really doesn’t fully hit its stride until maybe season 4 or so IMO.

I’m still so mad about Kaos.

That’s pretty much how cats fight, and there are plenty of scary animals that won’t fuck with cats lol.

Yeah probably the more likely outcome.

Docker is the source of my secret nerd shame lol. I feel like I’m reasonably competent with computers - I’m no pro but I can install and setup Arch (BTW) without using Archinstall and stuff like that. But I just don’t understand Docker. I’ve read so many ELI5 guides and I understand in a really general way what it’s meant to do, but I just… cannot picture in my head what it’s doing. I don’t even know where it is on my machine! But I still have two apps that I run in Docker. They just… exist somewhere and if they ever break I’m lost.

I’m lucky in that I’ve been in the same job for ages (since before AI) and so I haven’t had to deal with this yet, but a friend of mine was using AI to write his resume recently and I had the thought that the resume is probably being written by an AI, then sent to another AI to read it and that you could conceivably get a job with a resume that no human has ever entirely read. Probably not an original thought but it had never occurred to me before lol.

As a side note, if you’re on Linux you can pirate it because the Linux version doesn’t have Denuvo on it. At least that’s what I read when I was searching for ways to not pirate things because stealing from big corporations is wrong

It’s still so weird to me that they did that. AFAIK Humankind did okay, wasn’t like a massive hit or anything, but the makers of Civ seem to have decided to drop everything and chase it around for some reason.

In case anyone has a Steam Deck - you can also get that as a decky plugin, so if you go to the store page for a game it’ll tell you at the bottom of the screen if you can get it cheaper somewhere else.

That was my first thought too. Somehow they seem to be able to make the shittiest possible version of everything they attempt, and yet it almost always becomes the standard that everyone uses.

Pretty much lol

There was an episode of some TV show (maybe Broadchurch?) where David Tennant microwaved his tea and it genuinely upset enough people that it made the news lol.

edit: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a823432/broadchurch-david-tennant-tea-microwave-twitter-reactions/

My desktop won’t run Windows 11 according to Windows 11. But if I make a VM with fake TPM on it, it will run perfectly well inside a VM on a machine that won’t run it lol

Reminds me of this old story:

That reminds me a bit of the Undercover mode in Kali Linux. It doesn’t wipe anything, but it changes the desktop to look like Windows lol.