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Funny that she thinks it ruins it in the first place. I wouldn’t have even noticed if she hadn’t drawn attention to it.

Now, I say that, but I’ve also done this exact thing before.

I think they’re talking about the designs, not the whole decade.

My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.

In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He’s absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he’s also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he’s an inversion of.

Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.

Yep, the timing lines up. As part of the buyout offer, they probably had to demonstrate an effort to cripple the open source fork of the thing IBM wants to buy.

The story was a novella King wrote in the early 80s for a short story collection, and it was his first real attempt at writing genres outside of horror. He’s gotten better at that over the years.

Even so, I wouldn’t say it’s bad, just that the movie blows it out of the water.

I was going to say, Ready Player One is not a great movie, but it does at least have Spielberg at the helm, and while late-career Spielberg is a shadow of his former self, the movie is directed competently and interesting enough visually.

Not least of all because you can actually see and enjoy all the various IP in action, rather than just have them name dropped like in the book. When there’s a sea of interesting or recognizable things on screen, that does a lot to help distract from how terrible the plot is.

But even at its worst, the movie is a tolerable popcorn flick. Turn your brain off and enjoy some pop culture references, then forget it all an hour later.

Because the book is just terrible. It’s an absolute slog, a lot of the dialogue is embarrassing, the prose is uninspired, it’s overloaded with explanations of UIs and unnecessary, long winded ramblings about the various pop culture references. The movie at least has the benefit of just putting a thing on the screen, the book has to describe all of this shit, and it’s tediously done.

Which is to say nothing of just how terrible the plot is in general but more than enough people have gone off about that.

Twilight for nerdy boys is the best description I’ve ever heard of it, but at least Twilight isn’t as gratuitously masturbatory.

For the frescos that must stay in position, a plaster glue is injected to their rear to prevent them coming away from the walls. Masonry is being shored up with scaffolding and temporary roofing is going over the top.

I’d be willing to bet they’d rather have not been killed by a volcano at all than be remembered.

Be thankful it didn’t take an explosive shit.

Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

They’re not going to invest in it if they don’t own it, and frankly I’m happy they don’t.

The whole country?

Why are they afraid of saying “Netanyahu”?

Which is a problem given it’s a media player, and AndroidTVs still on Android 11 or earlier would be denied updates.

Or winget if they provide it.

Who do you think makes the decisions for a bank?

The person writing the Android app?

Or the person who just wants customers to be able to access the app and use the services?

Banks aren’t run by the people that develop the apps. They have no idea what a signing key is, they just want the app available and updated.

From their Twitter:

If you wonder why we can’t update the VLC on Android version, it’s because Google refuses to let us update:

• either we give them our private signing keys,
• or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can’t get fixes.

It’s not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11…

Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste

I can’t speak to why they’re not updating on FDroid but seeing as how it’s much more difficult to get people to use FDroid on Android TV, I don’t think it will help them with that issue anyway.

In addition to the private key thing, the Play Store is requiring them to drop support for APIs older than API 30 unless they provide the key.

Which in effect means VLC can no longer be updated on AndroidTVs running Android 11 or earlier.

Which is millions of customers, according to VLC

I think it more likely that over time, after threads has captured enough of the user base fleeing Twitter and other social media platforms, threads will start pushing a sub-fediverse of sorts that will involve most of the major fediverse platforms, i.e. the ones run by people who attend the get togethers Meta invites them to. Slowly but surely that will be cemented as the primary “section” of the fediverse, “the Meta-fediverse”, and in order to join it, you’ll have to commit to their standards. And just like that, the decentralized platform has become centralized.

They’re willing to play with all the kids on the playground right now, but that will change. It’s bizarre to me that the fediverse has such a strong population of left-leaning users, that all came here spitting on the capitalist-poisoned platforms they fled, and yet somehow there are so many people around here that don’t see the danger of letting Meta in. They will find a way to fuck all of this up.

Committing to the idea of the fediverse will not benefit their bottom line in the long run. It is antithetical to the platform dominance that creates their profits.