Sold. I’ll watch it.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies!

The combination is ennui. Ennui is a conglomeration of despair inducing feelings, among which is the nameless horror.

Such a distinctive voice.

Over Mandalorian?

Allergies suck. I’m eternally grateful I don’t have a peanut allergy; that always sounds like a living hell. Imagine being afraid every time you get on a plane that someone brought peanuts with them, and you’re going to die because some molecules got into the air recycling system and you breathed them.

All I have is grass allergies. And pot makes my nauseous; I put that in the “allergy” column, too.

Wow. You are a capital-D douche.

Really? I went to an allergist a couple of years ago, and she scratched me about 6 times with different things and looked to see how much it welted. Real old school.

Megan Fox came across as an absolute bore

Well, I wasn’t looking at her for her acting. Some people are just nice to look at.

Man, I love a good nitpicking.

Lemmy is decentralized, but it’s not distributed. It’s decentralized because the source of truth for a community isn’t your instance

It’s a source of truth for you. It’s locally centralized. Your admins have complete control over your account; they can log in as you, post as you, remove your content.

Compare this to git. Github may provide public hosting for you, but you can take your marbles and go somewhere else if you like, and there’s nothing they can do about it. But midwest.social owns my Lemmy identity, and everything that’s on it. If they propagate a “delete” on all my messages, any cooperating servers will delete those messages. For each and every one of us, Lemmy is effectively centralized to the Lemmy instance our account is on.

Now, I agree, this is different than, say, Reddit, where if the Brown Shirts shut out down, they shut out all down, and this can’t happen with Lemmy.

But it’s also not git, or bitcoin, out Nostr, where all they can do is squash nodes which has no impact on user accounts (or wallets, or whatever your identity is) or content.

Those can be updated asynchronously, so if data is cached locally, latency shouldn’t be an issue.

They day they’re not using DHT ¯\(ツ)/¯

I don’t know. This post was the first I’ve heard of it, but since then I’ve seen a couple more “organic” posts asking if anyone thinks it’s good. It smells a tiny bit of astroturfing, but not a lot, so maybe it’s genuine interest. I’ll wait a bit and see, personally.

Interesting that both Hitler and Stalin are looking down their noses at the camera.

That’s probably reading too much into a snapshot. They’re just kids here.

(But just in case, keep your eye on that little snot who does that in the yearbook)

Being assimilated isn’t slavery! It’s like… joining a commune. You never, ever have to be alone again.

Linux didn’t exist until I was 25.

But are we talking earliest age, or length of time using it? I’ve been running Linux on PCs for over 30 years.

Reactive UIs are so horrible. It sounds great, in theory, and I believe there might be a way to do them well. They do address the infinitely nested submenu problem. But - especially on mobile, as you say - having UI controls change is fraught.

On the desktop, it’s horrible when I user has to constantly search for functions because the buttons and menus are constantly changing with small context changes. I’ve observed even power users hunting for an operation because the button bar is constantly re-arranging itself. I’ll never forgive MS for introducing that awful feature.

And on mobile, it’s worse, because widgets change as you’re using it and you lose control of the process, or UI elements disappear or move as you’re trying to click on them.

UI designers are trying to address the complexity paradox: either you constrain user options, or it’s impossible to prevent many functions from being hidden in nested option trees - whether pages or menus - where users struggle to find them.

I think the “search” function is the best solution; assistants are, in most cases, the worst.

My current pet peeve is the trend in launchers to change the pinned app bar contents on Android with commonly used apps, so that you’re never quite certain which set of apps are going to appear, and in which order. I always turn that off and pin the apps I want: stop re-arranging my shit!

This video illustrates that the answer to OP’s question is: because in almost all cases it’s probably cheaper and more flexible to do it in CGI. The only time projector mapping would be useful would be on live performances.

Which would be cool, but probably too subtle or constrained for the audience to appreciate? Like, how far can the projectors be, and how bright to overcome stage lighting? How much can the actors move? In the Pond ad, the model moves, but very subtly. I noticed it most when she makes a slight shaking movement to coincide with the makeup “falling off.” There are no sharp movements.

I know. I was going to post, “and how’s that campaign going?” There was a bit of a spike months that was pretty clearly due to Steam and the Steam Deck, and TBH Linux is undercounted because Linux users are, as a group, less likely to share accurate telemetry and to masquerade as other OSes, but still. I’m not seeing a giant market share spike. I’d expect the refugee population to be less likely to masquerade and to show up clearly a Linux.

I think I’m really unusual in that I dislike almost everything after IV. I think the first film was brilliant, back when Lucas was fighting for money and had to rely on vision and didn’t have Campbell to advise with. Introducing cutesy characters strictly for marketing, they all lacked the charm of the original.

I know I’m an exception. Nearly everyone liked V and/or VI more. Everyone dunks on Jar Jar, but I could not stand the Ewoks. It was so disgustingly blatant.

At the time I was dying for sequels, and when they finally came I was so disappointed. You know, I think I just realized that it was the Vader/Luke connection that sunk it for me. That all of the major characters had to be related somehow made the universe smaller, and more petty. They only got worse after that; I think I watched all of I-III, but I actively hated those.

Anyway, I think there might have been a path, and I’m no story teller so I couldn’t fix it, but I think the while thing went off the rails after IV.

Good friends have told me the Mandelorian was good, but “Baby Yoda” represents everything I loathed about the series and I refuse to watch it.

Anyway, what were you saying about the Hero’s Journey? Maybe I should watch The Last Jedi, because while the Campbell formula worked for the first film, it didn’t improve any of the sequels, so maybe I’d like it. As long as there are no obviously pandering character designs that exist clearly because they can easily be marketed as toys. Looking at you, BB-8.

I watched it until the Megan Fox car breakdown scene and figured it wouldn’t get better than that and stopped there. I don’t remember anything else from the movie.

I admit that it surprised me it did well enough for sequels, when better films didn’t, but I guess that’s The Public for you.

Go get yourself tested at an allergists. It’s relatively cheap.

Dust mite allergies are extremely common, and dust mites are hard to see. They look like dust.

Whatever it is, it could be an environmental allergy.

So, Geodad… Geodad, right? So Geodad, today’s your first day with us and what you’re going to be doing is changing a lightbulb. Nope, that’s it, just the lightbulb, then you get to go home. Cushy? I guess.

Ok, I’m going to drive you over to the tower- what? Yeah, the KRDK-TV tower. Light’s at the top. Just climb to top there and swap out the bulb.

Just a couple of things: There’s no caging once you get up a ways so you’re just climbing on the outside. This being your first time, you should clip in. It gets gusty up there. Second if you hear a helicopter locate its direction. If it’s above you, climb down. If it’s below, hang on tight and say your hail Marys - you signed the waiver, right? Good, good.

Just a lightbulb, today. I’ll be back to pick you up later this afternoon when you get back down. Have fun!