The first one is the only one I enjoy because it is a good movie.

I like The Lost World because I am a big fan of Goldblum’s sarcastic portrayal of Ian Malcolm. I like 1 scene from 3. Where Grant is dreaming and a raptor looks at him and says “Alan”. That shit was so stupid, it was perfect. It still blows my mind that made it into a movie with the kind of budget and financial expectations Jurassic Park 3 had.

The general premise of Jurassic World had promise. But they ruined it by making up a dinosaur hybrid and just letting it be a monster of the week abomination tear ass-ing through the park in broad day light. What the character of John Hammond did worked because the resulting monsters were based on something that was once real, and because his motivations seemed like something an actual human would try to do with enough hubris and money thinking he was doing something good for humankind. What they turned Dr. Woo and everyone into in Jurassic World was just a mix of incompetence and mustache twirling evil. Which isn’t funny unless its played for camp.

Never bothered with any of the others.

I try to knock off work an hour earlier than I planned to in the morning and take my dog for a walk. Sometimes I even leave my phone behind. It is surprisingly relaxing just knowing I could have a heart attack back in the tree line and the dog would be the only other thing to know where I was.

It’s not the $3/month ad free Tubi type service that is the bad part. It is the part where it is attached to Roku. That company has proven the kind of trash they are already.

Without having much knowledge of AI models beyond surface level stuff I read, but a good understanding on how computers work it seems fairly predictable to me that running an AI model in the browser session locally would be CPU intensive. As such you would think as a developer you would start with adding the feature as off by default, so users that want it can turn it on and you can get some real world metrics on how bad that hit is going to be before bending the entire user base over the AI kitchen table so to speak.

So both doing it for something as trivial as tab grouping and making it something you have to go into about:config to disable seems really stupid.

I found some generic guitar riff mp3 years ago I liked. Been using that on every phone since then.

I find that most people that romanticize this sort of middle of nowhere living tend to only consider it from the point of view of that time period in their lives when they are healthy and able to go years without needing convenient access to medical services.

But not his job right? He alone is far too valuable to be replaced by an IDE. /s

Gross. It looks like an open air mall food court.

Most western governments look at the ability of some of the more authoritarian places ability to just snap there fingers and make the entire internet go away with great envy.

You mean an LLM that doesn’t have the ability to understand context fails to make decisions that require context to do properly? Shocking /s

Then those EU firms should immediately make getting out of anything and everything Microsoft a top priority. As a US citizen, all our government and companies understand is personal profit and personal data hording. So make it hurt where they will feel it.

Petitions like this are meaningless unless they come with a viable solution to the duopoly in payment processing that is Visa and Mastercard.

It doesn’t matter what Valve agrees with, if they want to survive as a business they have to ultimately do what the only 2 companies that handle the payment processing tells them to do.

I miss the days of boring US politics

If ad networks weren’t the number 1 way to get malware installed on your machine, didn’t slowly take over the dedicated space for the actual content of a website, or put pressure on the websites in question to only publish things inoffensive to the advertisers maybe adblockers wouldn’t be such an issue.

If your site can’t exist without being a cesspit of annoying and useless infomercials and a deployment mechanism for malicious code injection then your site should not exist.

Not too many people had an issue with static banner ads back in the day after all except greedy website operators and advertisers.

I use whatever the latest Ubuntu LTS is on my desktops and usually laptops (besides my Macbook) at the time, and whatever the latest stable Debian release is at the time on my home lab servers.

I am very much a utilitarian and function over form kind of person so I choose what I do because it is the best fit for the problem I was trying to solve, usually with little thought to looks or UI design. I find I don’t really care so much how something is done on a given platform, just that there is a way. As a result stuff like theme options, dynamic wallpapers, etc are not something I really care about. I have been using the same black image as my wallpaper on every computer I have used for at least a decade now for example. I arrange the UI in whatever way I feel is the most functional for me within the constraints of what the platform supports out of the box. Meaning I couldn’t care less for stuff like the old school Window blinds program and what not.

Ubuntu over Windows because I wanted to get away from the ever increasing ads and general slop that Microsoft was putting into Windows while still retaining some support for gaming(thanks to Valve and Proton) and building my own systems.

Debian on servers over Ubuntu or something RPM based because Debian stable is rock solid and will run whatever you put on it without issue in my experience.

If it is a Qualcomm variant for the US, nope. Samsung does not allow bootloader unlocking on those anymore. I think some enterprising people have found unpatched exploits that have allowed some models to be unlocked and rooted. But it is sadly not a common thing with those anymore.

The Pixel is the most friendly to the custom rom scene these days. Although with the recent changes to purging the device tree’s from upstream AOSP, I’ve read that Google is starting to make it much harder to use as a practical feature on the Pixels as well.

Willfully breaking an NDA with one of the most litigious companies in the world for what is essentially fake internet points is a bold strategy Cotton. Doesn’t look like it is going to work out for him.

The stuff you are complaining about are not only not in your control on either platform but are the result of deals between carriers and OEMs, not technical options or limitations of the OS imposed by the OEM post sale. Which is what I was talking about. Your options for getting rid of that carrier junk also expand greatly with ADB.

Additionally the iPhone comes with tons of pre-loaded apps included in the OS image that someone might not want as well (Stocks, Numbers, etc). It is just that it is Apples apps and for some reason a lot of people have a blind spot when the bloatware is coming from the OEM themselves. Some of them not completely uninstallable either, like the calender app if I remember right. The UI says “uninstall” but if you go to the App Store to reinstall it there is no download or install time, the app just instantly “installs” and reappears in the app list. In other words it was still on the file system the entire time, just like Androids disabled apps.

I wouldn’t praise Apple too much. They are the poster child of “our way or the highway”. At least Android, to be fair that has more to do with the original roots than Google being a good guy, you nearly always have options to turn this kind of thing off even if the OEM doesn’t want you to. If Apple doesn’t give you a toggle you are usually SOL.