Flash had a myriad of problems. Web devs celebrated its death.

Alaska. Gorgeous state.

Darek Smart will always be the GOAT of… whatever this thing is called.

When it’s a truly great question, there won’t be an answer. It’ll be at the fringes of knowledge of any expert.

I was at a panel with Joel Robinson once, and I asked how he’d compare getting started in public access stations vs doing YouTube today. He said it was a great question, but didn’t have much of an answer. He’s self-admittedly an old man who didn’t have to start from scatch on YouTube.

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OK, so not your first time. I misread that.

I would recommend having someone around as a trip sitter for a first time.

Yeah, Sony is just better at this. They’re really good at taking advantage of their competitors’ mistakes.

We forget a lot now, but the opening of the PS3/Xbox 360 era looked like Microsoft was winning. Sales looked good for them, Blu-ray be damned. Then the Red Ring of Death hits. In some ways, Microsoft has yet to recover from that. Sony held their face just above the toilet water ever since.

Instructions unclear, now sitting in basement.

Microsoft’s original plan was to own the living room the way they own the office space. Not just gaming, but all your movies, TV, shopping, etc. could be done through the XBox.

Kinect was a particularly big jump in that regard. There were demos of AR-type stuff where you could see yourself wearing clothes you might want to buy. You could move around and the clothes on screen would move with your body. There’s some promo videos of that, but nothing concrete ever came of it.

Now they have slagging sales for two generations, and a AAA industry that struggles to make a real hit and is laying off a lot of people. They can’t even hold onto the core gaming market much less get their tendrils into the rest of the living room. They then release a handheld that’s basically an upgrade of an existing handheld that wasn’t selling very well, but now with XBox branding.

Is this a problem for the rest of us? No, not really. There’s plenty of alternatives, and we don’t need to care. Is this the result the money people at Microsoft envisioned when they started this ~25 years ago? No, not at all.

Welcome to everywhere. 3.5" disks in German are called “dreieinhalb Zoll Disketten”, and in Dutch “drie punt vijf inch floppys”. Both of those translate roughly to “three and a half inch disks/floppies”. Everyone borrowed US computer terms and translated them directly.

No country uses the metric system exclusively. None. You will find exceptions if you look for them. This isn’t some kind of moral failing, it’s just practicality. Look at how car tires are sold for one example that’s nearly universal due to industry standards.

This is why for retro computers, I tend to prefer CompactFlash. IDE->CF adapters are cheap, and the cards are much higher quality. They effectively become an SSD that works on old stuff. (Just because I like retro computing stuff doesn’t mean I want the whole experience, like waiting for disk heads to move, or worse, tape drives to finish reading. I’m old enough that I remember dealing with it and I don’t need to deal with it again.)

Not a lot of call for them otherwise, though. SD cards have gotten increasingly good bandwidth, which means they’re good enough for a lot of higher end cameras. CF is getting squeezed out.

How airtight is airtight? Cheap Ziploc bags or Tupperware won’t be enough in the long run. Maybe if you used a pressure sealed preservatives jar. Those will need to be heated up in a pressure cooker, so butter will melt and reconstitute.

Sorta. Anything fatty tends to pick up flavors from the environment. Now, in the cold, those chemical reactions are slowed down, but they’re not stopped. If you leave it there for a while, it’ll pick up off flavors. Still generally safe to eat, but you won’t like it.

Human anatomy took some strange turns in the Star Wars universe. There was cross breeding with the Killik back when everyone was slaves of the Rakatan Infinite Empire. Now human females have an ovipositor that rips right through thin plastic bags.

Seems like every time the hype is about to die, there’s a big announcement about a model breakthrough. The breakthrough usually isn’t as revolutionary as it first appears, but it’s enough to keep funding going.

In the advanced class, we use orbital sanders.

Specifically these issues: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

The big one is that video/audio playing endpoints can be used without authentication. However, you have to guess a UUID. If Jellyfin is using UUIDv4 (fully random), then this shouldn’t be an issue; the search space is too big. However, many of the other types of UUIDs could hypothetically be enumerated through brute force. I’m not sure what Jellyfin uses for UUIDs.

Be the reason they had to put up a sign.

Maybe not in this case, though.

Why I change my own oil. Not because I save money–generally don’t even before your time is factored in–but because I know how to put on an oil pan bolt without cross threading it.

It just needs to be clear and set close to the max fill line. If it’s low and/or dark, it wasn’t done right.

Alternatively, if you’re in a place dedicated to oil changes, you can assume it wasn’t done right.