You are preaching to the choir - it's actually kinda difficult to get a well-designed case *without* a window - but it makes us old farts fossils in the gamer kids' eyes.
Same with internal components encrusted with programmable LEDs...
When I say I have a Queue I mean it, LOL
I don't religiously update it, but it is there.
BUT...
Bro, why is selecting text on Mastodon's default web so freakin hostile? trying to copy an account name is an exercise in frustration #OldManYellsAtCloud
@norootcause I think about this a lot. I'd never heard the term "AGI" until basically all statistical algorithms were labeled as "AI".
I think LLMs are neat and useful, but before 2014 or so, "AI" meant something far more advanced than anything we're labeling as AI today. It frustrates me that it's been cheapened to something that is only capable of replicating the unearned confidence and complete lack of self-awareness exhibited by the worst people you've ever met.
Hey "UX" designers; stop removing UI components that "clutter" the design or "waste space", they're there for a reason.
For example, here's Vivaldi's settings dialog. It's resizable if you grab the ~1 pixel at the edge. WHERE IS THE EDGE?
Remember when we had human interface guidelines, before mobile design made everything worse? Good times.
Fucking pathetic. God I hate setting up Windows systems.
The first nag was on the google.com/chrome download page. Edge/Windows injects a toast message in the corner nagging you that 'We're the same as Chrome, but you can trust us!' The only button takes you out of the Chrome download page while they play 'Hide the close button' in the system dialog. 'With the added trust of Microsoft'. Oh, fuck off! Edge's whole fucking shtick is 'AI Powered Browser' which, by it's very fucking nature, sucks up every bit of information it can and feeds it back to the mothership. That's on top of the default Edge experience assaulting your senses with every fucking thing in the world crammed onto the new tab page. The default new tab page looks like what your grandma's computer in the mid 2010s looked like when it was infested with every adware/toolbar ever made. The second nag was when you go to set anything but Edge as the default browser. The action you went there to perform demoted to a tiny secondary link. Just goes to show: if you can't compete and provide something people want, just abuse your position to trick people into sticking with your garbage.
A couple of days ago, I watched Jaws (1975) again. It turns 50 this year, and is widely credited as being the first "summer #blockbuster" #movie, which (for better or worse) has set the tone for Hollywood studios ever since.
The movie holds up really well.
A couple of days before *that*, I went down a rabbit hole of the #production costs of the most expensive films ever made. To pick one example near (but not at) the top of the list, there's Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Adjusted for inflation, its production cost is over US$400M.
Four hundred million US dollars.
#Jaws, not adjusted for inflation, cost US$9M. Nine million. Its budget was originally set for $4M, but because of shooting on the ocean, which hadn't been done for a major feature, there were unexpected costs, and the mechanical #shark effects ended up costing a lot more than planned. Adjusting for #inflation gives a number somewhere in the neighbourhood of US$50M.
Jaws is a #film people remember. It has a good story, relatable and likeable characters, action, suspense, etc, etc.
The #Avengers movie cost eight times as much and ... I barely remember it. It had lots of #pixels. It had wooden acting. It was utterly forgettable, even though it was supposed to be the climax of the "#MCU". In fifty years, will anyone remember it, or any #Marvel film? Doubtful.
I wish #Hollywood would get back into telling #stories, rather than trying to be #videogames you can't play, just watch.
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