Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things.

Cook diversified Apple’s product lineup, overseeing the introduction of many new products such as the AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, AirTag, Apple silicon in its Mac lineup and expanding its services business.

I block US politics because it’s same whining every day, that by and large has nothing to do with me. Even though I’d like to learn occasionally what new entertaining stuff the pedofascist came up with, I don’t think I’m missing much, and I’m getting closer to the last frame from the OP.

There are ‘erotic’ elements in countless popular performances

Both the US and UK armies set up drag shows with their soldiers during WW2.

Everyone seemingly missed that you linked a different ‘Solaris’.

Since you’re probably thinking of Tarkovsky’s film, be advised that just like with ‘Stalker’, he didn’t really follow the original material, and instead used it to build his own ideas. So it’s a separate art piece.

I still can’t figure out installing Audacious. Keeps telling me the package requires dependancies, but won’t install them.

Does it say which ones? Is Audacious itself installed?

I mean the player giving orders in the HQ and on the field. In the 2012 quasi-remake they’s addressed by staff and soldiers as ‘commander’, if I’m not forgetting anything. (The 2012 version is available on PS Vita, which happens to be convenient for me.)

Gotta say, your tactical approach sounds bloodier than mine. I just have them run from cover to cover nearly always, keep the squad vaguely close but separate, and then shower the targets with bullets. But Wikipedia says that the remake places more emphasis on the cover, and I don’t quite remember how it was in the original games.

Ah yes, the story of Saint Michael’s Castle.

I thought the same, but then the main character in X-Com games is the ‘commander’. I’m still chugging along and dunno if the commander has any unpleasant fate themself, no spoilers please.

Recommendations are a killer feature on YouTube. Only, one needs to cultivate them carefully. Look through the recommendations on an interesting video and save promising ones into the ‘watch later’ playlist (or better yet, separate playlists per topic). Don’t click on random videos, especially from links on social media — use an incognito tab for that.

This works great for me, I have enough videos saved to last me a year or two at least. YouTube learned my taste quite well, especially when it comes to music — found many good albums and tunes in the recs, despite being a snob.

Standup comedians in r/StandupComedy report that following some trends unfortunately does increase views. E.g. censoring ‘obscene’ or ‘violent’ words. Although that’s not as prevalent on YouTube, but they can’t really produce separate videos for various platforms.

Yeah, my understanding is that typically a shopkeeper or someone like that might have an old-style cell dumbphone, without the Facebooks and stuff.

Cory Doctorow explained in one of his articles that the Amish don’t avoid technology indiscriminately, they weigh the harm against the use. His example was that it’s bad when electronic communication replaces face-to-face contact, but it’s no good either if you can’t call a vet when your cow falls ill.

I’m legitimately intrigued as to who implements cyberpunk first: Sovereign Chaebol of Samsung or the United States of FAANG.

Samsung probably already has more political power than actual Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which holds diplomatic relations with 115 states. And, of course, more than less important microstates, too.

he was literally the only person born without the original sin

Going back to the what the OP postulates: what was the ‘original sin’ of Adam upon his creation?

Hold on there. Wasn’t ‘LotR’ supposedly finished by Sam after Frodo dipped?

He’s been around for a hundred years, and is now in his hundred-and-first.

Ironically, I had to use Imgur because Lemmy.world disallows posting and uploads via the VPN that I utilize, and direct upload chokes due to some stupid shit the regulator and providers around here are pulling.

The way things in the Europes and the US are going, in a few years most Western VPNs will be of no avail for accessing the sites I want. We’ll both have to VPN through Mexico or somesuch.

Cory Doctorow predicted this fifteen years ago (transcript here).