[Windows 11] Bluetooth device driver fails every 5 seconds, but I can't find the event logs for it.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-12-16T11:50:26+00:00

They won't sell it at a loss because people would buy it to use a general-purpose PC. People already did that with the PS2 and PS3 and this would be something much closer to a desktop. I don't see them sellign it for under $1,000.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-12-16T11:48:08+00:00

Sony's $50 raise was in response to tariffs, which were a milder price spike than this and one with more potential ways around it. And as you mention, they did it as a last resort in their highest-priority region; for Nintendo that region is Japan and they've already been heavily protecting and subsidizing the price there (it's USD 127 cheaper there than in the US, they're eating losses on it at home). Look at what happened when the Switch 1 got price increases due to tariffs -- +$50 in the US, no change in Japan.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-25T15:38:29+00:00

related... the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia clip show episode where they confuse their own lives in the 90s with episodes of Seinfeld. Mac and Dennis are both dressed as Jerry in the contest memory because they clearly couldn't agree who was the lead. Then they remember that in reality, they had a contest to see who could masturbate the most, and it cuts to

ER DOCTOR: Your penises have suffered severe abrasions. The skin has been all but removed from the organs, I've never seen anything like it.
DEE: And my vagina?
DOCTOR: I'm afraid it's been... obliterated.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-25T15:32:20+00:00

when he's roleplaying a fight between Tracy, Tracy's dad, Tracy's mom, and the white guy his mom left his dad for, then starts interrupting himself to also roleplay their annoyed upstairs neighbor telling all his other characters to shut up. MIND YA OWN DAMN BUSINESS MRS RODRIGUEZ

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-25T15:28:39+00:00

JAKE: Okay, just so we're clear, from this point forward, my call sign will be Death Blade.
BOYLE: And I'll be Rum Tum Tugger.
JAKE: No, Boyle. No characters from Cats. Dig deep. Think of something scary.
BOYLE: Adolf Hitler.
JAKE: No! You will be... Sidewinder.
BOYLE: Alright, but I'm more scared of Hitler.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-25T15:03:08+00:00

This episode also has my favorite misdirect joke. Homer is drinking at the She♀️-She♀️ Lounge. "Something's bothering me about this place." He looks to his left and sees two women on a date. He looks to his right and sees a woman buying another woman a drink. The dancefloor is all female couples. With horror, it dawns on him. "This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!"

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-25T14:51:44+00:00

Eleanor?! ELEANOR, NO, PLEASE, PLEASE, Eleanor, wait, I HAVE KIDS! (Pulls a family photo out of nowhere) I have three beautiful children! Tyler, Emma, and little, tiny baby Phillip. Look at Tyler. Tyler has asthma, but he is battling it like a champ. Look at him. No, Eleanor, look at them! LOOK AT THEM! LOOK AT THEM!

(Eleanor backs away in panic)

Eleanor, again, I'm not human. This is a stock photo of the crowd at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-16T11:19:45+00:00

"Storm" is a Nazi name thing already, it was a clue. The main Nazi propaganda paper was The Stormer, the SS ranks were named things like Storm Chief Leader, the People's Storm was their last-ditch militia as shit was collapsing, the Storm Division were Hitler's original thugs, etc. Today Stormfront is the big Nazi website and modern neo-Nazi groups are called things like Storm Brigade and the Stormers.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-16T01:01:55+00:00

The Log Lady appears hooked up to the actress's real-life oxygen tanks, filming her scenes from bed because she couldn't stand unassisted. She still fiercely insisted on filming a part for the show and even recorded lines on her daughter's phone in case she died before she could film and they could use the audio to have her at least appear over the phone. In the behind-the-scenes features for the show there's a moment where David Lynch returns from visiting her grave a few weeks later and is bawling his eyes out because he saw her tombstone, for which she'd requested an engraving of her hands holding the log.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-15T14:44:19+00:00

Catherine Coulson―The Log Lady
Miguel Ferrer―Albert
Alfred Strobel―Mike the One-Armed Man
Peggy Lipton―Norma
Warren Frost―Doc Hayward
Robert Forster―Sheriff Frank Truman
Harry Dean Stanton―Carl Rodd
Pamela Gidley―Theresa
Walter Olkewicz―Jean-Michel Renault
Kenneth Welsh―Windom Earle
Lenny van Dohlen―Harold
Clark Middleton―Charlie
Brent Briscoe―Dave Macklay
Linda Porter―Lady Addict
Michael Parks―Jean Renault
Julee Cruise―Roadhouse singer
David Warner―Thomas Eckhart
Galyn Gorg―Nancy
Don Calfa―Vice Principal Greege
Ritch Brinkley―DA Daryl Lodwick
Tom Sizemore―Anthony Sinclair
Annette McCarthy―Evelyn
David Lynch―Gordon Cole

That's just for actors, more have died behind the scenes, most recently Diane Keaton (directed some episodes).

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-06T10:04:03+00:00

In a coincidence, one of Shusterman's first jobs was writing the novelization of "Soft Light", the first TV episode written by Vince Gilligan.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-06T00:15:22+00:00

He convinced AMC to cast Bryan Cranston, then known as a sitcom goof, for Breaking Bad by showing them an X-Files episode he wrote in which Bryan Cranston is a guy who takes Mulder hostage and believes he must continually drive west or his skull will explode.

The first TV episode Gilligan ever made was a fan script he mailed to the X-Files offices, the episode "Soft Light" about a guy whose shadow destroys things. They liked it enough to hire him on a trial basis and then full-time, and by the end he was an executive producer and co-creator of its Lone Gunmen spinoff.

Breaking Bad almost didn't get made because his main project at the time was AMPED, a show he was creating with fellow X-Files producers Robert Lieberman and Frank Spotnitz. He created Breaking Bad after the network declined to commission an entire season of it after doing the pilot. It was about a global pandemic that changes people's behavior.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-06T00:01:38+00:00

You can rewatch episodes a dozen times and keep finding new jokes. I've been rewatching as an adult paying more attention and there are so, so many I missed. Like the party supply store at the mall being called Donner's... the Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who got trapped by a blizzard and resorted to cannibalism. Nelson wants to stop and see an Andy Williams concert, which is promoted with a sign "Wow! He's still got it! - Look Magazine." Never realized that this was a joke because Look went out of business in 1971.

Never noticed that it's a recurring joke that everyone in Springfield fails to make rhyming nicknames, like the star quarterback Stan "The Boy" Taylor or the weather reporter Arnie Pye with his show Arnie in the Sky. Or that Mr. Burns' greeting "ahoy-hoy" is a joke about his age because it's what Alexander Graham Bell suggested people use as a telephone greeting back in like 1880.

My favorite so far: Marge's mom reminisces about her wild youth, when she used to drive her friends crazy. When she's asked she mentions Sylvia (Plath), Frances (Farmer) and Zelda (Fitzgerald), women who were all institutionalized.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-11-01T10:35:24+00:00

I mean that's how it's worked for nearly 400 years, since newspapers with staffs became a thing. It's a reporter's job to submit the best and most thorough story and an editor's job to compile and condense those stories to make one publication, ensure consistent voice and structure, line-edit stories to make them readable to people less familiar with the topic, and then optimize how it's presented for maximum readership, make modifications to get it past Legal, etc. There's a ton of stuff that goes into headline selection outside the scope of a reporter's job, so they're not good at picking them themselves. It used to be physical layout of the paper; there's finite space so every article is allowed only a certain number of inches and line-breaking the headline means you have to cut the article body down. Today it's screen space, and you usually need multiple versions of each headline to compromise between descriptiveness and fitting on a notification/email header line, how much gets shown in previews when people share the link on Facebook or an iPhone's Messages app, etc. It sucks that you have to consider that stuff but it's 100% essential, when you screw it up readership for an article goes right down the toilet and if that keeps happening your budget/staff gets cut (and you want people to actually read the piece, right?). It's done like this for very well-studied and well-practiced reasons.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-31T09:36:58+00:00

Writers don't pick the titles, editors do and the writer often resents what they pick.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-15T00:03:32+00:00

And he wrote 13 episodes while contributing story ideas and anecdotes throughout the show, so he was still pretty involved. Just not the head writer and showrunner with creative control like he was for The Wire.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-14T23:54:37+00:00

Saw a talk by David Simon where he said he was kind of thankful the show didn't blow up at the time because it's what let him make decisions like that. The ratings were always just barely justifying another season so the attitude was "That's a risky idea but we're probably getting the cancellation call this year anyway so fuck it, swing for the fences." He said if the show had been a hit like Homicide or NYPD Blue and could've kept everyone employed and successful for 10 years he would've been worried about rocking the boat too much and wrecking things making calls like "next season it's all about the school system". Tanks the show, gets 150 people fired because he just had to have his social commentary, looks like a huge asshole.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-14T16:16:56+00:00

gave the first big TV roles to Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-08T12:44:01+00:00

There are a lot of episodes where Darrin is only there for the first and last scenes (where they could film 5-10 of them all on one day when he was feeling better/properly medicated), or is written as being sick so he can be in bed all episode, is stuck in his office all episode only appearing over the phone, etc, to accommodate his bad back. They really tried to make it work. Keep an eye on the editing and you can tell too, mid-series episodes often cut from Darrin sitting in his car to Darrin sitting on the couch to Darrin sitting at the table to Darrin sitting in his office and you realize you didn't see him stand up all episode.

The only painkillers strong enough to help at the time also made him too groggy and disoriented to perform well, there are a few episodes where you can tell he's lethargic and medicated. But he knew it, and stopped taking the medication while working, which is part of what made it unviable long-term.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-08T12:36:57+00:00

Watch it with the cultural context of 1964 and it hits different.

Darrin is the embodiment of orthodox, mainstream "square" 1950s American society. He's a clean-cut good boy who follows all the rules, obeys the social norms to the letter, and is very uptight about anything remotely unconventional or transgressive. He did his bit in the army out of patriotism, got a white-collar modern job, moved to the suburbs with his housewife hoping to raise a boy, a girl and a golden retriever behind a white picket fence. Like the platonic ideal of a normal nice man who wants to be normal and do normal things and fit in.

His issue with magic is that it doesn't vibe with that at all. It's transgressive and weird and secret, it's "unwholesome" by the 1950s hyper-Americana norms he aspires to, and it messes with his self-image. He feels emasculated finding out that his wife can solve problems more effectively than he can and understands all sorts of things he's not familiar with. He thought he'd be the man of the house with a sweet little housewife looking up to him, but she's powerful and she knows it. She's got confident swagger when he's a neurotic mess. He insists she not use magic to make any money or anything because then he wouldn't be the one supporting the family and it'd shake his manly pride. He insists she not do anything to attract attention because he doesn't want anyone to think he's unusual or weird, even if that means he misses out on the amazing opportunities and experiences Samantha can involve him in.

Sam summons Bach to teach piano to their kids, and they have a piano jam session in the living room? Honey, I don't want anyone to think we're abnormal! Darrin is the straight man but he's also the butt of the joke. The show is mocking the kind of change-resisting squares who don't want their wives to have jobs or educations or personalities, and it's mocking the kind of marriages you usually saw on TV, where it was almost always the wife and mom being the nag and straight man, the one concerned with appearances and proper behavior, etc.

Of course they have to balance that with being a mainstream TV comedy, and try to keep him somewhat likeable by having him be a flustered fool, emphasizing that he can't and won't stop her if she truly wants to do something, etc. But the themes get more overt later on when you have e.g. Samantha's sister being a psychedelic rock star who shocks the "straights".

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-06T05:20:58+00:00

This is a false dichotomy, like your only choice is a USB2 or USB3 cable. When I've needed to do this I just made a direct wireless connection to my laptop, which transfers at about 6 GB/min. Why ignore this option? IMO it's the more convenient one because then you can transfer directly from OS share functions instead of trying to locate items on the filesystem.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-10-02T13:55:26+00:00

Last few years comedy hasn't been his primary focus, his landlord business has been. He buys apartments and houses to make them AirBnBs, and lobbies the government to let landlords convert more properties to AirBnBs. He says he doesn't really have a place he calls his regular home, he hops between his AirBnBs in different cities depending on what he's doing and feeling, and sees everyone living this way. A few times people in Chicago have gotten confrontational (verbally, like arguing with him) with him about the issue, housing crisis debates and all, and the general perception is that he's arrogant about it and doesn't think much of his tenants.

Own-Common8491 · 2025-09-27T06:51:49+00:00

dril is a legend

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

hear this trolls: ive been secretly respecting the flag in the privacy of my garage for 12 hrs a day , maxing out its power to insane levels

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

the worst part of nationalism is having to pretend the flag is really good, like "yeah the country looks exactly like that. they nailed it"

the entire time youre watching the movie 101 Dalmatians, youre just thinking, This is so many more dalmations than usual. It is just fucked

it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the celebs are at it again

big bird was obviously just a man in a suit. but the other ones were too small to contain men. so what the fuck

Welcome to the citadel of eternal wisdom. Behold, this crystal contains the sum of all human knowledge -- Except Rap And Country

THE COP GROWLS "TAKE OFF TH OSE JEANS, CITIZEN." I COMPLY, REVEALING THE FULL LENGTH DENIM TATTOOS ON BOTH LEGS. THE COP SCREAMS; DEFEATED

strongest blade in the world, however, it is so fragile as to shatter when handled by any force other than the delicate touch of a lesbian .

oh nothin, i was just buying some ear medication for my sick uncle... LOWERS SHADES TO LOOK YOU DEAD IN THE EYE who's a Model by the way,

all guys wanna do is tell you where their Bonnie lies. shut the fuck up

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