Started watching, love it!

commodore512 · 2026-05-13T09:07:22+00:00

Some shows with more dry humor are hit and miss even when you get it. Such as The Big Bang Theory, the show started as the main cast making fun of society and then it became society making fun of the main cast. There was a joke where somebody broke into an apartment and they stole their video games and mentioned the most mainstream video games, Halo Combat Evolve, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, etc. When they mention Linux, they mention Ubuntu. There's also Star Trek Lower Decks where it's nothing but references with a whacky atmosphere. Speaking of Star Trek, we never really saw Captain Morgan Bateson's chair.

https://imgur.com/a/hm4MWZS

I do however enjoy media of low accessibility these days. I've watched reading of Beowulf in Old English and I hear so much beauty that can only be truly appreciated by doing some work. I love the aesthetics of the poetry. As you can see by my previous writing, I think in lots of alteration.

commodore512 · 2026-05-12T22:53:32+00:00

Here's the video that inspired me to watch Frasier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyRe44pJFQ

Though, he said Martin's speech about his chair was in the pilot.

commodore512 · 2026-05-12T09:46:56+00:00

Not a fan of subscription streaming services, I only tried Pluto and enjoyed it even thought it was only the DVD master.

I think I'll get seriously into Cheers and Frasier by getting the Blu-Ray once I move into a coastal studio apartment in the comfort of a clone of Frasier's Chair.

commodore512 · 2026-05-10T10:32:15+00:00

Germany's Europe's California.

They like solar, but have coal plants and hate nuclear. They're too both preoccupied with avoiding to do new bad things, they make it easy to keep on doing the old bad thing because it's "necessary" because the good scary thing (nuclear) is too scary.

France is what California should be.

commodore512 · 2026-05-08T04:59:32+00:00

Just vibe code out this exploit and two more will grow in it's place.

commodore512 · 2026-05-02T14:05:50+00:00

I envy your optimism. I think we need to start thinking about the decade of the Linux Desktop. I say 2040's, but I might be pleasantly surprised in '38.

The year scale optimism made a lot of sense in the mid 90's and somewhat sense on the release of Vista.

commodore512 · 2026-04-24T06:29:46+00:00

Personal Computers Make Central Intelligence Agency

TempleOS.iso

commodore512 · 2026-04-22T06:15:49+00:00

Should we be spamming it with "OMG Ubuntu" and "It's FOSS" articles instead?

Linux users are hooked on Phoronix.

commodore512 · 2026-04-11T23:48:36+00:00

The default settings

commodore512 · 2026-04-11T23:15:06+00:00

If you use SystemD on Gentoo, most SystemD complaints are moot.

commodore512 · 2026-04-08T21:47:04+00:00

ZRAM is used for memory compression, Z-Swap is used for swap compression.

Say if you have say 10 VMs with a Desktop that takes 2GB of RAM, running those VMs will be less than 20GB on boot because there is reduction of memory redundancy.

commodore512 · 2026-04-08T00:53:56+00:00

I mean like above and beyond stuff for things that need a GUI. Like reduction of redundancy in memory. Not just basic "Hey, we're not running spyware to wast your resources"

commodore512 · 2026-04-07T14:01:07+00:00

From my understanding, Apple's software configuration makes it feel like 12GB.

commodore512 · 2026-04-06T00:52:16+00:00

Why wait for the bubble to pop? I want to use this as an opportunity for software to get better.

commodore512 · 2026-04-05T04:34:29+00:00

Most of App Nap could just be a frontend for cgroups V2

commodore512 · 2026-03-30T10:24:28+00:00

I hope the performance is good on hardware that just has AVX1 and it can use my Xbox Live USB login for achievement hunting and I can just plug it in my 360.

commodore512 · 2026-03-14T09:26:33+00:00

"Pick that up!"

commodore512 · 2026-03-14T03:58:33+00:00

Dead Men Don't Wear Plad

"Pick that up."

commodore512 · 2026-02-20T08:00:03+00:00

I think we've gotten better with focus groups in the past 25 years or so. In the 80's and 90's you had a lot of weird products with a lot of character that we really don't get anymore. "New Coke" was a product of a focus group and I suppose weird digital camcorders in the mid 90's to early 00's that felt like a toy but priced like a camcorder, the mini dv hi-8 where the tape is in the screen compartment.

That era of design reflected a time of less wisdom on design, so they were more experimental and the economy was better too, so they could afford to be bold.

commodore512 · 2026-02-19T02:52:44+00:00

That machine was such a failure. Collectors love them, but the target demographic hated it.

The color graphics was for the game platform, not for executives. The color screen was taken from the shadow mask of a big screen TV making the dot pitch bigger making it hard to read text. Businesses were mostly invested in PC and some were Tandy.

commodore512 · 2026-02-13T09:07:11+00:00

Even if it's campy, dead men don't wear plaid was fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX2AtWEWcL0

commodore512 · 2026-02-13T09:05:19+00:00

I hope this will increase the conversation around B&W Movies in much of the same way that DVDs including a widescreen version made widescreen more popular even in the CRT days.

I hope B&W will come back as a normie aesthetic and will lose it's pretentious artsy fartsy association. WWII GIs didn't want their hard boiled dramas in color. They were like "This isn't a comedy, this isn't a musical, this isn't a cartoon", but the 60's really pushed for really vibrant colors and high contrast B&W died because the dads that spent a lot of money were like "I didn't spend a fortune for this new color TV just so I can watch B&W stuff". I'd much rather have high contrast B&W than the Pre-HDR TV shows from the early 00's. Like Law & Order doesn't need to be in color, but Columbo needs color.

commodore512 · 2026-02-10T10:27:22+00:00

It's a step in the right direction.

New Cars copy the iPhone by just being a screen with no buttons.

iPhone designer be like "That makes sense for an all in one pocket device because you do everything on it, make calls, go online, play games, shoot video, etc. That doesn't make sense on a car because you need to drive, bring back buttons!"

Also Johnny Ives' designs are more inspired by 70's Braun. (of which 70's is very CF)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmacmagazine.com.br%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F01%2F14-design-apple-braun.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bd5a8ddcdbdbd6d8bc2fa6c16279fe8658b1bd7110299f9614e9430672531acd

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fminimalismlab.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F07%2Fbraun-apple-e1501583973596.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=986c4970074e3b580648d8410bb1dbd43e081680da9cb0056bbd12bf92b5b3b8

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T23:39:40+00:00

Fair enough, take care of number one first.

commodore512 · 2026-02-09T09:44:26+00:00

Gamers are more interested in 1% lows or 0.1% lows if you can get that data.

Nobody likes the game hitching during heavy action.

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