Everyone, literally every big studio, tried to launch their universe. Wizard Universe, Hasbro Universe, Jumpstreet Universe, Transformers Universe, Star Wars Universe, do you remember The Mummy and the Dark Universe? Shit Call of Duty was going to get its universe at some point.

Producers saw that a universe can be highly profitable and just said “I want some of that” (add to it that it’s actually fun and people do want some connected content). They didn’t care about quality though. And Disney doesn’t care about quality, it just so happen that Marvel hit that lightning in a bottle.

The shift now for connected storylines is towards series with spinoffs as needed (The Boys, Invincible, LOTR, why can’t I think of a non-Prime example, I guess ASOFAI/). It’s healthier and easier to test ideas. But even there we saw plenty of low quality low success stuff.

Basically markets shifted and producers are trying to find what they can sell, spending billions on sets and CGI but forgetting to get good writers and directors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_line

Even from a perfect witness (and witnesses are very imprefect) you wouldn’t be able to predict if they have a beard or not. That’s why you always multiple variations of the person when they actually distribute renditions.

Audiophile can still tell the difference in a double blind test.

At that speed most frames would be the same. Unless you’re shooting RAW there is some good compression you can do here.

No I mean all those web services that only allow you to use OAuth to sign in and don’t give you the option of creating a username/password combo.

Serious question; what do you use for OAuth?

I like paying creators their due and don’t like seeing ads. Fuck me, right?

Just QI charging support (MagSafe) would be terrific. I don’t know if the footprint would allow it, but it would be so easy with all the phone wireless chargers out there. Just drop it on for lunch break instead of plugging it in.

I don’t mind the cable, I charge it about once a month for lunch break. But that would be a game changer.

I don’t know if you read the right wiki, but in the history section the first paragraph is:

The Julian day number is based on the Julian Period proposed by Joseph Scaliger, a classical scholar, in 1583 (one year after the Gregorian calendar reform) as it is the product of three calendar cycles used with the Julian calendar:

28 (solar cycle) × 19 (lunar cycle) × 15 (indiction cycle) = 7980 years

Its epoch occurs when all three cycles (if they are continued backward far enough) were in their first year together. Years of the Julian Period are counted from this year, 4713 BC, as year 1, which was chosen to be before any historical record.[28]

It was either that, or earlier, or in the future. That’s the only year that kinda makes sense (solar = lunar = induction = 0). It looks odd but once you know you know, you know?

So I got confused and had to read Wikipedia for this. Day 0 is Jan 1, 4713 BC. I feel this causes more confusion if it isn’t mentioned.

“Then try something randomly and see if you like it. “

They could sync those between devices on the same network. It’s definitely possible to have both.

TrueNAS did make it easy for me to manage my home lab, but I’m more of a software engineer than a devops. Debian if you’re comfortable with managing that.

The logo writes itself.

They’d buy Sony and Nintendo if those were up to sell. For the right price (I dunno, in the hundreds of dollars according to my bank account), I’d buy them too.

Satan accepts all LGBT+ in hell, equally.

Goodbye dream of knowing how many times my car can charge my phone.

AFAICT for self hosted only Plex works with smart TVs.