I think that the film would’ve been great if it wasn’t second in a trilogy.

It introduced three extra main characters to an already very packed cast, it killed practically all the story lines started in TFA, it basically broke the Star Wars setting with the Holdo Manoeuvre, and it ended by showing not just a Force Sensitive kid, but a kid that already uses the Force for mundane tasks with ease. After Order 66, this is something tremendously important, and shouldn’t be used as a “cut to ending credits” scene, with the character never mentioned again.

If it was the third film in the trilogy, without all the Canto Bight stuff and with some resolution of the Rey vs Ben story, it’d be a solid 9/10 for me. But as it is, I struggle to give it more than 6.

It relates to horrible, anti-human policies all around. For comparison: in the EU the number of pedestrian fatalities dropped by 40% in a similar period.

It’s good that you love that because you had no point

Only if you literally ignore the two points I was making, then yes.

A bunch of people achieving one single specific outcome is not competing with anyone.

What are you trying to say here?

where make up was not promoted to kids

WTF, are you from the middle ages? Or, like, live under a rock? “Back then” was the late 80s or early 90s - a fourteen year old that ran away from home to bang a rock star was absolutely wearing make-up.

Most of their evidence was grabbed from his backpack while their cameras were off.

It might all get thrown out of court, which would be the most hilarious thing ever.

My sick?

I love how you completely ignored everything I said, and then reiterated your misguided point.

he’s not trying to leave his mark on history

He kind of is, but in the way old-school millionaires did - he has purchased a MASSIVE yacht and turned it into an ocean-floor research laboratory, either donated it to a university, or just allows researchers to use it.

Tidal is great, and their “share with anyone” feature is just flat out 12/10, but I recently moved to Qobuz (French) because they pay the artists around 4 times more than Tidal does. And they’re European.

Oh, how I WISH Qobuz gets the same excellent feature as Tidal has - when you share a link to an artist/album/track from Tidal, and someone else clicks it, two things can happen:

1. If they have Tidal, it will just open the artist/album/track in the app.
2. If they don’t have Tidal, it will open a Tidal-hosted page with links to the shared content on YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, and a couple of other streaming services.

It just magically solves all the issues with people not wanting to switch because they like sharing their music.

It’s not really a mistake with Vivaldi - sure, it’s an EU-based company making an EU-based browser, but they are using Chromium, which is majority controlled by Google.

I think you’re confusing TPM (Trusted Platform Module) with TEE (Trusted Execution Environment).

If not, I’d love some links to read about that TPM with DRM from 20 years ago. However… I don’t know, why would there be backlash about something that has then been implemented anyway, just in TEE instead?

What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

Capitalism.

WTF do western governments got to do with what private companies are doing?

A 27" monitor will not be anywhere near a replacement for 60" TV, I’m afraid.

DisplayPort?

I love that you’re talking about these issues, but the TPM has nothing to do with any of this. It’s also not a hard requirement for Windows 11 (even though that’s basically all the media was talking about).

One of the MANY problems with this administration is that you see a post like this, and you genuinely cannot tell if this actually happened, or if it’s a joke.

How do I report OP for posting my personal details?

apple was known for making excellent UX,

It honestly baffles me how people can say this with a straight face. Iphone’s UX is abysmal.

You open something, and to go back from it you… Look around the screen for clues! Sometimes, you have to swipe down. Sometimes swipe left. Sometimes tap the background. Sometimes tap the top-left corner. Other times, the top-left corner. Unless it’s not just the top-left, it’s the “toppest-leftest”, a small little indicator on the very edge of the screen.

Whereas on Android you go back by tapping the “back” button, or swiping left/right from the edge of the screen (making the gesture ambidextrous). The only exception to this rule is when you’re using an app that was lazily ported from iOS…

Ordinary people made great use of the internet - but failed to make it really decentralized. Thus the enshittification of Reddit, Youtube, social media, and so forth

I don’t think one is related to the other.

Decentralisation doesn’t affect enshittification that much. Look at Lemmy and Fediverse in general - it’s federated… so what? The .world instance is by far the largest in the Fediverse. If the mods there go insane, like they did on Reddit, or if the admins decide to add monetisation to it… it just happens. There being other servers changes nothing for the users stuck on the .world server. Sure, they can create new accounts elsewhere, but that’s - in principle - no different than switching from Reddit to Lemmy.

On the other hand, look at Steam. Valve, the creators of Steam, has no “decentralisation” of their product, they’re the god emperor of everything in terms of how Steam operates. At face value, it’s the same exact product as, I don’t know, the Epic Store, and yet Steam is loved by gamers, while Epic is hated.

No, you can have centralised and not enshittified services just fine - as long as the goal is to provide the service, instead of “creating value for the shareholders”. As soon as that element comes in, there’s no stopping enshittification.

We can choose to embrace local LLM that is fully under our control, or cede ownership to the 1% forevermore.

Agreed.