As amusing as these are, I have to assume that a lot of the time these things aren’t direct predictions of the future, but instead a visual metaphor for what it might look like.

The big funnel full of books (“books go in”) and hand crank (“work is done”) are such that any regular joe of the time can look at it and see “ah yes, this is a machine that eats up books and zaps them into your head!”

If someone had to make a serious prediction at what such a future machine might look like, I doubt it would have looked so haphazard as that, with books funnelled in like coal.

For all I know, this illustration isn’t serious at all, and could be nothing more than political satire - on the danger of technology in education - and massively exaggerated just as our current political satire is. The things of true value (the books) are chewed up like worthless fodder for the machine, while the students sit bored, all the interest of learning taken away, as they can no longer learn for themselves. Meanwhile the “teacher” sits there all pompous, getting paid for apparently doing almost nothing!

There’s a lot of reasons this illustration could be the way that it is.

Ragyo Kiryuin definitely has one of the best personal themes in all of anime https://youtu.be/6M1UU53Y4LE

Damn, now I need to rewatch Kill la Kill

“'Tis but a scratch.”

“A scratch?! Your arm’s off!!”

This - get the no-brand replacement heads. No way would I spend the prices Oral-B are asking.

Sometimes the big brands can end up as better device purchases, since despite being more expensive upfront, there are plenty of cheap third-party consumables available.

Something nonconductive seems the safest choice, so you can’t accidentally short anything.

In the mechanical keyboard community this even-larger-than-ISO-enter size is generally referred to, quite affectionately, as the “bigass” enter.

Yes

Agreed. People deserve to be respected for the job they are doing - no matter what that job is.

Really sends the message to the server “you aren’t doing your job the way I like it, so I’m going to do it for you.”

It’s very presumptuous to interfere in someone’s professional operations, and assume you know what’s going on. What if you pick up someone else’s order by mistake? Then the kitchen has to remake the whole thing because now it’s contaminated. Or if you take the food but leave the “ticket” there and the staff and kitchen get mixed up about what’s gone out and what hasn’t.

Totally messing up the process and shows zero respect for the people doing their jobs.

Sit your ass down and let the staff do what they do. The other customers are all getting their food no problem, and so will you.

I guess this means Microsoft’s similar recent move with Office worked out for them financially, even though it caused a lot of backlash.

I recently swapped my Dad’s Windows computer with my old machine, which I installed Linux on ahead of time.

I told him it was a faster machine - which it was just slightly in the hardware sense, a very minor upgrade. A half-truth to encourage the transition.

But of course, it’s running Linux, not Windows.

Next day he phones me up really happy that it’s “so much faster than the old machine!”

And it really is a lot faster, but it’s not the hardware. It’s just not getting bogged down with all the crap Windows constantly does in the background.

Either way, mission accomplished.

I chose lemm.ee mostly by chance, but I think that it’s worked out okay for me.

My impression is that it’s a mostly neutral instance which doesn’t really have a strong agenda, and federates with most other instances. This is definitely what I want, because it gives me access to the most content.

If there are communities or users I find I have issues with, I can block them myself.

Every major shift in how media is consumed has always come because of evolutions in the technology used to deliver it - going from just a few broadcast channels, to cable, to “on demand” cable and satellite, and finally to Internet delivery.

And it’s just really hard to imagine what delivery technology could provide any new capability beyond the always-on, bidirectional, high capacity data stream in your pocket that is the Internet we now have.

With streaming we’ve already achieved what should in theory be the best way to watch - and with the studios all having their own streaming platform now, there’s not even any middleman to undercut anymore, like there was when the cable companies were cut out by Netflix at the dawn of streaming. This is endgame.

The only thing left now is enshittification.

The one thing that could save us from this fate is if new programs and content are produced that are competitive in quality with what the current giants are putting out, giving people other places to go and forcing competition.

This is what we’ve already seen with indie studios and single developers disrupting the games industry, and perhaps with ever more achievable 3D animation, AI and other accessible production techniques we’ll start seeing this disrupt the film and TV industry too.

Just because something always used to be some way doesn’t mean it’s automatically acceptable.

TV might have been designed for the ad break but what if it wasn’t? You give Star Trek as an example, and here in the UK growing up I watched TNG episodes on BBC2, which is a tax-funded station without adverts. Did the lack of adverts make my childhood TNG experience worse? Personally I’d say it made it better.

Even in the cable TV age, to have adverts in something you are paying for is still horrible, and to me it’s unacceptable.

I will do everything in my power to not expose my brain to a barrage of advertising, and that includes not using any service where I have to subject myself to it.

“So I built her a birthing nest and kept showing it to her and then she didn’t even use it! Can you fucking believe it!!”

Honestly though, very sweet.

Yes.

In fact, I’d say that among all Star Wars TV shows it’s the one which makes the most sense to someone who is unfamiliar with wider Star Wars lore.

Andor is a very independent entity, and everything you need to know to enjoy the show is encapsulated within the show itself.

The only problem watching Andor first is that it’s so good, everything else will feel disappointing in comparison.

Seconded on Fune Wo Amu.

If you are sick and tired of every single anime having the same Generic High School Protagonist, and not a single character over the age of 30, then Fune Wo Amu is a breath of fresh air as a show for adults that isn’t afraid to deviate from the usual formula, and tell a different kind of story.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/32948/Fune_wo_Amu/

What you want is to go to a cheap takeout that isn’t part of a chain. The kind that does burgers AND kebabs AND fried chicken AND curry AND pizza, all in the same place. It’s best if it smells of grease and the middle-eastern guy behind the counter refers to you as “bossman” as a term of endearment.

They’ll sort you out :)

I did buy a (secondhand) nvidia card specifically for AI worlkloads because yes, I realised that this is what the AI dev community has settled on, and if I try to avoid nvidia I will be making life very hard for myself.

But that doesn’t change the fact that it still absolutely sucks that nvidia have this dominance in the space, and that it is largely due to what tooling the community has decided to use, rather than any unique hardware capability which nvidia have.

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