I agree. If only it hadn't been made with AI, I would have loved it.

Ah, good that the Trump regime is concentrating on the important things. But anyway, they secretly want us all using Antiqua anyway.

And if you're wondering, "December kan wel een beetje McDonald's gebruiken" means "December could use a little McDonald's".

Well, OK, apart from the gratuitous use of AI to make it, I think the commercial is quite subversive and funny. Also, it's clearly intended for the Dutch market, and quite a bit of Dutch humour is subversive and a bit rude.

If they'd have made it without AI, I'd give it a 10/10 for creativity.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running motion and this USB camera. The camera uses visible light when there's enough light and switches to IR automatically when there isn't.

This setup also lets me use wired Ethernet (though you could still use WiFi if you prefer that route.) I have a post-motion-detection script that automatically copies the footage to an off-site server so even if a burglar destroys my pi4, the pictures are safely preserved.

Also Ctrl-MouseWheel works a treat.

Don't use xrandr directly. Use arandr which gives you a nice GUI to configure the monitors. Once you're happy with the layout, you can save it as a shell script (that under the hood does invoke xrandr) so you can replicate the setup each time you log in or each time the system boots.

Our society has become progressively more and more materialistic to the point where "Standard of Living" has come to mean how much stuff you can own rather than how happy and healthy you are.

Honestly, once you have enough stuff for your basic needs, and then a bit more just for fun, I find any additional item is a net negative for my happiness. I also get extremely irritated by built-in obsolescence and I try to make my stuff last as long as possible.

Society teaches us to consume rather than think.

As of 2025-12-09 at 00:40 UTC, it seems to have been released.

I have four monitors hooked up to my graphics card. From left to right, an Acer 1920x1080 display, an LG 1920x1080 display, a Samsung 1920x1200 display, and a Dasung PaperLike e-ink display whose native resolution is 3200x1800 but which I'm software-scaling to 1600x900.

No issues whatsoever with this setup and X11.

I have always through three years was too short for servers and network equipment. Especially nowadays that Moore's Law is slowing down, I think a 5-year depreciation period for servers makes sense.

For AI processors, though, I think three years might be too long given how much change is going on in that space.

Imagine the hilarity when tow trucks incorporate similar anti-theft systems...

I still like going out to a movie. It seems like more of an occasion. Moviegoers here tend to be respectful and quiet, and they will get kicked out if they use their phones during the movie.

As for snacks, any serious moviegoer will smuggle in their own snacks. Or *GASP* last for 150 minutes without eating something.

OK, I live in Canada, so maybe our systems are more sane than yours.

The amount of time I would have had to spend doing payroll would have cost me far more than $45 in time.

And I would never use ADP; ADP totally sucks (I know this having worked at a company that used ADP.) Ceridian was far better.