I'm not sure how Rogue One or Andor came about, but the Mandalorian was pitched as an idea by Jon Favreau. The studio financed it, and, from what I understand, let him do pretty much whatever he wanted. Et viola, an excellent space-western set in the Star Wars universe.

The Book of Boba Fett was made because the Mandalorian was popular and it was decided to make more Star Wars stuff. Not because anyone had a neat idea for a story or a plot, but because more Star Wars stuff was needed.

How to make a good movie:

A director or writer has an idea for a movie. They get a studio to fund it and they go make their movie.

How to make a bad movie:

A big studio gets bought out by an even bigger studio for it's IP. The bigger studio convenes a panel to look for directors to make... something... with the IP they just bought. They lure a director with an enormous amount of money to make a moving using that IP. They have no idea what they are going to make, but there are going to be three films and it's going to use that IP they just bought.

Maybe getting rid of QA and letting customer's find bugs isn't a great pipeline.

I can understand Epic's arguments about Apple's app store. Their arguments about Google make no sense.

It's not that simple. To sell to the government you have to get GSA approved. It's not a trivial process. I'm guessing someone sidestepped the GSA acquisitions requirements.

When we had new windows put on our old house before selling it, one sales guy had an iPad pro. He used it to take pictures of our house, loaded them into an app, and swiped through the different styles of windows so we could see what they looked like applied to our house in real-time. Once we picked what we wanted, he had a Bluetooth printer in his car that he used to print out the quote.

I guess you could do the same thing with a phone and a laptop, or a convertible laptop, but it's fewer things than the former, and smaller than the latter.

It's money wasted in my case. I immediately switched to DuckDuckGo. Took about ten seconds.

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If you want to, you can buy a chunk of land out in the middle of nowhere for almost nothing and subsistence farm. A lot of communes give this a shot. A lot of them fail, because it is arduous, continuous work. $35,000 a year making coffee for people seems pretty good when that's the alternative.

Not sure when I got into computers, but it was really young. My parents bought me, what is probably, the very first V-Tech computer thing with an LCD display and membrane keyboard, about the size of a large hardcover book. I played with it every day for hours.

Then my Dad got me a VIC-20 from a garage sale, probably from someone upgrading to a C64. Taught myself basic from the "Learn Basic" manual it came with, with examples on tape. My dad played Omega Race on it for hours as well.

Banks are only one side of the equation. The other are universities, who can now charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a liberal arts degree, a strata once reserved for students getting juris and medical doctorates.

Or it's way to fund enormously expensive projects. All giant projects are funded with bonds. They always have been.

In addition to conservapedia, there's rationalwiki, started because some think that Wikipedia is too right-leaning.

And to further the point, the expansion of the Soviet economy in the 1950s and 1960s was built on the back of a series of slave labor camps.
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My father in law knew someone from Poland whose father was sent to a camp. Some police showed up at their apartment one morning, told him "You're under arrest," and he was immediately put on a train with a few hundred other "prisoners," shipped off to the middle of nowhere in Russia to work in a car parts factory for five years.

Thanks for the tips. I disabled "Enhanced Turbo" and capped the maximum power draw from ~4000W (WTF?) to 235W, the max recommended for my CPU.

CEP is disabled by default in my UEFI settings now, so I turned that back on, too. I'll keep an eye on temperatures to see if anything goes screwy.