Actually, I did. And I loved every minute of it.

Do you even watch the show, bro? Isaac is absolutely, unquestionably sentient.

You can say that again. Star Dreck Disastery was an abomination and a crime against humanity.

Dude, it's not anything like Galaxy Quest.

Galaxy Quest was a sci-fi parody and attempted primarly to be funny, with little drama. The Orville, in contrast, isn't even remotely a parody; it's a serious homage to ST:TNG, with bits of comedy as a garnish.

The Orville is my favorite sci-fi show ever. I know, know, some might say The Expanse is better, and it would be hard to argue with that. But The Orville is my favorite of all time.

If you haven't yet seen it, you owe it yourself to check it out.

480p with ads, probably. Or maybe even 360p.

Oh, hell no. That's just asking for them to verify that you're actually watching the ad, instead of walking away to ignore it.

A boring ad—even a long one—that I can step away from and 100% ignore is wayyyy preferable to an interactive ad.

parents?

Usually it's just quirks, or the IE6-flashback message "This site only tested in Chrome" or "This site works best in Chrome". But ... some are a bigger deal.
I recognize the irony, but here's one that doesn't work on Firefox: https://teams.microsoft.com/. (It won't do sound or video!)

It's not acrobatics. I simply don't think "free software" conveys anything useful to the general public — even the general tech public. Following it with "I mean free as in speech" every time doesn't help much either -- especially these days that needs its own extra explanation. Read this on Elon Musk and Twitter, for example. You might or might not agree with the thesis of that article -- but that's exactly the point. If you're lucky, maybe ten minutes later you're back to what you're trying to talk about.

People better understand the term "open source" -- they've probably heard of it, and it gives a better opening. You're right that it often has to be followed up with the benefits beyond code, but that's what I want to talk about anyway, not about the esoteric philosophy of "freedoms" or "software rights" or whatever. (Source: I talk to diverse groups of people about this stuff all the time. )

I can have those conversations. However, people tend to have widely disparate and strongly-held -- but not very well introspected! -- ideas of about the concepts of rights, freedoms, fairness, justice, and so on. It'd be helpful if people had something like this in their basic education, because without it there are going to be deep assumptions that end up with people talking past each other and. Sometimes fun, especially with a reasonably-sized group of people with good faith intention to understand each other better. But ... for a general tech interview? Nah.

Anyway, I do sometimes say "open source and free software" or "free and open-source software" for the right audience -- I think you'll find that in this interview, in fact. It's not like I'm allergic.

FTFY

My god. I can't imagine sitting 5.5 feet away from a 40" TV, much less 11 feet. That's way too far away for movie-watching, in my opinion.

I prefer to sit at a distance that creates an equilateral triangle between my eyes and the left/right edges of the display. So for a 43" diagonal screen, a distance of about 37" is optimal for me. And for an 80" screen, I'll want to sit about 70" away.

JPEG-XL is better than WebP, though.

JPEG-XL, though, on the other hand... Is going to wipe the f***ing floor with PNG.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulfs on a chip!