Honestly, the brain rot is absurd. By slavery you mean what exactly? That people will have to treat each other with kindness, you can't shit on trans people without getting in trouble? What? If you are against governmental control of speech, well trump seems to be firing people based on their expression of free speech. Our universities are being gutted for their free speech policies, and we're aggressively trying to export those legal residents that speak out against genocide by isreal or against our government. Obviously the next time someone says their pro free speech when trying to defend something abhorrent, if they aren't speaking up now, I don't believe then.

Sealand. Send them all to sealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

That crap was rampant back then. With music too. I had a roommate that was a moderately successful band that toured nationwide. It was depressing signing autographs for fans. Some had them sign a bootleg cd they downloaded from limewire... Like wut. Othertimes they'd brag how they copied the cd so many times for their friends ...

If Metallica was smart they would have started their own steam store but for music. Pre empt apple and do it for artists by artists. But turns out Metal assholes are assholes unlikely to work for the betterment of anyone else. This is a lesson in what to do to save your industry, instead of ignore the burning fire.

Gosh darn it, the one thing that they had to do to keep it simple was to avoid the temptation to add AI. No longer interested in them.

Not as many people need a smart watch. And those that do, don't need to upgrade that often. The older apple watch I have does everything I need as fast and as long as I need it to. Plus a lot of Apple customers have decided upon garmin, for reasons that aren't completely clear. Better battery life, GPS , and some better fitness software I think. I'll buy another apple watch when this one dies or stops working with my phone.

I don't think you understand what DEI is. Think about it like Money ball for cooperate America. You need to acquire talent. You can't just do what everyone else is doing, trying to get the best from the schools you've determined are the best. Talent is in many places you don't expect. If you don't look for it, you won't get it. DEI is about going to places most people have historically ignored and finding ways to measure that talent that others are ignorant of.

Well, if you are in Asia, then you can buy the superior offerings at a lower price point from BYD. Thats what all of China is doing now.

I seriously don't know how anyone gets through modern life without an ios/android phone recent enough to make use of apps. I'm not saying I like it, but so much at least here in the states already requires a person to have one. It does make it extremely difficult for lower income people to just function in the modern world. Some ignorant Americans might point out that airline travel is a luxury, but they've never flown Ryan Air.... Freedom of movement should be available to all at the lowest cost possible.

Climate change and some point spears thrust into them by creatures that didn't understand sustainability. So basically republicans.

Sounds like if they aren't racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic or anti-semitic enough, then he's out.

He was the force behind Cinepaint ( also previously known as Film Gimp) and did a lot of hollywood ditgital effects on major pictures using them. But as a working daily job, he never had time to fully commit to improving the app to keep up with commercial aps. There was hope that Glasgow University would take over and re-write the base to be more modern and updatable, but their version was never stable and it ended up a dead end.

So in summary, Really talented individual, but previously failed to get a community to take his ideas to the next level. So I'm a bit skeptical for that reason in addition to all the other ones people have brought up. If there is some long standing commercial entity funding him in this work, then maybe it has a bit of a chance.

Slashdot is only first world problems. I mean exclusively as far back as I can remember. Maybe the stories on One laptop per child were not, maybe a few other outliers or questionably relevant to non first world problems. But news for nerds is likely going to skew first world centric.

I'll decide for myself how many episodes to watch. The payoff for me has to be faster, and in all of the examples given I should have bailed way before the estimate. There are shows that turn bad too. Breaking Bad, Ironically enough was one for me. Its not a terrible show per se, but its awfully long and drawn out. Too much brutalism and celebration of terribleness for me. Take it, edit it down to maybe three seasons at most and it would be a great series.

The office, first season was terrible, second and third were great and it should have ended there. Shows get lost in repeating and trying to milk what makes it work trashing the product in the process. Make shorter series, leave audiences wanting more, not less.

Ringtones, were a small snippet of a song that they charged you more than the price of the real song to use when you're phone rung. I suspect the rights holders ( including apple), want to resurrect that kind of fee structure for snapshots of films or shows that can then be turned into memes. Charge per meme use => cash cow.

He succeeded early on through a jobs like approach of being a visionary stealing asshole. The only original idea hes ever had was the first X.com which was a bust. But in the past he has succeeded in motivating people to do great work. Now, his companies have internal training on how to deal with him, ie what to say what not to say, how to get him to choose the correct answer absolutely everyone knows is right and think that it was his so they can succeed. They fail a lot on that last bit.