Much like Tron Legacy, I expect it will be a fun, action-packed movie but won't blow my mind like the original Tron.
Still, I'll be taking off October 10, 2025 to watch this.

WinAMP isn't "open source" according to the licensing terms. (e.g., "No Distribution of Modified Versions")

The original WinAMP was Windows only; foobar2000 supports three times as many OSs: Windows, MacOS, and iOS.

And I'm not sure what about foobar2000 is inherently "iTunes", except that a MacOS version exists as well. There are features in it that if "Music" (formally "iTunes) had, I wouldn't be using a 3rd party player. (i.e. freedb tagging, plugin system, etc...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've become a pessimist as I enter my 50s.

Everyone not Tesla is worried that Trump will get elected, and to stay in his good graces they're going to 'back off' because they aren't sure if the subsidies they were relying on will continue. They let their dealer networks rip everyone off, making their vehicles un-affordable, and then when interest rates skyrocketed now they can't sell their over priced under delivering pieces of crap. it's one thing to buy a car at 2x its value when interest rates is square root of a small number but when you now get 7-8% instead of 1-2%.dealers fucking over people doesn't work and the sales completely stall because the things were expensive before they were marked up.

Meanwhile, Tesla will continue to fuck up the market and sell more. I just wish Elon wasn't such an asshole.

My hope is that Polestar, and the Chinese brands I'm not familiar with and others still invested will pick up some of the slack. In a fair world GM, and others like Toyota will become a history lesson like buggy whip manufacturers.

Call me a luddite but I'm a bit against the current 'AI' that basically scraped the internet to build up its engine, but this is something that I always hoped for when it came to code generation.

I had these ideas of somehow feeding it all the source material for a given language, compiler docs, the language docs, and rules, etc, and then being able to describe functions and have it generate the base code for it. Why? because coding for me was a path not taken. i did all the schooling, got a degree, and promptly started working for a hardware company selling its products and making piles of money. Now, 30 years later I dont' know anything about coding and can stillr emember 15 generations ago's codename for the Intel CPU at the time which is frustrating. I've always wanted to build a few different things but in what little spare time I had grasping the idea of event based programming and ObjectiveC/Swift/F#/C# whatever was too much for someone who graduated back when you still put void main(); in the start of your C code and C++ was this new thing that was a funny joke on incrementing a variable.

Now I'd just like to debug a broken Foundry VTT module or a Servarr module that isn't working or broken (RADARR NEEDS TO RENAME FILES AND DIRECTORIES DAMMIT) but i basically ahve to relearn and honestly have not enough time to do it.

But would you pay $130 or more today because that's what the cost should be for a "complete game".
Video going through the data from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And an article: https://venturebeat.com/pc-gam...

Most consumers wouldn't pay this much, and begrudgingly are consumers accepting a long overdue $10+ increase in AAA titles from 2020.
And yet many still claim $70 is overpriced.

This is so random but I've been asking it to do this too... for a toy, text-based game I've been working on in nights and weekends I was hopeful I could get it to make some ascii / ANSI art. It doesn't do a good job at all; including the new GPT-4 (paying member here).

The two things I've found Chat-GPT most useful for is.
1) little snippets of Typescript code, particularly when I have a lint error with a complex type and I don't understand why from the provided message. Asking Chat-GPT, like a "Typescript expert", has been wonderful
2) generating pieces of story text, particularly if I need multiple descriptions of a mundane area (e.g., "generate 20 descriptions of a field")

Parallels is not a solution if you want to run graphics apps. From https://kb.parallels.com/en/12...
"3D acceleration is currently supported at the level of DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 3.3. Some of the latest AAA games may not launch or run."

With DirectX 12 and Vulkan both out for over 7 years, I'd expect support by now.

I use to run Parallels for years, but eventually dumped it. Main pain-point was that it fell further and further behind in terms of 3D support and I could neither run games nor make 3D Apps in a Windows environment. They were slow to support DirectX 10 & OpenGL 3, and I left before they ever had DirectX 11 support. Eventually I made a native Windows box for this and haven't looked back.