the first was so abysmally bad I stopped watching midway through on relative's cable tv. I hear the 2nd was worse, just riding on the name of the first. A 3rd? who consumes this slop?

If you think theater is a 'sacred space' perhaps you should get on theater management about that. Outside of some very atypical or heavily stage-managed cases the movie theatre experience is typically fucking dire. Paid admittance to a half hour of commercials; seats packed to remind your knees that they are trying to maximize the headcount per square foot(see also, seats in blatantly undesirable positions relative to the screen); dickheads making noise or fucking around on their phones, some asshole who decided to bring a screaming-age child, the works.

It certainly remains very possible for a proper large scale theatre install to handily outgun anything you'd get at home, and definitely the 'whatever is cheap and 65in' best buy experience; but there doesn't appear to be much interest in making the overall experience a compelling sell.

If all you do is attend directorial release screenings with your colleagues I assume that isn't a you problem; but if you genuinely care about the viability, and survival, of the theater experience maybe you should care more; because it's not like people are staying away from theaters just because they are philistines who hate art and desire aggressively mediocre experiences; it's because the theater is an aggressively mediocre experience that squanders much of its remaining technical edge to apathy and cost cutting that can definitely make it more miserable than staying home; but will never make it a better value.

I use AI regularly, at least once or twice a week. It's a real productivity boost. It's completely replaced searching for me. It's basically an API expert I can talk to and get answers from in 20 seconds. Good stuff.

Example: I'm working on a bad code base of a legacy application. The backend is quite a mess which I don't really like to touch, so I push a lot of my new logic into our Postgres DB. I don't really like SQL and anything beyond one or two joins I'd usually avoid. With progbuddy AI I'm doing triggers, procedures, functions, variables, etc. in SQL like a champ, sometimes 30 lines or more. Getting this good in SQL would take me at least a year of systematic practice.

The AI still does some mistakes or talks nonsense, but I catch those mistakes easily because that much I do know about SQL and coding in general. I'm the sole programmer in a company of 70 people and still manage to get off work at 5 o'clock whilst doing everything on my own.

So, yeah, AI definitely is a sold productivity boost for me and my work.

Even when not killed the AI technology won't send anything if you do not engage with it. So assuming they tell the user what data they are sending. Having the technology on shouldn't be an issue in the EU. The kill switch is more to make people feel safer and the UI cleaner without slop buttons

How many times do we have say it the us economy with the exception of AI stock prices is in recession

No, you're showing your overactive imagination. That they were goners is the most likely thing.

Don't know what you're talking about, me and my coworkers had the exact same work before, during and after covid and we did it. We worked on systems that weren't in the company's buildings anyway. No advantage to being present in same cube farm or using online chat & meetings. Sure once ever few months we show up in the colo and work on the gear, that also kept on going.

In short, no way to just draw pay and not do the work.

No arrogance, those of us that can do stuff can still get the remote days

Or is it "Remember the idiots who confused NCAR with NOAA and thought NOAA modeling and forecasting tools would disappear with NCAR."

Like the idiots who think the Department of Education actually educated kids, and don't seem to realize education had higher quality before Carter created that agenda driven propaganda organ in the 1970s.

The fact that you believe they HOPE to accomplish anything tells me all we need to know, you are not interested in a rational discussion of reality but only your romantic notions.

NOAA is not part of NCAR, they do forecasts of weather including hurricanes without it.

I've been hearing this a bit from very traditional greybeard linux users (I mostly just use linux at work and I'm very much a terminal jocky. tmux is my "terminal manager".) who have come around to KDE from being strong dislikers of it in the past. That Mate is just crusty and old, Gnome hasn't really been fun for a while but KDE has solved most of its nonsense problems and is now a quite complete and useable system, so its become their daily driver.

I just want to get alpine functional again so I can revert into terminal world permantly and never see a web page again lol

are you confused? Those predictions aren't made by NCAR. NOOA is not part of it.

There is zero benefit to the people you mention; learn how things work before making up romantic notions of what NCAR does.

Yep, now we have another platform controlled by Trump's oligarchy to spew forth propaganda.

You are hilarious. What have USA policy makers actually done?

You the one with irrelevant romantic notions.

you're funny, what have "policy makers" in USA really done? You don't think other countries have them?

Lying about how you handle ubiquitous surveillance data is not the same as addressing privacy concerns. Addressing them means you have dispensed with the policies and practices that caused the concerns.