Among the reasons they couldn't exist today is that The Beatles literally had continents of (largely) unexplored musical space to play into, once they chose to. Indian influences, poppier psych, twee, and that's just for starters.

They did well, certainly, but nobody today enjoys that level of unfettered freedom.

Can we have examples of the AI slop that couldn't possibly be human created?

When it goes wrong, how bad can it get, and what's it trying to do?

Yup.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

When your shareholders want to redeem their shares, and you fix cap outflows at 5%, that's not a good sign.

Essentially, it's the bit in "Wonderful Life" where they're trying to minimize the run on the bank.

Revenue of $800M can't be all wrong, but if you sum up all the times I've installed OSs, SUSE is somewhere down there with various BSDs.

Is it regional? "Zappa is God in Hungary / Czechoslovakia", sorta?

I don't always agree with him, and he does go on a bit, but his opinion is usually interesting, at least. Especially on this topic.

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/...

Can't unwatch "Hi, I'm Butters. And this is Totoro...", unfortunately.

Alman on CNBC: "Disney will develop their own boundaries...."

Pretty damn quickly, I'd wager.

You're not wrong, but I think your numbers are a little off. NYT Numbers, cite below:

Netflix - $83B, no cable networks
Paramount - $108B, networks convey

Not sure what value I'd put on Discovery, etc., either. Those carriage fees can't be growing, and that $4/mo streamer Roku keeps pitching can't be that big...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1...

Good grief, friend, who sets your HW budget?

That's how far...

It's been ages, but Linux compatibility used to be terrible on relatively well selling HW. Dell, in particular, was terrible enough that I gave up trying.

Get a cheap-ish two year old T-series ThinkPad. It'll be fine.

> What if you could sit in?

Then you still couldn't play at their level.

I don't get it either, beyond "10% more Bootsy, 100% less Flea on the bass", and algorithmic music generation?

Music is in a precarious place right now, but that sounds awful.

Portable, maybe, if you're buying good to excellent HW, but power efficiency and fanless have come a long way over the last decade.

15 hr battery life is now common in laptops, for instance, and that's been relatively recent.

Maybe, but that hardware was lukewarm garbage by modern standards. It's only been lately that RPi, N100 and fanless miniPCs from China have been viable for everyday use. Not "creator" stuff, just reasonably performant browser sorts of things. BT to the mouse/keyboard solves a lot, too.

Now, why we can't get "CPU in Steam Deck for portable use + docking station to enable video card and three monitors" figured, I don't know.

I don't care for 8 episode seasons either (ffs, Squid Game...), but entire 20 episode seasons of brilliance are rare. Clip shows, episodes that don't go anywhere (X-Files...), and that's before we get to the really awful sitcom stuff.

Free OTA CoziTV runs episodes of Alice and Facts of Life, multi-season shows which wouldn't make it past the first pitch today. YMMV, but I wouldn't impose full seasons of The Nanny on my worst enemy... ... and so on.

While I welcome our cheaper but slower SSD overlords, isn't the storage the price driver?

Would 4TB of NAND (or whatever) care what you wrap around it?