If James Cameron can waver about continuing Avatar, anything can be stopped.

Also, I'd bet generic movie production is far faster now. The first I noticed was Saw, but lots have caught on to the "small cast, limited sets, low CGI" model. I don't recall seeing the monster in A Quiet Place, for instance, and Backrooms looks like it could be shot in an abandoned mall with an iPhone and a bunch of fabric.

Not the Barbenheimer / MCU / DCU stuff, maybe, but there's lots of space below that.

Apologies, curious. If we ignore the "long range" requirement, what's available over there?

For secondary or tertiary cars, "150 mile range street legal golf cart with overnight charging" covers a LOT of ground.

Not saying it's healthy, but if there is an untapped market for computers in general, they don't read, and cheap is mandatory.

Yes, wifi availability, IDK about pricing, or why you'd bother making a ubiquitous $5 Alexa. Having said that, in this (kinda awful) use case, you don't need a screen.

Geek battle GO!

I am torn. I'm continually disappointed by the evolution of Wars, but I never expect anything Trek to be any good in the first place.

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.