Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?

Sorry, but you ain’t all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.

Obi Wan never told you what happened to Linux Mint.

It’s definitely about relating to the past, it is a sequel trilogy after all.

And there’s stuff there about how authoritarians use our relationship to the past to gain power. Kylo Ren is more of a communist type of authoritarian that wants to destroy the past. That puts him in conflict with the traditionalist authoritarians who are more in line with fascism.

Ultimately the message is that you can’t ignore the past, but you also shouldn’t let it dictate who you are. Ben Solo doesn’t have to be like Darth Vader, Rey Palpatine doesn’t have to be like the Emperor. In fact Rey doesn’t need to identify with her ancestors at all, she can identify as a Skywalker. This upset a lot of people because apparently no one in Star Wars should ever change their name to indicate their alignment with good or evil? Some people are angry that “she can’t be a Skywalker because she’s a Palpatine” which is completely missing the point. You aren’t defined by your ancestors.

So it wasn’t about rejection of the past but it wasn’t about conforming to the past either. So that made everyone upset.

Star Wars was really just fun action adventure movies. But because we watched them as kids they feel like really important movies. Also they made crazy amounts of money so they are very important to the film industry.

JJ Abrams made some fun action adventure movies. But we’re adults so they don’t feel very important. And they aren’t important movies. In between two fun action adventure movie there’s a pretentious movie trying to be Star Wars Citizen Kane that failed at being either of those things.

Also the ST is ultimately about death. Part 1: death of Han Solo. Part 2: death of Luke Skywalker. Part 3: death of Princess Leia. Rise of Skywalker has a theme around the grieving process because of what the trilogy ended up being. Disney cheaped out on paying actors and the real life death of Carrie Fisher meant it ended up being an action adventure funeral. Nobody likes funerals, and prefer to forget about them in favour of remembering people in the best moments of their lives.

Personally I’d like to see Poe, Finn, and Rey in a new movie. Sure it’s like they’re people we met at a funeral, but they’re fun characters. There’s too much looking backwards in Star Wars and too much acting like Star Wars is supposed to be important. Too many monologues about politics that I’m supposed to take seriously while the toys I played with as a kid fly around on the screen. That’s kinda weird. Can we please have some fun action adventure movies that move the story forward? Seems only JJ Abrams can make fun movies, but they don’t seem to want to do that any more because of whinging on the internet against anything fun.

It would probably be fine if there was someone competent in Whitehouse to manage the fallout.

But since there isn’t, you are very likely correct.

Yeah I’m getting real dot com bubble vibes from all of this.

Only because after 15 years the AIs will have finished exterminating the human race.

I like it for desktop, but for me XFCE is all I need. I figure I want to mostly focus on the application I’m using not the Window Manager. I click the icon, application opens and I do stuff, and occassionally run apt update && apt upgrade and kinda forget the OS is even there.

With games I tend to have more issues with older games becoming broken after awhile than with new games not working because the OS is old. Only problems I’ve had with new games is because I had a computer that was >10 years old and eventually the hardware couldn’t run new games anymore. But then I mostly play strategy games and base builder games, so maybe that’s why I don’t have a lot of issues there.

Debian is the best OS for people that don’t want to think about the OS.

It’s sometimes unstable. But sometimes it’s mostly stable.

testing, stable, oldstable, etc are pointers to named branches (named after Toy Story characters BTW). Unstable is also a pointer but it always points to sid (the neighbour kid that breaks the toys).

Testing isn’t a rolling release. Yesterday testing pointed to trixie. Today stable points to trixie (because testing was completed and trixie has been “released”) and testing now points to forky which is a new branch that is basically a copy of unstable. They’ll do testing on forky and fix things and eventually stable will be pointed at forky (which will be Debian 14) and they’ll make a new testing branch called something else.

It’s an odd thing to call things “released” on a project that’s done openly. Debian 13 was just released today, but you can install what will be Debian 14 right now long before it’s released by installing forky. You can also contribute to their testing by submitting bug reports. But if you do install forky (testing) today, don’t be too disappointed if there’s a bunch of things broken because it’s the same as unstable right now. It will get more reliable as things are fixed and eventually be considered as stable. When Debian 14 is “released” you won’t need to upgrade anything if you’re on forky because you’ll have already been on it for a year or more.

But yeah, unstable is unstable, it’s just somewhere people can chuck packages on and experiment. Things will break there. Testing is testing, it’s there if you want to help out with testing. And stable is stable, you get that if you want something reliable and you don’t want to mess around with software occasionally breaking and having to track down what broke and submit bug reports.

Which country do you think the people masscred in Tiananmen square were from? Were the people massacred there people known for making silk?

Why would they be referencing silk at all? Yeah they referenced silk thinking “I’m sure people will get get the connection from silk to textiles to Palestinians.”

The Ghorman massacre was referenced in Star Wars Rebels in 2017 and was referenced in the EU in the 1990s FFS. Do you really think the people making Star Wars are clairvoyant? Tianamen Square would’ve been fresh in the minds of people in the 90s I think it’s more likely referencing that event than events that hadn’t happened yet.

See, again, people like this are exactly why we need the protagonist to look directly at the camera and explain things to them.

Indeed.

Thanks for the link!

I was aware of it being referenced in 2017 in Star Wars Rebels, but I wasn’t aware it was in Legends in the 1990s.

Sure… we’d all be better off if only the Ottoman empire continued to exist forever!

SMH

Yes, Star Wars Rebels is so brilliant that they were referencing the Isreal-Hamas war in 2017.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Cargo

Y’all are sounding like qanons with your numerology now.

So there’s a planet famous for producing silk where peaceful protesters are massacred in a public square and you only think of Gaza? There is definitely no place on Earth like that other than Gaza!

I’m pretty sure the Israel Gaza war kicked off with terrorists masscring people in villages and taking hostages, but it wasn’t the IDF doing that shit. Did Andor portray that at all?

I tried to find clips to see what it’s referencing some more but holy shit that show is 90% pretentious speeches. But even then it’s pretty obvious.

You are correct there are some people that need things spelled out for them or they don’t understand it. Some even resort to Qanon style numerology to try to prove weird connections between things.

Anyway, which silk producing country massacred peaceful protesters in a public square? Come on… .you can figure it out! Somewhere where vehicles were used to crush protesters? Maybe someone made a memorial and an authoritarian regime took it down… Hint

Wait, I thought the Jews ran Hollywood and controlled all of the media? How is it possible a movie like this exists?

When I was on vacation in Peru, after hiking around for the day I turned on the CRT in my room and they were showing Robocop… dubbed in spanish.

You have not experienced Robocop until you’ve seen it in it’s original Spanish.

Robocop’s adversary in Robocop 2 is actually called Robocop 2. How can you not like that? Yeah compared to the original it sucks, but everything sucks when compared to the original Robocop.

Yeah but I find code generation stuff I’ve used in the past takes a significant amount of configuration, and will often generate a bunch of code I don’t want it to, and not in the way I want it. Many times it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Having an LLM do it means I don’t have to deal with configuring anything and it’s generating code for the specific thing I want it to so I can quickly validate it did things right and make any additions I want because it’s only generating the thing I’m working on that moment. Also it’s the same tool for the various languages I’m using so that adds more convenience.

Yeah if you have your IDE setup with tools to analyze the datasource and does what you want it to do, that may work better for you. But with the number of DBs I deal with, I’d be spending more time setting up code generation than actually writing code.

It doesn’t have to be boring to make a story about people who always makes the right choice it’s just more challenging to write. You need to write scenarios where it’s not clear what the ethically correct choice is and have the the hero have to figure that out.

A large part of Star Trek (at least back when they had good writers) revolves around that. In fact movies like Captain America Civil War also revolve around a bunch of people wanting to do the right thing, just not agreeing on what that is.

When the writing is bad, stories about a character being bad then learning to be good can be just as boring as a story about someone being good from the beginning. It’s just generally easier to write a story with character learning something because you don’t need to do all that much world building to create an interesting ethical dilemma.

You shouldn’t think of “AI” as intelligent and ask it to do something tricky. The boring stuff that’s mostly just typing, that’s what you get the LLMs to do. “Make a DTO for this table <paste>” “Interface for this JSON <paste>”

I just have a bunch of conversations going where I can paste stuff into and it will generate basic code. Then it’s just connecting things up, but that’s the fun part anyway.