Might be that they ordered online and the food is done before they get there?

I saw it yesterday and there was not a single child in the theater. Granted, this was the English version in a German theater but it’s a city with people from all over the world, I would have expected at least a few. Would be interesting to see what the audience in the German and Ukrainian¹ language versions looks like but I’m not willing to buy two more tickets just to check.

¹ Yes, some German theaters started offering Ukrainian showings of some movies back in 2022 and at least the ones around here still have that for children’s movies.

Gregory Maguire’s “The Wicked Years” currently consists of like… eight or nine books I think? But seriously, if they try to turn each of them into a movie or worse, multiple movies, I really don’t know how to deal with that.

Well, the whole plot twist of Wicked is that

Not saying they should make more movies but at least the plot would make more sense than the Palpatine shitshow.

I went to college, I’m way over 30. Buying a house is a vague dream.

I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.

Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.

Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.

The best chat platform is the one where the people you want to chat with are.

If you don’t have anyone specific you want to talk to and just want to join a community that shares your interests, maybe look into Matrix, which is an open and distributed protocol with many servers.

Well, not necessarily. I’ve had my phone for almost five years now. The battery is at 78% of it’s original capacity and still gets me through the day without problems, even on heavy use. The only times I need to charge during the day is when I’m on a long distance train and listen to podcasts or audio books for hours.

Chances are that something else will fail long before the battery. And even if not, the local phone repair shop offers a battery replacement for about 50€ which is more than reasonable for something that will get me another couple of years.

Then you don’t need to worry. Battery degradation isn’t much of a problem for those.

That’s why modern phone operating systems will charge your battery to 80-90% at the beginning of the night and then charge the last bit just in time to be done when you wake up, based either on when your alarm is set or on past usage statistics.

I’m German. Back in my day, we had 9 years of English classes in school and from what I’ve heard it’s even more now. I was lucky to have a teacher who had spent a couple of years in the UK so he had much less of a German accent than most other teachers at our school and was also able to give us a lot of insight into how people actually speak, compared to the rather formal and stilted examples in our textbooks.

Between social media, movies, shows and a job in software engineering, I would say that on most days I read and listen to more English than German.

I’ve always heard it as „we‘d be running around in dark rooms with brightly colored lights, eating pills and listening to electronic music“

As someone (forgot which blog I read it on, sorry) recently observed: if AI made software development so much easier, we’d be drowning in great new apps by now.

Probably „Adult Fans of Disney“

It may still be missing stuff from before the first person from your home instance joined the community which can make younger communities feel empty.

The work is mysterious and important.

DB: “At least we’re not National Rail.”

National Rail: “At least we’re not Amtrak.”

Sadly, many wifi-enabled devices only work with some proprietary cloud-service and even if not, they’re only one configuration error (or intentional backdoor) away from talking to the outside. Better have something that isn’t physically able to talk to the internet no matter how badly I fuck up its configuration and my firewall.

The solution is not more but different connected devices so I can decide for myself what needs to be connected and by which protocol. Get the dumbest device on the market, no wifi, no internal clock, maybe not even a humidity sensor and then, if and only if I need to remote control it, for example to put it on a schedule, I can use the cheapest “smart” device on the market to connect it to an in-house machine that can turn it on and off.