Watch out for the Marvel trademark on the name, Disney has lawyers.

The only bad OS is one that won’t do what you want when you want to do it.

I run a mixed environment at home, Windows machine for work, personal Windows machine for interoperability, Linux on the Steam Deck since that what it comes with, external Windows SSD for the Steam Deck since some games absolutely require Windows, Linux NAS for media, Linux Raspberry Pis for some fun side projects, my wife runs MacOS because she’s an Apple Fangirl, Android phone and tablet, iOS work phone for testing. Xbox, Playstation, Switch consoles for gaming.

Nobody does, the problem is claiming water damage with no evidence.

The more I hear about the Switch 2, the more appropriate that seems…

Nintendo has a history of BS repair refusals.

I had an LCD failure on a GBA, they said it was dropped when it wasn’t and I found photo evidence of a retail unit with the same size and shape failure.

They did fix it, but it was like pulling teeth.

AI is devaluing other skills.

I got an email today, from my own company, telling me I wouldn’t have to renew my professional certification for 2 years if I passed an unrelated test on AI.

The “test” was 10 questions. Glad to know my professional certification is equivalent to a 10 question pop quiz on AI.

Multiple drives in a RAID.

Every drive I’ve had fail has been a Seagate. I replace them out of habit at this point.

Seagate so how long before it fails?

The Cyberpunk 2077 comics from Dark Horse were quite good, and we’re also 3 issues in to a new comic series called “The Future is ******”.

That series is created by a cyber-security company of all things. They have a plan to run 60 issues… 57 to go!

“Make sure your fireworks warehouse is properly licensed and inspected! Yolo!”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/yolo-county-fireworks-explosion-company-license-20422507.php

Video gaming or tabletop gaming?

For tabletop, I recently discovered “The Land of Eem” and it looks like the definition of “Cosy”.

YouTube, Discord, it’s all over the place. Described as “Lord of the Rings With Muppets”.

My favorite “oops” story… Guy went camping and wanted to keep the food in the cooler REALLY cold so he used dry ice instead of ice.

Accidentally created carbonated grapes. People have duplicated the effect with home soda machines.

Google “Fizzy Grapes”.

Salt isn’t even that easy:

https://youtu.be/6c4Pu2TiSls

ALSO!

https://youtu.be/VRCQFwgwLE4

Caught it last night… Tonally, Gunn absolutely nails it. The main characters are perfectly done, the B-list characters like Mister Terriffic and Metamorpho are perfectly done.

There are issues with some of the C-list / background characters.

Hawkgirl didn’t really have much to do and I don’t think Gunn knew what to do with her, which is a shame. Giving her a hawk shriek instead of actual dialog was… a choice. She needed more speaking lines.

Similarly, the background characters at the Planet, Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, were just kind of “there”. Nobody, not even Perry White, has a “Hey, where’s Clark?” moment. I think Gunn was just working from a checklist of who to include.

Ma Kent… I don’t know where she’s from, but it aint Kansas… Loved the Kents interactions with Clark, but… OK, I’m biased, I married a woman from Kansas, I’ve been to both Oklahoma and Kansas… I don’t know what that accent is.

All of those are minor quibbles. It was a great way to do Superman.

Now: Spoilers:

I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.

Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.

“It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface.”

They’re bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about

“Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!”