“conveniently for Disney, it has previously said that it will stop reporting streaming subscribers in its next quarterly earnings report. “

Tells you everything you need to know. If the numbers were good, they’d report them.

Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/thunderscan-the-wild-1980s-product-that-turned-a-printer-into-a-scanner/

That’s what episodic tv used to do.

Depends on the production. Lots of actors in the olden days loved getting a series because it meant they were closer to home and had a consistent schedule. Very little location shooting out of state, giving them more time to spend with family. Summers off meant the ability to do movies or stage work if they wanted to.

Lucille Ball’s daughter has said in interviews that Desilu ran a tight schedule and everyone went home at a decent hour because Lucy wanted everyone to go home at a decent hour (including her).

Unions need to flex their muscle if cast or crew is having to work excessive overtime.

Unpopular opinion: Leo DiCaprio is not a good actor.

I blame management that doesn’t listen to or hire qualified IT people. The average office worker has no say in what platforms or tools are used at a business.

Subscriptions. More cloud-based services. Office moving to an entirely web-based product. Continuing decline of whatever quality is left. Nadella is only interested in enterprise money like HP and IBM. Expect to see more abandonment of consumer-focused products, like Xbox.

If he had any balls, he’d split the company up, rather than letting so many products die on the vine.

Quite a claim from the guy who labeled things “Full self driving” and “Autopilot”. 🙄

“And Tyler Perry as Colin Powell” 😆

It started going wrong with Nixon. The same people who worked for Nixon worked for W, gave us Fox News, and Trump.

The website you linked to says that it’s not a class action suit, but a “mass arbitration” which I’ve never heard of. It also claims that Google has a “no class action” clause in its warranty/user agreement. I don’t see how that’s legal, but whatever. I also wonder if that clause was there at the time of purchase for gen 1 and gen 2 thermostats.

While an interesting idea, that project wants what amounts to the cost of a new thermostat in exchange for a kickstarter project. Might as well just buy a new thermostat.

Surprisingly, these still work as dumb thermostats after the cutoff date.

Was hoping something like Homebridge could be used to still control these, but so far no luck. After the cutoff they can be used manually like a traditional thermostat, which is a surprise coming from Google. I still fear they are going to generate a bunch of ewaste from people replacing them.

Twiki, are you ok?

Isn’t this how Skynet started?

I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.

They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.

“an X-ray table that could read cards face down on the table”

So does this mean all the poker players are going to end up with cancer?

Trash can Mac Pro.