I’ve never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.

Personally, I’d prefer the US become Canada’s 11th province or 4th territory.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

Questionable Reasoning: Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Some Fake News, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Factual Reporting: LOW (7.1)
Media Type: Newspaper
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

Indeed. I don’t know if that behavior has changed past 0.19.3, but that’s the version my instance and Lemmy World (OP’s instance) is using, and that’s how it be.

Comment removed and user banned. Not sure why you can still see the comment, though. The API still returns the comment text even if it’s removed, and the client has to redact it (that’d be a Sync thing).

Kroger (grocery store) is doing the same thing this week. They’re doing a 20% off “holiday bonus” discount on a one per-customer basis (20% off your entire order). The catch? Every item in the store is at least 20% more expensive than it was last week.

Look, I’m not saying it was Skynet, but I’m also not saying it wasn’t.

For sure. I was like “That…looks like T’Pol” and then he introduced her. I was like “surely they wouldn’t bring back that character just to recast her” and was ecstatic when, yep, it was T’Pol.

I don’t care what she goes by, lol, I’m just shocked, amazed, and grateful they got her to reprise T’Pol (I just finished an ENT rewatch). She retired and hasn’t acted since 2017. She’s also Mrs. Ticketmaster so she definitely doesn’t need to work. Glad she’s a Trekkie otherwise it probably wouldn’t have happened.

I just started this one and have to keep pausing it to calm down every time he introduces a member of his crew.

Oh, nice. I knew Alien: Romulus was getting one, but it seemed like an outlier/gimmick than anything else.

Possibly, haven’t considered that. My main concern is that media releases will no longer target physical media, leaving streaming / perpetual renting as the only option. VCRs were still manufactured after the major brands stopped production, but VHS releases largely went away.

The Alien: Romulus VHS Release notwithstanding lol.

Oh, and paying through the nose for someone’s cloud service so they can hold our data to ransom while mining it for AI.

That’s what “they” want. lol. Everything seems to be pushing that way for sure.

Though I am a little less pessimistic about spinners fully going away until all-flash datacenters are the norm. I’ve also had some running for close to 10 years, and they’re going strong (I’ve also got much newer ones as well)

I forget the article I posted here months ago, but there’s a new optical format which is in the multi-TB range. Not sure if/when it’ll be commercially available, but maybe that will come about?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/

Welp, we’re one step closer to the “you will own nothing and be happy” future tech companies want for us.

Oh no! Anyway…

My bad, I phrased that poorly. I meant it like when new battery technology is announced, it seems like nothing ever comes of it.

I don’t know how I missed the mention of 10 years, but thanks. At least they have some kind of ballpark estimate. As with most new battery tech announcements, I’m not going to hold my breath, lol.

Yeah, it seems like it’s got quite a bit of potential (even though I only understand the broadest strokes of it). Unfortunately, it’ll probably be a while before we see actual/practical applications since we’re only at the “proving it exists” phase.

Yeah, lol, nobody looks good in them but there are varying degrees of bad you can have control of.

Ours are about 1.5 inches, square, and decent resolution with (intentionally?) terrible lighting.