Halo. I hate watched it and then got annoyed that they cancelled it right at the point that they actually got to the damn Halo.

Wait, is this the original comic? It’s so much clearer than the meme template

I’ve used PlexAmp. It’s shit. It tries its best, but it can’t make up for the flaws in plex’s underlying library system. It also requires having a library host running all the time. Apple host the music for me and I can make library changes from any of my devices.

I’ve tried a number of other self host options, as well, and none of them come close to the feature set in Music. I even wrote my own web app to do it way back in the 2000s, just so I could implement my own UX. This is still better.

I pay for Apple Music (well, technically I get it as part of Apple One) for one reason: the library matching function. I have half a gig of mp3s on my home computer, many of which are not on any streaming service, and apple makes them all available to every device I own.

For me, thats worth the monthly price.

7.1 was the first MacOS that apple charged for, nominally to cover the cost of the CDs. 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6 all cost $29, but you could get free installers from many of the Mac magazines.

8.0, 8.5 and 9.0 were $99

10.0 was $129

10.1 was free, but a lot of stores charged a handling fee. I remember picking up my copy from CompUSA for ten cents.

10.2 - 10.5 were $130 upgrades, but there were numerous ways to get it for free. I don’t think I ever actually paid for any of them.

10.6 and 10.7 were both $30

10.8 was $20

10.9 and later were all free

MacOS never had licenses, owning a mac was the license because you couldn’t run it on non-apple hardware* until they switched to Intel. I got OS8 from a copy of MacAddict.

* not counting Gil Amelio’s ill-fated hardware mac clone program

And that $30 was largely for the physical media, in a time before broadband distribution. Apple never had license keys, if you owned a mac you were licensed.

Also Red Lobster.

I’ll give you that for Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), but that’s a big stretch for Banzai (Cheech Marin) and Ed (Jim Cummings). I don’t think Marin can play anything other than a mexican stereotype, and Ed was just a moron.

corner radius on rounded edges is too large

Oh it gets worse, the radius is also inconsistent across different kinds of windows and applications

We need to roll back all OS UI designs to 2010 until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Bring back windows 7.

Theres a theory that Apple released this a year early and unfinished because Apple Intelligence is so far over its head that they had nothing else to debut

If not cookie, why cookie shaped?!

Oh the laws are completely unenforceable, they’re basically just a blank check to go after any website the ruling class dislikes.

The article names multiple sites that have already shut down due to the UKs law

Eugen issued a statement that Mastodon is physically incapable of implementing age verification and that thedecentralized nature of the fediverse means there is no central authority that can block regions which define these laws.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

IANAL, but I imagine under the laws, they would go after individual instance owners to mandate verification. The laws have no provision for third party software, so it would fall to the courts, but most instances don’t have the funds to fight it.

This is one of my favorite character tropes. Like Shia Lebouf’s character in I Robot, or Spock in Star Trek 4.

This video would be better as a blog post, but of course then it couldn’t have been monetized.

Do it again with record lows and the map will invert.

Any ship built in the last ten years has onboard waste processing facilities and water desalination plants. The only thing that goes back into the ocean is purified graywater, and ash. Plastics are stowed until they return to land.

The way the ships are built was drastically changed in the last decade because of the big lawsuits that Carnival got smacked within 2016 and 2019. There’s some pretty neat videos on YouTube about how Disney’s ships handle trash and human waste. It’s sorted better than most metropolitan waste companies.