Even better: 20 lbs of long toenails and a box full of real snakes.

And the work in the lead mines

“She strutted into my office wearing a dress that clung to her like Saran Wrap to a sloppily butchered pork knuckle, bone and sinew jutting and lurching asymmetrically beneath its folds, the tightness exaggerating the granularity of the suet and causing what little palatable meat there was to sweat, its transparency the thief of imagination.”

This is it:
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

LLMs. Do. Not. Understand. Anything.

the Rat Race, obviously.

GIMP 3.0 will come with the next Debian release.
When will that come out?
When it’s ready.
You can get a bit of an idea where in the release process we are by looking at this graph:

Where the green and blue lines dip close to zero, there was a new release.
Next release is probably planned for October 2025.

Between releases, packages are only updated when it’s relevant for security or to fix bugs.
Thunderbird and Firefox are a bit of an exception. Those programs are so complex that backporting security fixes to the current Debian version isn’t feasible. So Debian is forced to ship the new version when security issues in the current version become known.
And they’re also not needed on servers, so the reduced stability doesn’t affect them.

Quartz watches: Casio F-91w
Mechanical watches: Seiko 5

They completely focus on large enterprises now.
Everyone who uses Fusion or Workstation productively is too small for them.

Disconnect the PC from the internet.
It’s also the only way to safely run a computer without updates.

It used to be, though.

Only if people are willing to pay for them.
There’s no reason a mobile game would be cheaper to develop than a PC game.
And there’s also no one paying $50 for a mobile game.
The market has decided.

Google started adding AI capabilities (context-aware background-blurring) into its phones with the Pixel 2.

They’re trash because they’re free.
Traditional games need to be good, so people buy them.
You don’t need to buy mobile games. But developers need to eat. So the money needs to be extracted from the people while they play.
So you need to implement microtransactions and design the entire game around making them necessary for success.
But most people stop playing a game at some point when they’ve beaten it, or are getting bored ot it.
So you need to make your game addictive instead.

The same principle applies to so many things (for example news).
If you don’t pay for it up front, the entire thing will be designed around extracting money from you during use.
Which means it needs to be designed to draw you in and keep you addicted. Delivering quality content is literally worthless.

It is AI. It looks realistic, but it doesn’t make sense.
Why is there no snow in a circle around the fire? Did someone sweep the place?
What’s up with the Christmas lights?
How do you chop wood on that chopping block that’s much too crooked?

If you took the photo with any recent phone, it’s been edited by AI before you ever saw it, which would warrant a 70% rating.

If he had stolen $200M in workers’ wages instead, he’d be lauded as a successful entrepreneur.

The rugged survivalist aesthetic is diminished just a bit by the electric lights in the tree on the right, which looks like plastic.

To be fair, Skyrim still holds up today.

Now that they’re basically banning cars, it might be worth a visit again