(Same difference)

That looks like it feels so damn good.

I have been very successful at ignoring Windows for quite some time.

Is it removable? Like when it’s winter you can take the bookshelf out and use the fireplace, or is this permanent?

It does not surprise me that the Air is literally the folding phone without the second screen.

Average East-Asian news cycle:

China: “We are preventing the export of rare earth minerals to strengthen our country.”

US: “We are imposing tariffs to strengthen our economy.”

Japan: “22-year-old undergraduate turns a leaf into a battery.”

In the past we gave our thinking sand armored shells. But these days we should consider imbuing the thinking sand with an artificial soul, so it can use the distilled knowledge of man to decide how best to defend itself from the things from outer space. Sure, the thinking sand may daydream and momentarily see mankind as the enemy, but only sometimes.

{lemmysilver}

I don’t think that’s too common though.

Most American and just about every European SNES says hi.

I’m honestly shocked Japan didn’t make something like this way back in the 1980s.

That’s hilarious and sad. They outsourced their brand to the cheapest Chinese shit they could find. Stick to making candy, ja?

I dunno about you guys, but I feel like I’m on epoch number 12 and I just wanna go back to sleep.

Did the crabs get ‘em?

Funny, my digitized collection of movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3

CloudFlare stopped the DDoS by destroying their own servers.

“I’ve won, but at what cost?”

Sam Altman looks like an SNL actor impersonating Sam Altman.

I remember being on GeoCities or Lycos and just incrementing the site number to see different sites.

Star Trek, Star Wars, Lego, PORN!

Reverse onion. I thought this was satire at first.

For people outside of the loop,

Trakt has been running since 2010, it got popular because it lets you track and record your watch history with a UI that no one else seems to offer. It connects to Plex and other services so you can scrobble your watches, get notified of new episodes and movies, and has a social layer throughout the site to commune with other users and comment on what you’re watching.

In the past few years, however, there has been one controversy after another.

Trakt abruptly stopping using TVDB for its data due to API costs and now uses TMDB. This created a number of problem with data being mismatched or completely wrong. The leadership of TMDB has a lot of weird ideas about how shows and movies are formatted, splitting episodes into multiple episodes here and merging episodes and entire series together there, or even disqualifying series from being listed over arbitrary technicalities. Trakt blindly follows whatever TMDB does and their admins locked a long-running thread complaining about these issues on their own forums.

Trakt started arbitrarily changing the way the site looks. Including locking the original color scheme behind a paywall, leaving free users a new, gaudy bright purple color scheme that isn’t even complete (random elements of the free site are still the original maroon). The site overall is getting harder to load and uses far more resources than it did just a few years ago. Trakt launched a “lite” version of the site which is not light in size, it’s just the mobile UI for desktop which is just as resource intensive.

Recently, Trakt nerfed crucial features for free users (and even for paid users in certain ways), limiting playlist making and record-keeping to the point where free is almost useless. And the reduction of playlists, which are curated and shared by users on the site, reduces engagement throughout the entire community.

Now this.

The whole company is becoming corporate and as a result been subjected to enshitification.

I am still using it, for now, because I still benefit from the recommendations it gives me based on what I’ve already watched. Once that stops being the case, I’m just going to leave.

I keep text documents of everything I watch. What I enter into Trakt is just a mirror. Trakt does allow all users (including free users) to download their data and just bugger off. So everyone who uses them should go test that feature.

There are a number of roads like this in Japan as well.