I’m still not entirely sure what’s happening. I get the one guy who works for Anduril was suspended a few days ago for being toxic, but did the community side with him or not? The subreddit sure seems to be siding with him, but something tells me that may not something to be proud of.
Was this split about trying to get away from Anduril or because they didn’t care for the moderation that suspended the guy from Anduril?
That’s just a classic issue with most tech people: they either forget or don’t know how to adjust their speech for a different audience than themselves. Often they don’t even comprehend just how much “common knowledge” isn’t actually common outside their social spaces.
Then there’s some that are deliberately refusing to help uninformed people understand, or are even outright hostile to them.
Yep, the timing lines up. As part of the buyout offer, they probably had to demonstrate an effort to cripple the open source fork of the thing IBM wants to buy.
It’s kind of like telling people to “tune in”. It’s just a turn of phrase that has stuck regardless of how old fashioned or ill-fitting it sounds.
They’re not going to invest in it if they don’t own it, and frankly I’m happy they don’t.
It’s so frustrating that they got the line wrong.
It’s “At my old school, _______”.
Europe has had the benefit of not having Apple building walls through the smartphone market as much as they have here. Americans flocked to them and elected them the trend setters, and Apple’s design philosophy is as aggressively closed as it can possibly be. So we have an entire generation now raised with Apple devices in hand that balk at the idea of using anything else, meanwhile Apple keeps competitors locked out of the ecosystem.
Apple has trained far too many Americans to never, ever think beyond the defaults; downloading another app to talk to people is verboten.
Europe has had a properly competitive smartphone market where all the major players are using the same open system, so none of them are setting trends that the others can’t follow.
Regardless if the actors or writers are present to promote, the event space is bought and paid for, contracts have been signed, etc. The event goes on with or without the talent present.
Sooooo many people that never watched Lower Decks are going to be asking why there was a koala in the opening and I’m delighted by that.
I’m with the others that say it’s a really good episode, until you start picking apart some of the decisions. Pike taking the word of a person who has been suffering hallucinations, with no evidence, then preceding to destroy a massive infrastructure project with no real hesitation…it didn’t feel earned. I know he trust her, and Kirk, but damn that was an extreme leap of faith.
Its not that much of a loss given you can still launch Dolphin from steam anyway. It just won’t be on the storefront.
That’s exactly what it is. They have an extremely narrow and boring definition of what Star Trek is “supposed” to be, and revolt against anything that steps outside that, be it comedy, action, whatever.
Just curious, why are you @'ing? Is that a thing you have to do from a mastadon instance?
I can’t be the only one that felt Ethan Peck’s human Spock was very similar in tone to Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen…
Not in a bad way, either.
By far the best moment was Pike’s face when he noped out of the scene after Spock revealed the deception.
I love this term.
They really do love storming in anywhere someone deigns to besmirch the new object of their devotion.
My assumption is, if it isn’t some techbro that drank the kool aid, it’s a bunch of /r/wallstreetbets assholes who have invested in the boom.