Carl [he/him]

Snow White failed where other Disney remakes didn’t because the original Snow White is not currently a nostalgic touchstone the way the Disney Renaissance films are.

It’s not about the bad writing. Every single Disney remake has had bad writing.

It’s not about bad effects. Every single Disney remake has had bad effects.

It’s not about the culture war outrage. Every single Disney remake has had culture war outrage.

The difference lies purely in the age and cultural relevance of the Snow White IP. The other live action remakes have all been driven by Millennial parents taking their kids to see them, but Millennial parents just don’t give a shit about Snow White. It was ancient when they were kids, expecting them to want to see it is like expecting them to want to see a reboot of Betty Boop or Felix the Cat.

Snow White is a film so irrelevant that 99% of people can’t name the villain. You might have just said “Maleficent” at your screen but you’re wrong - she’s the villain in Sleeping Beauty, the villain in Snow White is “Queen Grimhilde”. Could you even articulate the difference in plot between those two films? I would wager that must people can’t.

Yeah I was thinking about that, which is why I pointed out that Apple’s plan only worked because of the massive growth in personal computing. Google was able to create marketshare for Android during the massive growth in smartphones, but those conditions haven’t existed for anyone for a while.

Generally how these things go is that after the growth phase comes consolidation and monopoly - we’re far more likely to see Apple and MS merge into one corporation than we are to see a third option emerge as a serious competitor.

I think the big thing that everyone is missing here is that schools and workplaces need to push it into people’s lives. For that to happen Linux (or at least one of its distros backed by a hardware distributor) needs to develop killer features for those markets and successfully sell to them in large enough numbers that the average computer user - who does not care what their OS is because they only use it for email and work - will make sure that their at-home setup is compatible with their work machine.

That moment is when market forces will take over and drive real growth in desktop Linux, rather than the tiny little bumps we’ve seen the past few years thanks to the Steam Deck coming out and MS pissing its users off.

This is how Apple built its marketshare against the Microsoft domination of the 90s. For a long time it was the go-to “school computer”, and then those kids grew up and now a huge piece of the tech industry and culture is more or less Apple only. It’s unclear if this process can be repeated, since Apple’s marketshare was carved out during a time of massive growth in the industry that is unlikely to repeat, but I wouldn’t say it’s impossible if the right conditions reveal themselves.

I will say that it is highly unlikely that the people here would like the change if it happens - imagine Google slinging fully locked down “linux” machines en masse and everybody else needing to download their kernel fork that’s loaded with spyware (“for security reasons”) in order to connect to Google Teams for work. Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I just don’t see mass adoption of a new OS happening without some kind of fuckery like this that renders the version of Linux that gets mass adopted unrecognizable from the version we’re all using now.

The other option is state intervention, as with NeoKylin in China, although the Chinese government seems to be limiting themselves to just government computers with that distro.

The thing that really gets my goat is that there was no way the MTG bill/amendment defunding the Iron Dome was gonna pass. If AOC was truly cynical she would have voted for it, instead her politics explicitly lead her to vote against it.

the self-defense of a population

Zionists are by definition the aggressors in this conflict and have been since 1948. They do not have a right to self defense. Supporting them is like sending weapons to Germany after it invaded Poland and claiming that they’re for “self defense” against antifascist partisans.

This is what drove me to Debian. I like stability, I don’t need cutting edge, simple as.

Critical support for both the Houthis and Poseidon

Didn’t we just sign a ceasefire agreement with these guys? Or were those “talks”?

edit: this probably happened weeks ago before the ceasefire, but the article is unclear.