Perth started burying their lines in the 90s. It was supposed to take 30 years. Last I heard, they’re about half done.

Last I heard, his parents lived in Canberra.

It’s a tough gig, no matter your gender. You spend years earning very little, doing just about everything except writing/producing in the hope that one day you’ll be lucky (and good) enough to be tapped on shoulder for your (usually) one-shot at running a show. Women tend to be smart enough to not put up with that bullshit for long.

Completely fucked. I’m the sole survivor of a crash and stuck on 4546B.

That might no longer be the case after another two-and-a-half years of Trump.

Shitty humans being shitty.

The difference is in the fediverse you’re not locked into one ecosystem. You can pick and choose what’s best for you. In many cases, you can even take your connections and data with you when you move.

A lot of health issues can show up in your 50s even if you look after yourself (and most people don’t). Rik Mayall died from a ‘perfectly normal’ spontaneous cardiac event a few hours after returning from his usual run. He had no prior symptoms. He was 56.

It’s AWS. I still receive an invoice for $0 every month despite not having used the service for nearly 20 years. SNAFU.

Not for the first time. Metaverse failed for all the same reasons that Second Life did: it’s a solution to a problem that most people don’t have. Except Second Life - which still exists and supposedly is far more active than during its heyday - only cost the merest fraction compared to the Metaverse.

As for the Spybans, there were a couple of short films released around 2010 that predicted the privacy issues linking AR with realtime social networking would bring. So it’s not a new idea. Unfortunately, both films were taken down soon after because they were deemed too disturbing.

And yet, here we are.

There’s still a few shops that sell them in Singas.

Would that be a time share? 🤣

I’ve used all three products and I prefer Gimp. My wife prefers Krita. It’s great to have choices.

I mostly agree. The only Adobe product I miss is After Effects. I haven’t found anything that scratches that itch.

I use Blender (and others), but it’s not ideal for 2.5D effects.

Yeah, nah. Live tooting an event it would be easy to exceed those numbers. Used to do it all the time, back in the day.

I feel the same about Gwendoline playing Brienne. She’s much too pretty, although she did great in the role.

A lot is based in Singapore. There was a story a few days ago about how China nixed the sale of a Singapore-based AI company to Meta.

All the nice bells and whistles that mint comes with: mostly cinnamon and the upgrade manager out-of-the-box. I’ve been using it for a few months, and I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

Same. I’ve probably got more than ten thousand hours across multiple versions. When I was sick I used to play it all day, every day. I found mining very Zen.

Profit is far too easy to manipulate. A percentage of gross revenue would really sting.

Mate, did you consider that you might have missed Satan’s satire?

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