I think the issue was mostly how lazy and simplistic everything was. Sure, it was unpredictable, but just doing unpredictable things without any buildup is not a good way to tell a story. Bran becoming King for example is an unexpected twist, but the setup is nonexistent and the reasoning is dumb. The Long Night only lasting about an hour was a massive anticlimax for one of the main conflicts (it’s almost certainly not going to be that short in the books). Most of the characters’ endings were predictable, but some were way too sudden to be believable; Dany’s random fall to madness is particularly bad. They also failed to use interesting plotlines in a meaningful way; Jon being the true heir to the throne is so utterly pointless that it literally could be cut from the show and nothing would change, for example. It doesn’t cause conflict at all beyond an incredibly poorly executed plotline with Varys that goes nowhere. Characters also became incredibly stupid and some lost any traits that made them interesting (Jon in particular is painfully generic by the end). It essentially went from a brilliant, complex show to trite people only watched for the action and/or to see what happened to the characters. The worst part to me is that people endlessly went on about it “not having a happy ending”, but everyone other than Dany, Jon and Grey Worm got a happy ending. The final few seasons also have utterly awful writing, especially dialogue. There’s a video on YouTube where someone edited the final episode to have no dialogue at all, and it’s about 20-40 minutes of footage with nothing happening.

Not everyone in the U.K. is a transphobe. Are you actually a moron?

Unfortunately stopping CSAM isn’t the point. The point is eroding privacy and pretending it’s protecting kids.

The Force Awakens is pretty meh itself, but we were not prepared for what was coming. It feels as foreboding as rewatching Game of Thrones S5 or S6 and knowing that the deteriorating writing will only get worse.

Not even this can beat the Bob Semple Tank.

There are tons of excellent VR games that aren’t flight sims. As an example, Vertigo 2 is an excellent first person shooter and Blade and Sorcery is an excellent fighting game.

Can this trend of thin tech just end already? It’s pointless.

Kubuntu

help the dev team

And we wonder why people don’t like using Linux or FOSS software.

And no one is going to trust them on this. They’ve burned that bridge.

Investors aren’t going to get into submarines unless they already are interested in them.

None of the three things you listed need the CLI, except for a couple of distros. Most distros can use the GUI for those.

So much dystopian fiction has used this idea that it’s hard to list them all. Let’s not do this.

Frutiger Aero is my favourite.

The UK. The Tories are fucked and Reform UK isn’t really likely to get beyond minor party status.

UK ambassador

Mexico

You answered your own question there.

No.

Not in this case. The new sub is actually being built by a competent company, not morons.

Considering that Microsoft has been involved in Linux development for a while now (they added some Linux stuff into Windows via WSL, for example), it would be stupid of them to try and kill it.

Every couple of months there’s a new story like this. And yet we’re supposed to believe this system is ready for use…