I’m one or two hours away from the Devil’s Tramping Grounds.

ARM platforms have whatever the developer of that system that day came up with, same as literally everything except x86.

The screwdriver on the Style series, the PS, CS and tiny little Style all have it, is unique among multitools. It’s long and thin so it can reach down into recessed screw pockets and it comes to a tip sharp enough to turn eyeglass screws. It was perfect, so of course they got rid of it.

You remember when Youtube neutered their downvote button? It’s still there but effectively useless? Now we can’t warn other users of AI slop, scams, or the other terribleness the web is full of.

But sure let’s do that to Lemmy.

Actually I think we have IBM and their laziness to thank for it.

The original 5150 PC was pretty much an afterthought by Big Blue’s standards, they slapped it together from off the shelf parts and bought the OS from some pissant upstart company called Microsoft on a non-exclusive license. The only IP that IBM actually had in the machine was the BIOS. Compaq developing a non-infringing yet compatible BIOS made the x86 PC a multi-vendor platform, which made it more attractive to adopt than the likes of Commodore who made a series of incompatible computers even within their own ecosystem. Note how the only thing Microsoft has ever consistently done that was worth a damn was backwards compatibility…it’s the only thing keeping them in business.

I’d like a refund.

It’s not necessarily the instruction set, it’s the platform architecture, the fact there’s such a thing as a standard BIOS. You can run Windows, Linux, Haiku etc on practically any PC. There’s Linux for ARM, why can’t I run Raspberry Pi OS on my Galaxy S10e? It’s because, though the instruction set is similar, the platforms very intentionally have nothing to do with each other.

My thing is they discontinued a lot of the tools I like. I carry a Skeletool and a Style CS, that pair works out great, but they don’t make any of the Styles anymore. I also really like my Squirt ES, another they discontinued.

Yeah, the Bill Cosby As Himself set got quoted a lot in my household growing up.

Well did anybody do anything about it, like, change the channel?

Well, I’m a pilot and flight instructor. My handedness didn’t really impact transitioning to flying from the right seat.

There is a movie called Club Paradise. Mid-80’s comedy starring Robin Williams and Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, a bunch of 80’s comedy regulars, Peter O’Toole is in it. The plot of the film is local honest people vs corrupt government and business, but minute to minute it’s mostly a spring break shenanigans movie starring a bunch of adults? Like, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy play a pair of potheads named Barry and Barry who repeatedly fail to score weed and chicks.

It has mostly negative reviews, but I’m fond of it. It DOES NOT work as a cinema film, I cannot imagine going to a theater, sitting reverently and quietly as it boomed down at me, but it works on TV as “let’s put a tape in while we’re getting ready for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Outing/waiting for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Venue to open.”

Reloaded and Revolutions was one of those cases where a movie was so huge that they decided to make two sequels back to back.

The first movie would sometimes dip into weird metaphysics but it kept to its theme enough to remain in your head. It’s a fairly straightforward monomyth hero’s journey plot with themes of destiny versus agency.

The sequels were crammed full of pointless “lots of shit happens on screen” action scenes and pseudophilosophic drivel.

What’s objectively terrible about Tremors?

The TV series and movies beyond the third one are objectively terrible. But the first two are solid films and the third one is good for a laugh.

“take of your pants.”

What’s red and smells like blue paint?

Red paint.

You know, I think if Stallman had put as much thought into the code of HURD as he did the acronym, Linus Torvalds wouldn’t be where he is today.

Remember when Futurama joked that the iPhone cost $500?

I Feel Good by James Brown was in the trailer for every family comedy made for over a decade.

Thinking back to some of my college professors…yes.