I watched this yesterday in the cinema and lost at least 30 brain cells. All of the world’s natural disasters happen at once and they seem to be exclusively hunting Gerard Butler. It was so stupid it was funny again.

Cut - tectonic plate shift - cut - tsunami - cut - radioactive cyclone - cut - meteor blasts out of orbit :D

What a load of crap! A true trash gem. But the last 20 minutes were just painful, to be honest.

I won’t watch it, because sadly I lost all hope in modern Trek ever getting good again, but I’ll enjoy all of your memes.

Sure, but there’s a difference between the software and some hosting provider hosting this software, even if it’s on wordpress.com. But I don’t hold it against you, that domain is deliberately confusing.

Not the WordPress software, only the hosting service wordpress.com - they are not the same.

Personally, I use GeneratePress which does not have any AI features. It’s just simple and competent page building with custom HTML and CSS (if you want to). The Divi developers can burn in hell for writing that dumpster fire of a software.

I think this is dumber than renaming twitter to X.

But not as dumb as renaming Remote Desktop to “Windows App”.

That’s not the whole truth and makes your post seem a little ragebaity. The AI assistant is not available on WordPress sites that you host yourself. It’s only available for WordPress blogs that are available on wordpress.com. The WordPress software itself does not come with AI features.

More details about this are here.

There are plugins for adding AI garbage to WP, like the “AI Experiments” plugin, but it’s not getting auto-installed and likely never will be.

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Common within a very small niche.

I’d wager a lot of people from that small niche are registered on the Fediverse, though.

What’s even shittier about this is that one major supermarket chain (LIDL) was sued by our consumer protection agency (“Verbraucherzentrale”) but the case was dismissed by the courts.

They have at least allowed a revision, so this will go to a higher court now which has to decide about it. I really hope all of those app discounts will be stopped.

Same here, it’s great on Linux.

the future of cinema is community

I’m from Germany and I took a trip to Nuremberg this year. They have a very popular and massive cinema, because they understand the culture. You can find dancefloors in there, a big cafe area to hang out, an underground cinema where they carved the screen out of the wall (it’s like the batcave with a screen). They livestream soccer matches and you can even listen to audiodramas in a dark room or watch movies on the roof at night with drinks served.

It’s really amazing and I wish more cinemas would understand that surviving on endless Marvel movies will not work out for them in the future. Cinemas need to do more activities to draw people in.

The picture quality on that enormous screen was absolute shit.

At my local cinema, they have a system that opens a curtain automatically before the movie starts. Except it often doesn’t work right and only opens up halfway, so someone from the audience (usually me) has to get up and look for an employee to manually open it all the way. I missed quite a few movie intros because of that. 😑

When I watched Robot Dreams at another cinema, there was a small tear right in the middle of the screen. The state of cinema in this day and age is very sad.

It used to be a great picture

I have a 300$ projector at home and the image is better than at the local cinema. People don’t go to the cinemas anymore, so they don’t have money to keep up their technology and fall behind. It makes me sad, because my local cinema is from the 1950s and it could be an amazing place with a really unique architecture, but the technology to really enjoy the movies isn’t there.

Heck, they show 3D movies in half framerate, but you still have to pay the full additional charge. I can get better quality with 140$ VR glasses at home. :(

The attention span from social media like TikTok has ruined people, too. It’s annoying when a movie takes its time and people start getting their phones and smartwatches lit up to distract themselves.

In 2024, I’ve been at the cinema almost every week, but this year I just didn’t feel like it. I watched a few movies, for sure, but the excitement wasn’t there.

I don’t know if that’s just me, but I also think movies have gotten too long. I don’t want to sit at the cinema for 3.5 hours and watch a movie that doesn’t even have an ending (looking at you, Killers of the Flower Moon). I get my popcorn and my drink and after 2.5 hours I need to pee and having to get up is just annoying, having to endure my full bladder for another hour even more so.

It’s really weird why filmmakers have decided to make such long movies in this day and age. The Whale was under two hours and the room was flooded with tears afterwards, you don’t need to put a whole series worth of story into one single movie.

I am also tired of the endless remakes and re-remakes. Jurassic World Rebirth was terrible, just let it die already - and what the hell was that “I Know What You Did Last Summer” movie? The first one was bad already, it didn’t need a sequel.

Maybe 2026 will be better, but I don’t have a lot of hope.

At my local cinema they usually play around 5 to 10 minutes of ads before a movie. But I still remember one particular movie where it just didn’t stop and they blasted jewelry ads left and right for a whole 22 minutes. It was “Wish” from Disney.

That whole ordeal made the movie even worse. I do like seeing trailers, because I get excited for new movies, but fucking jewelry ads? Those are the lowest of the low. I’m sure they would’ve played gambling ads next, if that was allowed in Germany.

“AI can code better than most humans.”

They actually mean: After burning millions of tokens and using up the energy of multiple households (for a year) it can code better than an intern.

I’ll go to the cinema, The Physician II comes out on the 25th.

I’m the IT admin, so I can run whatever I want. As long as the work gets done, I could even run TempleOS on my machine. 😀

Funfact: The voice actor reacted to this mod. :D

I have all the keys to all the things

The last three jobs I had were like this. I’m a web developer with an interest in IT, so after a few months I always get to manage all of the IT. 🥹

Pros:

• I can sneak in OSS and Linux into the infrastructure, slowly but surely replacing all of the proprietary shit
• good salary
• four-day work week

Cons:

• having to play babysitter for basically everybody
• when something breaks during my vacation, well, there goes the vacation
• nobody notices how much work I actually do (until something breaks)