The problem I have with most of these services is that every channel is too hyper-specific, often literally just playing a single show or, at best, 2-3 shows but in multi-hour blocks. Incredibly lazy IMO.

To me, the appeal of linear terrestrial TV is having channels that show a wide variety of things throughout the day. If I wanted to see 24 hours of non-stop Mr. Bean I’d download them and shuffle the folder.

That would still work - asterisk isn’t a letter that can be accented, so the popup wouldn’t appear and the key would repeat as normal.

In typical Apple fashion, ‘that’s the neat part - it doesn’t’. If you want to be able to hold a letter to type it repeatedly, you have to disable the diacritics popup with a console command.

It’s the sort of stubborn ‘getting in my way’ feature that drives some people nuts when using a Mac, but in my experience it’s far more useful to be able to easily type accented characters than it is to be able to save half a second on the rare occasions I want to type ‘ooooooooooooooh’.

And yeah, if the popup is open you either hit the number displayed under the character you want or use the mouse to click on it.

On macOS you either use dead keys (option + backtick and then a letter will add a grave accent, like à) or just press and hold down the letter to get a little pop-up diacritics picker.

There’s a similar incentive to this Windows 11 one, but for macOS. Yikes.

Not sure why that warrants a yikes; macOS is far more usable than Windows 11. I’d go so far as to call it downright pleasant in comparison.

I’ve seen a few people recommending Aqara recently, but no personal experience myself.

For any confused Americans, a British flapjack is not a pancake, it’s more of a soft granola bar.

Is that a common thing? I’ve traveled all across Europe, to Australia, and to the US and never had a single item confiscated.

Farscape is great! It’s also weird and very horny.

The more important goal, at least for the affected workers, is it can lead to an employment tribunal and compensation (with no upper limit) for their lost income.

It’s easy to be cynical about the bigger picture, but don’t lose sight of the fact this can still be a big win for these workers.

There’s a big cultural difference between Curb and Partridge - cringe isn’t universal!

Specifically, Larry in Curb has a distinctly American sense of individualism. He does what he wants and doesn’t care if someone doesn’t like him for it. The cringe comes from his attempts to enforce his own set of unwritten social values on others.

Alan Partridge is the exact opposite - fundamentally insecure and desperate for approval. His cringe comes from lack of self-awareness and trying to fake social status, which is painfully obvious to a British audience with our deeply ingrained sense of class.

Ultimately, taste is taste, but I think that goes some way towards explaining why some people like one or the other but not both.

Any Wallpaper Engine enthusiasts here that can educate me as to why it’s so popular?

Is it really that much better than just finding wallpapers with an image search like in the old days?

They’re not banning IRC or forums, though?

Your worst-case-scenario framing makes the question redundant.

You’re essentially asking: ‘Let’s imagine that something really bad is going to happen. Is it worth preparing for it?’

This is just straight-up incorrect. uBOL is not going away.

What do you call a bra stretched across a doorway?

There are no hacks available for Switch 2 so far.

They famously had no coherent plan for the sequel trilogy, so each film lurched off in its own weird direction.

It’s truly mind-boggling how badly Disney screwed up what should’ve been a slam dunk.

The technology isn’t the problem, the companies are. All the things you listed are issues, but they are all also solved if you look slightly harder.

There are free video services that you can watch from anywhere, not to mention self-hosted VOD for all your definitely-legitimately-acquired media.

You can get video doorbells that aren’t from Ring or Google and link them to fully private systems like Home Assistant.

… okay there’s no solution for McDonald’s prices if you want McD’s, but - at least here in the UK - delivery bags are sealed so you can in fact tell if someone has eaten your fries.

Anyway, my point is you shouldn’t feel bad for imagining a cool future. We do get to live in that future, but we also have to be judicious about who we trust to deliver it.

Almost all of the references on that wiki page are from the last couple of months - I assume it’s been trending on social media recently.