Makes sense - the article says it's just a regular piece of plastic, but it's printed and clearly isn't just a copy (unless you can photocopy onto plastic?)
Deebster
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Yeah, the article says
What transpired in the nearly 30 years since the story unfolded is bittersweet
and I was waiting for the sweet part. Turns out, apart from his mum's good intentions, everything in the story's pretty much on the bitter side.
I was reading through hoping they'd show they'd considered the impact on life, but nope. Two to three volts doesn't sound a lot, but if you're a small creature living half in brine it might be a big deal.
Plus the change in the sand that is the whole point, as you say.
Has anyone read the novel? I normally like to read the source book before watching the adaptation, but my to-read list is already longer than a human lifetime.
Ah, I didn't know that - thanks
What connection do Chromebooks have to Android? I thought ChromiumOS was based on Gentoo Linux.
[Jansson] is part of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, and her books were originally written in Swedish.
Ah, that explains why I can never remember which one.
Great post, thanks. Some niece or nephew will be getting this next birthday, I think!
I don't think it's even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it's just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.
"Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity," says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.
-- from the BBC article
If that's what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.
Yup, I think a lot of people just use their web browser for everything, and they can definitely just switch. Outside of work, how many non-techies have set up their email to use a native program? Very few, in my experience.
I think documents are sometimes the exception, since there's a sizable (perhaps older) group that like to use Word for everything.
I can see that on midwest.social, but on programming.dev it's in English. I assume those previews are being fetched by each server, and yours is picking them up in German for some reason - not sure why, surely your US instance isn't hosted in Germany‽
There's moderation per community and per server. There's no "fediverse moderator", of course, but I think you're vaguely worrying for nothing.