Princess Bride

So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature

Trust what? Many scientists will quite justifiably have completely opposing views (do vaccines cause autism for example).

Not really no.

The process of “embrace, extend and extinguish” has been used multiple times to destroy FLOSS projects from the inside.

Of the top of my head:

• Kerberos
• Office formats
• XMPP

I’ve just got back from a run so my brain is not fully connected, so others can give other examples.

Meta do not want to join the party for fun. They want to join because it is the only way they can smother it.

If it can run on PHP8 you get JIT compilation, which should go a long way to closing any gaps (if they exist, which I suspect not).

Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos

Jokes on you because middle-aged people are the children of the people who built the internet.

Source: I am middle-aged and also 25 years younger than Tim Berners-Lee

Calibre is powerful and mature

Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.

There was song from the 60s (supposedly the best music everyone tells me) called “7 little girls”. The chorus went “7 little girls sitting the back seat kissing and hugging with Fred”

Thankfully a mostly forgotten song now, but a clear example of how bloody awful pop music is not a new phenomenon.

I’ll take your Sensible Soccer and raise you Kick-off 2 (on the Amiga of course).

As over-hyped tech goes VR is bad, but 3D cinema is not far behind.

I saw someone say it was, obviously I have no access to data.

There is already a docker image so that should not be too hard. I’d be happy to set something up, but (as others have said) the DB will hit a bottleneck relatively quickly.

I like the idea of splitting off the image processing.

Firefox across mobile and desktop. Tried some more obscure browsers, but keep coming back to Firefox.