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The Commodore name and trademarks were recently acquired by the YouTube channel Retro Recipes, which has now revived the company under the Commodore International Corporation name. The new team includes original Commodore members such as Albert Charpentier, Dave Haynie, and Bil Herd.

I remember a Scottish lady telling us in the ’90s about how they had vans that would drive around to find illegal TVs and the whole thing was just mind-boggling to me!

From !oddlyspecificplaylists@sh.itjust.works

The official guidance is not to try to do an in-place upgrade of your Raspberry Pi's OS. It's possible, but the recommended route is to write a fresh copy to a fresh microSD card, reinstall any additional apps, and bring across your config files. When we wrote about the Pi-Hole network ad filter earlier this year, we got multiple comments about upgrades going wrong. It's a free OS that lives on a $5 storage card in a $35 computer. Just buy a new card, write a fresh OS image onto it, and then you can revert by just swapping the old card back in.

Man I love The Reg

My concern would be less about features and more security updates

It’s hard to pick a favorite, they all have their strong points

I really don’t know enough about Perplexity AI to have an opinion one way or another, which is why I’m upvoting for awareness. I can’t say whether it’s a good or bad thing, although I’m not optimistic given the general trend of shoehorning “AI” in whether it makes sense or not, but I’m sure there are actually useful applications for the product and a better search engine could be one. I want actual search results, though, not a generated slop answer.

How dare you, Clue is flawless!

They’re interesting devices, but how do they compare to other headsets in a similar price range?

Don’t worry, Imgur has no honor either

What kind of deer are these?

The way it lands behind the animatronic looks wrong, almost like they occupy the same space

Here’s a more universal link: !slopornot@lemmy.world

I’m not upvoting out of support for this move but to spread awareness

A brilliant idea! Link to the recipe, or copy/paste the recipe?

While its time in service was short, its early-day supersonic speeds left a legacy—most famously because it was the first aircraft to be so fast that it shot itself down. (emphasis mine)

I appreciate how this is famous as the first—but apparently not last—aircraft to shoot itself down!

The Navy considered the incident a one-in-a-million fluke and was certain it would never happen again. Attridge was less convinced, however. “At the speeds we’re flying today,” he later said, “it could be duplicated any time.” He was right. In 1973, another Grumman test pilot, this one flying an F-14 Tomcat out in California, was struck by his own missile. Luckily, it was a dummy missile, and the pilot was able to eject to safety. More recently, in 2019, a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 accidentally shot itself from its 20mm rotary cannon. The pilot was able to land safely, uninjured.

Adding to this, how are they at keeping Android updated, especially on older devices?

Shareholders and marketers want this.

It has become increasingly important for DirecTV to diversify revenue beyond satellite and Internet subscriptions. DirecTV had over 20 million subscribers in 2015; in 2024, streaming business publication Next TV, citing an anonymous source “close to the company,” reported that the AT&T-owned firm was down to about 11 million subscribers.

Simultaneously, the streaming industry—including streaming services and streaming software—has been increasingly relying on advertising to boost revenue. For some streaming service providers, increasing revenue through ads is starting to eclipse the pressure to do so through subscriber counts. Considering DirecTV's declining viewership and growing interest in streaming, finding more ways to sell ads seems like a natural progression.

With legacy pay TV providers already dealing with dwindling subscriptions, introducing new types of ads risks making DirecTV less appealing as well.

And it’s likely that things won’t end there.

“This, we can integrate across different places within the television,” [advertisement provider] Glance COO Mansi Jain told The Verge. "We are starting with the screensaver, but tomorrow… we can integrate it in the launcher of the TV."

Step one is realising that executive dysfunction isn't a choice - laziness is a choice, and it's supposed to feel good - if you feel guilty the entire time you're being "lazy" then that's not being lazy.

Here’s something I needed to read

I still think the wildest/saddest thing I’ve read about was the child actress whose character just disappeared without explanation doing pornographic films when she turned 18