A fun, true story about how broken Paramount+ is: I used to pay for it, and stopped when S3 of Disco ended. Earlier this year I decided to watch Lower Decks, and was surprised to see I still get P+, commercial-free, without actually paying for it. I guess there’s some weird back-end payment thing that never processed…

So what meaning does a recall have when the fix is issued with an OTA update? Is it just an administrative thing, so that Tesla has to notify the FSD beta users of the glitch, so they can either check for the update or bring it in to do it manually?

Funny, I often see those cards that say “leave us a review and we’ll enter you into a drawing for a gift card”. I wonder if that’s their way of trying to get around this restriction.

No, this article isn’t about Charisma Carpenter. 

“For the iPhone 12 lineup, Apple Care+ is $200 for two incidents of accidental damage every 12 months. So say you trip and end up cracking that screen–you’ll end up paying $230 as opposed to $280. If you say, damage your phone because pesky sand got into your lightning port, it’ll end up being $300 for the iPhone 12…

In searching for wireless earbuds, the non-Active version of the 75t were really nice. Unfortunately, there was one deal-killer which made me return them. The left earbud would frequently crackle at certain volumes and frequencies, particularly noticeably when it came to voices in podcasts, though not so much with…

I actually think I like Disco better than this. The trope-y-ness of Picard is just killing me. I enjoyed this first 3 episodes, but as this one went on a voice in my head just kept getting louder and louder shouting “this is so DUMB!”

Nah.

“The Perfect Gift for When Your Partner Has Committed Suicide”

Right, but he was only deactivated. Presumably the parts are still around somewhere, and can be used instead of Data.

No, he was referring to teaching the dog French.

it was called Vintage Flip, and it focused on tasteful, period-appropriate restorations of vintage houses

Is this another one of those Spotify exclusive podcasts? I hate this trend.

Despite putting in a lot of hours pounding the pavement, I have never been the fastest runner. It’s not for lack of trying! I do fartleks, interval runs, tempo runs—you name it.

I may be too late for anyone to actually see this, but: who was that standing over Ming Na Wen’s body at the end of episode 5? Doesn’t really make sense for it to be Gideon, the way he was introduced these last 2 episodes.

It’s not ambiguous at all. Obviously Angela went on to create that famous Coca Cola ad.

He’s one of those actors who shows up as newscasters in a bunch of things. I think he also used to be or maybe still is a newscaster? Or maybe I’m thinking of John Beard.

Yeah they explicitly said it was a gun that would force him to teleport, not destroy him. He was presumably teleported to that 7K cage where Laurie is.

What Krebs is showing here is a little more nuanced in the source article. He’s really pointing out the difference between disabling global location services, versus doing it on an individual app/system service level. His complaint is that if you leave it on globally, but turn it off for every individual app/system…

The preview for next week makes it look like Dr. Manhattan is wearing a Dr. Manhattan party-mask in the flashback, so I wonder if that’s how we’ll see him for all the past scenes. For the present scenes, I can see them have him just be Cal with a blue glow.