I was round a friend’s house, early afternoon, plenty of natural sunlight, and he walks in and switches on the ceiling light. It was like looking at a permanent nuclear blast.

Had to get him to turn it off immediately. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t want it on.

I asked: “What are you trying to simulate, a hospital corridor, a police interrogation room?”

I’ve seen other people use 100 watt bare bulbs as their main light (and no curtains/blinds). For Christ-sake, at least get an up-lighting shade.

A big bright exposed light source and they watch tv. With the bulb reflected in the middle of the screen.

How do people live like this? Do they all have cataracts?

Link to the pdf itself

Product list starts on page 37.

I had, but I hadn’t thought about him in a long while. Plus i forgot half the movies he’s worked on.

Just looking at his filmography, Dude has a serious list of films he’s produced:

Xanadu (1980) (co-producer)

48 Hrs. (1982)

Streets of Fire (1984)

Brewster’s Millions (1985)

Weird Science (1985)

Commando (1985)

Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Predator (1987)

Action Jackson (1988)

Die Hard (1988)

Road House (1989)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Die Hard 2 (1990)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Ricochet (1991)

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Demolition Man (1993)

Richie Rich (1994)

Assassins (1995)

Fair Game (1995)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) (TV documentary film)

Executive Decision (1996)

Fathers’ Day (1997)

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Double Tap (1997)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

The Matrix (1999)

Made Men (1999)

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Exit Wounds (2001)

Swordfish (2001)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Ghost Ship (2002)

Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Gothika (2003)

House of Wax (2005)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

V for Vendetta (2006)

The Reaping (2007)

The Invasion (2007)

The Brave One (2007)

Fred Claus (2007)

Speed Racer (2008)

RocknRolla (2008)

Orphan (2009)

Whiteout (2009)

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)

The Losers (2010)

Unknown (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Dragon Eyes (2012)

Stash House (2012)

The Apparition (2012)

The Factory (2012)

Getaway (2013)

Non-Stop (2014)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Collide (2016)

Superfly (2018)

Road House (2024)

Road House 2 (TBA)

Edit/note: I probably didn’t make my comment very clear. I’m aware it’s 1600 being laid off. More that I didn’t realise that Atlassian had 16k people in total. 16,000 people making their products progressively worse.

Even if their company only had 1600 ppl, I’d still say they were wasteful.

About 16k workers? How!?

What a waste of human effort, time and resources. All to make a few bad products, worse.

Indeed, that’s why I mentioned a PC monitor first

Well what about a PC monitor? You can get u to like 43" and beyond. Obviously they are great for gaming as well.

The other very impractical mention - after TVs starting adding ads, cameras and microphones, I switched to a 2nd hand projector. Most have no smart features.

All you need is a white or off- white wall to protect on to. And the ability to block some light coming into the room.

Downsides:

• They can be bulky and noisy. Particularly the 4k ones
• might need separate speakers
• Not as low latency as a tv but models do come with VRR
• bulbs do get darker from prolonged use (and aren’t always cheap to replace)
• you might need separate speakers
• and there are the trailing cables
• And you’ll never get the inky blacks of oleds. But for picture size and immersion for the cost, they are basically unbeatable.

Some can project from a coffee table.

For tv series and YouTube like content, I use a laptop. Then for big movies, I use the projector and 5.1 sound system (mostly 2nd hand as well.)

Count the fingers

I switched to Waterfox recently. I really like it. It actually seems to work more consistently than Firefox did.

Cat, I’m a kitty cat.

Gi Joe parody

The talking boat

This video seems very low effort. If your going to waste vaste amounts of vital resources, at least generate something unusual. And clearly tag it as Gen AI.

“Video by Tom Furse” - Don’t know why this annoys me the most. At best he edited the output of a selection of prompts to fit the music.

The only AI music video I’ve actually enjoyed watching is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIvO4eh190

In the description they clearly state the reason for using AI (plus they also used some 3D tools.)

Gen Ai is good for generating horrible nightmarish visuals.

I think I hate Gen AI so much because by default it generates dream-like/nightmare imagery, hallucinations. We try and force it to produce real-life representations.

It’s an uncanny valley generator, used incorrectly.

It’s a lab-grown meat, that no matter how it’s manipulated, just doesn’t taste right. But companies try and pass it off as it’s from an animal.

For Christ-sake, if people want to use this abomination of a tool, use it to generate abominations.

Yeah they are sneaky. You are forced to download everything.

Do a “manual search” on the Nvidia driver page.

Once the “Game Ready” drivers are downloaded. Uninstall the nvidia app (if it’s installed already.)

Now to install.

Basically for any windows software, always choose “Custom (Advanced)” installation, instead of “Express (Recommended)”.

For nvidia, the next page will show you 3-4 options. Untick everything accept “Graphics driver”.

Definitely ignore “HD audio”. It tends to mess up your sound (at least that’s my experience.)

and “PhysX System Software” unless this out of date or missing. Then you can tick this.

Then just your graphics drivers will be installed.

Obviously you will miss out on the various additional features the nvidia app provides, like auto tweaking game settings. But it’s always a tradeoff.

As I said above. Always do “Custom” installs on ANY software. 75% of the time you end up automatically opting into to various forms of telemetry, and at worst find your browers have new plugins, your search engine changed, and antivirus installed. It can be time-consuming to uninstall.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions. I tried to add screenshots but the Lemmy app wasn’t having it.

I use this - https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

But obviously get opinions from other sources first.

It claims to disable most Windows telemetry. Some Adobe. But I haven’t actually done any testing to prove it’s the case. It’s a pretty useful tool. Just use the restore point option first.

Last time I tried this method of disabling Adobe telemetry, photoshop stopped opening after a few days.

For nvidia/amd, just install the drivers, not their tool suite.

As the other posters mention, try to find alternatives.

Other than that, you can try and block at a firewall level. But few companies make it obvious like: http://nerferoustelemetry.pleasedontblockthis.adobe.com/

I literally got recommended this AI band as well. Normally I can search: “X band AI” and I get results whether or not they are real.

All I had were 50 pages about the original band leaving Spotify.

I blocked this suspicious sounding band in-case it was AI. Looks like I was right.

Just as a note: earlier this year I stated I’d keep subscribing to Spotify because the recommendations were worth the cost. I was wrong, and I’m slowly starting my transition away.

https://archive.ph/L2Gqp without paywall

I know this is just my tiny view on things, but I’ve been testing code from a very experienced Dev, who was recently instructed to use AI coding tools in their work (Cursor, maybe some Copilot).

Functionality in our product is now breaking in weird and wonderful ways. Completely new ‘WTF!’ moments. It’s hard to describe.

Core behavior that I’ve taken for granted - things I didn’t realise could go wrong, are.

It reminds me of when after particular iOS update many years back, (for certain scenarios) Apple’s own calculator wasn’t doing addition correctly.

For me, it’s both fascinating and unnerving. Like some unfathomable cosmic horror.