See but I would argue that five different version numbers across five different operating systems is broken. (Ok two of them do match up.)

Specifically the watchOS version is the important one that stands out. watchOS version 1 works with which version of macOS? Which version of iOS or iPadOS?

Also when it comes time to end support for devices, how do you keep track? If Apple provides 5 years of updates, do you know if your phone is still supported?

If my phone is running iOS 14, is that supported? Is that new? Is that old?

The key thing to keep in mind is that the entirety of this ecosystem is based on yearly releases.

Just for “fun” let’s look at Windows. The current version is 11. It was released in 2021. So I guess as long as I have Windows 11, I am up to date. But… That’s not true. Windows 11 does have a version number that’s not directly end user facing. That version is 24H2.

Now the “24” is the year, that’s useful. Now what’s stupid is the “H2”. Because sitting here in June 2025 I would expect “25H1” to be released anytime now. But Microsoft only used the H1 once, about five years ago. Now “Window 11 version 24H2” is better SEO vs “Window 11 version 24”, so maybe that’s why they kept it.

How would you prefer they handle it?

Just to look at macOS version history,

The first public release was “Mac OS X 10.0”, this continued until “Mac OS X 10.7 Lion”. The “big cat” became part of the marketing name because the OS & version were a mouthful and throwing numbers around wasn’t helpful.

We drop the “Mac” next year, then switch to mountains, but it’s not long before we reach, “OS X 10.10” aka “OS ten ten ten”.

Well it wasn’t long before we simplified further and just said “macOS”, but then took a while before we dropped the “10”. Now we just get “macOS 15 Sequoia”.

For nearly 18 years the Mac operating system had an unnecessary “10” that conveyed zero information.

It’s not a matter of biggest number, it’s a matter of consistency.

They have five operating systems, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS.

So currently we have macOS 15, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11 & visionOS 2. That’s absolute confusion. Do I have the latest version? Dropping support for an older version, how many years ago was that?

A version number should convey useful information, and the year it was released is useful information. Especially when major updates come every year.

Oh I completely agree. The anime eyes did not add to the film. It also sucks because the actress who played Alita, Rose Salazar, did a great job, but it’s such an uncanny valley type look that I didn’t recognize her anywhere else.

It’s one thing when it’s Andy Serkis playing Gollum or something but she was just playing a robot girl, but she looks like a throwaway CGI character.

It’s funny I saw it completely randomly.

I was chatting with a coworker and just off handedly mentioned how bad Alita looked and they jumped on to defend the film and series harder than I’d ever seen anyone defend anything before. It was a true, “I’ve waited all my life for this moment” for them.

My evening was free and it was one of those $5 Tuesday type movie nights so I figured what the hell.

So there was at least another that convinced me, got to pay it forward.

Because no one saw the first one.

Now some very influential people who were involved in the first one want to make a second one, so maybe just maybe it will happen one day… But I doubt it.

Lex Luthor.

Sure, he wants to kill Superman, that’s not the best political stance, but other than that he’ll basically just focus on fixing everything else that slows society down in order to have a society that’s better at killing Superman.

Plus it’s not like he’s successful at killing Superman. So really it’s a win-win.

Alita: Battle Angel.

The film looks stupid because they gave the main character giant anime eyes.

In the context of the film it makes sense and I think the look is meant to mirror the anime it is from… but for the film it still makes the film look stupid. Now the film itself is far from perfect, there is at least one storyline that is utter dogshit. However! The film ultimately was solid.

Sadly it ends setting up future films that will never happen, but I think it’s still enjoyable overall.

I have to agree, the film is MUCH better than it looks, with one exception early on (see below) the rest of the film works well.

Idiots to ally, absolutely.

To feign interest for a little while, string along and squeeze some hard facts out of, I say go for it.

Elon has to believe that scorched earth is the only way to “save” his companies and he needs to be convinced it’s worth doing.

Nothing he’s done so far can’t be walked back.

Now in terms of a third party challenger in the US, literally everyone is begging for a third party. Obama was Hope & Change. Trump was an Outsider. People are not happy with their choices in government. At the moment however you’ve still got to work within the party’s we have, which sucks.

Also, to be clear, I think Obama was an excellent progressive step forward. I think Trump is a horrible conservative leap backwards. Biden v Trump was the only election in recent history where the majority said, “Oh shit, please put an adult in charge again”, a message which disappeared and gave us Trump’s second term.

and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)

Pretty much. It was decided that tablets should be little laptops and not big phones. Phones got bigger, so tablets had to get bigger, plus because they were “laptops” they had to get bigger to support larger and larger keyboards. It’s really annoying.

My phone used to be 4.7 inches, now it’s 6.7 inches. So my 7 inch tablet, long since dead, doesn’t make sense. So now my tablet is 10 inches and honestly it’s too big to be comfortable as a tablet.

Santa Clarita Diet. It’s not too late (6 years ago) and they could still bring it back for a finale run of episodes or film.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It’s too late (16 years ago) but the show had just started to figure itself out and setup a HUGE cliffhanger that sadly goes nowhere.

I do wonder where Twitch would appear on this chart. Is it wayyyyyy under? Or does it not count as “TV”?

I don’t view YouTube as competing with Disney or Netflix. It does compete in a “only so much time in the day” sense, but then there are a lot of things to look at.

probably for hunting.

Who needs a machine gun? For hunting.

Who needs $600 worth of peanut butter? For hunting.

Take my peanut butter away?

From my warm sticky hands!

does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though?

Yes, but arguably this will make it more clear when what they are doing is insecure.

As you mentioned the majority of sites use HTTPS, which is good. Most of the time users will never notice anything. But on occasion, when a site is insecure, they’ll have a warning.

If every site were insecure, everyone would ignore the warning. If only a few rare sites are insecure, someone may notice.

In the days of AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM as all us cool kids called it, I recall a similarish little trick.

You’d tell your friend you were going to hack their computer and then send them a photo. The trick is that the photo was actually a link to “A:\virus.jpeg” which would cause their floppy drive to start up and look for a disk to look for a file. Since floppy drives were loud it would cause their computer to “chunk-a-lunk-lunk” which would obviously then scare your friend.

You could also do it with the “D” drive, but it was less reliable since I think it had to have an actual disk in there already (which was common), but it was also usually quieter.

I’d watch. I bet he and Bib Fortuna got in fights.

Actually was Crumb on the barge in RotJ? Did he just become Bib’s pet? Did Bib kick him out? Is he Boba’s pet now? Given that he appears to have a first and last name, I’m assuming he’s sentient, right? Or is he more like a parrot?

Edit: He was on the barge in RotJ. But everyone said Bib was dead and we discovered he was alive (briefly).

I don’t think it’s simply a matter of holding power.

“I’ve never had my chance to be a ranking member or a chairman of a full committee. This is it.”

Gerry Connolly (Source)

It’s this idea of “my turn”.

Connolly put in the time, he played by the rules, it’s his turn. Conceptually I get it. It’s what’s fair.

The problem is, we don’t live in that reality anymore, maybe we never did. We want to move forward. We don’t want to wait for “our turn”. We can’t afford to wait as things fall apart around us. Problems get worse the longer we wait.

Joe Biden had the view of riding out the storm. Trump, MAGA, etc are just a blip, everything will go back to normal. He was absolutely wrong. We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.

Futurama.

I put it on to fall asleep. I’m out before the episode ends. A downside is that I’ve seen the start of so many episodes, but rarely the end.