Luca sucked, turning red had positive reviews but wasn’t memorable, Coco had some great songs and some staying power, encanto rode high on Lin Manuel Miranda’s lyrics, and Moana was strong.

Strange worlds fell flat, Elemental failed, Wish flopped, Lightyear was a let down, Raya and the Last Dragon was only “fine”, and Rons Gone Wrong was forgettable, but mostly good.

Not to mention their live action failures.

“As if the creative future of the Western entertainment industry wasn’t already looking dire enough to begin with, Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced that, in an ostensible attempt to net the company a win after a string of back-to-back-to-back-to-back losses, the foreseeable future will see the House of Mouse turning away from original works in favor of producing easily marketable sequels.”

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/05/07/disney-ceo-bob-iger-reveals-company-now-dedicating-itself-to-sequels-over-original-productions-theyre-known-and-it-takes-less-in-terms-of-marketing/

It’s eerily reminiscent of the Disney era of direct to VHS sequels that almost killed the company.

I hate the idea of going all in on IP they have versus original entertainment. The biggest attractions at Disneyland were original (jungle cruise, pirates of the Caribbean, the haunted mansion.)

As a former Disneyland park cast member, imo they have lost their way and what made them iconic storytellers. Leaderships has lost its creative edge and is writing films by committee. They want a culturally significant film they can virtue signal with and are trying to force it from the boardroom instead of hiring and encouraging diverse writers and giving them the freedom to tell their story.

Whoever goes to HR first is usually the de facto winner. Sure, there might be an investigation. But they got their side of the story in first.

He’s saying he works on enterprise gear. It’s different. In networking, a lot of similar but other than rebooting shit, there isnt much to do.

And managing servers, services, using terraform or Jenkins, docker, podman, kubernetes or any other enterprise tool isn’t the same as fixing your computer not printing.

Totally different skills

I don’t begrudge a coworker befriending a supervisor. Maybe they are genuinely friends.

As much as you like people who come in a do their job and go home. Many others like it when they come in and a friend is there and they can chat, have a good time, and still get their responsibilities done.

If they can’t get their work done, then it’s a supervisors issue. You don’t have to do their workload.

Almost no one knows how to do the job they are hired for. You’ll have a trainer at almost every job. Apply for things you don’t think you are qualified for. Most people figure it out as they go.

If you are still in school, unless you are trying to get into a post graduate school, like law school or med school. Your grades are the least interesting thing about you. Cs get degrees.

Once you’re in the world. People care about experience and personality more than straight A’s or the deans list.

My brother was homeless from addiction.

I’d give food and water; if they wanted to wash up I have a hose and would bring them soap and shampoo. Unfortunately, I’ve been burned with shit disappearing from when my brother was addicted, so I probably wouldn’t let them in the house.

I can’t hack insta. But I can probably hack your ex. Spearfishing is largely just a matter of time.

Transom windows. I don’t know why they aren’t common. But they make it easy to close a door but still allow airflow through the house.

It’s so fucked. I know there are different levels, but the McDonald’s out here in California starts at $20/hr.

Emt/paramedic

Oh man… I didn’t even think of flashing the old iPods I have. But now… I might seriously fix the one that I prepped for a SSD.

I keep an old Ozark Trail Hobo Tool in my overnight bag. I can’t tell you how useful it’s been when traveling and ending up at a hotel somewhere getting take out to have an actual knife and fork.

I specifically trained myself away from it when I went to working remote. I don’t want to be tied to my desk when I could spend my day at the park, beach, coffee shop, bar, on a boat, or Disneyland and still get work done.

I did this when out with a friend the other night. It was a neat party trick so they could stay in touch with their sister. First time I’ve used it in years of having the phone.

Mine is already water resistant up to a couple feet. No case needed for a coaster.

It would be tempting to have a QR code or nfc tag to stick on appliances that goes direct to a manual on a self hosted service. Would be nice so it’s always easy to get to and specific to the device.

A lot of those are very dependent on which tech is in the key fob. They can easily copy old hid prox which just broadcast the UUID of the fob, but struggle with newer tech that does a challenge and response.