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Cowboy Bebop: Why can’t Hollywood make reboots work?

tl:dr; Too many factors are completely different and “Hollywood” has a chaotically short attention span. Obviously, that answer isn’t helpful, but that’s also the point. Without enough context, the “too long; didn’t read” doesn’t tell you enough about the question stated in the title of this post. You can make inferences, but without more insight into the real problem(s) there will be no clear…

My first in a series discussing many of the ways our most critical technology companies are … Stuck on Stupid: Microsoft

I heard the news back in March of 2020, “The Year From Hell: Part 1”, about Bill Gates stepping down from Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway and a thought popped into my head… Bill must finally feel that Microsoft is in good enough hands with Satya Nadella that he can finally let go. (What does that say about Ballmer?)– the meatball inside my skull… As is typical with me, I started mulling over…

Is turning off 3G a mistake?

This won’t take long… All I’m saying is, we already have a nearly global, low-power, reliable wireless network that is practically tailor-made for the Internet of Things (IoT), so why get rid of it? 3G is still a useful wireless network, both in CDMA and GSM forms. Make it all open source, from the hardware to the software, if those aren’t open already. But don’t stop there. Continue to develop…

Legislating a fix for America's debauchery in the name of Christ's Glory...

Soon, my brothers and sisters in Christ, we will have wiped the scourge of abortion from the face of the most Holy of nations, the United States of America. God Bless this great country. And yet, Christ our Lord still needs us to close this one last cultural loophole, a great sin that is perpetrated by all of the weak-willed Atheists who have been dragging the Lord’s favorite nation into sin and…

2021 M1 MacBook Pros: I’m a little disappointed, Apple…

The price::performance ratio isn’t working out, from what I’ve seen, and that has me a little worried. Yes, they do indeed bring a lot more to the table than the Intel-based systems, and at far lower power consumption levels, but there’s a lot of inconsistency in the results. Now, without information directly from Apple about how these systems should be benchmarking, what are seeing is…

GLOBAL REQUEST: Reverse Your Backlight Controls, Please! The lowly backlight NEEDS a reboot of UI/UX. Really, it’s just annoying.

Hi. How you doing? By the way, you got a free second? I’d like to ask you a favor, you peeps over there who manage backlighting controls for devices and computers. It’s not a big one. In fact, it should be dirt simple, but I’m not a coder so what do I know. What I’d like, and I think a lot of people would, are controls for adjusting backlight intensity that work in reverse. The typical approach…

I’ve got some ideas for you, Satya! Let’s kick this pig!! [No pigs were harmed during this tweet.] #TKN #WindowsPhone

tl;dr: You suck at phones. I don’t know what it is that makes you this way, but whatever you’ve been doing so far certainly isn’t fixing it. We’ve been suffering from the effects of your epic quest for this white whale for decades now. Seriously, someone should have noticed by now that the phones you keep producing didn’t give users everything they wanted or, in the case of the new Surface Duo…

Touch controls for cars are stupid and dangerous or, How to accept that you suck at driving and move on. #tkn #reality

On the face of it anyone from the 80’s or 90’s looking at dashboards in cars of the last five years with none of the context of the intervening years would be utterly befuddled as to how to operate it past toodling about the local neighborhood. Hell, put them in a Teslas Model 3 and I doubt they could even figure out how to get out of the damn thing. We’re getting laptop-sized LCD panels…

Why do blog posts need to be long?

You know, that’s a great question.

Where’s the rage? – Pandemic Edition

Where is it, the rage? We should all be really, quite upset. Why aren’t we marching in the streets, demanding accountability for the endless stream of corruption and criminality that has been unveiled on an almost daily basis for quite a few years? The French? Fuck, they’re out in the street if anyone, anywhere sneezes on their rights! The Yellow Vests? You might have heard of them? French…

Back to Apple after a decade of Windows? Unquestionably yes.

Back in 2009, I needed to have the CPU repasted in my MacBook Pro as it was running hot. Ill-advised in retrospect, I poked around Craig’s List until I settled on someone offering repair services that I felt I could trust. I spoke to him on the phone a few times, and we arranged to meet. I dropped off the laptop, we chatted jovially for about ten minutes, and then I went home. I never saw that…

I’m a mess

My mind is racing, bouncing from one issue to the next at breakneck pace, spinning off tasks I have to get done like a madly whirling particle accelerator. Pew! Pew! They fly away, a thought I had, something I wanted to do, to look up, to verify, to… finish, and I just can’t. This pandemic. This country. This president. This white supremacy problem. This racism problem. This policing problem.…

Greenland (2020) - Yes. A movie review. Get over it...

Good GOD, what a pig. Sure, Gerard Butler was a staple in mid-budget action flicks, but this dumpster fire isn’t one of his better ones, and it’s not going to inject any enthusiasm into prospects for his ongoing career. BUDGET: $35 million BOX OFFICE: $47.5 million (worldwide) Directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling, this schlocky disaster flick wannabe already instills a…

How To Be The Most Amazing Person Ever

So, you want to be the most amazing person ever. The good news is that, through the power of positive thinking, you can have anything* you want, as long as you know the secret. What is the secret? Well, it wouldn’t be much of a secret if I didn’t drag this unnecessarily hyperbolic exposition out for as long as humanly possible only to tell you something ludicrously obvious at the end, would it?…

My father died today.

My sister summed it up best. “I haven’t seen him in so long, he’s already been dead to me,” she said, or something like it. You get the point. I was watching a video on YouTube about the new Anbernic RG351M when it paused itself. Then my phone rang. I could see it was my sister from the image that appeared on the display. I knew at that moment that she was calling me to tell me dad had died.…

TKN’s Guide To Racism: 2020

I was watching CNN this morning, November 3rd, 2020, and Kasich was talking about only a “little slice” of America was racist. There is no single definition of racism that clearly unveils the different types of people and the particular set of behaviors that slot them into a class. How can we work on the seething mass of deeply nested issues if we don’t have a framework through which we can…

Why I hate YouTube Music (and you should, too)

I do love that I can spend $15 a month to listen to anything. I used to spend that much on one LP or a couple of tapes back in “the day.” I also recognize that this arrangement is highly biased towards the platform operators which is, in this case, Google. Artists make far more of their money performing live which, if you haven’t noticed, isn’t going to be a thing again for a while. Yeah.…