Logins are hard, but Apple has more money than the next three deities combined and they can't afford a single "update your app to continue" dialog box?

Had the most frustrating login experience in a long time trying to use my Apple account. Wound up being user error (needed to update an app), but the failure modality was absolutely infuriating and unenlightening.

#truth #ds9 #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine #STDS9

weird how all of this "ai assisted" dogshit keeps having wild-ass basic-bitch reliability and security bugs

It was supposedly a GE-brand unit, but it turns out GE sold their logo to some other company I've never heard of for that particular appliance. Which really feels like it should fall under a false advertising law, frankly.

Had a small appliance crap out in two years, on a one year warranty, and the repair cost is more than a brand new one would cost.

Fucking temporary society.

florence + the machine should rebrand for the anti-ai era as florence - the machine

@xgranade that was a very entertaining way to ruin a microwave

Did you microwave AOL CDs as a kid?

All of this is reminding me of the one (1) good South Park episode... even assholes sometimes are funny despite their best efforts. Anyway, the one where Cartman decides to make a Christian rock band, and kind of stumbles ass-backwards into the whole alternate world of "faith-based" culture.

Word to the wise, or at least to the insufficiently foolish: don't look into the bizarre alternate cultural universe behind YOUNG WASHINGTON, or you will experience pain in your soul.

I am very confused at them calling MRS. DOUBTFIRE a "faith-based" movie, though.

OK, I gotta close this rabbit hole tab group before I take any more psychic damage.

Of *course* the guy behind the fundamentalist Christian streaming service injecting itself into American culture is also an AI booster.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-05-13/why-house-of-david-director-thinks-ai-can-save-hollywood-jobs

Rewatched Sugar S1 recently and... it has some giant problems, but I do really like where it landed in terms of genre blends.

A spam that made it through all my filters advertised two free tickets to YOUNG WASHINGTON. That tells me there's likely some funder trying to drum up audience numbers for that shitshow.

Reminds me of all those free books being given away to try and drum up $rightWingGrievanceMemoirDuJour.

it is kind of funny how:
windows: either run all games through steam, or install some janky driver to get basic controller support for 3rd parties
linux on the jankiest possible hardware: plug in a dualsense, and it works out of the box. perhaps too well. audio automatically switches to the dualsense speaker.

@xgranade First time you *remember*

apparently discord's ai moderation is banning people for posting grid patterns

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1umdc67/comment/ovbceiy/

Everything is so fucking absurd.

First time I've seen "memory surcharge" listed on an invoice.