I was just a kid, so point of view was limited.

It was absolute chaos. They had "half-cars" driving around (front-wheel-drive cars, with the back end missing, and replaced with a rickety wooden cart; sometimes, just like a drag cart, with no wheels).

I knew a couple that had a pretty big cat, and a parrot (I think an African Grey, but can't remember, exactly).

The parrot would walk around the house, and the cat would ignore it.

I asked if the cat ever attacked the parrot, and the answer was "Yes. Once.".

https://youtu.be/EQG5fi-2xns

Not sure of why this is. Crows are smart, but also can be very nasty (like us).

Because we need them.

A very significant percentage of my Circle has had (or has) cancer.

Fun, but most themes were basically unusable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software)

Some samples: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709175639fw_/http://www.kal...

(The one I used the most, was Ozymandias II).

That may have more to with the skills of the implementors, as opposed to the concept, as a whole.

I do find modern "flat" design to be less "fun," but I get a lot more done with it.

He made very good money, in his day, but, apparently, the malpractice insurance for anesthesiologists, is sky-high.

I am fortunate to have a very good dentist, these days. This was not always the case. I have two crowns, and I believe they are both from dentists that caused tooth damage, on purpose.

My teeth are ugly, but very strong.

No idea if they still do that.

Oxygen is really a deadly poison, to many theoretical lifeforms. There's a good chance that an alien landing on Earth would be unable to breathe our air.

Of course, it could be argued that we are well on our way to not being able to breathe Earth's air[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI

I was just thinking about click fraud, and how I'll bet that a significant number of clicks on sites are now being driven by simple (they don't need to be too complicated) LLMs.

[0] https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Cut-Me-Own-Throat_Dibbler

That's a big reason that I never post any of my apps here.

Welcome to hell, kid...

Otherwise, there's not a thing that this offers, that's worth shelling out another 300 bucks.

I have the original 4K, and watch it all the time. I'm glad it has the double-tap Home button (swipe up to kill the app). I use that feature a lot.

I use their on-device translation in my apps. Works pretty well. ChatGPT's context-aware translation is better, but it's not on-device.

But hey, I'm often wrong. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.