He looks like a movie villain announcing the next Hunger Games.

Link to the pdf itself

Product list starts on page 37.

I had, but I hadn’t thought about him in a long while. Plus i forgot half the movies he’s worked on.

Just looking at his filmography, Dude has a serious list of films he’s produced:

Xanadu (1980) (co-producer)

48 Hrs. (1982)

Streets of Fire (1984)

Brewster’s Millions (1985)

Weird Science (1985)

Commando (1985)

Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Predator (1987)

Action Jackson (1988)

Die Hard (1988)

Road House (1989)

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Die Hard 2 (1990)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Ricochet (1991)

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Demolition Man (1993)

Richie Rich (1994)

Assassins (1995)

Fair Game (1995)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) (TV documentary film)

Executive Decision (1996)

Fathers’ Day (1997)

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Double Tap (1997)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

The Matrix (1999)

Made Men (1999)

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Exit Wounds (2001)

Swordfish (2001)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Ghost Ship (2002)

Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Gothika (2003)

House of Wax (2005)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

V for Vendetta (2006)

The Reaping (2007)

The Invasion (2007)

The Brave One (2007)

Fred Claus (2007)

Speed Racer (2008)

RocknRolla (2008)

Orphan (2009)

Whiteout (2009)

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)

The Losers (2010)

Unknown (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Dragon Eyes (2012)

Stash House (2012)

The Apparition (2012)

The Factory (2012)

Getaway (2013)

Non-Stop (2014)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Collide (2016)

Superfly (2018)

Road House (2024)

Road House 2 (TBA)

Edit/note: I probably didn’t make my comment very clear. I’m aware it’s 1600 being laid off. More that I didn’t realise that Atlassian had 16k people in total. 16,000 people making their products progressively worse.

Even if their company only had 1600 ppl, I’d still say they were wasteful.

About 16k workers? How!?

What a waste of human effort, time and resources. All to make a few bad products, worse.

Indeed, that’s why I mentioned a PC monitor first

Well what about a PC monitor? You can get u to like 43" and beyond. Obviously they are great for gaming as well.

The other very impractical mention - after TVs starting adding ads, cameras and microphones, I switched to a 2nd hand projector. Most have no smart features.

All you need is a white or off- white wall to protect on to. And the ability to block some light coming into the room.

Downsides:

• They can be bulky and noisy. Particularly the 4k ones
• might need separate speakers
• Not as low latency as a tv but models do come with VRR
• bulbs do get darker from prolonged use (and aren’t always cheap to replace)
• you might need separate speakers
• and there are the trailing cables
• And you’ll never get the inky blacks of oleds. But for picture size and immersion for the cost, they are basically unbeatable.

Some can project from a coffee table.

For tv series and YouTube like content, I use a laptop. Then for big movies, I use the projector and 5.1 sound system (mostly 2nd hand as well.)

I’m using Waterfox (based on Firefox but without the bloat), both desktop and mobile versions. Have nothing but good things to say about it.

Cat, I’m a kitty cat.

Gi Joe parody

The talking boat

Yeah they are sneaky. You are forced to download everything.

Do a “manual search” on the Nvidia driver page.

Once the “Game Ready” drivers are downloaded. Uninstall the nvidia app (if it’s installed already.)

Now to install.

Basically for any windows software, always choose “Custom (Advanced)” installation, instead of “Express (Recommended)”.

For nvidia, the next page will show you 3-4 options. Untick everything accept “Graphics driver”.

Definitely ignore “HD audio”. It tends to mess up your sound (at least that’s my experience.)

and “PhysX System Software” unless this out of date or missing. Then you can tick this.

Then just your graphics drivers will be installed.

Obviously you will miss out on the various additional features the nvidia app provides, like auto tweaking game settings. But it’s always a tradeoff.

As I said above. Always do “Custom” installs on ANY software. 75% of the time you end up automatically opting into to various forms of telemetry, and at worst find your browers have new plugins, your search engine changed, and antivirus installed. It can be time-consuming to uninstall.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions. I tried to add screenshots but the Lemmy app wasn’t having it.

I use this - https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

But obviously get opinions from other sources first.

It claims to disable most Windows telemetry. Some Adobe. But I haven’t actually done any testing to prove it’s the case. It’s a pretty useful tool. Just use the restore point option first.

Last time I tried this method of disabling Adobe telemetry, photoshop stopped opening after a few days.

For nvidia/amd, just install the drivers, not their tool suite.

As the other posters mention, try to find alternatives.

Other than that, you can try and block at a firewall level. But few companies make it obvious like: http://nerferoustelemetry.pleasedontblockthis.adobe.com/

https://archive.ph/L2Gqp without paywall

I don’t doubt that.

I think familiarity is also important, maybe more so than ease of use.

A lot of people know Windows and how to use it (at least for the basics.)

Steam OS is still extremely niche.

That’s why I think the Steam Machine has to have price on its side to push people to consider buying a gaming-focused PC rather than a more general purpose gaming laptop. Particularly when everyone is struggling with rising costs.

True, I agree.

Edit (mid-November): There are rumours that it could be north of 600.

In my head, unless it’s in the 400-600 range, a gaming laptop makes more sense. I suspect generally other prospective buyers would too.

Steam OS whilst great, still doesn’t run as many games as Windows. Particularly certain popular multiplayer ones with kernel-level anti-cheat.

At the moment all we have is Valve’s theory that if the Steam Machine becomes really popular, Devs might update their games to work on Steam OS/linux. But equally they might not.

In a world where everything is getting more expensive (apart from TVs), I’m not sure the average person has the spare income to buy another single-purpose machine (yes, Steam OS can do more, but it’s designed to be used for gaming). A Windows laptop is more flexible.

I can see this hardware appealing to a lot of people, regardless of price though. Kid’s first PC for example.

I really want this machine to be a success. I would love to ditch Windows completely, as soon as possible.

If it’s more expensive than a entry-level gaming laptop, then I doubt the average user would buy a Steam Machine, when a laptop is far more flexible.

It has to be cheaper and more convenient than what’s currently available.

I might be way off the mark, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it priced like the OLED Steam Deck. At least at launch.

With a later price increase due to RAM and SSD shortages.

Edit (mid-November): watching more videos, could be north of 600.

True. All I can think of is that before it gets to Halloween shops have sold off most of their stock and are in the process of getting all the Xmas stuff out. I’ve been places where they have a Halloween and Xmas mix of songs.

I’m not ruling out that a few hundred thousand completely random people around the world all decide to listen to Xmas music around the same time. I just think it’s more likely businesses switching to seasonal music as early as possible, and streaming Mariah Carey 20 times a day, causing the big sudden spike.

Is it just a load of stores/shops immediately switching to generic xmas playlists after Halloween? To me that’s the only reason I could see there to being a sudden spike. This song is bound to be in most of them. But we’d also need to track other popular xmas tracks.

(I know there used to be significant music licensing issues about what music could be played in a store, to the public. Don’t know if there is some special Spotify business account now?)

As a person who’s not into the table top games, but loves the lore.

I watch/listen to a few channels:

WesHammer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDj6ttwzj2sr464jDdg_pA

He does a short introduction (on camera), then the rest is audio with relevant artwork and some video from the games.

Aside from the usual deep-dives into the various factions and popular characters, I enjoy his Grim Dark Story Hour vids. These focus on creepy (horror) short stories from random Warhammer books, where Wes does some voice acting as well.

The Sleepy Hollow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86zNGwCUt5gBnizRSWSLuA

Warhammer lore (and game lore). It’s meant to be for helping people get to sleep. But I listen to it during the day. If you do use it for sleep, watch out for the super loud Youtube ads that play in the middle, if you don’t have Premium or use Peertube.

There are a lot of other Youtubers that do good content as well, like Arbitor Ian etc.

The top two are my recommendations.

I know this is just my tiny view on things, but I’ve been testing code from a very experienced Dev, who was recently instructed to use AI coding tools in their work (Cursor, maybe some Copilot).

Functionality in our product is now breaking in weird and wonderful ways. Completely new ‘WTF!’ moments. It’s hard to describe.

Core behavior that I’ve taken for granted - things I didn’t realise could go wrong, are.

It reminds me of when after particular iOS update many years back, (for certain scenarios) Apple’s own calculator wasn’t doing addition correctly.

For me, it’s both fascinating and unnerving. Like some unfathomable cosmic horror.