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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I’m 28 so a little older than the prompt, I have a setup i never use it. I used it a lot as a kid but it doesn’t hold up to the alternatives.

    • tv & movies: the worst matchup with alternatives. In the time of the first adbreak i could add the show or movie to my *arr and get it before the ads are done. I also don’t have to tune in on the hour/half hour and can switch to my phone/pc if I want/need to go somewhere else.
    • live news: i don’t like tv news generally, but if i wanted i could watch it for free on YouTube or via free app.
    • live sports: the most compelling usecase. Unfortunately when I did follow sports I followed a team from the next city over, which means they get no coverage here making it useless. It also more ads than streams. Streams are honestly still pretty inconvenient and still pretty ad filled (banner ads, “this goal sponsored by” physical ads in the arena). None of this is worth it to me anymore so I just don’t watch anymore.















    • inception - dreams within dreams
      • less known honourable mention: Paprika - inception if it was an anime and the main character was a therapist
    • Your Name - anime romance scifi
    • prince of eygpt (in spite of not being religious) - story of moses
      • less known honourable mention: Jesus christ superstar (because I’m not religious) - what if Jesus Christ’s death was a disco musical
    • 2001 space odyssey - I’m afraid I can’t let you do that dave
    • But I’m a cheerleader - young Natasha Lyonne (from oitnb) and Dante Basco (zuko from atla) go to a gay conversion camp run by rupaul
    • equillibrium - in a world where emotion is illegal, Christian bale is a gun ninja policeman
    • Castle in the sky - because I would feel bad putting every ghibli film

  • In 2009 amd, facing insolvency, sold its entire mobile graphics department to qualcomm for a measly 65million that technology went on to become snapdragon. It’s one of the only things that kept amd going at the time, but qualcomm got insanely rich off it.

    It’s rather poetic to now see intel face a similar decision. According to the article intel is also planning to spin it’s chip manufacturing out to its own company which is also what amd did with global founderies around the same time as selling to qualcomm.