ThaOGDreamWeaver

Hey all. I need a new printer for work, as the old one has failed me for the last time, and will suffer the consequences. The new candidate is required to: Print things. Reliably. Black and white, optionally in colour. Decent quality is fine. It's just for work notes and the odd letter, not presentation quality. Scanning would be nice. Preferably one that can scan straight back to a Mac. That's it. Really. Honest. No photos, no auto-generation software, nada. Just. A. Decent. Printer. I do not want it to: Freak out if momentarily disconnected from WiFi Continually require updates from central servers Whinge if use OEM ink cartridges or refills (maybe a tank-based one would be good) Submit anything I create for non-optional optional AI analysis Require or continually advertise subscription plans Brick itself if I do not subscribe to anyone's ongoing service or ink reordering plan Display panic/terminal fail errors for no apparent reason and require reboots from scratch ...so, not HP then. What's good these days? Also, could we have things - even ONE thing - in computing that we just buy, and own, not have to become an "ongoing leverageable revenue stream" to keep the damn thing working?

more stuff by mark…

Beedle The Bardcore vs DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem

I used Playground AI a lot, but appears Free Tier access has now been entirely cut off. Can anyone confirm on that?

Aron Chupa & Little Sis Nora - Trombone

The Cars - Let's Go

Ah. Guess Santa thought I deserved a bonus drop this year.. .

I’m not sure how tight the parody laws are Down Under, but I really hope they can bring this to London. Love a good cabaret…

So far: a tartan scarf in my clan colours, two frying pans, and WeRateDogs merch. And… I’ve made other people happy today. Which is very much my thing. Including three cats, which is impressive as I only have two and the other one just wants to move in.

The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)

Happy holidays, everybody. See you on the streets of Paragon. - DW, H, Sparky & Loki

…*blink*… wow. I went way too hard with Forbrydstintin.

Calling it now: some kind of blood-soaked cash-in on its way pretty soon. I dunno, like... Tintin In Denmark: an enthusiastic boy reporter and his dog investigate a series of disappearances of prominent Belgian citizens while visiting Copenhagen. Faced with unfamiliar territory, Tintin and Haddock team up with a beautiful but broken Danish police detective. Clues pile up as they are drawn into an ever darker series of games with a dangerous killer, and forced to confront uncomfortable truths about humanity, Belgium's past, and the limits... of... hope... ...wait, that actually sounds good.

Sony tapped three relatively unknown but well-respected directors for the Spideyverse flicks: JC Chandor for Kraven (Golden Globe nom and a couple of other good creds), Dan Espinosa for Morbius (cult-ish Swedish director making a first, and possibly last foray into Whollyodd), and perhaps unluckiest of all, journeywoman Brit director SJ Clarkson. I'm not sure if Sony felt that with relatively fresh mea... er, less authoritative directors, they could impose a corporate vision and a storm of notes more effectively. TBH, I feel that two of the three Golden Raspberries should land on the desk of Sazama and Sharpless for hideous, unworkable, but apparently studio-blessed scripts. And as for Kraven... m'learned coll's @Ghost's point about "getting lucky once" definitely applies to the scribblers, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. They wrote the original MCU hit Iron Man. However, MIB:International and Uncharted didn't exactly extend their streak: see also Transformers: Last Knight (even if they did score Sir Tony Bloody Hopkins his very self to appear in it, who tucks into a ludicrous role will relish and a side of bara brith.)