“It looks like youʼre copying text from a copyrighted source. Would you like me to get a quote from the Microsoft Store for a license?”

This is like your favorite bar removing all seating and converting itself into a vending machine with “NO LOITERING” signs plastered everywhere.

Edit: I cancelled my 7.99 USD/month subscription. It's not a big signal, but it's the only one I have that matters to SONY, the near-monopoly that owns the concern. Half the enjoyment I got was in seeing the immediate reactions of others to an episode. Now, without comments or reviews, I can't even pretend that I'm not watching these shows alone. What's the point of enjoying a show if you can't talk about it with others?

The Aranet4 runs on two AA batteries and the smartphone apps are still well-supported. The apps also support CSV export of trend data which is nice. In addition to CO2 ppm, it also records temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity (these other readings are probably used to adjust the CO2 sensor readings to account for temperature/humidity/air pressure conditions). I carry one of these with me while traveling and its high alarm beep (I have it set to sample every 60 seconds) is a convenient reminder to circulate air or consider wearing a mask if I am in a public space. The air pressure reading can be used as a crude altimeter, especially if you have two of the devices: one in a stationary location and another on your person as you take a hike; subtract the two values and you get a pressure difference that is a function of elevation.

Reminds me of a quote from Galactic North (2006) green marking the start of a galaxy-wide disaster (terraforming bots making the galaxy terrifically habitable).

It was impossible for stars to shine green, any more than an ingot of metal could become greenhot if it was raised to a certain temperature. Instead, something was veiling them -- staining their light, like coloured glass. Whatever it was stole energy from the stellar spectra at the frequencies of chlorophyll. Stars were shining through curtains of vegetation, like lanterns in a forest. The greenfly machines were turning the Galaxy into a jungle.

Premieres sometime in 2025

Given the Tanabata 🎋 tanzaku in the image, I would guess sometime around 2025-07-07 or 2025-08-25?

Did the author finally get tired of her PS4? Or was it a PS5…

Veldora is a perpetual motion machine?

“This show is hot garbage. See you all here next week!”

That would explain the lack of pun explanations. Fansubs wouldnʼt be so lax.

Interesting sci-fi stories have the villains be defenders of the status quo, both fictional and real. For example, in New York 2140, KSR has the protagonists seeking to collapse global economy for various ends, including protecting and empowering climate refugees.

Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.

I can't pinpoint exactly when the fall started.

In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn't compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.