Yeah. I finally went and looked it up. I can’t find anything that says it’s bad for cats, but high creatinine levels is an indication of kidney disease - so it’s not necessarily a cause, but it’s an effect and so probably best avoided.

I was misremembering; the list of supplements cats require in their (processed) foods for them to be nutritionally complete is long.

I wasn’t expecting it to. The visuals were stunning, and the actors were good, but the writing was atrocious, the plot devices annoying, and all of the characters were uniformly unlikeable - especially the main ones. Gaal wasn’t the only one; maybe just the most extreme.

I forced myself to watch almost the entire first season, but rage quit when it got to the point when I spent entire episodes wanting to shout at the characters to stop bring so stupid.

It wasn’t a bad adaptation, because the only thing it shared with the books were some names; I was expecting that. It was a bad show, with awful writers, and that I couldn’t stand.

I did it by doing a download of all my posts, and then deleted my account and everything I ever wrote there. I understand the argument that that this is “bad for the internet,” but I’m not interested in helping Reddit profit off my labor when I’m not using their service. Also, it’s a no-takeh backs approach; once I did it, I couldn’t go back, short of creating a new account, which is easy for me to resist.

I have a Kobo as almost exclusively the only way I read books anymore, and I’ve owned a Sony and a Nook; the Kobo has lasted the longest and I like it best. That said, why do you claim it’s the most privacy friendly?

Must… resist… urge… to start chain… about our brave Cost Guardspeople capturing 1100 lbs of cocaine.

Interestingly, my compsci degree never covered O notation, so that I’ve had to pick up along the way :/

Really‽ That’s a shame. It’s one of the topics that, in my programming career, was regularly valuable and used. That, set theory, and discrete math have an been broadly applicable even in the most banal applications. It’s a shame if it’s not part of the CIS curriculum at some universities.

You implied that, as an Android user, you couldn’t watch Apple TV without an Apple device. If you really want you, there are several ways without buying Apple hardware. I think the PlayStation has an app.

I’m generally in favor of native apps, but in the case of streaming TV, I’d rather use a browser - it’s one less application to install that provides questionable value over a web page, and gives me far more options for viewing content in a variety of situations. At one point we had Prime, Netflix, and Apple all at the same time, and I used a browser to watch all of them; there was almost no difference.

I don’t know the answer to the resolution question; we’ve canceled all of our streaming accounts.

My perspective may be different. Aside from my Android phone, I don’t use anything other than Linux. Having access to services through a browser, rather than having to install apps that companies rarely provide for Linux, is a vastly superior accessibility solution.

So, you’re not complaining about having to have an Apple device, you’re complaining about is that Apple doesn’t have an Android app for whatever Android TV device you’re using?

You can watch Apple TV on your Android phone, or your Android tablet, through a browser. You can watch it on your laptop or desktop through a browser. You could even watch it on your Android TV device… through a browser. You could cast it from your browser on your Android phone to your Android TV. Or, like a great many people do, you could - yes - hook a computer (laptop?) up to your TV and watch it that way. I bought a $10 mouse/keyboard remote for mine that works as well as any remote I’ve ever had. For a little more, you can get one that’s more remote-like in form factor, although I prefer typing on the larger one.

Anyway, there are tons of ways to watch Apple TV on Android devices.

I rage-quit after 4 episodes of Foundation, so I don’t remember how we were watching, but it was either on a PS3 or in Firefox on a Linux box. Those are the only two things I have ever had hooked to the TV. I haven’t used the PlayStation for ages, so we were probably watching it through a browser.

https://support.apple.com/guide/tvplus/watch-in-a-web-browser-apdc0cb7ad64/web

You need an account, but not an Apple device.

Realtime doesn’t necessarily mean low latency, it means consistent latency.

This is such a critical distinction which can be counter-intuitive. In this case, their game may run slower, they just won’t get lags resulting from local resource contention. And even that statement has caveats.

One of the biggest difference between self-taught developers and ones with CS degrees is that the ones with degrees usually understand a lot of important theory, such as O(1) means constant time, not necessarily fast time.

Until January. Then that will all stop.

How could you tell?

But, seriously, those blue tongues are so cool!

That’s a whoosh for me. The first one for which I haven’t gotten the reference.

That too?

Plus, they’re just darned contrarian by nature.

Apes together strong.

And so it begins. See you all in the human pens!

I think creatinine is an essential dietary requirement for cats anyway. I need to go check, but I think it’s one of those things they put in “food” cat food, as opposed to cast treats, which aren’t nutritionally complete.

I can believe it, and I really do hope it has an impact. After this election, I’m doubly pessimistic about progressive outcomes.

“I use Arch, BTW” is so gauche. Now, we mention Arch in an off-hand way, the way you mention your yacht, or how absurd the taxes on your third home are, or how having two doctorates is becoming so common.

Subtle boasting is the “in” thing.