In the early days it was a bit more than that. You had to deal with fiddly software and do things like mapping buttons to video tracks, create transition videos, create chapters etc… It’s been a couple of decades since I last dabbled with this stuff, but I remember that doing it well, and creating something that stood out and worked well, was a bit of an art.

Edit: All/most of those things became easy(ier) as authoring software improved, of course, but in late 90s and early 00s it took practice and skill to achieve a professional result.

You really sold yourself with that ad - given the means I would’ve hired you in a heartbeat.

I first read that as “he lives near a zoo…”, and it made me wonder if it was his choice, to be closer to the animals.

Countertops and tiles… you certainly got my number!

Ditto, I loved that show, and John Noble as Walter played no small part in making it great.

I remember wanting one of these. Can’t remember why I didn’t get one, but I do remember thinking it was a breath of fresh air as far as car stereos go.

I reckon it’s a water filled balloon, rather than the demon core. He’s looking for an excuse to drench Calvin.

“That, children, was why we used to have safety gear, before uncle Trump said equipment like that is for pussies and not something real Americans use.”

Yeah, it looks menacing

So close that they’re family!

Uninstalled.

Luckily I/people I interact with never used it much.

Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

These days, most companies that work with web based products are under pressure from upper management to “use AI”, as there’s a fear of missing out if they don’t. Now, management doesn’t necessarily have any idea what they should use it for, so they leave that to product managers and such. They don’t have any idea, either, and so they look at what features others have built and find a way to adapt one or more of those to fit their own products.

Slap on back, job well done, clueless upper management happy, even though money and time have been spent and the revenue remains the same.

“Come oot here and I’ll rip yer hed off!”

I said “jesus christ” to a teacher (3rd grade’ish), why I can’t remember but probably because I was asked to do something I felt was silly. Turned out the teacher was very religious and accused me of blasphemy, and was really up in arms about it. He invited my mom to a meeting to discuss the issue but, according to my mom, quickly dropped the whole thing when my mom had said “jesus christ” 5 times in the same amount of minutes.

I guess I know who taught me to use that phrase.

If you’re diligent you could be looking at decades of not installing crap!

Taking photos I see… how fascinating…

Using the same word for swearing and having sex helps, I’m sure.

Same in Norway, many providers have been offering 10Gb for a while now.