RottenTomatoes has been rotten for over a decade. IMDB user ratings are much more useful, but still far from perfect.

Fireflies flash in response to lights. I wonder if a photoresistor sensitive enough to respond to his “firefly” can be found. Then he could rig it up so his fireflies communicate with each other. And maybe real fireflies as well.

It would have to be pretty danged sensitive I guess.

Extra points if the circuit can be rigged up to respond to changes in brightness, so that it doesn’t constantly trigger in daylight….

Running a swamp cooler + dehumidifier that doesn't heat up would mean being able to do self contained cooling which would be a massive thing. Currently the only way to do that is with desiccant which needs recharging too often to be practical.

In a 1:1 format this would be effective in preventing some forms of misuse because it would be obvious if an individual took out their phone and pointed it towards the screen.

"private equity buys a company and drives it to shit."

Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buying a tech firm. It isn't really.

Broadcom is (not really) run by Robert Redford from the film "Pretty Woman", except this asset stripping exercise is rather more unpleasant than even his efforts.

VMware used to have a flourishing eco system. It managed to largely throw off plagiarism threats from when it was ESX vs ESXi. It was basically Linux (Redhat) with knobs on and fuck you freetards but here's a freebie version that we have cobbled together.

Anyway.

I was a VMware fanboi for roughly 25 years and now I am not. I was also a Windows (MS) fanboi too for some decades. Can't be arsed these days but I will.

Dealing with Windows and VMware is really unpleasant these days.