Watch the entire season of 3 Body Problem

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) depicts a better story about simulated reality than The Matrix (1999) does.

making analysis or historical commentary on film

I’ve been really enjoying the podcast Four Play on the Last Free Nation Culture channel: https://piped.video/@LastFreeNationCulture https://www.youtube.com/@LastFreeNationCulture

literally a stock Pixel phone with missing features

Does the stock Pixel operating system have a network permission toggle that can limit any app’s access to the internet pre- or post-install?

Does the stock Pixel OS have storage scopes or contact scopes, both of which give you granular control over what data an app can see/access?

have elements of disaster which is good enough here

Going by this criterion, my favorite disaster movie is Con Air (1997)

Technically not a time travel show, but it is my favorite show of time travel: “White Tulip” (Fringe S02 E17)

Season 4 of The Boys

Release of KDE Plasma 6

Mini Metro

American Gods

The first season of the TV series is a banger, but the subsequent seasons suffer from a decline in quality. Also, the series finale is just so disappointing compared to the ending of Gaiman’s novel.

I use Stremio + Torrentio and the torrents that are cached show up but can’t play anything at the moment.

I am also encountering this; “Playback error, please try again” is the error message that Stremio presents.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (joint UK and US production, premiered first on Channel 4)

great ones that never took off in the states

This TV series fits this description to a T because I reckon that most people, when thinking of a sci-fi TV anthology series, would bring to mind Black Mirror.

I watched Electric Dreams shortly after finishing the latest season of Black Mirror; I found the former more enjoyable and poignant than the latter.