Dog Tooth was also pretty uncomfortable viewing!

Idk I found Poor Things challenging but ultimately it’s supposed to be a piece of art as opposed to like a moral authority on human sexuality. The setup is so clearly outlandish that it’s hard to claim it has an opinion on real world sex issues.

Some of the scenes were a bit sexploitation-y though, like there was a definite male gaze aspect to the direction. I’m more sympathetic to the description of it being crass or a bit tasteless in some places as opposed to describing it as morally problematic.

I don’t really rate zsh personally. I find the additional features/syntactic sugar it adds are a poor tradeoff for lower portability. I also end up changing the settings in my zshrc to make it behave more like bash.

Stephen Fry the comedian/tv presenter is also a huge linux advocate. Specifically Ubuntu. He’s been using it for decades at this point.

If you want to experience travelling back in time with an operating system then OpenBSD feels like a time capsule, albeit one which is still being maintained. I realise it is not linux but using it is very similar to what linux was like before 2010.

I think the LARP elements of this distro put me off trying it back in the day. Calling the package manager a “Grimoire” and having to “cast” packages to install them was just too much for me.

I would be interested to hear your opinion on 3 if you watch it. It is very divisive and I never liked it but it has some serious fans. Directed by David Fincher so it has a strong vision, even if it’s not quite the one I was looking for.

This looks like nostalgia bait for the original. Reminds me a little of the new Star Wars films. I’ll still see it though since I’m a big fan of the franchise.

Agree, it’s literally all I need for my browser in terms of add-ons. NoScript is nice to have but not essential.

In my opinion the intermediate stuff on windows is just as conceptually complex but presented with nested GUIs. People internalise that complexity out of familiarity.

Windows -> MacOS -> Windows -> Ubuntu (2012) -> Arch (2013) -> Gentoo (2016)

Gentoo cured my distrohopping

I used scoop as my package manager on windows. It even lets you install gnu coreutils like ls, cat and find to run in powershell.

Emacs is the only app you’ll ever need once you’ve mastered it.

Discord is closed source and has no way to easily archive/record conversations. This makes it unsuitable for a lot of open source projects who need a chat client. I’ve not used much Discord but potentially the “gamer” culture might put people off.

Matrix seems good but it’s not quite there yet from what I can tell. It’s got way more features than IRC but none of them seem to work that well. Like a swiss army knife full of blunt tools.

For IRC I’m on the libera.chat server. Usually hanging out in the gentoo channels since I use that distro. There are a lot of different channels for the various devs, user tech support, niche uses like gaming* and also offtopic chat channels.

*More gamers tend to use other linux distros for some reason

Come at the king, you best not miss

“Furiosa edges Garfield”

King did a good job of massacring his own boy when he tried to make a film adaptation of the book. To some extent I think that justifies Kubrick’s creative changes.

Agree that the book itself is excellent - and much scarier than the Kubrick movie btw. It’s just that some aspects of it that are the most chilling seem reliant on the medium of it being a novel.

Why do they assume we are all huge fans of Gollum? Like that dogshit videogame from last year wasn’t enough

I believe the DE is packaged separately so you could install that

I love when people say they hate Hippocrates on social media

I’ve got a friend who thinks Pierce Brosnan is the best one because he was “our generation’s Bond”. Both born 92/93 so Goldeneye, et al. were a sensation for us at the time.

Personally I like Sean Connery but that’s an unoriginal opinion. I enjoyed the story about the casting producer who wanted him for the role immediately because he “walked like a panther”. What a departure from being a milkman in Edinburgh!