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Historically inaccurate. In Rust you wake up naked on the beach. A bad adaptation already. I wonder if they’ll go through Radtown.

Ehhh, I would say it’s the age old rule that 90% of everything is crap, it’s more just that it has cranked up to like 97% of everything is crap.

Severance and Common Side Effects stand as two shows that recently ran (Common Side Effects has one episode left this season, and Severance season 2 wasn’t quite as good but still thoughtful) which are very, very good. I’m just here for Joe Bennett’s American Chibi style of art.

This just in, media reporting on social trend that started at least a decade ago. More tonight at 11.

The medium is the message.

Speaker brand, they may be looking for some software for managing it. Probably gonna need to run it in WINe.

https://jblpro.com/products/performance-software

AMD drivers: Native, will auto-install as the mesa library, AMD is tits in Linux, it just works.

Gmail: Thunderbird works with Gmail accounts and can sync the calendar.

iTunes: Rhythmbox has a very similar layout to iTunes and so should feel pretty familiar.

Anti-virus: Linux doesn’t really need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it’s more locked down and doesn’t have the same vectors of attack. If someone is hacking a Linux machine, it’s a corporate server, not your desktop PC. If you still think you might need one ClamAV is available for Linux distributions. (.deb for Debian derivaties and .rpm for Fedora derivatives)

Py-Charm: As others have noted, Python is installed natively and is usually already implemented “out of the box” on a fresh install. No need for a program to run it, Python is just… there already.

Remote Desktop: Whatever distribution you have will likely also come with a Remote Desktop client. I am unaware of whether or not they will connect natively to iOS.

Star Citizen: You should be able to add this as a non-Steam game to Steam and use Steam’s Proton compatibility layer to play it. A few years ago they were literally asking for Linux players to test it with Proton and Easy Anti-Cheat.

VPN: Linux has extensive VPN support including “roll your own” through either OpenVPN or Wireguard.

Windows Games: Steam, using the Proton compatibility layer, which is essentially WINe, just made a little easier. As with Star Citizen, just add it as a non-Steam game and viola.

Windows 10: The Distribution of your Dreams is just around the corner… I’ve heard Mint isn’t a terrible place to start.

Xubuntu soared on my 2007 iMac with no issues whatsoever. 😎

Unfortunately, not really, I found this randomly on a torrent site and got fixated on it this week (watched it twice actually) because I was so entranced by the fluid animation. It almost looks like rotoscoping with how realistic a lot of the physical movement is. I would love to see more animation like this. In a way it reminds of the animation of Ralph Bakshi.

Closest maybe I could think of would be Mutafukaz which was a joint French and Japanese animated film. The difference is that while the style of Mutafukaz is very unique, the animation still is very, I don’t know, anime? Nova Seed doesn’t really have any similarly styled films that come to mind.

Nova Seed.

I somehow missed this years ago when it came out. Joint Canadian and Japanese animated film.

Really tight and fluid animation style while also being kind of sketchy and seeming very organic. Only a handful of voice actors. Very interesting foley work, eschewing traditional foley and relying a lot on humans being recorded making sounds with their mouths.

Came for the animation, stayed for the interesting plot, chill soundtrack, and the Lion Man.

And even with alternatives, corporations own all the infrastructure. There is no publicly owned and operated infrastructure anymore.

My data still has to pass through their pipes, and if at some point they decide they don’t like my data, they can just block it from going through their pipes entirely. Coupled with deep consolidation of ISPs, it means effectively being blocked from communications on the internet.

1996 telecommunications act in the US for one.

Because we dropped community communications in favor of corporate communications for two.

Bring back barb wire phone networks.

This got a chuckle out of me, well played.

They brought her back over and over in the What If? series.

Maybe the real issue is that the whole MCU just needs to die.

Seconding BSD if only for this li’l guy. Got that Lucifer vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon#Use_in_operating_system_logos

…but what we really need in the USA right now is actually a big screen revival of Life of Brian.

Much more relevant to the times.

Consider crossposting this to !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world

I mean, any FOSS project from anywhere could be being used by a fascist government or corporation, to be fair. That’s literally one of the very serious and real downsides of FOSS. It’s able to be used for good or ill.

I mean, it can easily be argued that the US corporate technology class has benefited far more from FOSS than end-users worldwide.

Amazon’s EC2 especially:

Initially, EC2 used Xen virtualization exclusively. However, on November 6, 2017, Amazon announced the new C5 family of instances that were based on a custom architecture around the KVM hypervisor, called Nitro.

Amazon leveraged FOSS to create their own successful closed-source offshoot. AWS pretty much runs the web. Amazon… is not a good company.

That being said, the US has chosen to be isolationist, whether all of its citizens agree with it or not. Having less of a presence on the international stage, including in the FOSS world, is simply a consequence of isolationism. So boycotting US FOSS is likely to happen in some ways on purpose, and in some ways just from diminished international respect and involvement.

People will quibble over the definition of “physical” but here’s what I think the reality is:

I have a solid state drive. It’s full of pirated media. It’s a physical object with media on it. I have a physical copy of my media.

Piracy is the last way that leaves you in control of your own media and with a “physical” copy of it.

Hell, if I wanted to, I could be burning them to Bluray, but Sony for example stopped producing writable BR discs, making it harder to find such media.

Whereas an SSD is just a faster medium with more efficient use of physical space.

People need to make peace with the idea that a file stored on a drive is still technically a physical object just like the words stored inside a book. We think of them as ethereal data that is just magic or something, but it is not. Destroy the drive, you destroy the data. Ergo, data is always on physical media.

Bezos on the other hand is a Bond villain.