• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
• Earth’s Children, technically “prehistorical fiction” but I think that qualifies as fantasy.

The patents have expired everywhere except USA, Brazil and Malaysia.

This is a blatant money grab before they expire everywhere.

The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.

Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.

“That reminds me I still have about 8 grams left. Guess I’ll just eat them all tonight.”

Like other commenter said, it’s hard from your perspective to tell the difference.

Depression is a weird way we evolved to protect ourselves that has gotten out of hand.

Depression will tell you that you’re undesirable and unlovable. And, if you believe it, it’ll get louder and more insistent. It actually feels safer and safer the more you listen to it. You might not realize it but you will try to stay depressed. Because it feels safe.

The hard thing to do is to tell Depression to fuck off and to do things in contradiction to the narrative that you are undesirable and unlovable. The more you ignore Depression, the weaker it gets and those negative thoughts and opinions of yourself fade away.

No, I didn’t know about those. Thanks, I’ll check that out.

Yes. I want All to be just other instances that I’m interested in. Not every available (federated) instance.

The only problem with that is not seeing posts from other instances I don’t want to block.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer Subscribed to be personally curated communities, Local to be instance curated, and All to be a place to get a broader picture of, well, everything.

I’d just find it easier/more natural to opt-in to other instance content rather than opt-out.

Essentially, yes. I think you still see comments from users on that instance if they comment on a post on an instance that isn’t blocked.

Amazing how much they will try to bend reality to their conception rather than the other way around. It’s a mental illness

But, if you’re a CEO, and lawyer tells you, “no, the contract is solid. Honor it,” what are you to do? Why, ask an agreeable LLM for an answer that conforms to your world view because, obviously, you’re right because you’re the CEO.

I loved Subnautica. I’ve replayed it more than any game I own. I got it for free from Epic (the only way I get games from Epic). I bought it for Switch. I bought Below Zero. The franchise was shaping to be a “here, take my money” deal.

I don’t want Subnautica 2. I mean, I want a Subnautica 2 not Krafton Subnautica 2.

I reserve some blame for the original owners/devs. If they hadn’t sold out, if they had followed more of a Hello Games model, they could’ve coasted indefinitely churning out cool games to loyal fans.

When Goldman Sachs has more scruples than the US Government. smh

That’s not a reason to stop trying. That’s unusually bad luck in therapists.

There are happily married people that don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s a Hallmark holiday—i.e. it was invented by a greeting card company. Its only meaning is the one you give it. Why give it the power to make you feel bad?

What do they want to do?

An iPad with a keyboard can serve the needs of a significant amount of users. I know people for whom it’s their only device apart from a phone.

A hardcore gamer will want Windows. Linux can play a lot better of games natively or fairly easily via Proton. macOS has some good ones natively but playing via Wine is more complicated. Some specialized industry workflows will require it. Windows-only games and applications are the only reason to recommend Windows.

Mac/macOS is great general purpose hardware and software. Good applications are available for art, science, engineering and productivity and it’s certified Unix. The ecosystem can be slick—Handoff from/to iPhone, unlock with Watch, TimeMachine backups, etc. Support people are usually native speakers from the same country. Some good native games and some through Wine are possible but Window and Linux have significantly more.

Linux can work for basic email, productivity and web browsing. Gaming choices are better than macOS but Windows is still better. They don’t have to worry about ads or the next interface fad being forced on them. They’ll likely need a bit more hand-holding and support down the road. They’ll need a Linux guy but they can be up and running on old/cheap hardware.

If you could only have one food, potatoes would be a good choice.

Technically, none of those countries are English. One is partially English.

So, the guy who named his companies “Virgin” is pedo? You don’t say…

There have several reports recently of Netflix pressuring writers/directors/producers to create shows and movies tailored to distracted consumers. Basically, telling them to repeat plot points in dialog so that people ‘watching’ while doing other things can keep up.

I’d put that in the evil category along with advertising and media company consolidation.