OK, not a show and you may not have time but I gotta gush on this web series I picked up here on Lemmy. I’m not even through it but it has serious The Boys vibes. It’s a written web serial called Worm.

I know I know, you asked for shows, but it’s just…so good…and in the superhero genre! Dark and gritty in the same vain as Watchmen and The Boys…I don’t know. Figured I just put this out there.

I was not aware of these. Thank you for making me aware of them.

I haven’t used spreadsheet software in decades, but I have helped some convert to Windows to Linux. Some of them did use Excel, and therefore had to learn to use LibreOffice Calc, and while they had some expected difficulties during the initial learning curve, they did say a few months later to me that they were eventually satisfied with the software.

Nevertheless, I’m sure much like the GIMP/Photoshop comparison, Excel simply has features that Calc doesn’t.

I am mildly curious. Could you give an example of a feature that its likely many businesses and/or individuals use in Excel that simply doesn’t exist in, or is too difficult to implement in Calc?

I have to, cuz Gentoo. Keeps the home nice and toasty while I sleep.

I have felt the same for a while. I have had to heavily rethink my relationship with standup comedy, because I think it can be such a powerful medium, but as I’ve gotten older, I recognize that comedy can reflect much of the bigotry and hatreds of their time.

It’s obviously more nuanced than that, as comedy can also reflect joys, insights, and the general societal consciousness of the time.

With that said there are still a few stand up comedy that I can say I don’t feel bad laughing at these days. So here’s a short list that if you’re so inclined, I’d take a look at:

• Tig Notaro
• Benny Feldman
• Noam Shuster
• Hannah Gadsby
• Maria Bamford

I’d elaborate on each of them a bit, but I’d rather simply let their comedy speak for themselves.

EDIT: typo, wording

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Get out of here Gentoo Mage! Nobody likes you!

I’ll throw out a few.

• LibRedirect

• Chameleon

• NoScript

Thank you.

Specifically it looks like its The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson, an audio book series.

It’s available on audible it looks like.

Again, thanks!

Super interesting. If you can find that episode, I’d love to give it a listen.

Way too many. Pretty much all Adult Animation, with a few exceptions which I’ll note.

Bojack Horseman

The best description I have for Bojack Horseman is it’s a dark comedy/drama about generational trauma, depression, wrestling with one’s own demons, owning up to your mistakes, redemption, and so much more, all wrapped up in a strange colorful world that’s full of commentary, an absurd amount of witty puns, and so much more. One of my favorites of all time.

Long Story Short

Long Story Short is from the same writer as Bojack Horseman, but was released very recently. I just got done watching it. I would describe it as a montage of coming of age stories around 3 siblings. The format jumps around from different years within their lives as it depicts an American Jewish Family navigating their interpersonal relationships, explore their Jewish heritage, and grow as a family. It’s a well done comedy with some heavy drama thrown in. Well done in my opinion and worth the watch.

Hazbin Hotel

Hazbin Hotel is a Musical Comedy/Drama that takes place in an exaggerated version of Hell. Taking place in the creator’s own “Helliverse”, Hazbin Hotel stars the daughter of Lucifer Morningstar, Charlie Morningstar, who founds a Hotel with the hope that they can redeem sinners so that they might enter into Heaven. It’s a charming show with some pretty well done music, sometimes very well done animation, and an entertaining cast of characters.

Helluva Boss

Same creator, same universe as Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss stars Blitz (the “o” is silent), an Imp in Hell who founds a company IMP, which provides the service of Assassination for any in Hell who have a grievance with someone still among the living. Helluva Boss is also a musical, though admittedly has far fewer musical numbers. It is also a comedy (some of the comedy is very very raunchy), and also a drama. This one you can watch for free on youtube.

Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is probably familiar to most at this point. Rick and Morty stars the titular Rick Sanchez and his grandson, Morty. They go on wacky sci fi adventures with some overarching drama along the way. The show is definitely a dark comedy that occasionally delves into some deep existential nihilistic moments. If you haven’t watched this on yet, get on it. It’s a solid win.

Solar Opposites

Solar Opposites stars Korvo and his family of Alien Invaders from the recently destroyed planet Schlorp. They come to Earth with their “baby” Pupa, which will eventually evolve to consume the planet and provide resources to create another planet Schlorp. The show has it’s dramatic moments here and there, but is generally a comedy. If you enjoyed Rick and Morty, it’s likely you’ll enjoy the style of humor this show has to offer. Make no mistake though, Solar Opposites is distinctively it’s own show and even has some great side stories around miniaturized humans and some intergalactic policemen.

Inside Job

Inside Job sadly only lasted two seasons. It was a comedy about Reagan Ridley, a technologist/scientist that works for The Deep State, covering up and interacting with the various classic conspiracies we’ve come to know through popular media (think the Lizard People, Illuminati, etc.). There was of course a bit a drama thrown in as well. Overall a great comedy.

Steven Universe

Steven Universe was a great show that is one of the few on this list that I wouldn’t classify as Adult Animation, but perhaps Young Adult appropriate. Steven is a young boy living on an Island with his Three Aunt Characters. As the story progresses, Steven comes to realize that he is an alien/human hybrid and his Aunts are magical space creatures called “Gems”. Together they fight monsters that come to threaten their planet, and Steven eventually comes to empathize with even his greatest foes. The show is about growing up, gender identity, empathy, and familial love. It’s a real tear jerker at times, but it also has a lot of laughs and a lot of sweet moments.

Infinity Train

Infinity Train deserved more seasons (it got 4 though, pretty good run). Each season is it’s own stand alone story, but the common theme is the characters explore worlds within each cart of a moving Train. The Train is a sort of magical entity that holds entire fantasy worlds inside each cart. The characters are usually trying to address some kind of interpersonal trauma they have experienced. While humorous at times, the show is closer to a dramatic epic and you can tell the creator had a unique vision for this fantastical world. I’d say this one is probably teen friendly, but not entirely for kids.

Scavenger’s Reign

Scavenger’s Reign is a science fiction story about a group of humans who become stranded on an Alien Planet and struggle to understand it’s sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying, sometimes bizarre, and usually dangerous ecosystem. The art style in particular is worth mentioning as it is quite beautiful and is obviously inspired in part by famed French Graphic Novel Illustrator, Mœbius. Just for the visuals alone, Scavenger’s Reign is worth a watch, but the story is also very intriguing as the alien world is unlike anything you’ve likely seen in media.

Pantheon

Pantheon was a great show that covered a lot of ground for having been only two seasons. It stars two main characters, Maddie and Caspian, who navigate a world where death is overcome through uploading of the consciousness into a digital world. Obviously inspired by various futurism thinkers as well as various other anime tropes, Pantheon starts off with a very basic premise and draws it out unto an unexpected by very satisfying conclusion. It explores the nature of consciousness, identity, immortality, and freedom. This one I highly recommend, the ending goes really really hard.

Chicken Soup from scratch imho.

First make stock. Roasted chicken bones and spine are thrown in with a pound of chicken feet (adds collagen, stock is richer tasting). Carrot tops, parsley, bay leaf, and a tablespoon of vinegar thrown in. As much water is added as needed to submerge chicken, make absolutely sure not to overfill pressure cooker/pot. Stock is made in pressure cooker (fast) or large pot (slow), then strained.

Then soup. Add whole deboned chicken (previously roasted tastes better), carrots, Yukon potatoes (I like purple ones for cyanocobalamin), garlic, onions, thyme, sage, rosemary, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Optional to add a freshly beaten egg per serving (just pour slowly into soup to prevent clumping). Simmer for a few hours or just pressure cooked again.

Serve over quinoa with freshly chopped cilantro and green onions on top. Add more salt/pepper to taste.

Becoming familiar with the essentials, grep, awk, sed is a good start. Manual pages can of course be accessed using man followed by the command/program you want to know more about. Understanding operators like |, >, >>, etc. can help as well. And reading the entirety of man bash is a good way to dive in further.

Yeah, I’ve heard this response to my argument more times than I care to mention.

Let’s be clear, I don’t want to give off the impression I’m not open to people changing for the better. If you can end bigotry through discussion instead of arguments or worse yet, violence, then obviously that is preferable.

The issue is that for every honest misinformed person I’ve encountered who is open to listening to differing points of view, I’ve easily encountered 10 right wing grifters who are in bad faith trying to distract from the main problem with whataboutisms and other tactics, with the end goal of dehumanizing and ostracizing groups that they perceive as the other, i.e. minorities.

These people are in their adult years, likely grew up in households where they themselves were bullied, harassed, made fun of, and dehumanized. They then went to school where sadly they were likely to have experiences that further eroded their emotional intelligence and ability to connect with anybody who had differing views from them. They then grew up and sought out others who had suffered similar experiences and come to similar misguided conclusions, either online or IRL. These are people who grew up being told that apologizing was a sign of weakness, to never ever admit that they were or ever will be wrong, and to only play at having empathy in order to have a seat at the discussion table where they could then present their ideas as “just asking questions.” When in fact they are trying to sow discord and form a pipeline into their hateful ideology for others who are emotionally vulnerable and open to ideas as to why life didn’t play out for them like they thought it would.

If they lack critical thinking skills and a strong community support structure, these emotionally vulnerable people end up spewing hateful ideology within a few months and it breaks my heart, because usually there’s no coming back for them. They can’t be argued or reasoned with. It’s as if an empathetic child who just needed community died due to abandonment, and some ghoul due to demonic corruption is left in their place.

Its not that I don’t want to believe that people can change for the better. I’ve seen it in myself and others, I know it is real.

But I’ve also been in enough online, and in some cases, offline, spaces to know a bigot when I see one. I can sniff a disingenuous asshole just trying to “ask questions” from a mile away and it always ends up with a bunch of 4chan transphobes either openly or behind closed doors making fun of a minority and in some of the worst cases, planning violence.

My tolerance for even the smallest inkling of hate speech is zero. I’m just done giving these people enough rope to hang people I care about with.

Fair Warning: Long rant ahead.

Great article, and it gets to the heart of something I’ve felt is becoming more and more prominent in the Linux and Open Source Community, and really any community. And it’s something we simply can’t ignore.

That is that you can’t separate politics from life. It’s everywhere. The author points out that Framework’s mission is to encourage right to repair and responsible consumption by discouraging planned obsolescence.

While right to repair might be popular in both left and right wing circles, that is only because both sides want control over their devices and to distance themselves from Big Tech. But their views on regulation with regards to the environment and social equity/inclusion are as far apart as the general right left paradigm is as a whole.

To be blunt, you simply cannot have normal people work under the same tent as crypto fascists, transphobes, and general right wing grifters, no matter how significant their individual contributions might be.

I personally am tired of these sorts of controversies being brushed under the rug by tech influencers like BashBunni and Brodie Robertson who in their coverage of Omarchy did not broach this topic even just to say that there is a controversy at all. It’s cowardice at best, and right wing apologism at worst.

Yes, there are particularly brilliant software engineers that are also assholes. And yeah, without those assholes, we wouldn’t have the technologies we have today. The mistake is thinking that they are brilliant because they are assholes. Another mistake is thinking that holding onto one productive asshole is better than hanging onto the good will and contributions of many normal people that still provide worthwhile contributions.

To be very frank, fuck that. I refuse to believe in the false dichotomy that in order to create good software we have to put up with bigots. If anything, their attitudes end up holding themselves and their colleagues back. We shouldn’t be asking ourselves, “How much less productive would that person have been if they had wasted time/energy on being socially conscious and empathetic.” And instead have asked “How much more productive and better off we all would have been had they been a more empathetic and compassionate person.” Because we’re all worse off when a colleague is being a bigot, and it’s in all of our interests to call it out when we see it.

Los Santos in GTA San Andreas. Heck, their versions of San Francisco and Las Vegas were awesome too.

Currently playing Project Zomboid and I know their Louisville Kentucky will be etched into my nightmares for decades to come, lol.

Yeah, Gates never was a good guy, not then and not now. Evil is a spectrum and all that, but Bill Gates’s philanthropy is a scam, and Bill Gates fucked over the US Education system.

So yeah, nah, fuck Bill Gates.

Yes, also fair enough. Alpine as well.

So let’s see. This adds us up to:

Arch, Debian, Alpine, Slackware, Opensuse, Gentoo, Void, Fedora/Redhat, Nix.

And yeah I’ve used docker with Alpine before. I think i used ot as a base to setup redis, postgresql, and some other service a while back. I’m not hating on any distro, just very forgetful of even what I read 15 sec ago.

Very fair. Forgot about OpenSuse. Thank you.