My bet is that Truth Social buys Twitter in an all-share deal, simultaneously enriching Trump and providing liquidity to Musk.

It is absolutely fuckin bonkers that Trump is so bad that a person can say they yearn for the good old days with Dubya without a hint of sarcasm

Is there a good walkthrough of how to set up Jellyfin on Linux? If I’m breaking away from a shit OS, I may as well try breaking away from an increasingly crummy Plex

Oh that looks great, thank you!

Finally my Radeon works better out of the box than Nvidia? Amazing.

Glad to hear Mint is the way to go! That’s the one I already have some very basic experience with.

Is Steam necessary? I also use GOG because I prefer no DRM, but maybe that’s not possible in the same way? I’ll Google this one too.

Thank you for your help! And for the confidence boost to think this might be more intuitive than I fear…

Can you suggest a good write-up / walkthrough for how to shift to gaming on Linux? I’ve installed and run it before so I understand the basics, but that was basically just to keep an old laptop alive to watch YouTube.

Fucking Windows…just purchasing one big DIY spyware package these days.

Argylle (2024)

figuring out how to even make money

Which, to be crystal clear, they have never accomplished

Soon as an independent firm chosen by the other parties releases a 10-year review of Pierre’s porn history I’ll think about supporting this.

Until then, I’ll continue to hope that this milquetoast douche-eater gets hit by a bus.

It’s fatty jello that we electrified and tricked into believing in itself!

No apology for Wyze’s breach, but only 1500 of the possible alerts for not-your-home were clicked on/viewed. Gotta love sensational headlines.

Also, if you’re using a cloud-based camera for private spaces? Well, that’s kinda a decision you made for yourself.

Genuinely don’t comprehend why anyone uses anything other than Firefox. FF + uBlock makes the internet so much better

Ah, I see the Free Speech Absolutist is hard at work again. Did these guys report on just how drug-addled Elon was the other day, or was it some other piece of fact-based journalism that got them booted?

Oh, by all means, go nuts

Bunch of loser crybabies wondering why they’ve been excluded when everyone hates their stupid asses for being objectively awful humans.

Eat shit, TERFs. Go die in a ditch, Nazis.

Amazing! Sanderson writes an incredibly inter-woven series of stories that are largely independent of one another, but do intersect in different ways, and the deeper we get into his worlds, the more the overlapping elements of his universe start to come into the narrative.

The Cosmere is big and complex, and I just finished re-reading the whole thing in a suggested order that helps build up the Cosmere in a way that’s a bit friendlier to a new reader. Each series takes place on different planets in their universe, and in the case of the Mistborn series, in two different eras separated by a few hundred years.

Here’s how I read it:

PHASE ONE (largely independent)

Scadrial

• Mistborn (The Final Empire): Mistborn Era 1-1
• The Well Of Ascension: Mistborn Era 1-2
• The Hero Of Ages: Mistborn Era 1-3
• The Eleventh Metal (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)

Sel

• Elantris
• The Hope of Elantris (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)
• The Emperor’s Soul (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)

Nalthis

• Warbreaker

Taldain

• White Sand (either the original 3-part graphic novel or the new prose version)

Threnody

• Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)

First of the Sun

• Sixth of the Dust (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)

PHASE TWO (starting to weave in Cosmere references more heavily)

Scadrial

• The Alloy Of Law: Mistborn Era 2-1
• Allomancer Jak (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)
• Shadows Of Self: Mistborn Era 2-2
• The Bands Of Mourning: Mistborn Era 2-3
• Mistborn: Secret History (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)

Roshar

• The Way Of Kings: Stormlight Archive 1
• Words Of Radiance: Stormlight Archive 2
• Edgedancer (Novella in Arcanum Unbounded)
• Oathbringer: Stormlight Archive 3
• Dawnshard (Novella)
• Rhythm Of War: Stormlight Archive 4

Scadrial (again!)

• The Lost Metal (this one makes much more sense after Roshar)

There’s also a few shorts Brandon wrote as a secret project during the pandemic that are starting to be released now:

Lumar

• Tress Of The Emerald Sea

Komashi

• Yuri and the Nightmare Painter

???

• Kickstarter Secret Project #3 in October 2023

Oh man, what a ride indeed. That series really is epic! And just in time for Season 2 of WoT to drop on Amazon!

If you liked that series, and in particular the last 2-3 books, then I’d recommend working your way through Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere, and the Stormlight Archive series in particular. Not classic sci-fi (although I’d argue it still fits on some levels), but an excellent fit after reading Robert Jordan.

Ready Player One is a very good beach book, and especially so if you’re a child of the 80s. Fun read, nothing groundbreaking, tons and tons of trivia and nostalgia.