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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
div72 LinkI took some time to organize my music library a bit this week. In the end I ended up downloading nearly every inabakumori song and have been listening to that for a good part of the week. Other...I took some time to organize my music library a bit this week. In the end I ended up downloading nearly every inabakumori song and have been listening to that for a good part of the week.
Other than that a new banger from DECO*27 dropped yesterday. I hadn't been able to vibe with a lot of recent DECO*27 songs recently but this clicked instantly, so it looks like I'll be listening to it on repeat for a while.
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Comment on AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi in ~comp
div72 Link ParentIt's still rough on the edges but Asahi Linux team has been doing stellar work recently on that front for the ARM Macs.It's still rough on the edges but Asahi Linux team has been doing stellar work recently on that front for the ARM Macs.
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Comment on Yorushika (ヨルシカ) - Aporia (2024) in ~music
div72 LinkGreat to see another Yorushika listener here! I like Yorushika but for some reason suis's vocals just don't do it for me. I'll wait 'til the song gets a cover before listening.Great to see another Yorushika listener here!
I like Yorushika but for some reason suis's vocals just don't do it for me. I'll wait 'til the song gets a cover before listening.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
div72 LinkHandyman Saitou in Another World: Been binging this for the past two days. It's a fantasy/comedy anime in which a few short stories play out each episode. It's quite fun/cute, reminds me of...Handyman Saitou in Another World: Been binging this for the past two days. It's a fantasy/comedy anime in which a few short stories play out each episode. It's quite fun/cute, reminds me of Dungeon Meshi.
Dandadan: New anime this season, only one episode so far. It's like someone imagined a rom-com while having a fever dream. Definitely worth watching if the rest of the season is as good as the first episode.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
It's back! And with a 1.5h first episode!! Even better, there are rumors that the season is going to have 38 episodes!!!
That was a hell of an episode. I've been itching for some more royal race and witch cult content and it delivered. We met two sin archbishops in one episode and there's talk of third. Thank god Reinhard is there as the crew definitely is going to need him.
The Beatrice-Subaru relationship is really quite cute. Apparently there's an in-anime year between S2 and S3, so a lot more bonding must have happened off-screen.
Considering Subaru befriended the songstress, we're definitely seeing Puck return this season. The crew needs him with the threat looming on the horizon.
That was a spectacular and unexpected ending. The episode was peaceful, so I was quite surprised when Wrath came up and massacred the whole town square in one of the most unsettling way possible(with even Subaru playing along!). The fact that the save point is only one hour away from the massacre is also brutal, I'm looking forward to seeing how Subaru gets himself out of this pickle.
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Mili - In Hell We Live, Lament (Let's Lament ver.) (2024)
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Comment on US athletes are taking full advantage of free healthcare in Olympic village in ~sports
div72 Link ParentThis is part of the reason why I browse with NoScript. It either fixes "features" like these or breaks the site which leads me to think whether the content is worthy enough for disabling NoScript.This is part of the reason why I browse with NoScript. It either fixes "features" like these or breaks the site which leads me to think whether the content is worthy enough for disabling NoScript.
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Comment on Review: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov in ~books
div72 Link ParentWouldn't allowing dictators happy ends embolden more people to become dictators/make dictators more willing to commit heinous crimes?Wouldn't allowing dictators happy ends embolden more people to become dictators/make dictators more willing to commit heinous crimes?
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
div72 LinkTokyo Magnitude 8.0 A story about a middle schooler, trying to return home with her little brother and an adult after a major earthquake. The pacing is a bit slow, but the anime is 11 episodes so...Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
A story about a middle schooler, trying to return home with her little brother and an adult after a major earthquake.
The pacing is a bit slow, but the anime is 11 episodes so it's bite/binge-sized. The portrayal of the children are especially good and the anime mostly revolves around the feelings of our main character. Even though the rest of the world and Japan is intact, the anime does invoke that post-apocalyptic travel kind of feel; which I always appreciate.
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I especially liked the plot twist towards the end where Yuuki(MC's brother) died and Mirai(MC) started to hallucinate him. The viewers are given multiple hints from a few episodes prior where Yuuki is feeling/acting sick, to the death dream Mirai sees(which, surprise!, was not a dream), adults acting in a weird/consoling way towards Mirai, no-one else talking to Yuuki after that point, the MC and Mari(the adult which helps them on their journey) sleeping on two beds instead of three and the scene when Mari holds Yuuki's bag when Yuuki is wearing it which all but confirms Yuuki's death. I rambled a bit but I quite enjoyed catching the signals early and figuring out the twist before it was revealed at the last episode.
Also, at the end, Mirai finally arrived at the shelter and found her parents. She hugged them while crying, informing them of the death of her brother. At that point when all three of them cried while hugging each other, I cried and by that I mean I cried a LOT. I don't even remember the last time a media made my cry that much, so beware if you're cry-ey(is that a word?).
Finally, at several points in the anime, the MC questions what she's going to be in the future. That made me think the MC's name being Mirai(should mean future in JP) is a quite nice touch.
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Comment on Looking for a good, cheap VPS for a VPN in or around London in ~comp
div72 LinkWhat exactly do you mean by "around London"? If it's not UK only, Hetzner is about the cheapest VPS provider without sacrificing on uptime, performance etc. The closest server they have are in...What exactly do you mean by "around London"? If it's not UK only, Hetzner is about the cheapest VPS provider without sacrificing on uptime, performance etc. The closest server they have are in Germany IIRC though.
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Comment on How are you dealing with inflation regarding everyday enjoyment? in ~life
div72 Link ParentI wouldn't have called it a crisis back then but I'd say around 2018. It got especially worse after a month where the currency had a huge drop post-covid however.I wouldn't have called it a crisis back then but I'd say around 2018. It got especially worse after a month where the currency had a huge drop post-covid however.
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Comment on How are you dealing with inflation regarding everyday enjoyment? in ~life
div72 (edited )Link ParentTo give more context, the current economic crisis is caused due to past horrible mismanagement (lowering credit rates when inflation was going up), a major earthquake that has happened a year ago...To give more context, the current economic crisis is caused due to past horrible mismanagement (lowering credit rates when inflation was going up), a major earthquake that has happened a year ago and a self-fulfilling inflation cycle. The current minimum wage is so much below the poverty line where you would not be able to feed yourself without going to debt.
The only saving grace is that interest rates has been getting hiked recently but it is still below both the official(~70%) and unofficial(124%) inflation numbers. Still, it is estimated that it'll take years for the economy to recover.
It's not horrible if you are a university student though. State/Public Universities provide much cheaper food and housing(if you're accepted to the dorms). I've even heard a 40yo adult enroll in university again for this.
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Comment on Are Free Software developers at risk? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers. in ~tech
div72 Link ParentSmall correction: A blockchain prevents any point in history being modified without points between that point and the current point being modified but it provides no 'resistance' whatsoever. The...Git itself is a blockchain (git is the source code version management software used by Bitcoin). Because it's a blockchain there's resistance to starting over from scratch.
Small correction: A blockchain prevents any point in history being modified without points between that point and the current point being modified but it provides no 'resistance' whatsoever. The resistance for Bitcoin's case comes from the proof of work algorithm. You essentially need to do enough work to surpass the amount of work others did from the point of modification, not only that but you need to work faster than the miners on chain(aka having 51% of the hash power) so you can pass their work and make people accept your chain.
Also that's why it's easy to change git history even though it's a blockchain. You can just rebase it and amend the commits. There's no separate mechanism that determines which history is genuine.
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Comment on Reddit pops as much as 70% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range in ~tech
div72 Link ParentIt's available as a torrent, I can share a magnet link if you want. (1.6 TB; zstd compressed)I’ve been meaning to snag a copy for ages…
It's available as a torrent, I can share a magnet link if you want. (1.6 TB; zstd compressed)
Two vocaloid producers(Vane Lily and JamieP) I like combined with an another (ricedeity) to create a group called FLAVOR FOLEY and they have a few songs up, I've been listening to them mostly this week.
weathergirl / Eleanor Forte - Saddest song in the group, hits hard in the rain.
Water the Roses / GUMI - On the calmer, sadder side compared to the rest of the songs. The instruments and the chorus tickle my brain in a way I can't explain.
炜WARD ROMANCE / Feng Yi - Great, energetic. I've been craving for a Chinese-inspired since Shadow Assasins. I just wish the slow part(pre-drop? I don't know what it's called, I mean the part at 1:31) was longer.
rawdog / Hayden - ...Eh, nice song? I wasn't expecting a song this explicit when I clicked on it. Still liked it though.
BUTCHER VANITY / Yi Xi - BUTCHER VANITY is apparently their first song, I didn't notice it was from FLAVOR FOLEY 'til now. I listened to BUTCHER VANITY a lot and I'm currently burnt out from it so I haven't listened to it this week but I'll list it here for completion's sake.