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  1. Comment on What is your top, unknown, non fiction recommendation ? in ~books

  2. Comment on Best book you've ever read in ~books

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    I tend not to re-read, too many books, too little time. if my having re-read anything is an indication, then Hitchikers Guide and Asmiov's The Complete Robot would be contenders. Series I've...

    I tend not to re-read, too many books, too little time.

    if my having re-read anything is an indication, then Hitchikers Guide and Asmiov's The Complete Robot would be contenders.

    Series I've really enjoyed are The Expanse (incredibly good) and all the Aeon 14 books. Aeon 14 really surprised me, it's incredibly large, and it kept me invested all the way through all of them.

  3. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Having abandoned Vorkosigan for reasons I’ve already stated, I started on Bobiverse book one. It started really strongly. Loved the opening. About half way through now and I’m not so sure. There’s...

    Having abandoned Vorkosigan for reasons I’ve already stated, I started on Bobiverse book one.

    It started really strongly. Loved the opening.

    About half way through now and I’m not so sure. There’s a lack of charters despite (or perhaps because of) all the Bobs.

    I’ll keep going to the end of book one though. Wish the second quarter was like the first though. Damn

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech

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    No. Because it's not meant to.

    No. Because it's not meant to.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Motorola and GrapheneOS Foundation partnership announced in ~tech

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    I'm not particularly inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    I'm not particularly inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Motorola and GrapheneOS Foundation partnership announced in ~tech

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    Google cared enough to torpedo the device tree to make porting to new hardware as tricky as possible.

    Google cared enough to torpedo the device tree to make porting to new hardware as tricky as possible.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on How far back in time can you understand English? in ~humanities.languages

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    There's a YouTuber, Simon Roper, who does quite a bit of Old English content, including videos where he recreates speech through time, to allow you to test your understanding against the timeline....

    There's a YouTuber, Simon Roper, who does quite a bit of Old English content, including videos where he recreates speech through time, to allow you to test your understanding against the timeline. You might like his content.

    e.g.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=842OX2_vCic

    "In this video, I present a monologue which gradually transitions from pre-literary Old English (c.450 AD) to an urban northeastern dialect of modern American English. I present it first without any subtitles or notes so that viewers can gauge when they first start to pick out words and sentences, and then with subtitles and footnotes. "

    9 votes

  8. Comment on First look: Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves | Announcement trailer in ~games

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    SEGA should sue for the similarity of an Angry Bird. That would be quite funny, and hard for Nintendo to argue against.

    SEGA should sue for the similarity of an Angry Bird. That would be quite funny, and hard for Nintendo to argue against.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Is higher education still valuable? in ~life

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    My lad is already at college - I think we have a different idea of what that might mean in the UK. College is for 16-19(ish) years old. He's doing IT. His last year of college qualifies him for a...

    My lad is already at college - I think we have a different idea of what that might mean in the UK. College is for 16-19(ish) years old. He's doing IT.

    His last year of college qualifies him for a 1 year discount off of his upcoming degree course. He wants to do cyber security at University, which I think is a decent enough field to get in to these days. So yes.

    It's gods be damned bloody expensive though.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on What are some bands you regret not seeing live (or, just never had the chance to see in the first place)? in ~music

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    R.E.M. are the ones I regret not being able to see. I saw most of my 80s favourites during the Here & Now tours in the UK a few years ago, but I always return to REM for a listen. If I find a...

    R.E.M. are the ones I regret not being able to see. I saw most of my 80s favourites during the Here & Now tours in the UK a few years ago, but I always return to REM for a listen.

    If I find a tribute band I might go see them

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month in ~tech

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    It’d be close to doxxing myself.

    It’d be close to doxxing myself.

  12. Comment on Hetzner statement on price adjustment as of April 1st 2026 in ~tech

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    That site feels like it's being hugged to death. The price rises are quite substantial. Though it's a bit odd as I have a CPX31 in Helsinki and that's not listed as going up in price. The one in...

    That site feels like it's being hugged to death.

    The price rises are quite substantial. Though it's a bit odd as I have a CPX31 in Helsinki and that's not listed as going up in price. The one in the USA is.

    Edit: my server is a "legacy" deployment, and is increasing. Hetzner did mail me about it, I found it in my spam :(

    8 votes

  13. Comment on Legacy sequels and remakes you think were actually good and worth making? in ~movies

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    I was going to say Tron Legacy but then they went too far and ruined their legacy.

    I was going to say Tron Legacy but then they went too far and ruined their legacy.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Swedish heavy metal band Avatar cancel London concert mid-performance after the stage at Exhibition White City became electrified, shocking two crew members in ~music

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    That's what I thought. Only thing I could come up with is some kind of induced current via the pickups.

    That's what I thought. Only thing I could come up with is some kind of induced current via the pickups.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Swedish heavy metal band Avatar cancel London concert mid-performance after the stage at Exhibition White City became electrified, shocking two crew members in ~music

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    Ow. I remember doing a gig in the function room at a caravan park, and our mics were live in more than one sense. Any touch on the mic bodies or shields resulted in a tingle or zap, it felt all...

    Ow. I remember doing a gig in the function room at a caravan park, and our mics were live in more than one sense. Any touch on the mic bodies or shields resulted in a tingle or zap, it felt all very unsafe. We had to plug in to strings of extension cables strung from hooks in the rafters. The guitarist could feel something through the strings too. My keyboard was unaffected mostly, being it was double insulated I think.

    Couldn't afford to refuse the gig, and we lived to tell the tale though, somehow. I'm surprised we didn't get worse from that one, now that I come to think about it years later.

    14 votes

  16. Comment on Nobody is talking about Dance Dance Revolution's comeback across America in ~games

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    Darn it. I was furiously composing a RAM reference when I did the tildes thing and read all the comments before posting. Still, at least they're playing DDR rather than The SIMMS. Edit: wait? did...

    Darn it. I was furiously composing a RAM reference when I did the tildes thing and read all the comments before posting.

    Still, at least they're playing DDR rather than The SIMMS.

    Edit: wait? did the topic title change :(

    7 votes

  17. Comment on I switched my gaming PC to Linux, and this time I think it's for good in ~comp

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    Second Endeavour. It's great.

    Second Endeavour. It's great.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on I switched my gaming PC to Linux, and this time I think it's for good in ~comp

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    Nice one. I've had my main PC on Linux for something like 20 years now, and a couple of years ago it was finally upgraded (the PC is like Trigger's broom at this point) to a stage where gaming was...

    Nice one. I've had my main PC on Linux for something like 20 years now, and a couple of years ago it was finally upgraded (the PC is like Trigger's broom at this point) to a stage where gaming was possible. Good, even, given the platform I was building on.

    I ran an Arch derivative and Steam just worked. I was astonished at the level of compatibility.

    There's some past tense here because I switched my main desktop to a Mac, but I use sunshine and moonlight to use the Linux gaming PC from my Mac desktop. It still works flawlessly, lol. I use WOL to wake up the "big PC" and steam big picture can suspend it again when I'm done. It's like having my own streaming cloud in my house.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    One of the best overall things I've read, and one of the best things to watch. I very rarely re-read anything, so I won't be reading it again most likely. That makes me somewhat melancholy to...

    One of the best overall things I've read, and one of the best things to watch. I very rarely re-read anything, so I won't be reading it again most likely. That makes me somewhat melancholy to think of.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Group chat solutions for small groups? in ~comp

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    Signal would seem to fit the bill. You can do gif memes, emoji, really easily. Custom chat backgrounds, image and video sharing. I got my family group to use it.

    Signal would seem to fit the bill. You can do gif memes, emoji, really easily. Custom chat backgrounds, image and video sharing. I got my family group to use it.

    9 votes