The art of the manuscript has really fallen. Published books nowadays are not as good as they used to be (in terms of quality, not just content). Most ‘crafted’ things, really - textiles, books, furniture… everything has been discarded in favor of cheap, low-quality nonsense that breaks or falls apart.
I’m doing Orphan Black and Severance right now, but I’ll probably go Firefly then Dollhouse. (Part of what made me think of Dollhouse is the fact that Dichen Lachman is in Severance!) The Nevers is also on my watchlist, apparently, so I might or might not get to that later.
Highways in the Netherlands? You mean a bike highway? /s
Yeah, fair point. I’ve got to watch Dollhouse and Firefly eventually.
Thanks! A great one is also BookFinder - there are a few versions of it, I know .com and .de and I’m sure there are others.
It’s making me get into book collecting and finding older/out-of-print editions, so at least that is a silver lining.
Thanks for reminding me to set up Timeshift on my EndeavourOS install, salute to you.
I mean, I’m just one reference point, but here we go. I started with Kubuntu – I liked KDE, and Ubuntu is a stable, LTS distro. What could go wrong?
But my PC is Intel/Nvidia, so I’m constantly facing driver issues, and not to mention, snap is completely fucked. Ubuntu is supposed to be LTS but I’ve somehow still got 2-4 GB of updates every day or two. I’ve also got random bugs here and there and no real idea of how to troubleshoot them because the support is disparate or doesn’t address my specific issue.
Meanwhile, on my Chrultrabook, I decided to go with Arch, which of course presented its own set of issues. The archinstall script was straightforward, and debugging it was also fairly easy since the Arch wiki and forums were a trove of information. But debugging and tinkering, even when I accidentally bricked my laptop and had to do a clean slate (don’t ever interrupt pacman, I’ve learned!), has been a great learning experience. It’s made me feel like I actually understand a little more of what goes on under the hood. Ubuntu could do that as well, but it isn’t meant to be design.
Neither is good nor bad on its own, but different people enjoy different things. I didn’t think I would be the type to enjoy Arch, but it gave me valuable experience and a fun project (even if I did end up staying up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights). I’ve got EndeavourOS on my laptop now and still Kubuntu on my PC, but I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just switch over. Arch/eOS being a rolling release feels nice too, as I’m doing all these updates on Ubuntu anyway, but I’m slightly more worried about fucking something up.
The two are often connected (aphantasia and SDAM) but not necessarily so. It’s also possible it’s not related at all, but I just wanted to bring it up since your experience doesn’t sound like what I usually hear as the norm from most people.
Hey, I’m just the messenger – blame the publishers. They’ve gotten sloppy, too, have you noticed? I’ve seen major grammatical/continuity errors and typesetting issues, even if the book is from the Big Five – even Tor. It’s disappointing, the ‘enshittification’ is happening before my eyes in real time.
Branch out of American media; European and Asian media have much less tolerance for on-screen hardcore violence. American media freaks out over a nipple in children’s media, but war and graphic fighting are A-OK!
I don’t think you are. The intrusion of “romantasy” is a serious issue with book publishing because they’re chasing what makes the most profits, and right now that’s the trend. No matter that romantasy is not proper fantasy…
I was thinking of some of those too - Buffy, Xena, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, etc., but aren’t those also targeted towards a female demographic?
It’s a degree awarded by institutions to outstanding figures for achievements in a certain field.
My memory is like that too, extremely vague. Have you heard of SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory)?
I’m trying to be better about not holding onto things. It’s incredibly hard though when I end up needing one of those “ah I won’t need this” things a few weeks or months later…
I learned that, in Latin America, it is also the Day of Love and Friendship.
That and the upgradeable storage… as soon as I can figure out how to solve my partition issues.
Got it, thanks for clarifying.
It’s a frontend for Wikipedia.