The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s undeniably Ellis, but he also feels more open and honest this time around. Maybe he’s getting old and more comfortable in his own skin.
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s undeniably Ellis, but he also feels more open and honest this time around. Maybe he’s getting old and more comfortable in his own skin.
People trying to have long-form discussions on Twitter/X has baffled me since the beginning. It is decidedly not the right platform for that and it was never designed to be. In fact, its design clearly discourages any meaningful discourse. I have never been able to wrap my head around that site and its users.
The interface is a bit bare bones and 90’s but I like it that way. It’s a good and reliable client.
I’m reading a book on grief. Grief has been an important part of my life for a good long time now, but last year has been difficult. And things will only get worse in the next few years. I suppose I’m bracing myself, even if I know it doesn’t help much.
Been using Plasma Wayland for a few years now with minimal issues.
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I’d be perfectly fine if everything was just mixed mono. I see little value in stereo. I’m weird like that.
Can’t help you there, I buy CDs and lossless copies from Bandcamp and Qobuz. Those work for me.
I really should read that one. I’ve been a fan of Poe’s Haunted for a long time.
I’m reading Universal Harvester by John Darnielle. I think I like it, but how much probably depends on how the writer is able to bring it all together in the end. I do like the somewhat unconventional structure though, and the book is very atmospheric. It feels like it’s more focused on painting pictures of a time and place than strictly telling a story, or something, I’m not good at describing it.
I’m sorry, but that’s private.
“Install Gentoo” is a meme, not life advice. With Gentoo, the installation process gives you good insight in to the internals of Linux systems and compiling (almost) everything from source is interesting, but won’t produce noticeable benefits for average users. Especially since updates take some time, what with compiling the programs again. Gentoo is a great distro with a fantastic package manager, but unless you’re an enthusiast or a serious hobbyist, Don’t Install Gentoo.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
I’m finishing up Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. I think it’s a big improvement over Metro 2034, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of Metro 2033. Completely dropping the supernatural aspects of 2033 was a weird choice, but 2035 seems to be a very thinly veiled criticism of modern Russian society, attitudes and power structures. Luckily it works, but the series loses a lot of its character without the incogitable horrors. Though I guess in the end, humans are always the real monsters. Good book. Not yet sure what I’m reading next.
I not too long ago played this game and, while flawed, found it to be a very decent game with a lot of potential. My biggest gripe personally is that it devolves from an engaging and clever stealth game to a mass murder simulator, and the main character isn’t terribly likable by the end. Still, I enjoyed it quite a bit and might even replay it some time.
He does appear to be reasonably black, yes.
Especially Berserk.
After finishing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson I opportunistically picked up Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History. It’s pretty good, though I find some of his conclusions suspect, in part because I’m inclined to hope they are true. Underneath all this internet grime I am, after all, an optimist with high hopes for humanity. I have to be careful with that pesky confirmation bias.
I also picked up some comic books from the library to have some variety.
It will be exciting to see Kamala and Trump debate whether Gecko or Blink should be the industry leader.
Off the top of my head some shorter books:
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Post Office by Charles Bukowski, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke.