True, Linux did solve this decades ago. And then made it significantly worse in the last decade with multiple package managers (apt-get, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, brew, random .sh install scripts etc.). Remembering how a Linux application was installed and calling its update command is a chore, and updating will probably pull in some other 500MB+ dependency that’s not shared with other apps because of a minor version change.

If your distro is forcing you to use more than one package manager on a regular basis, you need to switch distros.

If you’re choosing to use 3-4 package managers simultaneously, even though you don’t really need to, that’s on you.

Either way, it isn’t Linux’s fault.

This is something of a mixed bag so far.

They spend more than 75% of the first episode setting up the main character’s generic Japanese household and school, something which could (and should) have been done in less than half that time, since it seems like a lot of it isn’t going to be relevant.

Then right at the end, things start to get more interesting and it looks like we might end up with a human-resistance-fighting-aliens story, which was not quite what I expected from the teaser blurb, but could be entertaining. Or not. With the protagonists being so young, it’s hard to tell what age group they’re trying to pitch this to, and that may end up affecting how good this ends up being more than anything internal to the story.

None of the characters grabbed me, so given how oversubscribed this season is for me already, this is probably a drop.

Only about a dozen more premieres to cover before I’m caught up, tra-la-la . . .

Seriously? You’re invoking argumentum ad popularum (which is a logical fallacy to begin with) in a discussion of linux technical details? That’s so illogical I can’t even.

systemd is a monolith in practice, despite what its advocates like to claim. You can’t run just a part of it under another init without doing extra patch-up work (see elogind). Whereas you can run just one GNU utility on top of, or even alongside, someone else’s implementation of that or other utilities (for instance, in parallel with a rust implementation that isn’t quite ready for the big time yet).

systemd also won’t work on anything except Linux. Older solutions also worked on BSD. That matters to some people.

And the issue was never just Poettering’s employers. He had a bad reputation in parts of the Linux community long before systemd—he was also the main force behind pulseaudio, which was shipped long before it was ready for actual use in the real world and remained in a semi-broken state for quite a long time afterwards. And he often comes across as personally obnoxious. Nothing like telling someone “I’m not interested in fixing your issues with my project” (except less politely) to get them to adopt your code.

It’s kind of like the OS version of putting Doom on everything and anything.

So it’s not serving the bottom-feeder market for effectively disposable Windows laptops.

Why should it need to? Serving a niche interest is perfectly valid as long as you’re making enough money at it to be self-supporting. Despite what the line-go-up-at-all-costs advocates think.

See you guys in like 4 years!

Nah, the entire series is only around 500 hours of footage. Plus maybe another 50-60 for the movies and various spin-offs.

Long anime series are treated a bit differently than North American live action productions. One Piece will most likely continue being made as long as there’s manga to adapt. (Whether the mangaka will finish the story, drop it abruptly to do something else, or die of old age with it still incomplete is another question.) The only other thing that might kill it is if the studio making it folds, but as far as I know Toei is relatively healthy.

At ~1170 episodes, One Piece isn’t even close to being the longest-running anime series airing in Japan today. I don’t think it’s even in the top five.

Sexist garbage. Worst thing I’ve seen so far this season. Apparently in this show’s universe, a woman has value only if she’s a man’s demon’s appendage. Hard drop.

With Linux, in the worst case, you can probably find a dev who’s willing to take your money to maintain a feature. Might not even be that much money, depending. Windows? Not a chance.

this seems like an intentional way to make sure that people can’t make things without paying the oligarchs. I think the fact that we are getting close to being able to make 90s level tech in garages is scaring the tech bros.

Nah, I suspect it’s a way for the politicians to look like they’re doing something about gun violence without, y’know, actually doing anything about gun violence. Or just generally to distract from what they’re doing on other issues. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” stuff.

It used to be more common to keep the source style. My guess is that it’s 25% what’s easiest to draw and 75% branding (that is, whether non-Japanese exec-suite types can tell that it’s anime).

According to livechart.me, this is supposed to start airing in October. Still being made by Studio Pierrot. Other sites might have more information.

Well, yeah, it’s supposed to run through to December. Two consecutive cours.

An interesting study in contrasts: the realistic aftermath of civil war, combined with some almost Warner Bros.-esque slapstick and a sketchily-drawn dance sequence meant (I assume) to emphasise the dancer’s movement over their appearance. Worth following just to see if they can continue pulling this off.

Okay, so. The artwork and animation aren’t tremendous—in fact, I’d go so far as to describe them as “simple” and “old-fashioned”. They could have aired this in the late 1990s and it would have fit right in. The visuals’ redeeming quality is the amount of effort they put into the expressions on the faces of the various non-human characters.

The story so far . . . is more fairytale-like than I was expecting, and also oddly touching. I’ll be continuing with this one for another couple of episodes, I think. At least it isn’t another isekai.

Well, we did put all available engineering capacity into improving ICE vehicles for around a century. I’m sure the next century will see considerable improvement in EVs, if humanity survives that long.

If I recall correctly, that’s consistent with the other scrolls from that library that have been deciphered by different methods, so at least some of the text is likely to be correct.

I just rewatched the first season of Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, AKA Skeleton Knight in Another World, over the course of a week or so, to see if it was worth watching the second season (not really; it’s generic reincarnated-as-overpowered-game-character isekai except when they’re making sure we know how eeeeeeevil the bad guys are 'cause they rape, torture, and enslave underaged elven girls, which would explain why I didn’t remember it). I’ll probably do Youjo Senki next for the same reason, but hopefully a better result.

Prior to that, I watched Ayatsuri Sakon, which I’d only seen parts of before, while I was down with bronchitis in March. The fact that I liked both the OP and ED on that one made me feel kind of old, because that hardly ever happens with more recent shows.

And I think it was Suisei no Gargantia that I marathoned this past Christmas.