tycho

joined 2 years ago
[–] tycho 10 points 5 months ago

Frequent buyer on Qobuz, I can recommend.

[–] tycho 4 points 6 months ago

J4025 is good, I actually bought this exact model last year for 75€ with 120GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. Prices have went up since and I don't live in the Netherlands which can be expensive. So all in all not a bad deal I would say.

[–] tycho 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Honestly with 150€ you could get a second hand intel NUC which will have all the things you want. Of course this means x86_64 and not ARM but for jellyfin I would say it's a plus.

[–] tycho 5 points 2 years ago

We have them in France too :(

[–] tycho 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know Nazis also despise the left and would do anything to put you in camps if they could. They are not allies. You are falling in the exact trap described by this article, trying to attract leftists on the few subjects they appear to have in common to make the Nazis appear normal or even allies.

[–] tycho 19 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Are you saying Nazis are your allies?

[–] tycho 1 points 2 years ago

Yes it looks like utf8 is a first-class citizen but really it is ASCII which is 100% supported. From the FAQ:

The OpenBSD base system fully supports the ASCII character set and encoding, and partially supports the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set.

[–] tycho 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What? There is no hard g sound afaik.

[–] tycho 1 points 2 years ago

Well thank you! I've been using JWM for a while and it is dead simple. I've explored my share of tiling WMs and historical WMs (twm, vtwm, GNUstep, fvwm) but I'm really stuck on this JWM. Maybe I'm tired of change or maybe it is just plain good :^)

To be clear I use JWM + sxhkd + bemenu (dmenu like programming, having a searchable program launcher is a must).

[–] tycho 9 points 2 years ago

Wow didn't know about this metric :(

[–] tycho 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With this technology lens, would Dune still be considered sci-fi? They have different technology sure but in many ways worse than what we have now (except for space travel), they don't have computers and rely on hand to hand combat, their spies cannot hide mics so they hide in walls for days!

It's another hyper militarized universe like what the Cold War has brought but with religion and drugs :^)

[–] tycho 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wanted to say that it's hard to define exactly what is or isn't sci-fi. Really I'm just a sci-fi enjoyer and am not qualified to say what is or isn't sci-fi :D

Kryptonite for me is clearly a magic rock but in the movie it is in the realm of their science. Also there was a movie where the existence of superman led to a lot of questioning on its implications in defense politics so it could fit some part of your definition I guess?

So like superman is science-based and X-Men is also you're right and it does clearly ask what it means to be human when there are augmented humans now. So clearly more sci-fi than superman.

But films can be both sci-fi and fantasy. It feels like a sliding rule depending on the amount the universe is based on hardcore science. On the DNA subject, Gattaca is not fantasy but X-Men is.

To me it feels similar to the debate about "hard magic" universes like Eragon (where every spell has a physical toll on the user, or other book series where the magic is really detailed in-universe and only mastered by experts who have to study their whole life for even a basic spell) and "soft magic" like Harry Potter where everyone can cast crucifixion spells at the speed of an automatic rifle (I'm slightly exaggerating).

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