Gene Wolfe is awesome.

Great resource! It’s so hard to find books that deal with complex themes these days and aren’t afraid to let their readers explore the world a bit.

Between Two Fires has such an interesting premise!

That is a fantastic cover!

I’ve had this on my list for a while. It’s pretty short, I really should get to it soon.

Fair enough! I do like both fantasy and sci-fi, but haven’t been reading as much of the latter lately. I think Murderbot could be a good segue to get back into it.

Even cis Germans probably should not go, given recent events.

He was enabled by many of his fellow geriatrics from Congress in the first term.

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.

Glasgow seems cool, and I’ve read that they are implementing more walkable and pedestrian/cyclist-friendly infrastructure too (slowly… but that is more than most of North America).

Some hope for humanity in that article.

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.

Envious, that sounds like a great experience. Trial by doing is probably the best way for most people to learn. I’m very verbal, but even for me, reading things doesn’t necessarily make it stick any easier.

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.

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.

That is pretty much how I feel - like I’m putting out the fires every day, but not actually progressing on what I want or plan to do. It’s a tough balancing act that I’m still trying to figure out… time management is a tough skill to learn when it doesn’t come easily or naturally.

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!