OldFartPhil

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Twitter still has devs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually pretty bummed about the change. It's a luxury (and one of the things that makes Oregon special) to be able to wait in a heated or air conditioned car while someone else pump my gas. I also don't understand why some people are so gung ho to pump their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

N.K. Jemisen is one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy writers. If you like her style and world building I'd highly recommend the Broken Earth trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The murderbot stories get so much praise but I was never able to get into them. I binge read (well, actually binge listened) to the Rivers of London books a few months ago and thought they were first-rate.

I just finished the new Ann Leckie book, Translation State, which I liked very much. If you couldn't get enough of the the Imperial Radch universe it's a must read.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This seems like a golden opportunity for distros like Suse and Ubuntu, who offer enterprise support for their free product, to poach some RHEL customers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it help to encourage users to host their own media rather than upload it to a lemmy/kbin instance. Or is that a minor component of the cost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Steven King, at his best, is the greatest American novelist of his generation. His character building is unsurpassed and he can definitely turn a phrase. On the other hand, a lot of his books would have benefited from more aggressive editing and he doesn't always stick his landings. That being said, he's been a fixture in my library for decades.

I'm glad to see others recommend 11/22/63, which IMHO is the best "modern" King novel (and maybe his best ever). For less well known books, I read Duma Key recently and liked it a lot. I know it's been mentioned before, The Talsiman is one of my all-time favorite books.