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  1. On 4/11/2021 at 9:57 PM, Wedgy said:

    Oh man that's a sexy laptop. I've been thinking about getting a new one in the near future, probably once I pass my board exams. I'm still running on a 2015 Macbook as my main computer, but the thing has been surprisingly resilient. Nonetheless its age is beginning to show. Might have to watch this line.

    With computers I usually go for, as long as it works it works, even if it's a bit slower. (can always mitigate this with light weight SW). I did by a new Laptop for Uni but only because I used to only have a desktop PC (which still works fine, though you see the difference in loading/booting/compiling time...)

     

    On 4/11/2021 at 5:34 PM, efaardvark said:

    That’s another thing I’m looking for.  My old laptop is one of the 2013(ish?) MacBook airs.  It was old and slow and I was looking to replace it even before COVID.  System76s “pangolin” model looks nice.. or would if it were ever in stock.

    I like the idea of System76, the only thing I wonder is, if I install another Distro than PopOS! how much "optimization" I'd loose. They did put their drivers on the AUR, but since their PopOS! is custom made they probably optimized their HW and SW for this....

    That being said, it's not like any other machine is optimized for Linux anyway and its mostly about drivers, I guess.

  2. Liked this one, though I'm a sucker for epic music. But I guess that's maybe stretching the meaning of "song"...

    After School Distraction by Yakushimaru Etsuko  was also pretty good (like most made by her!):

     

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  3. On 4/10/2021 at 7:41 AM, efaardvark said:

    I was thinking today that if the GPU pricing / availability situation goes on like this for much longer then I may consider replacing my "old" Ryzen 2700X CPU with something like one of the upcoming 5800G APUs.. and selling my old radeon RX480 gfx card on ebay to pay for it.

    Another entry for the "weird things COVID made us do" column.

    I think the availability problem will continue for a bit longer, I fear maybe even into the next year, but I'm sure at least until fall. I only hope my Laptop isn't going break...

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  4. Didn't watch much of of this year since I watched some older stuff but the one's that I watched and that stuck out to me not in a specific order:

    Your Hands Of Eizouken was amazing, definitly my favourite of this year

    Kakushigoto was hilarious and oddly wholesome, even though it doesn't try to be.

    ReZero 2nd Season was disturbing in a good way. One of the more classical Isekai that I enjoyed, especially since I didn't like the end of the 1st season

    Otome Game something different but really good. I like the ending partly because it actually feels like it's done. Though the light novels still go one...

    Ascendance of a Bookworm was good but not as good as the second season. But might still be my fav. isekai.

    Deca-Dence is kind of hard to categorize. I enjoyed it a lot but everything kind of got messy in the second half.

    Sing Yesterday was .... oddly relatable... I didn't want to but I could relate to the main character

    I watched a couple more like Kaguya (which was fun, but not like the 1st season) but overall I think I've watched everything I'd probably enjoy except Jujutsu Kaisen. Might get around watching that soon.

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  5. Started the 12 Kingdoms series,  (had an anime adaption) and its pretty good. Isekai before Isekai became a thing (well, the trope already existed but it wasn't a huge thing in the 90s) and with a female protagonist thrown without anything into a pretty dark world. Also, the language isn't too hard, though it uses a bit too few kanji which sometimes make it harder to understand. Also read the original novel of welcome to the NHK (way harder, with some pretty complex kanji) and it manages to be even more depressing. I heard the eng translation is pretty good, so I can only recommend it since it's genuinely a good novel completely detached from the anime.

    I though about reading Earthsea some time ago, but I might finish the Arséne Lupin books before that. Really liking the gentleman criminal vibes; might prefer it over Sherlock Holmes even!

  6. Sadly forums have been declining in popularity for the last 5+ years. Especially Discord, which I think has the most to do with this, people just stopped visiting forums. You usually have more people on a Discord server to interact with, servers can be very different from each other considering how they can be customized with bots and various roles (not saying forums can't be unique too!) and they tend to be fast, in real-time which apparently more people like. Personally I favor forums but don't have the time to be on here for a lot of time for the last year or so.

    Browsing forums on the phone is often kind of a pain (even though there are apps for this) and I think many people browse the net on their phone for a significant amount of time. I think if forums in general want to gain in popularity again they'd somehow need to reinvent themselves to cater to a more "fast-consuming" audience, which would piss off the older members and they'd probably lose many of the veterans.

     

    That being said, in terms of anime forums AF is pretty active and a cozy place with great members and it's fairly unique, not one of those copy and paste forums that have the same layout but with different colours. Another thing I like about the more traditional forums. Since they tend to be "slower" they usually don't attract trolls anymore, since they migrated to discord or whatever. Don't know how often I've seen people getting banned on Discord for purposefully annoying people only to reappear a few minutes later under a different name. Obviously that'd also be possible on here, but still...

  7. On 6/13/2020 at 9:09 PM, efaardvark said:

    I'd been thinking of trying the Brave web browser but this reddit thread takes it off the table for me.  Sticking with firefox (+ adblock and umatrix ) for now.

     

    Funny, I tried out Brave 2 days before the thread was posted and really like it but then yeah, same: back to firefox +Privacy badger, ublock and "ddg privacy essentials"!

     

     

    On 6/11/2020 at 11:49 PM, OtakuKid said:

    I’m about as tech-savvy as your average American, but I just wanted to make a contribution to this popular-seeming thread. Computers? I use a Windows 7. Seriously, if you stalked me, on the off chance I wasn’t watching anime or reading manga, I would be playing Purble Palace. I’ve had people tell me it’s “gross”, or that I’m some kind of premature boomer (I’m not allowed to drive a car yet, buddy... [although admittedly I do love “outdated” stuff.]) Anyway, in my opinion new computers are overrated because why would you want all those special features when you can have internet connection, fun games, and pre-set musical wonders? 

    .....aaaaand I just realized people on here are using weird acronyms. I feel like Kaminari being brain-dead.

    I had to use Windows 7 at my last holiday internship, and really liked it. Faster and more stable than that sh**** windows 10. I can see why a huge tech company (and I mean really huge, so they probably know their stuff) would prefer it aver windows 10. It works and does the job.

     

    On 6/14/2020 at 1:39 AM, efaardvark said:

    Apple ][

    We have one in our cellar, proudly displayed in my father's "man cave" of sort (well it's more like just everything that has to do with tech and modelmaking crammed into a really tiny space). I've never used it though but it supposedly still works... For some reason I really like the aesthetics of old tech; the bulky, beige frame just has it's own appeal. And those tactile MK are just really, really awesome. (too bad I'm a minimalist when it comes to tech [in terms of looks] for actual every-day usage.) Oh, and the design of the old Thinkpads when IBM still made them.

     

    2 hours ago, Geano said:

    Right I would not dressage after all gotta keep the funding for these open source projects free, and powerful. 

    One problem is, that that stuff was in plain sight in git hub for a long time, afaik. Makes you wonder how much privacy malpractice is "hidden" in plain sight in open source and no one simply found it or bothered with looking through the code.

     

    As for Ubuntu, while the controversy is kinda old by now, what I don't like it that Ubuntu goes more and more into the direction of forcing the snap store down people's throats. That's a deal breaker for me. (also , yum and pacman are way better than apt!) If you really want to know what happens on your system and exactly want to say what's on your system from the very start you gotta go with Arch Linux but then again, most people (Including me) usually don't want to go through some endlessly tedious installation just to have a working system to browse on the internet.

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  8. 3 hours ago, efaardvark said:

    Ubuntu still hasn't caught up after their ill-fated excursion into a custom UI.  Remember the Ubuntu phone and the one UI for everything?  Yeah, that didn't work out, so they reverted to something buggy from several years ago.  I'm constantly running into (minor, to be sure) UI issues that have long-since been taken care of on other distros.  I recently tried to run their "Ubuntu Software" software installer and it locked up.  Fine, I usually use apt from the command line anyway.  Apt is my personal default, works fine, and is something most linux users probably know how to use anyway, but that's something every new user is going to run into.  For one of the flagship linux distros it is just lame.  Oh, and I have to mention the "desktop" search that involved google by default, and the Amazon icon on the desktop.  Down that path lies Windows.  Linux is great.  Canonical.. not so much.

    I'm actually very interested in System76's Pop!_OS.  I do like System76's hardware lineup and they get really good reviews for their linux support, even from the pros.  In fact, I almost bought my desktop system from them instead of building it myself, but they only had/have intel systems and AMD is a much, much better choice these days in terms of CPU cycles per $$.  I still need a new laptop though and if they come up with a laptop built around one of the new AMD Ryzen 7/9 mobile APUs I'd certainly be interested.  My current laptop I bought back in 2013 and is running into issues so I figure it's about time for an upgrade.  If I go that route I'm highly likely to  put PopOS on my desktop as well.

    edit: just checked and system76 now has threadripper desktops.. up to 16/32 cores!  I'd love to play with a system like that but I really don't have a good justification for getting one.  :D  As it is I only occasionally use all my 2700X's cores.  (Background processes like folding@home excepted.)  Still no Ryzen laptops however.  :(

     

    Ah, I hadn't used the main distro but Linux Mint  which doesn't have this so I didn't know about the google search etc. ... very windows-esque....  I tried out the softwarecenter just now and it worked so far but then again Linux Mint which tries really hard to make it easy for new comers, so I guess you can expect these things to work, though the one on Fedora also works pretty smoothly. (not that I use them though....I mean, I even use NNN, a terminal-based file browser. Screw UI! People say the terminal is complicated but having to click through half a million menus is way more complicated that memorizing a few short cuts and commands). But it seems like Ubuntu is lagging behind...

    Yeah, the Thelios are awesome, if I had a reason to buy a new PC (don't play nearly enough games anymore to justify a new PC) I'd probably go with one of these.

  9. As for my desktop PC.... let's not talk about that old war machine 😆 At least it's fun trying to optimize its limited capabilities (Ok, it not that bad, runs most games... on low settings); I mean, I'm no distro-hopper but I do use it a lot to check out new Linux distros, though I mainly use Linux Mint on it (I used to use Manjaro which I liked but it was kind of unstable, for some reason.), and trying to install a distro and making it as light weight as possible is a well-spend afternoon XD.

    When I actually want to get some work done I use a Thinkpad P51s. Works smoothly for everything I do and the graphics card, Quadro P500 mostly used for designing 3D modelling, might not allow it to play games on high settings but incredibly useful for pushing some matrices and vector calculation on it. Mathematical and Phyics simulations work smoothly on it and everything is super-fast with my Fedroa 31. (KDE sometimes has a problem with detecting new sound output, kinda annoying when I often switch from the HDMI of my Monitor to the TV screen and often my headphones. Doesn't happen with Xfce or other DEs.)

    To lazy to write the specs:

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    10 hours ago, efaardvark said:

    OS is currently Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine".  I can't really recommend Ubuntu these days, but Linux itself works great for both (sw dev) work and games.  (Among other things I'm an occasional Minecraft player, hardcore Kerbal Space Program addict, and lately I've been getting back into Cities: Skylines.. via Steam no less.)  I've also had Manjaro on it in the past and I might go back to that if Ubuntu continues to annoy me.

    I use Ubuntu-based Linux Mint and runs pretty well for what I use it, some friends use it for actual work (when I want to get something done I always choose Fedora) and they don't seem to have any problems. so I wouldn't you recommend it? I really want to like Manjaro, but it just doesn't like me. :( Also, if you don't mind multi-boot for gaming, Debian-based SteamOS and Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS run really well with games; SteamOS... well, the name explains it and Pop!_OS as an OS that wants to establish itself as an all-around clutter free pastime/for some light work OS

  10. 58 minutes ago, efaardvark said:

    I don’t think we need fantasy anyway though.  The real universe is quite amazing enough without having to resort to magic and fantasy.  It doesn’t mean that Merlin can’t be a wizard.  We just have define “wizard” to be a cyborg with built-in WiFi and his own nanite swarm.  You can do a lot with genetic engineering too, though maybe flying, fire-breathing dragons might be a bit much to ask for, at least here on Earth.  Even magic has limits.

     

    I like your answer. Most people wouldn't think about these trivial things as anything special. Imagine a parallel universe with different rules of physics and such. What chemical reactions, properties materials could have, the life forms this universe could produce, etc.... would be fantasy-like. Their stuff would be fantasy to us, and our stuff fantasy to them. That being said, there is enough to discover in our universe, even on our planet. Deep sea creatures look fantasy-ish enough and we barely know anything about them. Who knows what kind of life form, and I mean bacteria and the likes, live on other planets with completely outlandish properties.

    Also, imagine some kind lizard of other animal that produces some inflammable liquid and is capable of spraying it through it mouth (there are, for example, snakes that spray poison at their enemies). Then said animal is capable of producing sparks by grinding their teeth, basically has flint-stone-like teeth and boom, you've got a real life dragon. (minus the flying part)

  11. Oatmeal, with some berries in it. Greek yoghurt with peanut butter stirred into it and banana. Quark and peanut butter on bread with apple slices. Since I started to do sport on a regular basis this year (though have to pause for now due to feeling a bit unwell) I started eating breakfasts with more protein and carbs rather than just slamming a piece of ham on some bread.

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  12. Funnily enough, it's not toilet paper people are bunking but beer, the shelves are literally empty though I guess I shouldn't have expected anything different from my country 😆. That being said, we don't really have a wide spread panic, not any of these "hundreds of people storming the supermarket"-kind of scenarios. I mean, if I go out it doesn't look like that people care much; either they actually don't (fair point unless you often have close contact with old/sick people) or don't know that the majority of the population will eventually contract the disease and that we should isolate old people.

    Kinda risky situation since we border Italy and our government hinted that maybe if they fail to control the situation will have a full on lock down like our neighbour. (In that case, I'd finally have the time to watch Gundam)

    But eh, over here we say "let's wait and drink tea".

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  13. I kind of need Telegram for communication with my fellow students and whatsapp to communicate with everyone else I know  but apart from that, there's hardly any social media that I actually need. No one I know uses FB anymore I've deleted my account years ago, I only have a Insta account in order to follow some museums and while I love looking at painting, the glorious Model 1860 Military Light Cavalry Sabers (lel) and other old artifacts it's something I don't actually need.

    I'm a lot on reddit but I could up my reading time if I dropped it and I could find nice wallpapers without 4chan so I guess I can do without them too. Youtube might actually be the hardest to quit... It has decent science videos and I use it supplementary for studying...

    So it mostly boils down to the messaging services because no one here uses email and calling isn't a good substitution for large group chats.

  14. On 1/8/2020 at 3:03 AM, Ohiotaku said:

    I’m not familiar with the LNs but had watched the  original anime & was largely confused by it. I had an easier time with the update, but yeah, was obvious parts were being left out. I enjoyed certain arcs a good bit, but others not so much. I think my favorite was with Scarecrow & Pigeon and wish it had been longer. Really enjoyed tge opening & closing songs for the 2019 version.

    It is a confusing series though. With fast changes in time and POV character in a short amount of time - not unlike Baccano but the anime fails to tie everything together. However, even the novels leave several things open and unanswered, very much intentional since its a long story where things get indirectly answered in later books (I've read only to book 6 so far and the anime leaves one arc out [a really good and important one!]). I can only recommend the LN; not only as good LNs but as good books in general with great writing.

  15. Can't really make a definite list with a ranking nor have I thought deeply about it but I liked:

    Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo (though I wasn't a fan of the last 3 or so eps.)

    Kimetsu no Yaiba

    One Punch Man Season 2 (held my expectations low since I heard some bad suff, so I was pleasantly surprised!)

    Yakusoku no Neverland

    Dororo

    Tate no Yuusha (even though I think it's not that good, I kinda liked it...)

    Kaguya sama

     

    And there's Boogiepop 2019... it's kind of in a limbo of being good and bad. Having read the novels beforehand (and I loved them. not just as good LN but as good books in general) I was kinda disappointed by all the good and important stuff that they had left out to the point that I actually think they made it unnecessarily confusing and weird. But the mood, meaning the music and how they framed everything was so well done IMO that I kinda enjoyed it even though I cringed every time they realized what they had cut out.

     

    I already forgot a bunch of shows that come out this year and that I had watched but if I forgot them, they probably didn't leave much of an impression on me...

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  16. 18 hours ago, The History Kid said:

    I don't know that I'd call any of these "controversies."  A controversy implies malicious intent or questionable means and methodology.  I think this is more of a preference thing.

    The biggest problems that divide the anime community is self-division, superiority complexes, and double standards.

    Self-division, basically because you have different thoughts and opinions on a different series or franchise, even down to characters.  Which leads to the superiority complex (which ties into what serge was saying) with people insisting that their opinion is superior to another.  Likewise, that can be taken into various other series.  I don't believe that any one franchise has a more toxic fandom than another.  They all seem to suck or rock about the same.  Most of the people who practice this superiority trait then also impose double standards, but in anime - especially North America - there are two folds of double standards there.

    The first comes in the form of the fans that point out technical flaw in a series they don't find as "entertaining" to them as their own preference.  Yet, they ignore the technical flaws of their own and make excuses for it.  The second comes from the industry, and it's honestly my biggest pet peeve.  I believe almost every single voice actor and actress I've seen on Twitter touting about various social justice of some form and totally omit that stance when dealing with characters in their own line of work.  These people are nothing short of hypocrites.

    At any rate, those are my big three things that are damaging the industry.

    I think, as far as I understood you, this could also tie in, or rather is directly related with the prominent 'elitism' in the anime community. While anyone can say that someone else's fav. show is trash or what not, there definitely are very, very hardcore elitists who seem to be on a quest to desperately find the anime that they can say is perfect in every whatsoever (whatever that's supposed to mean...) while they try 'enlighten' everyone that everything else is trash.

    They're usually not that hypocritical because they are pretty clear on what they think is 'objectively good' animation, characters, story, etc...  and are usually fairly consistent about it, however I think their premise, that they, through whatever divine intervention, know what is good and what is not, is simply fallacious.

    While the idea of discussing anime and somehow deducing what can be considered good (not what people have to like but of what we can say that it has good writing and what not) is important, these elitists seem to have done that by themselves rather than as part of the community and just split the community unnecessarily.

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