machinya [it/its, fae/faer]

1. the main difference between distros is the packages you can install and the default configurations you get out of the box. The main recommendation is to use a popular distro (like ubuntu, mint or pop-os) so you can get a good level of support in both documentation and forums/chatrooms. other distros range from different defaults to completely different architecture so it’s recommended to look into them until you are more used to linux and you are curious of finding a better fit for your specific need

for the image editing you can try krita. it’s usually considered better than gimp in many scenarios and also more user friendly.

the red ranger […]

as a fan of toku, i really enjoy this one. jokes are very self concious and they tend to hit very good. i really wanted to like it more but sadly the story itself is very uninteresting so i’m watching it one ep per month or something (just one ep pending)

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this one has been on my pending list but the synopsis made me put it away for long. reading your review it is closely to what i expected so i’m not sure if i can stomach it, but curiosity is still strong. i also tried watching nyaruko-san, because of the toku references, but i ended up droping it because it was quite boring

even with classically-written code, most of the time spend on development goes to debugging it. i cannot understand why it ever became popular to simplify the already simple part of programming and make the already hard one way harder. if you want a fully working application with little effort, there are many blueprints or frameworks that give you everything without having to trust the lie-generating machine to have something usable AND debugeable

it would probably depend on your search needs and habits. i use searx as my main search and it works good enough even if results are not great. i tried kagi for a bit and i didn’t find a huge difference. it might have been a bit better with results and being able to group results is a great idea but the improvement was not sustancial enough to warrant the cost. also, having an account associated with your searches feels really problematic

the pro-worker movement has been quite vocal for a long time on many different issues but the business organizations have been pushing the narrative that more rights for worker will damage the economy, which governments have been supporting.

when amlo won, many pro-worker activists got more vocal and some were able to get closer to the government, making some good material changes (increase the minimum salary, having 12 days of vacation per year, having a fucking chair in your workplace) but amlo was very clear that 40 h/week kill not happen during his term. due to this, the movement got way more intense, even getting violent towards the government to increase the pressure.

sheimbaum said that it was confirmed to happen during her term but she has been stalling the discussion while “discussing with the corporations” since then. it looks like the pressure finally made effect.

i am not very close to these events so i might have gotten something wrong or misrepressented something but tldr this was a workers won despite the government, not thanks to it.

yugioh should receive a proper remake. i’m not sure how people would act when they find the “children card game anime” is full of psycopats but i’m very curious about the reaction

this is the next step from just reading headlines and getting everything wrong

it is like adopting linux

very funny you say this since one of the main reasons i stay on lower-end devices is that they use linux instead of android. that and that i’m not really interested into playing more modern games in a portable way (with exceptions that i can accept)

how is the remaster compared to the original? i have been wanting to play it for a while but haven’t had the time. does the wiiu version sitll holds up or does the remaster made it obsolete? i prefer to play the original but if it’s a way better version i could accept the new one

i remember liking season zero lots the first time i saw it. it’s a more interesting take than the “everything is card games” that the later version. then i read the manga and found the series to be really bad. they tried to adapt short episodes to be way longer which made them a bit boring. also, the first episodes being full of psycopath characters that wanted to kill people for simple reasons was part of the amusement and it was toned down in the anime

Ranma 1/2, the 80s version

i kind of want to watch this one again but the length is a big problem since i don’t want to binge it (and i know i will because i love that series). since watching the remake i have had this feeling that i want to experience the original adaptation again.

for me, this month has been quite weak. finished fma and haven’t started yet any new series and since the season just started i don’t have yet an opinion about the shows i’m trying.

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): finally finished it and i am incredibly amazed at how much i loved it. i had many problems with Brotherhood’s last arcs so i expected something similar but i really loved everything it did with the story. ending was a bit rushed and left some open things that were later addressed in the movie but even then it was quite enjoyable.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala (2005): this deserves it’s own entry since, holy shit what an amazing movie is it. if it didn’t require 52 episodes of context i would recommend it to every single person i would ever met because it is that level of amazing. it serves as a perfect closure to the series’ story while also being an interesting piece of historical fiction and an interesting comentary on the events it portrays. i don’t tend to revisit films often and i want to watch it again soon with a more critical mindset.

yes and no. it depends on the fedi implementation but most microblogging software sends private posts to other instances when someone on that instance follows you. then, they can do whatever they want with the private posts (pixelfed made all the posts not-private due a bug in the code but this can totally be done on purpose).

due to the way federation works, there is no way around this since the server has to has access to your private posts if it wants to show them to their users that follows you. this should be mitigated on the instance level (by not federating with bad instances) and on the user level (not accepting follows from bad instances) but both defaults are usually fully open, making it possible for anyone to create a new instance and pulling all your “private” posts. having an allowlist federation and private could improve the situation but this would make federation with new instances so there will always be pushback against that.

at the end of the day, there is nothing really private on the fediverse, even of the best scenario, so it should be taken as that.

i’m happy to see The Summer You Were There mentioned in possitive light. i did enjoy it and while i don’t think it’s amazing i have read quite a lot of negative comments about it which i think are ungranted.

about manga recs, have you read The Moon on a Rainy Night? it’s probably my favourite teenage romance manga so i heavilly recommend it.

for LNs, “Adachi and Shimamura” is really good altough a bit slow teenage romance. there is manga and anime adaptation of it if you prefer the medium but both are behind by far

translator notes are one of my favourite parts of reading something foreign. it’s just a small trivia about something and allows me to understand the target culture just a bit more. this is way better than translators aggressively localizing some text to a comon american phase that will anyway make no sense to me.

tns get bad rep because lazy/elitist translators (i would vote the op is a bit more than being lazy) but they are a very important part and can be very valuable when done well

i was missing this thread. glad is finally here. this season i’m mostly watching sequels so i don’t have yet many things to write about. i also have been revisiting some old shows from my childhood to see how well they hold up (coincidentally, fmp is on the list for next revisits). this time i have a wall of text

Dragon Ball GT (1996)

After weeks of screaming “this plot idea was also on gt!!” while watching daima, i decided to go back and see how well had gt aged and if how much of my love for it was just nostalgia.

to my own surprise, i enjoyed most of it a lot. while the series had common problems found on 90s children anime, it actually did very interesting things. having a “20 years later” type of story was a very good idea since it lets you see a clear difference in the characters while keeping all of them familiar. new characters are interesting enough to keep the overal story entertaining. the big bad villain from the first half is simply great and probably one of my favourites from the whole db franchise. the last arc is great and thematically conected to the whole story, with the ending making me cry even if i already knew what was going to happen.

sadly, the show has quite some problems. many ideas were great but were not executed well. the second half screams production issues by how inconsistent it is and the ending, even if i loved it, was draged out and many events appear out of nowhere. it also has one of the worst sagas in the whole franchise (super 17) that is not only inconsecuential but it’s many recycled ideas without any proper plot. pan was a great character and it was on the spotlight for most of the show (excluding the big fights) but at the very end she was delegated to a background character and didn’t even had a last scene like other characters that barely appeared.

even with all of that, i still believe is a very strong db show and an amazing sequel to z. it tries to keep the core of the franchise while trying new things to keep it fresh. it’s full of callbacks and homages without making them pure nostalgia. i didn’t expect to hold up but it actually did

The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World (2025)

this one is actually a bad one. it’s very close to a generic comedy isekai. it falls in common tropes and characters are quite simplistic. but for a fan of tokusatsu, the jokes about its exagerated nature in a somehow serious world are incredibly funny. they are starting to get repetitive and the plot itself is almost non-existant but it has been enjoyable until now. i’m not sure if i will get through until the end.

containers get bad rep because docker and all the mess it causes, but every process, or at least most, in the system should use containers in one way or another. it’s a shame this is nowhere close to normalized and doing it is messy

ps2 had very good horror games, like the silent hill saga, fatal frame saga and some hidden gems like haunting ground and rule of rose. there is also the resident evil outbreak games with the online patch so it’s possible to play them in multyplayer mode.

there are also many good action games like the devil may cry saga or many jrpgs like the persona games or the disgaea games.

honestly, ps2 had so many games that it’s hard to list just a few. there was lots of slop but also lots of interesting ideas there. some games got re-releases later for more recent consoles so there are better versions but most of them still hold up

glad to see unc ensored art of ranma (new anime removed the star in the hat for all characters that used it)

privacy/security and convinience is almost always a linear scale where you need to choose to risk one to get the other. you should draw the line at the exact point you feel is correct. you have to decide how many hops are you comfortable jumping through to simply use something you want/need to.

no google is way better than microg that is better than play services, but every step requires you to stop using MANY things directly. is way worse when you need things like banks that require the full package and will keep breaking all the time if you ever find workarounds. this will in turn increase the time you spend making your device work instead of using it as a tool.

nice, i was starting to get worried when nvidia stock price started going up again