Its funny. I was excited about Metro 2033 and skeptical of 5th wave, and I was disappointed by metro 2033 and surprised by 5th wave.
I really liked the story in 5th wave. It’s got a little teenage angst/romance in it, but it’s not too awful.
What I’m worried about in the second book is what looks like a setup of a full on love triangle. I hope I’m wring about that (about to find out!)
If the baseline vegan precept is no animal products of any kind, then I would agree nobody is actually vegan
I wouldn’t. It read like a video game. I was excited by the premise, but the story was a let down for me.
I finished Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, read book 1 of The Brothers Karamazov, and am almost done with The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey.
You and me and a legion of other American citizens.
And I totally understand that. These AI crawlers really suck.
Not saying this is an option for you, only that I kept my forgejo instance private to avoid dealing with this AI crawler bullshit. I hope you find a good solution.
Interestingly enough, this concept was used in pattern making for casting machine parts back before modern machining and parts manufacturing.
They were colloquially called shrink rulers, and looked like a standard ruler, but were actually longer to account for the shrinkage of the material being cast.
For example, say you’re casting a part from iron, which shrinks 1% as it cools, which amounts to 1/8 inch per foot.
An iron shrink rule would look standard, but actually measure a foot as 1 foot 1/8 inches to account for the shrinkage (this is an example and not meant to be actually accurate).
Source: am historian that interviewed pattern makers that used shrink rulers in their work.
Edit: spelling
This is fine. I want nothing do do with AI, and opt in is the right way to do this. Those that want it can enable it.
Alien Nation was so good
To be clear, flatpaks from flathub. Fedora has their own flatpak repository, and those are not the flatpaks you are looking for.
I have a raspberry pi 4 (8gb) running osmc (an alternative to libreelec). It’s been a champ for several years now. Kodi is great.
100% falls into schnackered.
Holy shit. I just tried it. ctrl+r is a revelation! How the fuck did I not know about this?
YMMV. When I do go to youTube, I use it signed out and with a VPN. Sometimes it works, and sometimes of doesn’t. It’s anecdotal, but true.
Thrift stores are also a great way to pick up DVDs and CDs. My server is loaded with music and media. We don’t use any subscription services. Everything we watch or listen to we own and enjoy without any third parties spying on us.
It has a fingerprint reader.
I liked that it showed batman as kind of an idiot being led around by the scarecrow, that this wasn’t a mature batman.
I don’t know the specifics but forgejo is a gitea fork. There was/is some controversy around gitea governance and movent towards prioritizing a closed source paid/private versions of gitea.
Again, I don’t know details, just very broad strokes. I chose forgejo because it’s under active Foss development and I didnt want to deal with potentially going with gitea and then having to abandon it later for whatever reason might develop.