This picture looks too good

Edward’s face became funny in the photo, in both meanings of the word.

I almost didn’t notice the title.

Spiders are so cool… :)

Obligatory Yu-Gi-Oh! Poker Night

It’s clear that Saitama still doesn’t really know how he got the job.

Do you know which GTK version you had installed before updating?

And, as we all know, those two buttons are…

What do you think they should be saying?

Are you Odysseus or smth?

I feel like isekai is an interesting concept, but it is very poorly explored by the countless attempts at it (mostly because most of those attempts are low quality).

Why does the MC rarely miss anything important from the previous world? I mean, even if the MC was such a loner as they always are, wouldn’t they miss a parent, a sibling, an old friend they no longer talked much with? If you reincarnated in another world, would you immediately forget everything that came before that? And wouldn’t the thoughts about the world you came from come back, even if you tried avoiding them?

Also, why does the MC always become immediately overpowered? Like, other than being an overused comedy trope that is barely funny anymore, I know it’s fun to see a character hiding their own trump cards from everyone else and carefully choosing when to reveal them, but why would we root for a generic-ass stranger that got immediately cool because of some abilities they gained out of nowhere?

I now understand why so many people like Solo Leveling, which I’m bringing to this conversation because I feel like has an isekai-esque setting. Other than being a really good story, it does a better job than most isekai at making you care about the protagonist, because the main character actually struggles to get the OP abilities, putting his everything on the line to become stronger, even in situations in which he wasn’t supposed to, and not just for himself, but for his family too. This means that the character walks down a path of trials and tribulation to become a hero, he doesn’t just arrive and say “hello, I’m OP now, dw I’ll singlehandedly destroy the villains, just did it, bye”, or instead say “sssh, I’m secretly OP and I want to siglehandedly defeat the bad guys without anyone thinking I did it because otherwise I get pestered by people who would want to use me for my OP abilities”. That makes him way more likable than most other MCs, you see him struggle. Not just that, but his job just becomes harder once he becomes OP, and there’s an actual good reason why he gets the abilities (won’t spoil much more, just read the manhwa or watch the anime, you won’t regret it). I think it should be tried to make an MC that doesn’t want to live forever in another world, but instead wants to come back to his world, and it should be possible for it to happen, but extremely hard. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, the MC wishes they could do that, but just can’t because they died and then reincarnated. But afaik there isn’t an anime/manga where the MC sets on a quest, or has the ultimate goal to go back to their world, and I think it would be interesting. lmk if there are already stories like that.

tl;dr why are isekai MCs always extremely strong from the get go, and they never miss anything from Earth, and never want to come back, that should happen more times, and be more like Solo Leveling smh

(Also, IseGure is a funny anti-isekai manga you might want to read)

So I interpreted this interview the wrong way. This changes everything!

Thank you for letting me know that I was making a misinformed comment. I’m editing it as we speak.

EDIT: I apologize to everyone who has so far read this comment. I misunderstood what Linus Torvalds meant in the interview I mentioned. I thought he was just calling the Russian kernel contributors “Internet trolls”, be he was actually referring to Russian “troll farms” taking advantage of the controversy generated by how the Linux Foundation removed the Russian devs from kernel development without saying a word, to entice outrage and try to get the Foundation’s decision reversed. (afaik they had to do it because the US government ordered them to, and the foundation is hosted in the US.) I’m leaving the post in its original form for posterity.

I think the way Torvalds treated the Russian kernel maintainers that got silently removed from development (a situation that, by itself, was completely mishandled) was awful to say the least. In a interview, he said they were all Internet trolls, and referenced conflicts between Finland and Russia to “explain” his disdain for Russians. Say what you want, but I usually call a person that judges others based on their country of birth alone, an asshole. Not just that, but such behaviour sounds extremely ungrateful when we are talking about people who contributed in extremely important ways to Torvalds’ biggest project of his life. I used to have a positive view of Torvalds, but this kind of ruined it for me.

I don’t speak no computer

So you speak computer?

I was already aware of this fork. I haven’t tried it, but does it really fix most of the UX issues of GIMP?

From the update:

One area we want to focus on after 3.0 is improving our UI/UX design process. We have set up a separate UX repository to report and discuss issues related to design. We are looking to build a team of designers to discuss and create design improvements to GIMP that also respect existing user’s workflows. Denis Rangelov has taken a strong interest in this area and has already done great work in identifying, categorizing, and moving design issues from the code repository to the dedicated design section. Some design improvements have already been implemented for 3.0, and we look forward to working with community designers to give people a better experience!

It’ll take some time, but it seems like improvments may be coming.

Ubuntu isn’t terrible, there are just bad things on Ubuntu that aren’t present in other distros.

I’m afraid this answer isn’t 100% correct. There are ways to find out a file’s type beyond looking at an extension. For example, there are lots of file formats where all of the files start with a specific sequence of bites, known as a file signature (or as “magic bytes” or “magic numbers”).

You can try the file command line tool to check that you can find out a file’s format without resorting to its extension, and you can read the tool’s manpage to learn how it works.

I don’t think you answered the question on the title. Why should most people not use Slackware?

This website is amazing, thank you for sharing