Proton, mullvad, air VPN, depending on threat case. NordVPN for torrenting specifically, but not as good for privacy etc.

The most important thing is to check who owns the VPN (as the previous commentor said, stay away from Kape tech) and where it’s based (e.g., 14 eyes), as well as independent security audits and the company’s public history with government requests.

That would be Philip K. Dick’s VALIS. Where the protagonist, Horselover Fat (a scifi author suspiciously similar to PKD himself), sees the truth of the world on a laser beam and takes a lot of dope. Great, insane book, 10/10.

Why? Fdroid makes sense to me since they’re talking about mobile apps; Asklemmy makes sense since it’s a question. Where else should OP have posted this?

Yeah, I remember the Axe era. I guess at my highschool it was deodorant more than cologne. Still, I feel like stuff has gotten especially bad more recently. Or maybe I’ve just gotten older and more annoyed by it *sobs*

The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.

LOL. I’ll just keep using Linux, thank you very much. Great article though:

[…] demanding 64GB of RAM in the age of the RAMaggedon seems inexcusable. (Especially because Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and its overall AI push is a big reason memory prices have skyrocketed.)

Seriously, what the fuck is up with highschool boys in the last decade or so going bat shit crazy with the perfume??? I feel like we have reached new heights of olfactory toxic masculinity torture.

The first time I even thought about cologne was for a formal business meeting in my late twenties. The closest I got to wearing fragrances (not gonna lie, I kind of hate that term, now that I’ve heard it so often) in highschool was aftershave; I literally didn’t know a single guy who wore perfume (and very nearly no girls either), despite going to a fancy private school with a bunch of rich assholes. Times change, huh.

Why does this trigger me so much? I actively avoid teenagers and cross the street because of the smell now. And that one colleague who smells like a horrid concoction of axe body smell (kill me now) and Hugo Boss The Scent Eau de Toilette (I know what it’s called because he constantly, invariably, incessantly talks about it). I guess some especially immature adults are affected by the trend as well. Wtf.

Okay. Rant over. I’m done. Gonna go hug my cats now to recover (thank you, home office).

I think it’s brilliant in a larger artistic aesthetic sense, as an experience, but I fully agree that it should have been an hour longer to really tell the story to completion. I’ve always treated 2001 more as an audio-visual experience, though, so I don’t really mind. The Arthur C. Clarke book exists for a more plot-based experience. But your criticism is totally valid.

Holy shit, not only do I love Lem but also The Magellanic Cloud specifically, I can’t wait to watch this. Thanks for the recommendation!!

This comment should have a trigger warning lol

I 100% agree, because the film spends ridiculously little time with actual characterization. A lot of time with really long “cinematic” shots, though.

I wouldn’t so much say “pays tribute” to as arrogantly rips off… I may have given myself away as a 2001 fan and Nolan very-much-not-fan, though.

Interstellar is just straightforwardly a worse version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now I kinda want to know of there’s a older, Russian version of that, though.

Literally René Descartes, arguably one of the most important mathematicians and philosophers in history, spends most of his meditations trying to prove the existence of God. Religious people can be very logical and believe in their religion for logical reasons, even if you and I disagree with those reasons.