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Notes from a year of reading science fiction and fantasy [potentially minor spoilers]

Below are books I’ve read over the last year, with notes about on what I thought of them. I started this list just to remind me what the books were about and if I thought they were worth reading. As the year went on, my notes became a little more substantial. The list was for me, but I thought I’d share in case it’s useful...

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I’m not the one to ask

Delivers in fine style

Hominine,
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Assuming I don’t want to wade through spoilers, what has been hot over the last year?

Hominine,
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Watch this clown decry genocide one comment prior. Spineless agitprop.

Hominine,
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The Best I can do is charge the driver with a misdemeanor instead.

Fuck cops and (most) DA’s while we’re at it.

Hominine,
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Huh, I just happened to watch this interview/distillation last night during a break and found it very enlightening. Kudos to an incredible team.

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Reading this in bed without my glasses and I’ll be damned if I switch to cat milk.

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If Wichita Falls isn’t the asshole of Texas, it’s within farting distance. And yes, there are a lot of competitors for the title.

Hominine,
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I use kde connect and/or sunshine myself.

Hominine,
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Unfortunately, no, I assign one monitor that stays asleep unless I intentionally wake it. Most of my use case these days is streaming my desktop remotely over wireguard. Good luck tinkering!

First Look: Riven Gameplay Reveal (youtu.be)

As an older, and increasingly jaded gamer, I’m having a hard time remembering when I’ve last been so excited over a release as this one. Riven is seemingly getting the gold-standard treatment with a ground-up remake that not only utilizes 3D (and VR) to give depth to the world but also adds new content while keeping the...

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I’ve got a case of the same sads. Went ahead and wish listed it just in case.

Hominine,
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Built a pinky ball vape just before taking an extended break and found it to be the closest thing to full extraction. Still want to get a desktop vape down the road though.

Hominine,
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It’s only for personal use, I like to tinker, and got it done on the cheap. If/when I get back to the herb proper, I’ll take a look at the market again, but for the limited time I used it I was impressed with the concept. Happy vaping!

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Well, I’ve got good news, you can do both at the same time with the patented cyber-bullet! When it implants, it implants 100 percent of the time.

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Apologies for the repost, I see someone already shared a WaPo article. Feel free to yank this mods.

Hominine,
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Giving fresh meaning to the “body politic.”

Hominine,
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I run a SearXNG instance myself and while it is a fine aggregator, it’s important to note what it is and isn’t. For instance, Sear does not have a dedicated search index and leans on third party API calls (to indexes such as the aforementioned Google and DDG listings.) This is my understanding, feel free to correct it.

For my money, I like the anonymity that Sear can afford and that it hides the AI bullshit pouring into the UIs. My son and I were talking over the weekend about how unreliable he is finding the move to AI search.

Edit: A list of public SearXNG instances for anyone that doesn’t want to spin up their own.

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In the interest of click saving:

“The only problem is that McLaren’s marketing line of being the “world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bikes” is, at best, misleading, and at worst, patently false.

The issue is that for European e-bikes, 250W is the legal limit for both on-road and trail usage. So if you’ve got a 250W e-bike, you’ve basically tied every single other e-bike on the market for highest power. Of course, none of the 250W e-bikes rolling around today actually put out only 250W of power. They all sneak by with higher peak power ratings, but the continuous power ratings are all identical. Thus, claiming to have the world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bike is a bit like claiming to sell the world’s tallest 6-foot ladder.

When you look at the US market, it’s even more problematic. E-bikes in the US fall under various regulations depending on the state, but most areas use a 3-class system. And to make things simple, all three classes allow up to 750 watts of power.

If you’re on private property, it doesn’t really matter how much power your e-bike has. ‘Murica! But if you’re on public property, like public roads or trails on state land, you’re likely going to be limited to that 750W of power in most places. Thus, claiming that a 600W e-bike is the world’s most powerful trail-legal e-bike is obviously quite problematic in the land of 750W e-bikes.”

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Seeing such pro-Trump rhetoric from this account in just about every Biden post while fibbing about his administration’s stance on, say, abortion is really laying the agenda bare. One thinks such a troll would be a touch more subtle.

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From your lips to “tha god’s” ears.

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