My favorites for fiction would be Neal Stephenson,Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Ursula Le Guin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Charles Bukowski, Iain Banks, Frederick Pohl, Glen Cook, Jim Butcher

I enjoyed them but as I recall it stays weird. I’m into that, though. My favorites are mostly pretty weird.

Yeah, that’s actually one point where I think the books were a bit weak. To me, she already was the mad Queen. How many people were slaughtered at her command in the books? If John Snow had slaughtered whole cities because they wouldn’t bend the knee, we could be expected to say some mean things about him.

Which, while they are quite good, they feel like the least “Stephen King” of his novels, even the bachman books.

2012 was 13 years ago. That’s a pretty long time for younger folks.

My background is in enterprise software, so that is obviously different than a desktop tool for individual use, but it informs my opinions.

In general it depends on the use (is it “production” critical, etc) as well as the update and distribution mechanisms.

I have several (mostly for windows) FOSS projects i have stopped using or just rarely update because they require too many steps to update, and/or do so too often.Or they require a reboot. Some of them prompt for an update every time I start them. Feh.

That said, if there isn’t much friction like testing cycles or manual steps to update, I want faster updates.

Most of my self-hosted stuff falls into the category of getting updates via package managers or docker. Those are often seemless and do not require manual steps.

Just two or three, really. One or two actively with the kids and usually just one active on my own.

Weird, this comment ended up on the wrong thread.

Lol. AI has so very little to do with this. That’s only mentioned because it’s the latest bogeyman.

Trump is coming to power again, so the WSJ has to switch back to selling the idea that everything will be okay.

That’s patently false.

Ironically one of the first comments I saw in this post was “deleted by a moderator.” I guess that person doesn’t get to say whatever they want.

Lemmy is only pseudonymous and is a bit of an echo chamber. Lots of things you write or otherwise share on the Internet (here or elsewhere) can come back to haunt you.

There are disinformation campaigns aimed suppressing voter turnout by sewing FUD about dates, ID, etc.

I ended up just buying a box of them for each room in the house where I use them.

Gonna have to disagree with ya there, bud.

Given how obese americans are, I’m kind of surprised you’ve never seen anyone do it. In my 20s, I could crush an XL and ask for seconds. I still eat a large by myself and I’m not an especially big person.

Also, I imagine gravity may compress us a bit.

My bank apps all work (though YMMV.) Ticket app worked (AXS.) I haven’t actually used google pay or google wallet for anything to know if they work.

Authy is the only miss I’ve found and it wouldn’t have mattered if i hadnt been caught in the midst of migrating to another app for that when they decided to be assholes.

She somehow managed to perform worse with women than Biden did (53% vs 55%.)

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The hanging chad would like a word with you.

Volume.

I use Joplin on top of Nextcloud.