I’m a newb still but was put off by having to use “Conda” to manage a ton of virtual Python environments ultra-specific to the applications they were designed for. Blegh!

Haha I have folks there! Lived there for a bit too! Between Okie and Cali, I think now I subconsciously adjust my twang to adapt to my surroundings. 😂

It’s like getting “Lord of the RIngs” movie, but about some gang war in a village southeast of Umbar.

Hey, War of the Rohirim was actually pretty alright! :p

Look I’m a simple man, I can’t get enough of Optimus Prime’s stellar voice work. :D

It’s not an incredible franchise. But hey I think they had some fun with a series that was basically designed to sell 80’s toys lol.

Luke casually tossing away an item that had been set up as important in the previous film were not the right changes.

Agreed big time. This felt less like “cleverly unexpected” and more just a total disrespect for the source material.

“Hey remember the symbol of hopeful optimism you followed through trials and tribulations for 3 movies a long time ago? He’s now a cynical burnout drunk uncle lol. Isn’t that sooo unexpected but relatable and grim? SUBVERTED! I’ll take my Oscar now…”

It felt like if some grimdark-TV-bros got ahold of a sequel to the LOTR trilogy, and we were to suddenly find Aragorn a heartless wannabe totalitarian ruler in the middle of a bitter divorce with Arwen. There would also be silly gags where he drunkenly shatters Andúril trying to cut a melon or something, and the kids absolutely loathe him because dysfunctional interpersonal drama is trendy. “Didn’t expect that, did you?? Lol!”

…Then being told your expectations were childish and stupid when you find yourself upset by this. Lol

I really hate what they did to Luke’s character. It felt like they deliberately trashed him and everything he stood for so some random nobody gimmick character doesn’t look as 2-dimensional. :(

The Ben Swolo memes were hilarious though.

Andor is an incredible espionage thriller and I do absolutely love it.

This is also why I liked Rogue One and also the series “Rebels.”

It made the Empire believable, and the Rebels really are an insurgency, the galactic situation is dire and against overwhelming odds. It doesn’t just feel like a hero fantasy.

(Rebels can sometimes, it’s geared to a younger audience, but it takes itself surprisingly seriously in a great way.)

The “subverting expectations” thing is was ruined it for me.

You could feel the “Too-clever TV writers” at work here. It felt like later-GoT and LOST where stuff randomly “just happens” and has zero payoff because it was written without any kind of grounding or plan, but it sure was surprising and subverted expectations!!! …and then you catch on that there never was a plan, it was just a moment to get an emotional rise out of you, and nothing makes any sense outside of a very limited 5-minute window.

But it’s a self contained story and doesn’t get potentially-numerous “seasons” to come up with a reason “This totally makes sense, you guys. I had it planned all along!”

So yeah, what we’re left with is a “deconstruction”…as in:

“Someone kept loosening bolts and pulling off panels until the hangar was a total mess, but they still don’t understand how an X-Wing works…annnd CREDITS ROLL!”

Also, the way they completely dumped Finn’s character and relegated him to “Guy who shouts ‘RAAAAAAAAAY’ every 10 minutes.” is an absolute insult to competent acting and what could’ve been a beloved and deep character.

why haven’t both sides been doing that all the time?

I feel like this can at least be backed up. It should be ridiculously costly in terms of sheer resources and personnel, and therefore utterly foolish in 99% of scenarios.

We can posit that hyperspace generators should be expensive in terms of resources and credits, and should get exponentially more expensive as the ship size increases, so making “hyperspace warheads” should also be foolish…

But on the other hand, to take down something like the Death Star, I imagine such a maneuver would have seemed worth it!

I think that sums up why the last two sequel films bothered me so much: They went for emotional "woah!"s by pulling things out of nowhere unexpectedly…But then you think about it for 5 seconds and it all falls apart quick.

They really took original Star Wars’ “WWII in Space” battles to the ridiculous extreme there, for sure lol.

Swear that sounds like the inside of my brain sometimes lmao.

It’s so weird seeing the reaction they’re having to this noxious…erm…“dish.”

Weird because I guess I’ve been blessed enough to have very few memories of smelling something so bad it made me actually want to vomit. Like it’s hard to relate to and yet terrifying imagining how bad it must be.

When I saw someone comment something like “That is an aggressively country child.” I laughed so hard lol

We reference this all the time now. It’s a permanent memory artifact. XD

“Ah, Moses but a pirate.” Is not something I was planning on thinking today LOL

May the laughs and memories last forever XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6jkWxxm2Y

A needle in a tumbleweed, if you will. :p

Yeah, it’s crazy it was hiding this long but I see this as a win that they dealt with it so swiftly and show they take their package security seriously.

I will definitely say I wish encryption setup was a lot easier in Linux. Windows is like “wanna Bitlocker?” Done.

With most Linux installers, if you’re not installing in a very default way, and clicking that box to encrypt the drive, it’s time to go seriously digging. For a while.

I managed to encrypt a secondary drive with the same password on my EndeavourOS laptop, but I still need to enter the same password 2 times before getting into the OS.

I consider that a feat, and I’m not touching it for fear of losing everything lol.

Both can be true!

I think we need to avoid the monkey-brain tendency to want to assign tribalistic moral judgement tags based on OS usage. Rotten folks can use Linux and Windows as much as anybody else.

High profile usage of Linux? Neat! By that guy? Bummer. Such is the duality of free choice. =\

Thanks for the thorough background here, because I think most people (including myself) who just ignored him this whole time aren’t seeing this whole picture.

Like the comments above, they’re seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.

PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years.

Why am I not surprised, that this world’s definition of success always seems to go hand-in-hand with bigoted fascism?

It’s also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I’m genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they’re ready to join the “in group” , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?

Is social media influencing this directly via an algorithm that simply draws the connection between right-wing extremist ideals and capital wealth?

I feel so tragically for young folks. So much of anything pulling for their attention anymore is a targeted psy-op to “pipeline” them into some kind of zealotous soldier or another.

The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they “cause violence” every few years.

100% with you on that one.

I really enjoy the discussions here, even if it’s a little slower paced sometimes. (And I find that to be a feature!)

I’ve come to feel that technology is for anyone , but not necessarily for everyone , at least, not all at once.

It seems like a series of Eternal Septembers are usually coaxed along by corporate interests to spur mass-adoption for fun and profit, and the existing communities that get flooded tend to suffer for it, because there’s no time to support or acclimate the newbies to the community, and they bring their existing assumptions with them.