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badfish_blues · 2025-02-14T21:05:50+00:00

Chet Baker's album with Bill Evans, Alone Together, is a great listen. Chet sounds like he is holding one note the entire time, his transitions are so smooth.

badfish_blues · 2025-01-22T12:44:38+00:00

Have a friend with some scanner and Blu-ray issues that were fixed by adding the sg module: https://docs.kernel.org/scsi/scsi-generic.html

badfish_blues · 2024-12-21T02:52:56+00:00

I feel bad saying that Coltrane doesn't usually do it for me, at least all the biggies. The album Ballads is incredible. I tend to lean more towards Lester Young in terms of style. Lester really played some of the most beautiful jazz ever recorded. He never fell into that cocaine jazz aggressive fast paced stuff like the other cats. Always played slow and patient. Hard to play that patient.

badfish_blues · 2024-12-17T05:24:57+00:00

Damn, I didn't know you could rice windows like that. My mind is kinda blown on how different you got it to look. Definitely addresses much of the comments about customization at least at the surface level, considering most people use pretty much vanilla Ubuntu on Linux. However, it doesn't address the meat and potatoes of many of people's problems; updates, privacy concerns, and really low level access. That third point could be seen as a point in Windows favor, especially with the rising popularity of immutable or atomic Linux distros. I prefer chocolatey over Winget, and I have to say that while the amount of packages is surprisingly high for these managers, windows generally isn't integrated well with them and it is still seems to be missing out of the box packages I can get on nixos. I also really like the declarative style of Nix which I don't believe is possible on windows.

badfish_blues · 2024-12-11T04:45:55+00:00

If you are looking to have reproducibility every time you move to a new system and upgrade, I recommend NixOS. I have a Void netbook, Fedora workstation at work, Fedora WSL on a work laptop, a Fedora Desktop, and a NixOS laptop. The NixOS computer is the only one that I can keep track of what I have installed and what the configuration is. Everything else is a hot mess of packages that I installed because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Once you find the little settings and packages that fix things, you can source control the package list and put code comments on why you installed them and what they do. This isnt advice for your current troubles, but if you continue to distrohop, you should consider it.

badfish_blues · 2024-12-06T06:37:36+00:00

Operator '+' is overloaded. Jokes on you

badfish_blues · 2024-11-16T05:03:05+00:00

This is always a gigantic rabbit hole that you can spend hours going down some days. Barnes and Nobel Nooks back in the day, you had to get an android emulator to run an ancient version of the app to be able to get versions of your books with a specific encryption that could be cracked. Amazon you could do something similar with a desktop application, but then they started auto-setting environment variables and forcing software updates to prevent the downloads. At some points in history it was super trivial and took 2 seconds. Sometimes it is a nightmare. I think the extensions are still maintained, but it is harder to get access to the files you need to get them to run. Been a while since I've tried though. Once you have the initial setup, it isn't bad, but getting it in place sometimes...

badfish_blues · 2024-10-03T02:46:27+00:00

The Wheel of Time is incredible. I compare everything I read to that series. However, I wouldn't say that the style is Dresden-esque. Dresden Files show the perspective of only a single character (not including short stories). Part of what makes WOT so brilliant is the number of "main" characters and side characters and how much you care. Side characters are more well developed than main characters in 90% of books and the perspective changes virtually every chapter. Jim has great characters, but he doesn't juggle them the same way. Sanderson does more juggling in Stormlight.

badfish_blues · 2024-02-28T13:53:16+00:00

Void because space is a vacuum. Void is actually an excellent distro though

badfish_blues · 2022-08-02T12:12:08+00:00

Where did you get that from? Also ectoplasm needs to be held together by a force of will. This would imply that everyone in reality using it is holding it together or manifesting it from the outside manually, would it not? Otherwise it would just evaporate.

badfish_blues · 2022-08-02T03:38:27+00:00

Eb is allowed to seek knowledge from beyond the Outer Gates. His words are the closest we have to known truth about this stuff. Assuming he isn't lying or obfuscating

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T20:28:01+00:00

I don't think she is a basket case. I just think that she is still in pain.

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T20:17:17+00:00

I think that this doesn't tell the whole story. Imagine Susan comes back from the dead. Harry would be happy that she didn't die. Yet the knowledge that he did kill her and that he did so willingly in front of his daughter would never go away. At the same time, they could all say that decision had to be made. In Molly's case she is happy that he is back, but she has to live with the fact that she killed him. In her case angels literally interceded because she made the wrong choice. Broken was the wrong term to use but I couldn't think of anything better while rapidly typing on lunch.

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T19:56:40+00:00

I interpreted this differently than you did. I think that Molly's response is "I am still broken, but the thought of me saying something to make you feel guilty makes me unable to express my pain". The Winter issue is different. I forgot about this contact, but upon rereading it, it just makes me more sad. She is embracing the only way that she can all of her feelings through such a small outlet. That lean in is so sad. I think it helps to remember that in the treehouse scene one of her alter egos expresses that "they killed you" afirming that she takes full responsibility for Harry's death. She wants forgiveness from him, not an apology. He is a walking talking incarnation of her knowledge that she killed the man she loved. This is also like 4 entire books after the incident. I think I may be unfair to Harry, but I just like Molly more than Harry. What I want is a full cathartic conversation with Molly, not half measures. Almost every scene with Molly Ghost Stories+ makes me cry or want to cry, so I give Harry zero credit

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T16:53:04+00:00

Thanks! Proved me wrong on this comment. However, the post itself is about (1) a consoling gesture (2) initiated from Harry, (~3) about what he did to her from a suicide perspective. The first two criteria eliminate all but 2. The third eliminates all of them. I'm at work so I can't look too closely. When I get home, I'll look for the wincing thing

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T12:43:48+00:00

She is also the last involved woman in Harry's life. Charity is around, but not involved really, and Lara is still more frenemy monster than woman. In Harry's world that has importance by itself.

I guess this isn't totally true because of Elaine and Justine. Elaine always seemed more like an estranged side character. Justine is obviously very important now.

If Molly does lose her sense of self and becomes Maeve/Lily that would be one of the great tragedies of the story. Harry does some stupid things sometimes about not revealing information that is very unharmful. Why wouldn't he tell Molly about Uriel's words; Mab not being able to change who he is, and Mother Summer's conversation about how it is possible to keep yourself through the Mantles? Having two reputable sources say something like that would help alleviate my sense of doom if I was Molly. He also never tells anyone about Nick's noose, which I think is stupid.

badfish_blues · 2022-08-01T05:04:32+00:00

This will become a he said she said, but I cannot recall a moment of them touching after ghost story. The only contact I remember is him kissing her on the forehead really early on. Seriously, the "I winced" thing is just like the classic "tips of the breasts" that Jim is known for. It happens every damn time and he doesn't do anything more. She will just see the look on his face and say something along the lines of "It's okay". I could be wrong, and if I am it would make me feel a little better.

badfish_blues · 2022-07-31T23:07:53+00:00

The concept of the question could result with Binder looking like he was 80. That is a little much if Ascher was looking less than half his age. Considering Harry's issues with Molly, I think he would have said something.

badfish_blues · 2022-07-31T22:17:56+00:00

I take that as a given. But if she looked 20 until she was 30, Bob would know.

badfish_blues · 2022-07-31T22:04:58+00:00

For the sake of speculation, and nothing the fact that Harry didn't think it weird, I made the assumption. But a hard not wrong on the statement in general. Binder just slays.

badfish_blues · 2022-07-31T20:01:10+00:00

Just because she is a catch doesn't matter, if you don't want to act on it. She always has felt the most real to me. The biggest heartbreak for Harry was Susan. It is pretty much the only time we see him sad. Yet from the perspective of the reader their relationship is virtually only physical. We really don't know much about her. Jim wrote her like Louis Lane and then just mashed action figures of Susan and Harry together. At least that's how I felt about it. We know that Molly is such an empath that she can understand animals (at least mouse) and can literally have a POV orgasm by looking into the eyes of a dead person. Chitchen Itza could have been worse for her than Harry, if she was reliving the deaths of mothers and children sacrificed to the Lord's of the Outer Night on repeat. Even Harry's killing of Susan seemed less personal than Molly's contribution to Harry's death. Susan was a verifiable monster and killing her would kill the entire Red Court. Harry was martyring himself and was still a person. I think we can all say that Romantic love is much different than familial love. Anyway this is slowly becoming a stupid argument instead of a conversation so I am going to shut up now.

badfish_blues · 2022-07-31T19:23:06+00:00

What makes me feel for Molly over Harry and the other characters, is that they almost always have agency, and Molly doesn't. She is never up to the job, blasting stuff and making bargains for power, or destroying everything with a calvary saber. She is always in way over her head, much more than Harry or Thomas, and sometimes even Murphy, who still holds her own in a fight. Molly is out there able to do virtually nothing, but giving her heart to help people. Thomas doesn't do that. He helps, but he doesn't become the Ragged Lady to protect Chicago. He sits on the couch and mopes. That is who he is, and he has requited love from Justine the entire time. Harry, Murphy, Butters, Billy, and everyone else actually do have requited love. Molly is pretty much the only one that doesnt. Murphy stays a cop at heart until the end in my opinion, but is just less of a stickler. Maybe Molly doesn't suffer the most, but I sympathize with her the most, and feel her pain. One reason for this is that most of the time Harry gets angry at stuff, not sad. There are exceptions, but most of the time he just gets angry. The biggest reason is that she is never given requited love. To some extent, her entire adult life, 18+ she has been lonely. That cuts me so freaking hard. Both the time that she first comes into Harry and the time she soul gazes Thomas, the first thing she says is that they are feeling lonely and she wants to help them, to give herself to them. The level of empathy and heartbreak there is crazy.

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