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Maerman

@ Maerman @lemmy.world

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  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • I read about that, yeah. All hail Mammon; money above all. Sometimes I think wealth changes something in a person's brain, like psychologically or neurologically. It's as if they get so detached from reality that they lose all empathy and sense of community. I've heard the term 'affluenza' used as a joke, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense as a legitimate thing.

  • Any noir fans here?

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  • Wonderful; I'm glad you enjoy it so much. I'm looking forward to it immensely, but I'm also really enjoying my current book. It's a weird feeling, loving the current one but also wanting to move on to the next one.

  • Any noir fans here?

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  • That's a difficult question; I think Clevenger is easily the most out-there author in the list. However, I think you might have a good time with Jim Thompson, especially the books A Hell Of A Woman and After Dark, My Sweet. Both of them get pretty experimental and abstract right at the end. They are also just really fun reads in general.

  • Any noir fans here?

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  • You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the new Clevenger. I have it on my e-reader, lined up for after I finish the new Jake Hinkson.

    I actually read Baer first. I devoured the whole trilogy and tried to find similar stuff. I read somewhere online that he shares a fanbase with Clevenger, so I read Dermaphoria. I had a few false starts, because the first chapter is very abstract and confusing (by design, of course). But once I got properly into it, I couldn't get enough. It's a real shame that the film adaptation is so bad. I watched it with my mom, and I kept pausing to explain that the book does this part much better.

  • Any noir fans here?

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  • Chandler's prose is fantastic. His books are very enjoyable for me. However, I would classify him as a hardboiled author, rather than noir (I know the distinction is contested, but I need some shorthand to describe my preferences). From Wikipedia:

    Author and academic Megan Abbott described the two thus:

     
            Hardboiled is distinct from noir, though they're often used interchangeably. The common argument is that hardboiled novels are an extension of the wild west and pioneer narratives of the 19th century. The wilderness becomes the city, and the hero is usually a somewhat fallen character, a detective or a cop. At the end, everything is a mess, people have died, but the hero has done the right thing or close to it, and order has, to a certain extent, been restored.

    Noir is different. In noir, everyone is fallen, and right and wrong are not clearly defined and maybe not even attainable.

  • Any noir fans here?

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  • Thanks for the recommendation. I have heard of the Parker books, but I haven't read any of them. I'll add the first one to my list.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? November 25

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  • I'm reading You Will Never See Me, the latest Jake Hinkson book. It's a masterclass in noir.

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • Hell, yeah. I'm fluent in it myself.

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • I've noticed that on Lemmy, in a few comments. What is it about? Some kind of spelling reform?

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • Right? It's like a trust fall. You just have to cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • I updated my Dietpi setup today, because a new version was available. It went very well, and everything works perfectly after a reboot.

  • (Posting on behalf of the dev) NEWM needs a helping hand!

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  • Yeah. I've been using it for a few weeks now, and it has been a really good experience. There are some bugs, of course, but hopefully those can be worked on.

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • As a general rule of thumb, I usually recommend Linux Mint to beginners. The installation and update processes are easy and intuitive, and there is a ton of software available, as well as good support if you know how to do web searches properly. The main trick is to try and remember that a paradigm shift needs to happen here. Linux is not Windows. It doesn't work like Windows, and it has different aims and priorities. She will also need to be prepared to learn a bit and be slightly more hands-on with her computing. The learning curve with Mint is comparatively gentle, but it does exist.

    This is all very broad and general, but I hope it helps. Good luck to the both of you. I hope you are satisfied with whatever you decide on.

  • "Thank you for being a part of the community 🥺"

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  • Is this bait for all us lurkers?

  • Lasagnaius

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  • Samgyeopsalius.

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  • Why the Korean flag in the post title?

  • So how is it going South Korea?

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  • So I have lived in South Korea for 6 years now. The fact that this fire has had such a major impact is quite typical of Korean bureaucracy and tech administration. Very few backups, infrastructure held together with scotch tape and bubblegum, overworked devs and maintainers. It's a bit sad, especially for a country that exports so many tech products.

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    Jellyfin inquiry

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  • Tailscale creates a new virtual network, and anything you want to connect to the Jellyfin server needs to be in that Tailscale network. You need to hook up the Roku device to Tailscale. I have never owned one, so I can't say anything about that. But maybe that's what you should figure out next.

  • Unite!

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  • Proud dumbass here. Although the kids in high school used a different word.