Zelazny - Read it in high school, remember liking it.
Cixin Liu - He's up there on my list as someone I didn't like.
Webber - Read a bunch of the Honorverse books two decades ago, same time I was reading Bujold and Cherryh and McCaffery.
Zahn - I've read literally everything Zahn has ever written, pleased to see him changing with the times (I mentioned this above).
Right now, I'm interested in things written a bit more recently.
I'm half way through the Martian from like a year and a half ago. I forgot it's in my Audible. I could restart it. If I don't finish something, there's usually a reason and I don't often go back. But I don't remember why I switched away.
What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?
Beowulf cluster. Beowulf. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
This is essentially the premise of Walk Away by Cory Doctorow.
You DO need that thing that's going to "satisfy the same basic need that capitalism does."
Well, time for four more years of Trump, I guess.
When I look around the Democratic party, I see old people unwilling to change, from Biden and the DNC all the way down to my parent's friends in their little rich white suburban neighborhood with a median age of 57 and a median net worth of $3,000,000. People who are firmly entrenched in the liberalism of the 80s and 90s and who are terrified of Trump and terrified of progressives and think it's all insanity that also doesn't really affect them.
This is the Democrats' race to lose. All they have to do to lose it is stick their fingers in their ears and fight like hell for "Business as usual." Which is exactly what they're doing.
Aside from the open and constant sexual harassment,
I wonder if they're still getting away with that in 2024...
I've had really good experiences with their cheaper laptops in general. I tend to immediately blast Windows off them and replace it with Linux and I generally end up with a solid, reliable little work station with a 3-4 year life span, for an affordable price.
iOS is a hard no for me. It's like a mechanic buying a car that says "No user serviceable parts" on the sales contract.
Things I do regularly:
I also "Hey Google" all the time. I'm not sure what the state of deGoogled voice assistants is. If I could "Hey ChatGPT" it would be orders of magnitude more useful than "Hey Google." Losing voice assistance isn't a deal breaker, but it's something I do use frequently.
Probably 40% of my phone use is Magic Arena and 40% is podcasts and audiobooks. Then probably 5% is "Hey Google, set an alarm for 5 minutes / OK Google, set an alarm for 6:00 AM."
Google Services I need for work... but I'm willing to hack my way around to get them, as long as it's possible.
I would like to degoogle as much as possible, but these are work requirements, and my ADHD brain can't handle having two phones (one will get left uncharged / lost / never turned on and the odds are that will be the work one).
Bobiverse - It's up there on my list. I've also read Taylor's other work.
Expeditionary Force - I started it... it would make a better Amazon Prime / Netflix series than book series.
Dungeon Crawler Carl - WTF?! Lol, how did I not know this exists! OMG! Hahaha... amazing. Maybe this is it.