thebardingreen

joined 2 years ago

They're OK. I've read several of them (also Battle Tech, Star Trek EU old Star Wars EU, MTG Novels, D&D novels, all a bunch of the same authors from way back when). Haven't tried any of the more recent stuff.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beowulf cluster. Beowulf. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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."

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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