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  • I agree. I was a big fan of hers during Congressional testimony. But she is definitely awkward in unscripted environments and would be a poor presidential candidate in a nation where a significant portion of the electorate wants a president they can have a beer with. Additionally, her history as a prosecutor makes Democrats suspicious of her.

    Republicans hate her because she’s a Black woman. They’ll make up other excuses, but none of them hold water.



  • Based on the posts in this thread, I see a lot of overlap between urban fantasy fans and science fiction fans. With the exception of Lord of the Rings, I’ve never cared much for high fantasy, but I’ve really enjoyed the urban fantasy series I’ve read. If anyone is interested, I’ve enjoyed…

    1. The Laundry Files by Charles Stross
    2. The City We Became and The World We Make by MK Jemisin
    3. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
    4. The Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey
    5. The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
    6. The Stranger Times series by C.K. McDonnell





  • Boosting this advice. When I started using Linux as my daily driver (14 years ago), I got into the habit of taking notes on everything: troubleshooting solutions, bug fixes, how-tos, configurations, useful software, etc. It’s not the Arch Wiki, which is a treasure, but I can solve a lot of my own issues just by looking up what I’ve done before.



  • As someone who’s old enough to remember seeing 2001 on a huge screen when it was first released, it’s hard to express how monumentally spectacular the effects were. It brought the moon and space alive in a way that no movie had done before. The closest comparison I can make is with the first Jurassic Park movie, which was the first time movie audiences experienced living, breathing dinosaurs.

    The whole psychedelic transit thing, hotel room/zoo and star baby was pretty obtuse for most audiences. You really needed to read the book to suss out what happened.




  • Define cheap. The least expensive laptop on Dell Refurbished currently is $180 and would easily run any desktop environment, including the heavyweights. Specs are here:
    CPU
    1x Intel Core i5-6300U (2-Core, 2.40 GHz)
    Memory
    8 GB (1x 8GB)
    HDD
    256 GB (1x 256 GB SSD)
    Display
    14" HD (1366 x 768)

    If you’re thinking cheaper yet, you’ll want at least a dual core processor and 4GB of RAM. Just about any business laptop from the last 10 years or so would work, as long as you stay away from bottom of the barrel Celerons or AMD processors and <4GB of RAM. You can run Linux on a very low spec machine, but you’d want to use a lightweight DE and web browsing wouldn’t be a fun experience.



  • If I understand how the fediverse works (an open question :-)), the amount of activity on the home page/“all” feed/federated feed of an instance is dependent on how many magazines/communities the members are subscribed to. I’ve noticed that the “All” feed of the most established Lemmy instances have more posts than here at kbin.social. I would anticipate that situation improving over time as the community here grows and people increase the number of subscriptions they have. I would expect more (and more active) local magazines over time here, as well.