I had a rough time with that book, got about 3/4 of the way through and struggled to finish it

I’m honestly shocked that Andor made it past the Mouse in terms of themes and messaging. It’s a return to the more political messaging that Lucas himself makes a point of referencing in many interviews. Unlike a lot of Disney’s MCU properties, Andor actually takes political stances that aren’t exactly in the mainstream or otherwise inexplicable. $MCU_villain makes a lot of sense, and then randomly does something unforgivable to reinforce that leftist=bad and that merely maintaining the neoliberal status quo is most moral thing to do, whereas Andor’s messaging is much more radical (“one way out”).

Alongside a strong political and moral stance, Andor draws on the space-opera origins of Star Wars as opposed to the grounded sci-fi of Trek. It embraces the dramatic monologue through characters like Luthen and Kino, and empathizes character-driven elements rather then the plot-first, explanations-later approach of the Sequels. It feels closer to early-season Game of Thrones than shows like the Witcher, which also suffered from “theme park” syndrome where the universe only exists to further a singular plot. All in all, Andor had a fantastic season 1, and gives me some hope for the future of Star Wars.

this is happening across fields; in solar power forecasting, we typically use typical meteorological year data to give estimates of performance, but this data doesn’t account for changing temperature conditions due to climate change, nor resultant extreme weather events (like large hail) that have a high likelihood of severely damaging PV panels

one problem imo is that in nvidias view, their “linux drivers” is just CUDA, since that’s the majority of the market share, and those systems are mostly headless compute nodes anyway the desktop experience might not be worth supporting

unfortunately so yeah. it’s sort of a sunk cost with the road/interstate infrastructure. that along with the population density make it hard to put trains in

can’t speak to lenovo, but i’ve had very mixed results with Dell. it certainly isn’t as smooth as system76 or the old (pre lenovo) think pads but they’re workable. the 13in dell models are better supported then the 15in in my experience

oh so like how the trade federation has a senate seat in the prequels. totally makes sense guys /s