I have enjoyed Gaiman’s writing, also the Sandman show was excellent, but I am glad that in this era that I’m not the type of person to be a fan of anybody. I guess it is natural to ascribe virtue and look up to people who create thing you resonate with, but there’s no reason to think someone who wrote a book is worth praising or emulating other than in the book you liked.

Thrn you realize that alien invasion stories are a (often unconscious) metaphor for colonialism from the point of view of the colonized…

Oh, darn, I guess my social cred in Lemmy has taken a real hit.

Ah, obscure reference humor , definitely not my thing.

How is this a joke? It’s literally just a weak book/movie reference.

I miss Jimmy :(

;)

It was the late 80’s, I saw Robotech which used to play after school on a local UHF channel, and also Speed Racer. Probably the first more typical Anime was renting the Super Space Force Macross movie on VHS

C64 Basic, Yggdrasil Linux. I wanted to install Minix, in the pre-Linux times, but it was beyond my abilities

Old enough to have bought a new C64 from Toys R Us

Mostly because of happenstance I have my home server running Arch. I actually do love Arch for desktop, but with the cutting edge rolling updates I have to keep on my toes during updates, I wish it was running Ubuntu.

This is the response I was hoping to hear. I’m primarily a home-automation/self-hosted enthusiast, not necessarily a infrastructure enthusiast. As of yet, I haven’t felt the need for using more involved orchestration tools/infra.

I’m curious to hear from the runners. I use compose and I feel the same, it’s more readable and editable and it allows me to backup the command by backing up the docker-compose.yml

Time Bandits. Because of that move my childhood was plagued with nightmares about little people from out of time invading my room in the middle of the night.

Not writing unit tests just isn’t an option for a reliable app in the long term. But, it’ll take way more than 10 minutes, always.

We had our 19 year old nephew watch that this last weekend, a beautiful masterpiece still.