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No but for real, wtf is this thing?

Damn, you take your noodles very seriously.

Is there a handy list of media companies in Israel that we can use to avoid their shit?

That sounds a lot like what I imagine the effects workflow is these days. Copy the shit from our back catalog, outsource the nitty gritty to developing nations. Send it to the Disney mega render farm and push it to theaters or +. Rinse and repeat. Those marvel movies have a lot of effects they can pull from. So does star wars, etc. I don’t think writing compelling dialogue is as easy as that, without just copying others completely at least.

I’m not so sure the effects cost more than paying a room of skilled writers to come up with story ideas. Not anymore.

Well that seems like a hot take after reading all the other opinions.

I can totally understand that, it’s not cheap to drive a car. I really don’t consider myself a ‘car guy’ but I do like to go for a drive. I like to go around corners fast, I like to find an empty country road and see where it ends. I don’t think working on cars is fun, most of the time. But I do most of the work on my vehicles to save money, rarely do I add anything aftermarket.

Do you like to drive?

I’m sure this has a lot to do with it, but that’s exactly what I’m going on about. I’m not mad at the guys downtown that want to brew beer, or their customers. I’m mad at the stores for filling the shelves with crap I don’t want to drink at home when there are plenty of great beers that get pushed to the wayside so that a mega brewery can sell a more expensive product.

I can’t find Newcastle brown ale around me anymore, used to be one of my go-to’s. Smithwicks is very hard to find, but a decade ago it was regularly on tap at bars. Rochefort is only in the smaller bottles now, can’t get the big ones for sharing. I could go on, but I think that’s a good start. None of these are out of production, they just aren’t available in my area anymore.

Except import beers disappeared from my market years ago, way before the current tarrifs. Maybe something happened 10-15 years ago with tarrifs that I’m not educated about. I drink a few beers a year at this point. I want something I like, not an adventure in a bottle.

I agree with this. When I first started drinking I could get a beer and be pretty sure I would like it. Then the micro brews came along and pushed the IPA fad to the extreme. Now the only thing at the store is cheap ass lagers and skunky IPAs. If I wanted my mouth to taste like skunk I would smoke a joint ffs. In the last 20 years nearly all of my favorite imports are either no longer around, are almost impossible to find around me, or have gone up so far in price it’s not worth it. When a local brewery actually makes something I like it’s rare, and generally limited runs.

I’m a pretty big Tron fan, since I was a kid. But this movie kinda feels like it’s just wearing the corpse of Tron around. Legacy was cool, no idea why they wouldn’t just continue with that story. And going from Daft Punk to NiN is not winning me over in the slightest, never been into NiN. This doesn’t feel like it was made for current fans, and it doesn’t feel like it was made to attract new ones either. I haven’t seen it yet, highly doubt I will see this one in theaters.

Dreams are fine, it’s cool to imagine what a device that hits the perfect balance for yourself would be. But I’ve been following this topic for a long time and I’m more of a realist about it at this point. New devices are fun, but they rarely push the mobile Linux ecosystem anywhere. I think things like PostmarketOS having extra funding to get audio improvements in a great sign, I think a lot of projects are really close to being ready for more than just devs and tinkering. I’m sure these projects need help with translation or documentation if anybody can find the time.

As a Gundam fan in the west, you really have to turn to the pirates. Part of me wishes Sunrise/Bandai would get their shit together and get it all available, but as somebody who has followed the series since the late 90s it’s kind of always been this way. You can buy the Blu Rays if that’s your thing, but you can also find everything in great quality from multiple sites.

Mobile SOCs are expensive, and there aren’t many around that support non-android OS fully. Mobile SOC vendors aren’t in the business of keeping 5 year old chips around just in case a hobby project needs some. The lower end chips don’t generally come with video out features. These might all be hurdles that are solvable, but the design expertise for a decent handset isn’t cheap. Other hardware vendors can get away with selling cheap phones because they will have larger scale orders and they can make money back by preloading crappy apps. A Linux phone isn’t going to have huge volumes of sales, at least at first. And it’s not going to sell if it’s full of crapware. This issue is just way harder than it seems on the outside, even well known SBC vendors like pine64 struggle and they have a lot of SOC experience at this point. All of this is also glossing over the fact that there isn’t a great Linux phone OS that is daily driver ready. I think it would be better to find something mid end that already exists and spend the effort getting the software to a better state.

You can watch a large chunk of UC with dubs. ZZ isn’t dubbed, and a few of the newest ones aren’t dubbed yet, but otherwise it’s probably one of the more accessible anime to get into. If you’ve only seen highlights I would say it’s a good time to just start episode 1 of 0079 and roll it. It’s not like every episode is amazing, but it’s fun and cool to see where the story begins.

When I say Gundam I mean UC. Some of the other shows are entertaining, but they don’t feel like real Gundam to me. UC has hard sci-fi elements, political, space and mech battles. It’s a mix that hits pretty hard for me. Most of the non-UC shows are either goofy, or not ‘real robots’, or set mostly on earth.

Time to start watching Gundam

That’s a lot of hardware for a $300 device. These phones generally won’t be subsidized by app stores or carriers and even larger companies have trouble hitting that price point right now. I can see the appeal for SD card storage, but it’s much slower and less reliable than emmc. E-ink isn’t really ready for everyday phone usage, it’s refresh rate just isn’t fast enough. I have a color reader and it’s great for reading, but you could never do anything like watch a video. I think software is way more important right now than bespoke hardware. What OS are you going to run on it? What GUI? Where are you going to get Linux apps made for a phone screen?