The show has a completely different tone and pacing from the books. The books are much closer to LotR (particularly the first one which is basically just alt. Fellowship) and spend a lot of time with the characters traveling and getting to know each other and the lore of the world. There’s plenty of bickering, but the characters all like each other and get along decently. The show opted to cut most of the parts where you learn what’s going on to instead focus on manufactured drama.

They also just changed things in really confusing ways like making Mat’s parents deadbeats, among other things. Some of the plot restructuring makes sense given how much stuff there is to adapt. I don’t think anyone reasonable can expect any book adaptation to keep 100% faithful unless it’s getting crazy funding as a TV series. That said they just really took a knife to things.

Idk, as someone who loves the books despite their issues I wasn’t particularly enamoured with the show. Some people liked it though.

If the world seemed interesting I’d recommend the audiobooks. Love Michael Kramer and Kate Reading.

Which desktop environment are you using? If it’s gnome I think you can just go into mouse settings and disable the controller. That won’t disable it entirely though, just it acting as a mouse. Kde has something similar

I think experimental just rebased onto wine 10 so there may have been some regressions. Could also be completely unrelated, lot of moving parts.

Does just F5 work? Try getting/running wev and see what you get back for inputs. Get events back on kde, not tried it on cosmic.

Also running into some power issues. Getting really weird behavior where it will run at full force for a bit then drop down to ~60fps, but at really regular intervals. (nixos, 6.14 rc6 cachyos, mesa-git, linux-firmware 20250311) Some kind of throttling oscillation maybe? Saw this in Cyberpunk, MH Wilds, AC EVO, so mostly intensive games. (Was seeing something similar on windows with MH so idk.) Minecraft with shaders didn’t have this behavior.

Dunno. Seems like the kind of thing that will get sorted out eventually.

Edit: this turned out to be thermal throttling from how my PC was set up.

These edits make me laugh every single time

Phoronix comments continue to be demented

Comics have an issue with Marvel and DC sucking up most of the air in the room just to rehash the same characters for the millionth time. I’m generally pretty unenthused with superhero stuff and the general aesthetic around that content, however I do like batman to an extent and have enjoyed the movies and stuff related to him. If I wanted to read a batman comic where do I even start? The beginning? Which beginning? His first appearance back in the 40s or the beginning of one of the many iterations of batman? Now I have to do research into 80 years of content just to figure out what to read, or just pick one at random.

The appeal of manga is just being able to read three series in a week that each explore a different setting/idea and are only one volume apiece. If someone tells me to read a longer series I can just start at chapter one and go until I hit the end. Manga/anime absolutely have some oversaturated settings/ideas as well but there’s generally a lot more space for other stuff to get seen and do well, get anime adaptations, etc

Where are his tits. That image of him is ruined for me

Certainly more engaging and cohesive than SB and yeah, we have to walk things back from EW. Overall I liked the story but the first half was a bit anemic. I think it would’ve benefited from playing up the competition/stakes of the succession some more - a bit more intrigue there.

Definitely think it’ll land towards SB where the story is hit or miss for people but the post patch stuff is really good.

I live right next to a venue that hosts concerts during the summer so there’s no escaping hearing what’s playing most of the time despite the special windows my apartment complex supposedly put in.

A couple days ago they had someone doing some really nice instrumental guitar stuff which I’m always on the lookout for. Turned out to be Hermanos Gutiérrez and I’ve been really enjoying listening to their stuff since then.

Directly onto pizza. The end

That said I feel like when people are referring to whether or not something “is a word” they’re referring to whether not is has seen historical/widespread usage, not “has somebody ever just decided it meant something, somewhere, at some point”

/all, top of last 12 hours has been my go-to

Anecdotal, but every time I’ve tried x11 sessions over the years I’ve either gotten screen tearing on the desktop or it didn’t run at my monitors full refresh rate above 60hz. Wayland has always run how I would expect it to.