Subgenre of fantasy, where the protag goes to another world. Extremely popular, and extremely diverse, so this leads to a lot of less-than-inspired authors writing isekai. It’s really fun, though, at least in my opinion. [Disclaimer: I watch a lot of isekai.]

The Log Horizon series I recommended is IMO really good; a bunch of players of a game are trapped inside the game they were playing, and trying to come back to Earth. Other popular isekai series are:

• Overlord — it’s a single person reincarnated into the game. As the undead that used to be his player. It’s a mix of kingdom building and slowly watching someone’s morals fading away, as the habit makes the monk
• Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken* (aka That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime, aka TenSura; abbreviated names are common) — also “kingdom building” like the above, but there’s no game. Just some guy reincarnated as a slime. Mostly uplifting
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (aka HameFura, aka Bakarina) — the protagonist got reincarnated as the villainess of a game series she loved, and is trying to avoid the bad ending. Except she isn’t very smart.
• Re:Zero — the protag goes buy food late night, and suddenly another world, and he doesn’t know why. He has a weird “gimmick” though, he can return from death. The traumas pile up.
• Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (aka KonoSuba) — slapstick comedy. Protag kicks the bucket, and as he’s getting reincarnated the goddess can’t stop mocking him. He forces her to go to the other world with him. They build a dysfunctional adventurer party: he’s mediocre, she’s dumb, and they got a masochist and a mage who only knows a single wide-area spell in the party. [Note: not recommended as an introductory series for isekai, given it relies a lot on poking fun at common tropes of the subgenre.]
• Ascendance of a Bookworm — protag is a bookworm, dies crushed by books, and reincarnates in a world where books are extremely expensive and she’s dirty poor and has poor health, but she’s still obsessed with books at the expense of everything else.
• Saihate no Paladin (aka The Faraway Paladin) — protag dies as a shut-in, and gets abandoned when reincarnated as a baby. A ghost, a skeleton and a mummy raise him. Solid adventure, and rather good worldbuilding.

Culture: I mentioned cooking because it’s one of the things I enjoy the most, and it gives you a rather good grasp on a culture. Which ingredients do they use? Are dishes typically made for small or large groups? Are techniques intended for everyday cooking, or for more laborious festive events? What about culinary influences? etc.

Depending on where you live, if there’s a Japanese descendants community, odds are they celebrate some festivals, and they’re often open for outsiders. It’s a great way to interact directly with some of that culture.

That said, textbook history helps a lot. As well as Wikipedia; sometimes you learn a lot by stumbling upon some page about lacquer pictures, pottery repair or even cherry trees. It’s all about how you “parse” it together.

Cinnamon.

I need the custom “recipes”; mostly for the International Phonetic Alphabet, I use it a fair bit. Screen keyboards become a chore, once you need to type “[sʌm.θɪn lä͡ɪ̯k ðɪs]” (something like this), so I messed with my .XCompose rather extensively, and this was for years so muscle memory already settled in, e.g. if I need to type ⟨ɛ⟩ I go automatically for RightWin, e, 1.

There’s a site called anilist.co you’ll find practically any anime series out there.

Since anime is a medium, don’t be surprised if someone loves a series you hate or vice versa. It’s like books, you know? And for recommendations it’s often useful if you list some series or genres you enjoy.

Unboxious’ recommendations look fairly good IMO. I’ll add a few ones:

• Suspense: Uzumaki
• “Innocent” fantasy: any movie from Studio Ghibli, specially Sen to Chihiro (Spirited Away), Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), and Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro)
• Darker fantasy: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer)
• Mecha (big robots): Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
• Isekai (transported into another world): Log Horizon
• Mystery/“detective”: Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries)

Remember to have fun. Watching anime is supposed to be enjoyable; if for some reason you aren’t enjoying a certain series, there’s no shame on dropping it.

Usually it’s said three episodes is enough to know if you’ll like a show, but sometimes a single one does it.

Also, watch out for people shitting on the others’ tastes in social media, it’s simply better to block those.

In some cases you enjoy the story and characters of a series, but the production sucks really bad. In those cases, it’s worth to check the manga or light novel series the anime is adapted from. (Hoshi no Samidare, I’m looking at you. Such amazing manga series deserved a better animation.)

It’s worthy to dig into Japanese culture. It makes you enjoy what you see more. And if you’re into cooking, making the dishes you see in anime at home can be a really fun way to experience a bit of that culture.

The “no life weeb” stereotype doesn’t hold true any more. A lot of us have jobs, children, social life etc.

Some people flip the shit out if you use a plural -s in “anime”, “manga”, or “pokemon”. You can either avoid this or to pre-emptively use it to detect and block pass-aggro people from social media. (I never did the later in Lemmy, but it works).

Installation process seems to be way more complicated than the one I did for Mint in my mum’s computer some time ago. Hard to compare, though; sometimes hardware clicks well with a system but not another.

Dolphin and Nautilus handle compressed files entirely transparently and much faster than Explorer does

Even Thunar does it, through the archive plugin. Thunar. From Xfce, a desktop environment known for avoiding fluff by design. Caja too, even if it’s based on the GNOME 2 version of Nautilus.

Office, email: I guess installing LibreOffice and Thunderbird would be against the spirit of the challenge, right?

Managing applications is also not as nice and effortless as it is on Linux

I’m so bloody glad for package managers.

Windows 11 also has a combined emoji/symbol picker now (Super + .),

Somewhat unrelated question: does anyone know if .XCompose works with Wayland? And if it doesn’t, what do I use as replacement?

1. With mkvtoolnix-gui. I’m often editing anime episodes; adding/removing subtitles, removing non-native audio, removing those “ENCODED BY JOHN SMITH”, etc. Often the checkboxes I need to click are predictably placed, so I use an autoclicker to do it once instead of clicking multiple checkboxes 12~24 times in a row.

2. Cheating on a shitty online gacha game I’ll never pour any money into.

Yup.

On a lighter side, apparently ydotool has a smarter design; instead of sending events to the X server like xdotool does, it emulates an input device. This means you can start using it before migrating to Wayland, and in case the Linux community eventually deprecates Wayland for something else, it should still work.

Now I just need a Wayland equivalent to grabc. A lot of my autoclicker scripts relies on it for dynamic behaviour, like “keep clicking $pixel1 until $pixel2 changes colour”.

Cliqué sin leer y esperaba contenido en latín…

Pero che, la página se ve muy bien. Recursos localizados son importantes, así como páginas especializadas en ellos.

I’ve been using Linux for long enough to have been disappointed multiple times. And 90% of the time it’s about regression. In no particular order:

• Liferea losing the ability to start hidden.
• KDE 4.0, a trainwreck that made me leave KDE altogether back then.
• Network Manager bug forcing my local IP to change, even if I need it static and predictable.
• Ubuntu ads. I think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and forced me into Debian.

etc.

At those times I’m fucking glad I overengineered my autoclicker script. This means, once Wayland hits me, switching from xdotool to ydotool won’t cause me too much pain. (Most of the script stays as it is, only base functions like “Click” get remade. And yes, I’m lazy.)

That’s how I’d sleep too, even with the computer turned on as I seed and leech, but then there’s a cat-shaped arsehole who insists sleeping over me.

This graph compares the desktop OS market share split between Microsoft (Windows), Apple (OS X, iOS, macOS), Google (Chrome OS, Android), and what’s being reported as “Linux”. Notably, it removes the “Other”, “Playstation”, and “Unknown” values, and re-normalises the rest to 100 (percent). Made by downloading the data from StatCounter

Windows only share of the above.

Apple, Google, Linux shares of the above.

If you guys want to check the numbers and my maths here’s the spreadsheet.

I never understood it either.

real (R$)

CALL THE AMBERLAMPS! !tiodopave@lemmy.eco.br IS LEAKING AGAIN!

Still better than the Portuguese equivalent: “what does the arse[hole] have to do with the pants?” (o que o cu tem a ver com as calças?)

I like measuring things. Probably a carryover habit of my first uni (Chemistry), but the end result tends to be more predictable, and it helps me to avoid dumb mistakes from lack of attention.

For some things there’s a bit more leeway to eyeball things; for example, if I’m adding water to dough I’ll probably eyeball it. (Specially as hydration tends to behave weirdly in rainy days, so it’s better to go by texture than by fixed amounts.) But I’m certainly not eyeballing the amount of salt that goes in the polenta, rice or meats.

Side note I hate that Reddit oversimplification where people seem to believe cooking allows eyeballing but baking doesn’t. It stinks mental laziness; I think in both cases there’s some room for eyeballing, and some for precision.

Down: 2,92 TB, Up: 3,85 TB, Ratio: 1,32

I try my best to not be a dead weight, but I download pretty obscure shit so even if I keep the torrent seeding for a whole month people don’t download it.

Fuck, I remember it. It was 110% cute!

Note Black Torch predates Chainsaw Man by two years or so.

In fact I don’t know why they resurrected this series. But not complaining about it.

Prolly getting one season and that’s it, the story is ~20 chapters, but I don’t recall if it was axed or planned already short.

First episode was a decent intro of the two MCs (Jiro and Rago): good-natured punk who speaks with animal x mononoke who’s a shadow of his former self.

Amazing adaptation of the Eris gaiden. So much being done to show Eris’ character, beyond the words:

• cutting her own hair, a sign of determination
• punching Nina almost to death, to the point she literally pisses herself out of fear
• jumping back as Gal Farion goes forth, because she instinctively “knows” he’s a dangerous foe
• paying absolutely no attention to taunts, as Nina says she has more talent for brawling than swords
• Auber reaching for his second sword, as if knowing “this is a dangerous beast you can’t reason with”; etc.

In no moment you need to be said “this is why she’s called the Mad Dog”.