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I am going through her catalogue. Whatever is available at our library. So far I liked them all. Least of all Lavinia, that started off quite weak but also got better, but out of all the strong books it was the one at the bottom so far.
Just read one of Ursula Le Guin’s books where humans sent off some unwanted people, no scientists, to another planet and they brought up how hundreds of years into living there, they still give arbitrary names to things. E.g. naming an animal Heron because it kind of resembles one, but this is an alien world, so it is really not.
Anyways, at one point one of the characters asks why people still use the name Victoria for the planet, as this was named by Earth people. And then suggested to just call the planet Mud, since they got so much of it. Was half a joke but later in the book some people do use Mud as a name for it.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Updates for controlled mechanical ventilation system (double flux) without privileged adminEnglish3·9 days agoIf there’s a German code that would work as you intended (if I got you right) but it doesn’t for you, since you don’t live in Germany, would it work to make the machine believe it is located in Germany?
They might have hardcoded a location into it, then you are out of luck. But maybe they determine it via the internet connection you use to update? So you could potentially have it connected to a VPN through your router, which fakes a German location? Probably too simple a solution.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable pricesEnglish97·10 days agoOK. I cannot decipher from those 3 pixels how cheap those tickets allegedly are.
It’s fine to ask for money. Here I think it is just not clear why this would warrant a subscription model.
Yeah, not sure how that is confusing.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Games@lemmy.world•Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooterEnglish14·11 days agoFuck yes, Descent 2 was even better, with your small helper robot and even more cool weapons/rockets.
Is there any server component to it, other than serving updates? That would justify a subscription model, but I also cannot see any need for it for something like this.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Android POS at work has 4 notifications but I can't clear them because their MDM locks the notification bar.English2·11 days agoNot sure on older Android versions but newer ones would show a small dot for the notification overflow.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•These totally legitimate commentsEnglish15·13 days agoSorry, that is all the pixels this gives:
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@programming.dev•Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue37·14 days agoSo, is there any consensus if secure boot is even needed at all? I’ve read so many different opinions about this the past few days and have no idea.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Games@lemmy.world•Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more funEnglish2·17 days agoThey do. They do not care. It’s part of the problem.
Am I too European to understand what this is about?
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Fediverse@lemmy.world•so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.English7·21 days agoIf that is stated somewhere openly before signing up, I honestly see nothing wrong with it. I wouldn’t sign up there, but if there are any tangible rules associated with what is banned and what is not, and you can check those, fine.
If its erratic banning and random rules not written down, then eh, bad stuff.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deOPto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•What are you all using for game/library tracking, on Steamdeck?1·22 days agoThanks for sharing!
Heh, gotcha’!