ElectronBadger

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[Weekly] What are you reading this week? [8/06/23] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just finishing "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks. It is a satirical survival manual - great fun and lots of highly practical hints.

Unit 731 - Secret Japanese project that carried out human medical experiments during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in c/creepywikipedia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The movie Men Behind the Sun depicts the war atrocities committed in the Unit 731.

Balut (food) - is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. in c/creepywikipedia

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not creepy. It's cruel.

Sci-fi you couldn’t get into? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Star Trek, both the old and new ones
Battlestar Galactica

Must watch classic SciFi movies? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

What is you backup tool of choice? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

rsync (laptop -> external HDD, workstation -> dedicated backup HDD)
Syncthing (laptop <-> desktop)

What's your most-loved non-star movie/show? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Without a doubt, Doctor Who.

What are you reading this week? [7/16/23] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Title: No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
Author(s): Graham Bowley
Genre: Documentary
I've just started, it's to early to decide whether I like and recommend it.

What is the most opinionated linux distro? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

UK teachers want cash skills to replace religious studies lessons, study finds in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope they follow the data. And that more countries, at least in the EU, will follow.

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen Asteroid City today. Man, what a great movie. Definitely on a par with The Grand Budapest Hotel. The colors. The composition. The camera shots. The montage. Marvelous!

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good news. I really like my FP3+ (with /e/OS), my next phone will be either FP4 or FP5 :)