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6 months ago

Your blog post about cheap computing is too real. I've gotten the "cheap laptops on ebay" bug lately too :p

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onio 6 months ago

right on :D they're so fun to watch, not to mention the nostalgia factor. I've been thinking about an old panasonic toughbook recently too. you have any specific ones in mind?

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silliestgoose-online 6 months ago

The thing I am trying to maximize right now is a 2011-era 11 inch Acer Aspire with a first gen low-power i3, with upgraded RAM and an SSD. It's still dog slow when it comes to installing stuff, but it handles indieweb stuff just fine! I'm writing this reply on it :p

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silliestgoose-online 6 months ago

The next thing I'd like to get my hands on is a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e. Basically the same idea as this Acer, but with better hardware. Finding something ~11 inches with a real hard drive instead of an old eMMC is tough.

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onio 6 months ago

ooo I like the sound of that Thinkpad Yoga. But even that little slow Acer Aspire, for some reason, it's just really fun to browse the indie web on those lower power machines. I managed to get Linux running on a C720 Chromebook with 2 gigs of ram and it can basically handle 2 or 3 tabs on Firefox and that's about it XD Silly fun to browse with though

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6 months ago

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grumpfox

6 months ago

Site update! I've moved away from categorising the artists on the main index by my "preference" of them (for many reasons), and replaced the categories with rough new groups based on sound, scene, style or region. I hope this makes browsing the index better as it grows and grows!

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grumpfox 6 months ago

I'll continue to tweak on the design a bit more in the coming days/weeks (I'm not super happy how the emblems indicating my favourite artists look and want to make them appear a bit smoother) and there'll be a few more groups, so it's not 100% done yet. But felt like I needed to get this done before I soon add a few new artists.

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grumpfox 6 months ago

Also considering whether to move the "short discography" entries under the relevant primary groups, just to neaten things up...

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acetaminophriends updated My little house

6 months ago

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sabrin updated ☆⌒(>。<)

6 months ago

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retro-haven indiewebatlas

6 months ago

I love this idea of IndieWeb Atlas, you're developing. I'm looking forward to see more.

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6 months ago

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ashavedbear ughbees

6 months ago

I just happened upon your website from the Gamer Webring, it is a very well done and decidedly unique page (not that I'm in much of a position to analyze; mine is only made to function as I need, and as such is very bare-bones). I'm curious as to your opinion of the latter 2 Hyperion books, as my rating of the series would be approximately inverse to yours.

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ughbees 6 months ago

Tysm!! I would say my main issue with the last two books was Raul. I did and do not like him. Neither as a person or how he developed. I maybe would have felt differently if everything wasn’t told directly from his POV. I found him insufferable. And I did not like his relationship with Aenea. No one in the later books besides De Soya felt as compelling as the main cast from the first books.

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ughbees 6 months ago

I loved all the parts with De Soya!! I love the crucifix stuff. It has been a minute, but I remember feeling like everything was slogged down with too much description. The part on the mountain world sticks out in my memory for being like pages on pages of detail and nothing really happening. Another big problem for me was all the retcons. I found them to be unnecessary and ultimately unsatisfying.

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ughbees 6 months ago

And I did not like the demystifying of the Shrike. I would have been ok with never knowing some things. I still would say the series as a whole is some of my favorite scifi. It was worth reading all of it to the end and I would read them all again. Nothing for me beats Fall of Hyperion though. Oh how I love Martin Silenus!!!! Sorry for the paragraphs XD!!!

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ashavedbear 6 months ago

I wish Neocities comment system were moderately more robust, since I see no way to reply to a reply — so instead I must reply to myself. I get that about Raul, he's very much just an observer, actually most of the characters don't feel to be moving but instead being pushed by outside forces. And the relationship between Raul and Aenea was rocky at best, but I felt that the author managed to tell it just well enough -

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ashavedbear 6 months ago

that it avoided the ruin (of the story) it was prone to cause. I quite liked the Catholic church myself, how it was corrupted so readily, my only complaint is that Lenar Hoyt's character didn't make much sense. I think I prefer the second 2 because it explains -almost- all the elements set up by the first 2. I thought the first 2 kind of failed to set up the setting in a meaningful way, and I'm not a huge fan of -

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ashavedbear 6 months ago

detective or military stories, whereas most of the first 2 are primarily focused on Bawne Lamia's detective work and Colonel Kassad's military tendencies. To be honest, I found those parts to be a trudge to traverse — especially Kassad's. But, they held my interest with the AI mysteries and setting intrigue, which is where I feel the latter books strived.

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retro-haven

6 months ago

Wooo, I have set up an RSS feed!

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