Currently in the eyeholes: 
The thing that struck me about this film is that if you like the first few minutes of it, you’re gonna like the rest. Well, that and the curiously Japanese tendency to do full frontal censorship by just drawing Barbie Doll anatomy rather than tastefully positioned debris or something. Just strikes me as funny. Maybe it’s a commentary on how weird it is to spend the story hypersexualizing a manic pixie dream supergirl only to androginize her when she’s 40 feet tall, naked and standing astride a Tokyo boulevard, sucking up corrupted dreams – but that would be pretty self-referential. Empowering? Disempowering? Who knows? Not me. Fun watch, tho. (:
I’ve been meaning to ask you this for some time now: How do you watch & listen to your media? I get you own them all on a server somewhere, but what program is it that you use to organize them? Simply put: What program is that in the “Currently In The Eyeholes” section?
Jellyfin for video:
https://jellyfin.org/
Navidrome for music:
https://www.navidrome.org/
They’re running on a dedicated computer on my network, an old Intel Core i5-2300 with 12gb RAM, 5tb HD running Linux Mint.
Ok, the movie sounds utterly fascinating. And I see the “More Like This” recommends the original “Ghost in the Shell”, so… I’m really kinda intrigued…
And I don’t know why, but it makes smile every time you mention Linux Mint. (Even though I don’t run it anymore. I’m a dedicated MX fanboy these days, but Mint did me well for years. And I still run Cinnamon on my one Fedora box…)
Got MX on the laptop. Some things I need won’t install easily in MX, tho, so I use Mint for maximum software compatibility on the desktops. (:
Gotcha on that. Mint is a very well put together distro. MX just seemed a little more svelte (at least back in the day, it’s bulked up a bit as late), and I prefer that. (Says the guy who keeps a full Fedora install up & running. For no reason…) If I need something more lightweight, I can always grab AntiX. Or Puppy…
That FOSS rabbit hole is amazingly deep. And convoluted.
(And I just remembered the T61 w/the Slackware install that hasn’t been updated in ages. But, then again, it’s Slackware, which I suspect will be the only OS able to survive the apocalypse…)
Heh, I still have AntiX 19 on a few of my single-core laptops. It’s about perfect for a Pentium M in the mid-oughts range. Even have DSL on an old Pentium 4. Ya get that svelte, though, and you haven’t got much more than Klondike and Lynx to run. :D
DSL definitely was/is svelte. ;-)
I usually didn’t shrink much below Puppy. That was about as compact as I could take it.
Good Lord, I’d nearly forgotten about Lynx, though! Remember diving into Gopherspace with Lynx a loooong time ago…
Ha! Gopher. First ISP I worked at sold dialup 56k off a fractional T1, and our users logged into the latest 486DX2 servers running TAMU Linux. You had a shell login, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, Pine, Archie, Veronica and Jughead. That was even before web browsers like Lynx, so you really could only access University and corporate library databases, newsgroups and IRC. Mostly IRC, and back then it was trivial to kill Win95 TCP/IP stacks by sending them malformed packets on various ports that were wide open, so when someone hit you with a ban, it was a ban on all your internet access until you figured out that you had to restart your computer. Ahh, the wild west days. Well, I guess it’s still wild west days, but much more complex. :D
My first shaky internet experience (beyond reading Cliff Stoll’s _The Cuckoo’s Egg_), was via an account under VM/CMS on an IBM 3090 mainframe at the U. Imagine a bunch of not particularly enlightened liberal arts grad students being dumped into that…. Trying to comprehend converting EBCDIC into ASCII just to download that email text to a floppy…. I was lucky to be one step past having to use straight Telnet…. It was all Gopher. They had just replaced the Charlotte (insert facepalm) web browser when I got my account. I was lucky enough to accidentally find a used copy of the “VM/CMS User’s Guide” stuck on a back shelf of a local shop. That may have saved my sanity…. Barely…
Later figured out a copy of Procomm and dialed into the U system from my apartment. Thus, I can now brag about “browsing the web” on an XT compat laptop w/640k of RAM, a CGA LCD, DOS 3.3, and a single 720K disk drive. Try telling the young people of the day that, they won’t believe you. Nope, nope, nope……….
hmmn, there was a book I read back then that I think encapsulated the zeitgeist of that time, appropriately titled “Generation X” by Douglas Coupland. Small book, easy read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture
Odd that I would pick that over something like “Snow Crash” or “Neuromancer”, but it’s just a thought that struck me while thinking about these things.
“Talkin’ ‘bout my generation…” ;-)
Remember seeing Coupland’s book around back in the day. It, like far too many others, got lost in the backlog of books I needed to read, but never got to…. There are far too many of those….