I hope they don’t try to appeal to the west too much and lose that thing that makes it special. Before the 2010’s the west seemed to hate moe a lot. Imagine if they hadn’t made Lucky Star and K-ON! for that reason… Lately I learned that Gochiusa doesn’t even have a western dub. So if they start caring too much about what the west likes good things like those types of anime will become less frequent.

Aaah the Haruhi background fits well

Thanks! 99k yen is more than 500 euros, and yea, I’m no position to cough that up unfortunately 😭

Wow! Love the hand made aspect of it. I can’t really spot the price by looking over it, and it’s going to be at least twice as expensive to get it outside Japan…

The rational is systemd has a huge amount of features that normal desktop users will never need. If you use something like OpenRC or Runit the experience is not much (or any) different. All those features will introduce complexity and potential bugs and vulnerabilities.

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing.

Sure it doesn’t add much, but many of the systemd things are ‘not much’. But together it is a lot.

I don’t see the vulnerability, especially considering that you’re comparing it to an SSH vulnerability (which, it should be noted, was caught in testing and never released).

Luckily it was the case, but it was way too close for comfort. It doesn’t change the fact that bloated systems like systemd are what enable these types of attacks. If you use many of its features I’m sure its great, all software has bugs and holes in it. But the point is that if you don’t need the features you don’t need to expose yourself to the extra bulk and risks. Same for things like sudo vs doas. Almost everyone uses sudo but 99.9%+ doesn’t use any features that doas doesn’t have. And then of course systemd invents its own alternative 😅.

And then there is the Unix philosophy. If we need age verification, why does it need to be in the init system? Why not a separate package that can be installed along side any init system / kernel / desktop environment / etc? If it lives in the init system, every init system needs to implement their own version of it.

I doesn’t but the exploit required it.

First Artix made me not vulnerable to the XZ backdoor (requires systemd). Now it saves me from age verification nonsense. Even on Lemmy sentiment seems people who avoid systemd are just cranks. But every time we are right.

I understand the sentiment. Personally I’m not really waiting for it and it will come when it comes. I like that they delay it instead of rush it.

I finished Tamayura Hitotose. It’s a very nice iyashikei mainly about photography and loss. The pace is slow and the atmosphere is gentle. It has many elements that remind me of ARIA (same director). I like the setting: Japanese villages with lots of traditional architecture. My favorite episode was Maon’s flashback episode. It might be worth noting that it is one of those anime where the characters have realistic hair colours like K-ON!, giving it that extra down to earth vibe.

Pani Poni Dash is underrated, good to see it mentioned. Have you seen Poputepipikku?

I watched Tamayura and started Tamayura Hitotose. It’s an iyashikei by the same director as ARIA, Satou Junichi. Also shares some seiyuu with ARIA. It’s very gentle… And has that same sense of wonder to it. Fushigi… (he seems to like that word both in ARIA and Tamayura)

I have no clue but I do have a question. If you want to mess about with window managers and ricing them (I like that as well), wouldn’t a non immutable distro be easier? It is “immutable” but it seems you want to mutate all kinds of stuff.

I think that’s because the user can still fuck up their system by doing some stuff to those user files, like not managing their packages correctly. Note that for normal users anything that messes up their user experience equates to messing up “the system”. But I don’t really know, it’s just a guess. I just run a normal distro where you can mess with everything (like god intended lol).

I think Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei because of things like pacing, music, ambient sounds, wholesome moments, those little vignittes between scenes. It just kinda breathes nicely, there is space between jokes and lines. Soft music, kind moments. The environment feels real and “encompassing” (a bit like in non non biyori). For me CGDCT is kinda iyashikei in general but Ichigo Mashimaro is definitely significantly more iyashikei than average to me. A SOL CGDCT that is less iyashikei and more comedy to me is something like Ika Musume. Peak iyashikei to me is ARIA, highly recommended for pure brainmelting wholesomeness and healing of the soul.

Wow a fricking Ichigo Mashimaro recommendation in the wild. Shows can be both CGDCT and Iyashikei, and they often are. Non Non Biyori is definitely also a CGDCT and Ichigo Mashimaro is quite iyashikei depending on how you receive it. But good picks for sure.

I finished Violet Evergarden and the OVA episode and I’m 2/3 through the first film. It looks stunning and it’s an emotional show. In the end there is some action to resolve the story which is ok but I thought that was the weakest part. My favorite episode was number 10 with the girl Ann. Usually I was a bit wet behind the eyes but with this one the tears just streamed down my face lol.

The OVA was just a good episode. It has some singing parts which I enjoyed. For reasons I am 2/3s through the first film. It kind of is a three act film roughly each act 30 minutes. The first act was wonderful and very tender. It has certain element to it that I am used to from other anime but didn’t expect in Violet Evergarden. I won’t say what it is to not spoil anything. But it was well done. In the second act the story gets going. Still very good and enjoyable, but the first act has a certain vibe that I really like.

Other than that I finished Ika Musume by finishing the 3 episode OVA. It’s consistent as always. OP -> 3 stories -> ED. I’m not watching anything from the season. I was expecting the Madoka film but that one has been delayed yet again. I rather have it delayed than rushed so I’m fine with it.

I don’t know anything about this contest, but if it won the reader’s choice then doesn’t that mean the actual audience liked it? The isekai crowd is used to human made slop already so why not ai slop.

On the other hand, you never know what the high point is. If you have something good and quit just to quit at the high point, you don’t know if your next thing would be even better. If you quit when you’ve already crashed and burned, at least you know it has ran its course. Yet on another hand(if you can say that), with that mindset one might apply the sunken cost fallacy and go on for way too long…

Good choices, definitely best girls from each anime.

As a moe enjoyer this question is way too hard… I think I need a year of hard work to select a top 10 🤣